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This one feels a lot riskier to me. Palworld works because so many people are fed up with Pokemon games having gotten progressively lazier for years. I don't think anyone's fed up with Hollow Knight, and Silksong is (theoretically) still coming at some point soon. If this doesn't play and feel every bit as good as Hollow Knight, it'll just be a bargain bin knockoff.
Everyone keeps saying this is a HK rip when it really doesn't seem to be to me, at least no more so than HK was a "rip-off" of Metroid/Castlevania. Neither the combat or the aesthetic is very similar to HK.
I get their previous work has been pretty blatant rip-offs of other games, but where in other games assets and gameplay were near 1-to-1 replications, this one seems relatively original. I suppose the hat-possession could be considered a copy of Mario Odyssey, but that's all I can make out from the trailers.
The characters are all very different but the environments look extremely close. 0:18 in the trailer is Greenpath.
The art style is obviously ripped off from Hollow Knight, but in their defense, it's hard to make a foresty looking region in the art style of Hollow Knight without it just being Greenpath.
They really ought to try making their own art style at some point. Maybe then people will stop accusing them of just ripping off existing games