History VideoGame / Knytt

* NoPronunciationGuide: It's a Swedish game. "K'neet" comes pretty close.

* {{Backtracking}}: You'll end up doing it a lot, since there's a lot of one-way paths and dead end areas. But that's alright. It's nice, really.

* BonusBoss: Not really a boss since you can't fight, but one exists, [[spoiler:and its name is the [[OverlyLongName Das Magdenburska Martian Deathray Pantzer Crawler.]]]]

* BubblyClouds: At the very top of the map.

* FlipScreenScrolling

* GhibliHills

* MetroidVania: The game is a ''very'' [[{{Minimalism}} minimalist]] take on the genre; you explore a wide open world to gather tools in order to beat the game. Knytt can't attack and can only jump, climb and use a light to point the way to an item, and there are very few enemies to encounter, with the environments and platforming providing the lions share of obstacles. There are no power-ups, either.

** If you can read IPA, found [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English here]] it's "[kni:t]" (not to be confused with the English verb).

* UndergroundLevel: Almost the entire game other than the surface and BubblyClouds areas.

** BonusBoss: Not really a boss since you can't fight, but one exists, [[spoiler:and its name is the [[OverlyLongName Das Magdenburska Martian Deathray Pantzer Crawler.]]]]

* WallCrawl / WallJump: The Knytt's main powers.

* LighterAndSofter: Than it's predecessor, ''Within a Deep Forest''. In that game, you were out on a quest to save the world from being blown up by a mad scientist. In this game, you're just a kid who is stranded on a far off world who has to repair a spaceship and get home, and there's no villain--heck, there's almost no enemies at all in the game. Most of the threats are just environmental hazards like water and lava.

The story is quite simple: The Knytt, a weird little creature, gets abducted from his native planet by an alien. However, before reaching its supposed destination, the alien's ship crashes against an astroid, and the alien makes an emergency landing on a nearby planet. If he ever wants to get home again, the Knytt must help the alien recover the parts of the spaceship which has been scattered all over the strange planet.

* NoFinalBossForYou: There's no final boss, or any boss fights in the game for that matter.

* JustifiedTutorial: The games file select screen has an optional tutorial level to give players a crash course on the games mechanics, and then throws you to the wolves after you're finished.

* AlienAbduction