History VideoGame / KnyttStories

* ObviousBeta: Parodied in Nifflas's level [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "This Level is Unfinished"]]. It consists of crude black pen drawings with notes such as "Animate water here" and "Dangerous blocks (draw spikes)."

* BlamedForBeingRailroaded: Parodied in the ending of ''[[https://nifflas.lp1.nl/index.php?topic=7366.0 Gaseous soap]]'', where [[spoiler:Juni is accused of killing her neighbor Gerald Soap while hallucinating that he was an evil billionaire named Dr. Soap. A dramatic sting plays as we get a tense zoom-in onto Juni... until she clarifies that Dr. Soap (''Gerard'' Soap) and Gerald Soap are two completely different people who live miles away from each other, and she did indeed kill Dr. Soap.]]

* BlamedForBeingRailroaded: Parodied in the ending of ''[[https://nifflas.lp1.nl/index.php?topic=7366.0 Gaseous soap]]'', where [[spoiler:Juni is implied to have killed her neighbor Gerald Soap while hallucinating that he was an evil billionaire named Dr. Soap. A dramatic sting plays as we get a tense zoom-in onto Juni... until she clarifies that Dr. Soap (''Gerard'' Soap) and Gerald Soap are two completely different people who live miles away from each other, and she did indeed kill Dr. Soap.]]

* LongTitle: Nifflas seems to be fond of giving the music tracks for the bonus endings these... in nonsensical German! How's "Das Fluffmuffelgebrüggenmüskinegedanken" for a mouthful?

* BlamedForBeingRailroaded: Parodied in the ending of ''[[https://nifflas.lp1.nl/index.php?topic=7366.0 Gaseous soap]]'', where [[spoiler:Juni is implied to have killed her neighbor Gerald Soap while hallucinating that he was an evil billionaire named Dr. Soap... until Juni clarifies that Dr. Soap (''Gerard'' Soap) and Gerald Soap are two completely different people who live miles away from each other, and she did indeed kill Dr. Soap.]]

* BlamedForBeingRailroaded: Parodied in the ending of ''Gaseous soap'', where [[spoiler:Juni is implied to have killed her neighbor Gerald Soap while hallucinating that he was an evil billionaire named Dr. Soap... until Juni clarifies that Dr. Soap (''Gerard'' Soap) and Gerald Soap are two completely different people who live miles away from each other, and she did indeed kill Dr. Soap.]]

* FutureImperfect: In ''Vleindergurk'', the reason that avoiding the titular town of Vleindergurk has become ingrained into the locals' culture [[spoiler:is that Vleindergurk is a radioactive waste site whose specific warnings weren't properly preserved]].

* NintendoHard: Some levels have multiple difficulty settings and may include a tougher version that would fall under this. On others, there are no easier options and there is no escape from the slew of deaths you will face. Such is the case of Xeia: The ''very first jump'' you have to make has to be ludicrously precise, and will probably take you an age to get past. [[https://youtu.be/HfGCnNI2pcQ?t=2m58s And it doesn't get any easier from there.]]

* SturgeonsLaw: There are ''a lot'' of levels uploaded on knyttlevels.com, and a bunch of them are buggy, unfinished, or are just plain uninteresting and uncreatively employ the default music and tilesets to the point of abuse. There are, however, also some really, ''really'' good levels that obviously had a lot of time and testing put into them. Newcomers wondering about which ones to try should probably go [[http://nifflas.lpchip.nl/index.php?topic=427.0 here]].

* BubblyClouds: Probably the most notable level using this trope is ''Sky Flower'', which takes place almost entirely on a bunch of pretty clouds.

* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist

* FlipScreenScrolling

* GhibliHills
* HeroicMime: Juni.

* TheMaze
* {{Metroidvania}}: Most levels are like this.
* MultipleChoicePast: Juni.
* MultipleEndings

* NoPlotNoProblem: ''Sky Flower''. No story whatsoever, just the peaceful experience of going up and down through some pretty BubblyClouds.

* OneHitPointWonder: Juni.

* SceneryPorn
* SavePoint
* SpikesOfDoom

* WallCrawl
* WallJump

* BonusDungeon

* NintendoHard: Some levels have multiple difficulty settings and may include a tougher version that would fall under this. On others, there are no easier options and there is no escape from the slew of deaths you will face.
** One word: ''Xeia''. The ''very first jump'' you have to make has to be ludicrously precise, and will probably take you an age to get past. [[https://youtu.be/HfGCnNI2pcQ?t=2m58s And it doesn't get any easier from there.]]

* {{Hologram}}[=/=]{{Invisibility}}: The hologram powerup makes Juni invisible and plants a decoy hologram that attracts enemy projectiles.

