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Triple Click

How Hollow Knight Became Such A Phenomenon

Triple Click

Maximum Fun

Arts, Kirk Hamilton, Video Games, Jason Schreier, Technology, Maddy Myers, Society & Culture

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

On this, the day of Silksong's release, it's time to go back to where it all began: Hollow Knight! The Triple Click gang talks about Team Cherry's 2017 action-adventure game, what makes it so special, and how it became a cultural phenomenon. Plus: they revisit Kotaku Splitscreen's 2018 interview with the developers of Hollow Knight.

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0:00.0

Is Silk Song being unfair to the rest of the industry?

0:07.0

Why does it cost only $20?

0:09.0

And why did it kill my cat?

0:12.0

Welcome to Triple Glick where we bring the Silk Song takes to you.

0:16.0

This week we are talking about Hollow Night and how it became a cultural phenomenon.

0:22.3

Man, that game is just so good, you guys.

0:25.1

It's just so good.

0:30.3

I'm Jason Shrier.

0:31.7

I'm Kirk Hamilton.

0:32.8

And I'm Maddie Myers.

0:34.3

Hello.

0:35.3

Hey, hello.

0:36.6

Hello, my friends.

0:40.7

No construction in my apartment today. You hear that? Sounds of silence. I was really sweet to the episode. It's pretty, pretty real. It's been driving me

0:49.2

crazy. It's interesting. So Maddie is actually currently sitting in a room with no walls. It's just like a couple pieces of wood. They're just sawdust everywhere. I'm in the decou tree right now. It's really just, I've decided to go outside. I don't need to be in my house ever again. And I don't need walls. Well, they turned your house into the outside by knocking down all the walls and sawing them into sawdows. It really felt that way.

1:11.4

It's not what this show's about, but like being, living in a place where construction is

1:15.3

actively happening around you is perhaps the most distracting possible thing that could ever

1:21.3

happen.

1:21.6

Man, especially when you have to record yourself.

1:23.5

There was a house next door at our last house where they were cutting tile to read you the bathroom for, I swear, two years. They would just cut tiles. And they waited until they saw me press the record button and they're like, all right, it's tile cutting time, boys. Yep, that's how it feels. That's how it feels. I feel like they knew. It was actually that house clerk was owned by a rival podcast.

1:46.3

Yeah, that was the get played house.

1:48.4

They were just trying to take us down. Yeah, it was Nick Weiger's house.

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