Team Cherry has had a lot of time to perfect Hollow Knight: Silksong. Almost seven painstaking years, in fact (although those seven years were only painstaking for the audience, with Team Cherry saying one of the reasons the game took so long was that it was enjoying itself).
It's evident from the moment the game is booted up just how much love and effort have gone into the game's world and art direction, but what may not be apparent is how much work the development team has put into optimizing the game.
On all but one major platform, Hollow Knight: Silksong's file size is smaller than Hollow Knight, with the PlayStation version of Silksong only a quarter of the size of its predecessor.
I was surprised to find that when I downloaded Silksong on my PS5 last night, its file size was significantly smaller than the PS4 version of Hollow Knight. The game is almost certainly larger than Hollow Knight, with more enemies, bosses, and achievements, so the expectation was that its file size would match. But it doesn't.
My PS5 shows Hollow Knight's PS4 version as occupying over 10 GB of storage, while Silksong only takes up...
