Knytt Underground

After years and years, from the Vita to the Steam Deck now, I finally got the 100%. What a magnificent game. It has the best exploration of any game I've ever played!

honestly didnt expect it to be this good especially the dialogue

I was kind of unsure at the start, but Chapter 3 (the meat of the game) was really good.

This game has an enormous map to explore with a ton of secrets scattered throughout, plus an engrossing world with unique character races and interesting relationships among them all. And the music is just [i]phenomenal[/i]. I will admit that I'm not the biggest fan of its character art style, but it's grown on me for sure. All in all, this is certainly among my favorite games.

Knytt Underground is a delightful platformer explorer. I completed this game close to when it was released and started playing it again recently. It caught my daughter's eye and now she plays as well. It might be a bit too advanced for her as she needs me to complete most challenges, but it's still fun to play and I'm sure she will grow into it. The world is vast and full of wonderful musical refrains that will be pulling you in every time. This game is a literal mashup of previous games by Nicklas Nygren. It has a lot of replay value

Yes, I can recommend Knytt Underground to other players. But only very, very specific players. If you're interested in game design and game mechanics, there's a lot to gain by exploring Knytt Underground. Rather than sequencing a traditional Metroidvania where progress is gated by traversal abilities (higher jumps, grappling hooks, stronger bombs) this game gates progress with methods of traversal you technically already have, but which the game hasn't explicitly taught you how to use yet. You don't enter a room and get super high jump boots, you enter a room and realize, based on the arc the room traces, how to use your existing movement in a totally new way. It's so clever, so well-implemented, and it rewards you with surprising and visually striking new environments replete with their own lessons to teach. Generally, those lessons follow a theme: "no, explore that deeper. Probe that further. You think you can't get up there? Actually, I bet you can, if you strive harder." All of those tricks and those secrets make the world of Knytt Underground feel vibrant and alive. But the characters populating that world? Geez, are they hard to take. The character art falls far below p…