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The Hollow Knight display at this Australian art centre is full of gorgeous concept artAs well as maps from development that show some of the game’s cut content
As well as maps from development that show some of the game’s cut content
Image credit:Team Cherry
Image credit:Team Cherry
You can check out the display onthe ACMI website(thanks,Mossbag). According to a few postson Reddit, you’re able to play the game there too.
Hollow Knight Silksong Gameplay Trailer - Switch, PCWatch on YouTube
Hollow Knight Silksong Gameplay Trailer - Switch, PC
One of the most eye-catching additions to the collection for me isa large colourful mapthat shows the plans for each of Hollow Knight’s areas. The whole thing is a reminder of just how huge the game is, and you can pull out a few details that were chopped and changed from the final map. All along the bottom, there’s an area called the Forest Of Bone, which was cut before the game’s release. It’s roughly where the Ancient Basin is, way below the City Of Tears, and is filled with notes and doodles of things players would’ve come across, like bosses, grubs and more.
In a Q&Aa couple of years ago, one of the Hollow Knight devs revealed a few details about what the Forest Of Bones would’ve been like, so it’s nice to put an image to that. They’d planned for the area to be home to two lava worm minibosses, one of the Dreamers, “fifty unique enemies”, and “bizarre surprises around every turn”.
Some of the sketches found in the display arethe same ones that Pip wrote about back in 2015, two years before Hollow Knight came out. Others are art that haven’t really been seen before, likethis early drawing of the White Lady. Artist Ari Gibson’s work has so much character to it, and it’s amazing that almost everything in these sketchbooks made it into the final game.
Here’s one of the sketchbook pages Gibson showed Pip, this one can also be spotted in the ACMI.
I’ve made it abundantly clear on RPS thatI miss Hollow Knight. So, in lieu of any news about the upcoming sequelHollow Knight: Silksong, it’s nice to have a look through concept art like this. (And who knows? Maybe the few bits that didn’t make it into Hollow Knight might turn up in Silksong.)
If you’re lucky enough to live near the ACMI, the Hollow Knight display will be on show until February 2023, so you have plenty of time to visit. If not, you cancheck it out online. The ACMI have a bunch ofother digital displays about Aussie-made gamestoo, including LA Noire and Florence.
