Knytt Stories

By: Derek Yu

On: August 28th, 2007

Knytt Stories and a lunar eclipse in one night? Surely it’s a subtle sign from the Universe that this is something special.

Beyond the fact that I think Nifflas has improved upon his craft since the original game and that I am in love with this one, I don’t want to belabor a description. You should know Knytt Stories is not just a single adventure, but a series of adventures. Really, an unlimited number of adventures, since the game comes packaged with a level editor that seems very robust and easy to use.

Those of you who found Knytt to be too “boring” will get more out of Knytt Stories, I think, but no promises. The rest of us may have been sold from the start, but I gotta say that I genuinely like this game even better. Download it immediately.

(Thanks, Circy!)

Posted in Freeware, Highly Recommended, Platformers, Windows | Tags: Nifflas

wourme

> Never play good games when youâ€™re tired :(

Also, never start a new game when you should already be asleep, intending to play just a minute to see what it’s like. I finished “An Underwater Adventure” around 4:30 AM, a few hours before I had to be at work. :)
Enhasa

I’d rather disagree than agree with Shih Tzu anyway.

The best part of SotC IMHO was in between fights. SotC has integrity, it doesn’t need to dangle cheap cookies for you to want to explore. Searchable bookshelves can go die.

I think in-depth storytelling would hurt the atmosphere and wouldn’t fit. Luckily though, there’s a level editor so everyone can make whatever sort of level they want. ;)
Enhasa

For anyone who wants to play ogg files, you can pretty much play them anywhere. foobar, Winamp, MPlayer, VLC, anything else with haali + ffdshow. MPUI (search for it) is probably the easiest.

I thought Knytt was great and Knytt Stories is absolutely brilliant, but maybe Nifflas will never top Within a Deep Forest and Operator Status. (The Sky Flower level comes pretty close though.) Not that I’m complaining in the least…
Fishy Boy

Much better than Knytt. That’s really all I have to say. It has a level editor, and that alone gives the game so much more value. I think it would be cool to have something with a lot of dialogue, and some constantly going plot. Maybe an Earthbound style game. The only thing it lacks is the ability to make your own “interactive” parts, such as enemies. Still, you can do a lot, as the “An Underwater Adventure” proved. A very good game.
Champ

@ Enhasa: No game could ever punish a player more cruelly for actually trying to explore the world than SotC.
If you ever stray from your current goal to check out a place that looks interesting, you’re wasting your goddamn time: Because you’ll almost certainly be going there in a couple of missions anyway. At any rate, the game has plenty of its own golden bananas to discover – they’re just not hidden in interesting places, and finding them isn’t challenging or rewarding or anything. I like the game – almost as much as I hate it – but fuck that.
Re: Knytt Stories: Awesome.
nestor

one word: ninjas! Knytt Stories is a wonderful game. one of 2D’s best of all-time and a definite progression from Knytt & Deep Forest. It some sense it shows how continued focus on a narrow goal can bare much fruit if you can manage to stick with it for several years and not lose sight.
krizzl0r

truly great game!

only played nifflas’ levels so far, hope the third party ones can keep up with this quality :D
especially liked the different endings of ‘a strange dream’.

atmosphere rocks too, after some time playing a world you really get the feeling of being someplace far from home :)

community: design more levels!!1 :D
Advenith

It’s finally out, and the sprites get all stretchy on my new laptop. I need to find a letterboxing program or something, now.
http://josephkingworks.blogspot.com Joseph

Whoa I just finished Underwater Adventure… I’m left truly mesmerized…