{"id":81570,"date":"2019-02-10T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/02\/hollow_knight_esrb_classification_suggests_a_physical_release_is_finally_happening"},"modified":"2019-02-10T03:05:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T03:05:00","slug":"hollow-knight-esrb-classification-suggests-a-physical-release-is-finally-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/10\/hollow-knight-esrb-classification-suggests-a-physical-release-is-finally-happening\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollow Knight ESRB Classification Suggests A Physical Release Is Finally Happening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/048165ac9a800\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/048165ac9a800\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Hollow Knight\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/048165ac9a800\/hollow-knight.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/048165ac9a800\/hollow-knight.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Hollow Knight\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>If there&#8217;s one indie game that is more deserving of a physical release than any other, it&#8217;s probably <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/hollow_knight\">Hollow Knight<\/a><\/strong>. Following the game&#8217;s successful digital debut on the Switch and multiple other platforms, the talented people at Team Cherry released a number of free content packs for the title. The cherry on top was the <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/skybound_games_handling_the_physical_release_of_hollow_knight\">announcement<\/a> a physical edition was also on the way, thanks to Skybound Games.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, last November, the physical release was then <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/11\/team_cherry_has_cancelled_the_physical_version_of_hollow_knight\">cancelled<\/a>, with Skybound issuing a tweet saying how &#8220;saddened&#8221; it was it would no longer be releasing Hollow Knight in this form. Team Cherry added to this, explaining how it would continue to investigate other ways to make a physical version of its title a reality, but it would likely be a smaller release.<\/p>\n<p>It now looks as if the developer has sorted things out, as the ESRB has given Hollow Knight an E10+ rating. As noted by <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/nintendosoup.com\/hollow-knight-switch-physical-release-appears-to-be-happening-again\/\">NintendoSoup<\/a>, ESRB ratings do not apply to digital releases and usually indicate a physical release is close by.<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you glad to hear a physical release is likely on the way? Did you download this game from the eShop when it was released? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there&#8217;s one indie game that is more deserving of a physical release than any other, it&#8217;s probably Hollow Knight. Following the game&#8217;s successful digital debut on the Switch and multiple other platforms, the talented people at Team Cherry released a number of free content packs for the title. The cherry on top was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}