Knytt Underground

A platformer that is a simulator of pain. Too challenging, maybe? If you have the time and nerves to finish it, then it is probably worth the recommendation... (to you at least, not really to me)

A thoughtful, heartfelt game. Let it come to you on its own terms, and I hope you'll find it moved you like it did me. Explore every inch as an act of joy.

one of my favorites games, this is a game for relaxing and no pressure, for when you had a rough day and you'd like to just chill out and get lost it has relaxing music, relaxing atmospheric environments, there is no pressure for you to do challenges, if you just don't feel like this place for now, you can turn back and return to it however later you deem fit as the map is huge and let's you get lost without pressure. You get some dialogues, but aren't bombarded with them and again usually it's nothing heavy to detract from relaxing, sometimes they are stupid, but so is interaction with people (or fairies in this case), but I really appreciate that emotions can get serious sometimes, but need to be handled, because that's what adulting is about don't take this as a super challenging game, its not hard, don't take it as a super story driven thing, its not, just enjoy exploration and relax during it one big negative tho - the end really is anticlimatic and boring, the developer clearly intended for you to be here for the journey not so much for the end

Knytt Underground 比较特别，它的场景和设计可以说做的相对精致，但是很多地方的粗糙感也十分令人发笑，像是一个新人游戏开发者的练手作品一般。 具体来说，这个游戏把玩家扔到一个相对开放的 2D 世界中，给了一些比较模糊的目标，剩下的全看玩家自己。最大的特色莫过于整体上营造出来的非常安静的氛围感，画面上的奇妙安排也十分有特色和艺术感。只是难度方面过于简单，解谜方面也没什么非平凡之处，很多任务只是单纯跑图，可以说设计方面的体验相当无聊。此外，有不少粗糙的小插曲，虽然粗糙但确实比较幽默，虽说添不了多少乐趣，但也不失为特色。 不过，在整体相对无聊的情况下，一些小惊喜能够体现的价值就被放大了。无论是突然出现的略有新意的元素，还是莫名其妙地找到了特殊区域，或者别的特殊的东西，虽然称不上出彩，但也算是能够引起玩家的一些兴趣。 如果你想静下心来，放松放松，偶尔打开玩玩这个游戏挺不错的，只要你不会玩睡着的话。

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 passable, which is all the more striking when the aesthetics of the game environment work so well. And the character dialog trends sophomoric and unconvincingly edgy, teenaged first draft prose, with lots of "meta" jokes that just feel like cop-outs. Even when the outline of a side quest has interesting plot beats on paper, the dialog tends to ruin everything. And the broader themes brought up by the dialog don't really cohere or develop. To patient and curious players who can bear sifting through all of that to get to the great game underneath, I absolutely recommend Knytt Underground. (I am, after all, one of those players myself) But for everyone else, proceed with caution.

It's a good game, but the graphics has dated like a skimmed milk, it looks absolutely a** : the author hasn't even bothered to put in proper video settings, so you have to fiddle with 3rd party upscalers to make it look somewhat decent on anything larger than 720p (jfc). By default it'll look like a blurry pixel vomit on your 4k screen.