You ween’t dreaming. Hole Knight: Silksong actually did present up at yesterday’s Nintendo Swap 2 Direct! It was a really transient cameo, however by skong, individuals stated, we’ll take it.
So, we now know it is coming to Swap 2 sooner or later in 2025, however as of not too long ago the possibilities of really getting any information about Group Cherry’s highly-desired sport on April 2 appeared like they had been completely random. That’s, until you obtain right into a concept based mostly round cake that surfaced again in January, and continued to consider even when the devs themselves regarded to have poured water on the hypothesis fireplace.
Yep, in a really Silksong twist, the fan concept that sprung up round some Group Cherry dev feedback on a recipe for Brooklyn Blackout Cake listed on the web site of meals outlet Bon Appetit has really turned out to be on the cash cameo date-wise.
As a fast recap, of us had noticed feedback seemingly from Group Cherry artwork director Ari Gibson and sport designer William Pellen – programmer Jack Vine additionally seems to have gotten in on the act – on this random cake recipe that occurred to have been posted on April 2, 2024. You possibly can most likely see what sort of hypothesis this led to, however if you cannot, yesterday’s Swap 2 Direct happened on April 2, 2025.
After that naturally induced a hype overload amongst info-hungry skongers, Silksong advertising and publishing supervisor Matthew ‘Leth’ Griffin appeared to have dominated out these cheeky feedback really being a tease of a Swap 2 Direct cameo or launch date announcement, with a tweet insisting “the cake is a lie”.
It wasn’t although, as April 2 got here and increase, there was Silksong within the Direct. Cue Reddit posts declaring “THE CAKE WAS REAL!!!!”, as those that saved on believing take their victory lap. Additionally, a contemporary remark posted 13 hours in the past on the cake recipe from an account with the deal with ‘A_TRUE_SKONGER’ reads: “The cake turned out very nicely! Thanks for the wonderful recipe!”
You like to see it. What does this imply in phrases which wacky theories you should purchase into when the skongers begin itching for a launch date extra specfic than simply the 12 months 2025? We have got no skonging concept.
Did you by no means doubt that the Hole Knight: Silksong cake concept would really be proper about one thing deliciously skongy popping out of the oven on April 2? Tell us beneath!