* [[WomanInWhite Woman/Girl in White]]:
** Juni in the original levels, and since this is her default/"canon" look, a great deal of fan-made levels.
** There is also a Knytt woman who wears a long white dress.

* WideOpenSandbox and possibly QuicksandBox.

* ObviousBeta: Parodied in Nifflas's level [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "This Level is Unfinished"]].

A freeware platformer game by Nicklas "Creator/{{Nifflas}}" Nygren, creator of similar freeware platformers such as ''VideoGame/WithinADeepForest'' and the original ''VideoGame/{{Knytt}}''. Though it only comes with one full level and a tutorial, the game has an integrated level editor and new levels are very easy to install. Several additional official levels by Nifflas have been released (see below), and the game has a very active fan-made level community. Tons of levels can be found on [[http://nifflas.ni2.se/forum/ Nifflas' forums]] and on [[http://knyttlevels.com/ knyttlevels.com]].

* SaveTheWorld: In ''The Machine'' and ''An Underwater Adventure''.

* {{Hologram}}[=/=]{{Invisibility}}: The hologram powerup makes Juni invisible and plants a decoy hologram that attracts enemy bullets.

* SaveTheWorld

->''This is one of those stories.''"

* MushroomSamba: The level aptly titled ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGvZa3tiYwY Don't Eat the Mushroom]]''. If you do, you go through a series of trippy scenes from [[spoiler:[[Advertising/TheBurgerKing the Burger King]] to ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{The Legend of Zelda|1}}'', to teleporting crazily all over the screen, to the background being Creator/JimCarrey in the [[Series/SaturdayNightLive "Night at the Roxbury"]] skit, to pleading for help on Nifflas' forums and Juni climbing a giant version of herself.]]

* BubblyClouds: Probably the most notable level using this trope is ''Sky Flower'', which takes place entirely on a bunch of pretty clouds.

* HarderThanHard: So you've got levels out there that are rated "Hard" and "Very Hard", but then there's the "Lunatic" category for the nigh-impossible, only-the-most-experienced/crazy-players-should-ever-hope-to-win-this levels. Xeia is this trope's champion.

* NintendoHard: Some levels have multiple difficulty settings.

* [[WomanInWhite Woman/Girl in White]]:
** Juni in the original levels, and since this is her default/"canon" look, a great deal of fan-made levels.
** There is also a Knytt woman who wears a long white dress.

** One word: ''Xeia''. The ''very first jump'' you have to make has to be ludicrously precise, and will probably take you an age to get past.

* RuleThirtyFour: Or at least, [[http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/kspr0n this]] exists...

* ObviousBeta: {{Invoked|Trope}} by Nifflas in his level called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "This Level is Unfinished"]].

* MushroomSamba: The level aptly titled ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGvZa3tiYwY Don't Eat the Mushroom]]''. If you do, you go through a series of trippy scenes from [[spoiler:[[Advertising/TheBurgerKing the Burger King]] to ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'', to teleporting crazily all over the screen, to the background being Creator/JimCarrey in the [[Series/SaturdayNightLive "Night at the Roxbury"]] skit, to pleading for help on Nifflas' forums and Juni climbing a giant version of herself.]]

!!This game has examples of:
* ContinuitySnarl: Enforced given that most of the content of the game is fan-created.
* DoubleJump

!!In addition to the game itself, some levels have examples of:

* {{Backtracking}}: Sometimes essential to complete the level.

* BubblyClouds: Probably the most notable level using this trope is ''Sky Flower'', which takes place entirely on a bunch of pretty clouds.
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist

* GhibliHills

* HeroicMime: Juni, in the original levels and most others. Several fan levels avert this, though.
* LongTitle: Nifflas seems to be fond of giving the music tracks for the bonus endings these... in nonsensical German! How's "Das Fluffmuffelgebrüggenmüskinegedanken" for a mouthful?
* TheMaze
* {{Metroidvania}}: Most levels are like this.
* MultipleEndings

* MythologyGag: The alternate endings of some of the Nifflas-created levels. One of them puts Juni at the beginning of ''VideoGame/WithinADeepForest''; another makes her reenact the opening cutscene of ''VideoGame/{{Knytt}}''. There's even ''An Underwater Adventure'', which puts you at the entrance of #modarchive, in a reference to Nifflas' first two games, ''#modarchive story'' and ''#modarchive story 2: Operator Status''.

* ObviousBeta: {{Invoked|Trope}} by Nifflas in his level called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "This Level is Unfinished"]].
* [[OncePerEpisode Once per Level]]: You ''will'' find an obstacle which can only be passed by running, one which can only be passed by double jumping, one which can only be passed with the umbrella...

* SaveTheWorld
* SceneryPorn

* WideOpenSandbox and possibly QuicksandBox