0:00:00.020,0:00:03.640 So I flew all the way to Australia so I could play fucking Silksong. 0:00:04.100,0:00:05.000 And... 0:00:05.040,0:00:06.400 It was pretty good. 0:00:07.120,0:00:11.560 So this is footage of me playing at PAX Australia, at the Nintendo booth. 0:00:12.040,0:00:18.500 Basically, they had like three Silksong demos set up, and I finally got to play the game. 0:00:19.340,0:00:22.280 And, I figured I'd just show it while I talk about... 0:00:22.280,0:00:27.060 My trip in general, because I've already talked about this demo for 30 fucking minutes. 0:00:27.560,0:00:29.420 There's not really much more to say. 0:00:30.440,0:00:33.180 In terms of how the demo feels, it's very technical. 0:00:33.280,0:00:38.320 Hornet's got a lot more going on: She has this like run ability and if you use it, she's like... 0:00:38.360,0:00:40.980 slippery, she slides all over the fucking place. 0:00:41.280,0:00:44.180 So that is a little different but it's very fun. 0:00:44.700,0:00:46.700 And fast, once you get used to it. 0:00:48.460,0:00:50.700 In terms of like, fighting Lace, 0:00:51.400,0:00:54.280 she is a lot more difficult than 0:00:54.400,0:00:56.940 Hornet was in Hollow Knight. 0:00:57.280,0:01:00.500 But that might just be because I'm not used to Hornet's moveset. 0:01:01.240,0:01:03.480 And the enemies are a lot more technical, too. 0:01:03.480,0:01:07.480 You've got to pay attention to where you can hit them, for sure. 0:01:07.580,0:01:10.740 Hornet has like, this soul move, 0:01:10.840,0:01:13.760 where she throws her needle, and it costs silk. 0:01:13.980,0:01:18.360 It's an incredibly powerful move and it's basically akin to using soul in Hollow Knight. 0:01:18.700,0:01:22.840 So... that's definitely gonna be something that you're gonna want to use 0:01:23.280,0:01:27.620 Because she takes a full spool to regain her health, it's a lot more stressful, 0:01:27.700,0:01:30.460 because you need to do a lot more damage to heal up. 0:01:30.820,0:01:35.160 But I mean, this is all fucking obvious stuff, I don't know why I'm explaining it to you all. 0:01:35.500,0:01:42.020 When I first got there Nintendo wouldn't let me fight Lace. They'd let me get to her, and then they stopped me, saying: 0:01:42.120,0:01:45.140 "Oh, there's too many people with cameras". It's like... 0:01:45.800,0:01:48.400 Everybody's already seen Lace. What's the deal? 0:01:49.060,0:01:53.660 So I went back Sunday and they, they got it all straightened out, so I could finally fight her. 0:01:53.920,0:02:00.360 Thank God, because I would have been pissed if I'd have flown all the way to fucking Australia and wouldn't been able to fight Lace. 0:02:00.720,0:02:01.780 But... 0:02:01.780,0:02:05.960 Of course, there's more than just Silksong at PAX Australia. 0:02:06.440,0:02:07.980 Umm... 0:02:07.980,0:02:10.480 I played a lot of great titles. I have some... 0:02:10.980,0:02:13.220 Business cards right here, uh... 0:02:13.400,0:02:16.240 Lethal Lawns, this is a game where you... 0:02:16.240,0:02:19.980 it's a competitive mowing bloodsport, the card says. That's... 0:02:20.980,0:02:22.840 It was bad, umm... 0:02:22.840,0:02:27.520 It was okay, whatever. And there was this other game Beam Team. Where you're like 0:02:27.520,0:02:29.920 two spaceships, 0:02:29.920,0:02:31.720 shooting beams at... 0:02:31.740,0:02:37.120 the Earth, red planets, and they're trying to stop you. That game was fun. 0:02:37.120,0:02:38.960 I played a game called Acid Knife. 0:02:39.600,0:02:43.880 Which is really cool. I like the, the style of it, it used a lot of shaders. 0:02:44.200,0:02:47.080 Basically, you had five equipment slots, 0:02:47.460,0:02:49.480 and you basically 0:02:49.540,0:02:52.460 had to manage them very carefully. It was fun. 0:02:53.300,0:02:56.280 I played Destroy All Humans, which... 0:02:57.260,0:02:58.580 Is like... 0:02:58.820,0:03:03.340 A PlayStation 2 game. And it feels like a PlayStation 2 game. So... 0:03:04.140,0:03:06.800 I didn't really enjoy it. It was like, 15 minutes. 