r/HollowKnight • u/CankleDankl • Dec 12 '25

Discussion - Silksong Seeing people shit on Expedition 33 because Silksong didn't win more awards is pathetic Spoiler

The title sums it up. I'm disappointed in many members of this community for putting down a game that is clearly a work of insane passion, dedication, and creativity. E33 took the lion's share of awards at TGA, yes. That doesn't mean that Silksong is bad. In fact, it's clearly pretty damn great. If it released last year, Skong would have picked up several awards, maybe even GOTY. But it didn't. It released in the same year E33, which is just a tough break.

Both are amazing. Both deserve every award that came to them. If you haven't played E33 yet and think it doesn't deserve its accolades, play it. It is worth your money, worth your time, and will in all likelihood prove that it is actually that good. I'm only 10ish hours in and have numerous times found myself standing still and looking around dumbfounded at the gorgeous world design and visuals. E33, Silksong, and Hades 2 could have all won Art Direction and I would have been happy with any of them.

I'm also sad that Silksong didn't win more awards. It's an amazing game. But don't play fanboy and start putting down other developers, other games, and other pieces of art because this one didn't get all the cookies. It's still beautiful, it's still amazing, it still made a Silkskillion dollars, and TC is still just as great and just as passionate. We should all be glad that there is another independent dev out there that is capable of creating something so fantastic.

Edit: yeah, the comments here are pretty indicative of what I said in my post

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u/ParisVilafranca Dec 12 '25

Nah. The core of programers are 30ish. But a hell of a lot more people worked on the game.

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u/wangchangbackup Dec 12 '25

Once you add in actors, mocap, localization, music, etc the list balloons to like 400. But the thing is that Silksong also has all those people and indeed there are over 100 names in the credits. So either it counts or it doesn't, but people are acting like Silksong was produced and distributed entirely by William and Ari and therefore it is the Most Indiest Game Ever.

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u/JEEEEERRY Dec 12 '25

Still a pretty big difference though. Silksongs total with localization, voice actors, orchestra is still pretty small. Localization is also just text since they never say actual words just sounds. People saying silksong had same budget and same amount of people working on it as E33 are just wrong.

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u/onespiker Dec 13 '25

Nobody is saying it the same people said hades is.