0:03:07.080,0:03:10.840 It was a 15 minute demo and half of it was cutscenes, that you couldn't skip. 0:03:11.220,0:03:16.040 And it was terrible, I didn't like it. Which is weird because I liked it when I was a kid, but... 0:03:16.740,0:03:19.660 I don't know. I think it's aged a little bit. 0:03:20.280,0:03:25.140 Anyway, there was more that happened at PAX than just me playing Silksong. 0:03:25.420,0:03:28.620 I also got to meet Team Cherry themselves. 0:03:29.240,0:03:31.360 Yes, they are real, they are not... 0:03:31.820,0:03:37.320 mythical gods that live up on some peak. They are actual real human beings. 0:03:37.880,0:03:41.620 So, I was standing in line for Silksong on Friday. 0:03:41.680,0:03:47.780 And my friend noticed Ari's... giant head sticking up over the crowd of people. 0:03:48.120,0:03:52.100 So then I saw them, and I started freaking out. I was just staring at William. 0:03:52.840,0:03:54.820 And I don't think he knew who I was. 0:03:54.820,0:03:56.660 And then they started to walk away. 0:03:56.660,0:04:01.900 And then I screamed "William, come over here." And he did. And I said "Hey, it's me 0:04:01.900,0:04:04.920 it's me, mossbag", and he was like... 0:04:05.500,0:04:12.060 Flabbergasted, and I'll, I'll never forget the first thing he said to me. He said "I thought you'd be taller." 0:04:12.540,0:04:18.020 So, yeah, then we, we hugged in a loving embrace. 0:04:18.960,0:04:22.380 And I am never washing my body again, because of that. 0:04:22.940,0:04:23.880 And... 0:04:24.320,0:04:31.840 Like, before I met them, everyone who I'd talked to who did know them said they're really nice guys, they're really down-to-earth. 0:04:32.460,0:04:35.020 You know, they're just good people all around. 0:04:35.560,0:04:38.040 And yeah, that is very true. They are 0:04:38.160,0:04:44.000 super nice, like, it's ridiculous. How wholesome those two guys are. As well as everyone else. 0:04:44.000,0:04:44.840 I met... 0:04:45.120,0:04:46.880 I met William and Ari, and Jack. 0:04:47.460,0:04:52.380 And Christopher Larkin. And Makoto Koji who did Hornet's voice and, you know, 0:04:52.380,0:04:56.720 the playtesters, and everyone was so nice. It was great. 0:04:56.720,0:05:00.160 I had an amazing time it was just... 0:05:00.740,0:05:05.960 It was really cool. And the one thing I really liked was... I was talking with Ari and 0:05:05.960,0:05:10.140 for them, PAX Australia was a vacation. It was a chance for them to... 0:05:10.360,0:05:13.460 Unwind from all of the Silksong development they've been working on. 0:05:13.620,0:05:15.980 Ari and William basically just want to play indie games. 0:05:15.980,0:05:18.240 They wanted to see what other indie games were out there. 0:05:18.920,0:05:26.380 And to see, like, such enthusiasm for the industry like that... really cool. It was really awesome to see like they weren't... 0:05:26.660,0:05:31.180 They were just normal guys there, who were looking to play some fun games, So... 0:05:31.820,0:05:33.620 I really liked that. 0:05:33.880,0:05:38.620 It was ridiculous how much time I got to spend with them. Just talking about things. 0:05:39.180,0:05:40.120 So... 0:05:40.120,0:05:44.240 Yeah, I did learn some deep lore, obviously. 0:05:44.720,0:05:48.600 And this is actually a major retraction I'm gonna have to do for one of my videos. 0:05:48.920,0:05:52.640 Turns out Team Cherry... doesn't like Domino's. 0:05:53.080,0:05:54.840 That was a revelation. 0:05:55.040,0:05:55.840 Umm... 0:05:56.200,0:06:01.640 William went on this weird tangent about some Super Nintendo game called Plok. 0:06:02.500,0:06:05.020 I really don't know what that was about, but... 0:06:06.240,0:06:08.380 That was a thing. Umm... 0:06:09.920,0:06:14.720 You might be thinking "Oh, mossbag's got some secret release date for Silksong." 0:06:14.900,0:06:17.000 I don't, right. 0:06:17.200,0:06:22.860 Here's the thing. Like, if you look at Team Cherry's releases, they never have a release date 0:06:23.080,0:06:25.320 more than like, a month or two out. 0:06:25.840,0:06:29.860 So there's no way that there's any sort of real release date. 0:06:31.860,0:06:34.300 There was a leak that, umm... 0:06:34.300,0:06:38.180 On Steam the release date is like, June of 2020. 0:06:38.780,0:06:42.200 My guess is that that's Team Cherry's goal. 0:06:42.200,0:06:49.720 That was what they originally hoped to reach when they first put Silksong onto steam back in February. 0:06:50.600,0:06:54.380 My guess is, is that they're going to miss that goal, because... 0:06:54.660,0:06:57.100 They kind of always miss their goals. 0:06:57.540,0:07:04.520 Hollow Knight was supposed to release in 2015, if that helps you see how bad they are at scheduling things. 0:07:05.360,0:07:09.800 And the way they talked, and maybe they were lying the whole time, and making it up, but... 0:07:10.040,0:07:13.360 Silksong is still in development. They're still like, making the game. 0:07:13.720,0:07:17.200 So, all these people who say "Oh, is it gonna shadow drop 0:07:17.980,0:07:21.100 in 2019" or whatever, it's not gonna happen 0:07:21.620,0:07:25.880 Come on guys. And like... because if you look at the demo... 0:07:26.420,0:07:29.540 There are two masks shards just sitting out in the open. 0:07:29.540,0:07:32.220 That's definitely not what the final game is gonna be like. 0:07:32.700,0:07:36.620 Hell, we don't even know if Lace is going to be in the Deep Docks. 0:07:40.860,0:07:42.180 So... 0:07:42.180,0:07:45.400 Yeah, the game. I don't think it's coming out anytime soon. 0:07:45.540,0:07:48.520 Mid 2020. Probably later. 0:07:48.780,0:07:51.120 But they didn't give me a freaking release date... 0:07:51.620,0:07:56.000 secret. Like, I didn't sign any NDAs if that's what you're wondering. 0:07:56.880,0:07:57.580 Umm... 0:07:57.840,0:08:00.120 So, yeah, that was just... 0:08:01.040,0:08:05.340 Really cool opportunity, really cool experience. I'm really glad I got to 0:08:05.660,0:08:10.500 to go to Australia, you know. I did the fuckin', I went to the Opera House. 0:08:11.320,0:08:16.740 Went to the... the reef, the Great Barrier Reef. Got to see that before it's gone. 0:08:17.140,0:08:18.360 So... 0:08:18.880,0:08:23.200 You know, it's hard being me. I need a vacation every once in a while, you know. 0:08:23.560,0:08:26.680 It be like that sometimes, so... 0:08:27.000,0:08:28.040 I guess... 0:08:28.640,0:08:32.040 This is a really shitty video and I don't know why I'm wasting your time with it, but... 0:08:32.300,0:08:36.080 I did want to end things off by just talking about how great 0:08:36.080,0:08:38.760 my experience has been with the Hollow Knight community. 0:08:38.960,0:08:40.880 It's been so... 0:08:40.880,0:08:48.180 amazing to watch this community grow. Like, as I'm recording this, the Hollow Knight subreddit 0:08:48.680,0:08:51.980 is about to hit 100,000 subscribers. 0:08:52.880,0:08:57.580 Or members, or whatever the fuck Reddit has. And that's just insane to me. 0:08:58.320,0:09:01.600 That this indie game has that many people who are interested in it. 0:09:02.000,0:09:03.880 It's really cool to see. 0:09:04.080,0:09:07.660 Even my channel is about to hit a hundred thousand subscribers, which is just... 0:09:09.000,0:09:14.060 Ridiculous. Like, thank you so much for... for being so interested in this game. 0:09:14.240,0:09:19.640 And being such a great community. Like, just today I posted on Twitter about 0:09:19.640,0:09:22.220 The Embraced One who's making this, like... 0:09:22.480,0:09:27.920 High-res version of the entire map, which is just insane, it's an insane amount of work. 0:09:27.920,0:09:29.040 And... 0:09:29.040,0:09:34.040 It's just amazing, like, the stuff that this community has been able to do. 0:09:34.040,0:09:35.260 So... 0:09:35.300,0:09:40.620 See, I look forward to continuing to make content about Hollow Knight, and just talking about this game because... 0:09:40.740,0:09:42.800 I just love it so much. Umm... 0:09:43.220,0:09:48.320 If, if you're one of the new subscribers who joined after the whole MatPat thing... 0:09:48.880,0:09:56.360 I swear I do upload videos. I know it doesn't seem like it, but I do and I have some stuff cooking. 0:09:56.480,0:09:58.480 It's just... 0:09:58.660,0:10:00.640 ...You know... Umm... 0:10:00.840,0:10:03.840 I'm worried that some of this lore will get changed with Silksong. 0:10:04.020,0:10:06.960 But I have some things that will be coming out soon, so... 0:10:08.120,0:10:09.300 Yeah. 0:10:12.400,0:10:13.360 Bye. 0:10:31.880,0:10:33.980 [Video background] That's it.