History VideoGame / KnyttUnderground

''Knytt Underground'' was released on December 18, 2012 on UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 and UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita, with a PC and Mac release following on December 22. A UsefulNotes/WiiU version was also released in December of 2013. Download the demo [[http://nifflas.ni2.se/?page=Knytt+Underground here]].

* ModularEpilogue

** Chapter 3: [[spoiler:Nicklas cuts the story short right before you ring the final bell.]] Depending on how many sidequests you carried out, though, you can get a few epilogue scenes.

* AsYouKnow: One of the clichés Cilia lampshades in [[spoiler:the RPG story]]. If [[spoiler:the protagonist]] has lived in his DoomedHometown his whole life, why would he just now need to be informed of its MacGuffin that keeps everyone alive?

* BetterThanABareBulb: [[spoiler:The RPG story]] is filled to the brim with criticisms of [[spoiler:overdone JRPG]] plots.

* CanonWelding: Establishes that ''Knytt'' and ''Within A Deep Forest'' are set in the same universe [[spoiler:as ''Saira''.]]

* ClusterFBomb: Cilia lapses into this every now and then, most famously in [[spoiler:the secret RPG story]]. "Oh shit anus penis wank" indeed.
* ContinuityNod: Apparently, Knytt Underground occurs a thousand years after ''VideoGame/WithinADeepForest'', another game by the same creator. The (disarmed) bomb is still in the underground lab.

* DoomedHometown: The quaint little village that [[spoiler:the protagonist of the RPG story]] calls home. [[ClicheStorm Its destruction was pretty much inevitable.]]
* {{Easter Egg}}s: The game world consists of 48x45 rooms. The top 48x30 are used for the three main chapters, meaning the bottom 48x15 are entirely reserved for secret rooms, the main menu, and the Disorder. Most of it is secret rooms.

** A [[spoiler:hair dryer]] is either a ray gun or a laser and must be destroyed.

** The pixie village in Crystal Path. You can find lost pixies and bring them back to it. [[spoiler:There's also a tail village hidden under the map.]]

** [[spoiler:The secret leading to the Red Forest]] seems like one, as it relies on doing some unorthodox things to escape an area that is more open than usual. The NPC within it lampshades this by telling you you're not supposed to be there.
** One easter egg in [[spoiler:the RPG story]] traps you in a ''Knytt Stories''-esque endless purple void.

* {{MSTing}}: [[spoiler:The secret RPG story features Cilia riffing on a generic SaveThePrincess plot. Not for long, though.]]
* MythologyGag: There's a brief reference to [[spoiler:the fan-made ''Knytt Stories'' level "Don't Eat the Mushroom"]].
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Because [[spoiler: Bob stopped Dr. Cliché's bomb]], the human war came to pass. The result is a CrapsackWorld on the surface, constant earthquakes, lava and acid, [[spoiler:Saira being the last human left in her timeline,]] etc.

** [[spoiler:Nicklas cuts the story short right before you ring the final bell. Depending on how many sidequests you carried out, though, you can get a few epilogue scenes.]]
** [[spoiler:The Bard's RPG story stops after he's heard enough of Cilia's heckling.]]

* OneHitPointWonder

* ParasolParachute: You can't actually use it, but one quest tasks you with finding [[spoiler: Juni's umbrella from ''Knytt Stories'']].
* PlayableMenu: [[spoiler:With its fair share of secrets, too.]]

* SavePoint: 60 total. The game keeps track of how many you find. [[spoiler:There's more outside of the map, though.]]

* SecretLevel: The game ''loves'' these. There are secrets, secrets inside secrets, secrets inside secrets ''inside secrets'' [[note]]Such as [[spoiler:Tiny Figure]], located inside the unnamed Neon Falls secret, which is located inside Neon Falls (a secret itself)[[/note]]... hell, even the debug area has a secret in it! [[note]]Go to the left of the "These smoke objects should not wrap around..." room and climb up the left wall. It leads to a secret passage with reconstructions of the sprites for [[VideoGame/{{Knytt}} the protagonist of Knytt]], [[VideoGame/KnyttStories Juni, and a green-shirted Knytt]].[[/note]]

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:In the RPG story, The Bard]] gets fed up and ends his retelling when [[spoiler:Cilia makes fun of the villain's name.]]

* TwoPartTrilogy: The first two games had an ExcusePlot. This game, however, has a very detailed backstory with many characters who have dialogue, and explains how all the previous games (including ''Within a Deep Forest'' [[spoiler:and ''Saira'']]) tie together.

* ContinuityNod: Apparently, Kyntt Underground occurs a thousand years after ''VideoGame/WithinADeepForest'', another game by the same creator. The (disarmed) bomb is still in the underground lab.

* SecretLevel: The game ''loves'' these. There are secrets, secrets inside secrets, secrets inside secrets ''inside secrets'' [[note]]Such as [[spoiler:Tiny Figure]], located inside the unnamed Neon Falls secret, which is located inside Neon Falls (a secret itself)[[/note]]... hell, even the debug area has a secret in it! [[note]]Go to the left of the "These smoke objects should not wrap around..." room and climb up the left wall. It leads to a secret passage with reconstructions of the sprites for [[VideoGame/Knytt the protagonist of Knytt]], [[VideoGame/KnyttStories Juni, and a green-shirted Knytt]].[[/note]]

** The pixie village in Crystal Path. You can find lost pixies and bring them back to it. [[spoiler: There's also a tail village hidden under the map.]]

* AsYouKnow: One of the clichés Cilia lampshades in [[spoiler:the RPG story]]. [[spoiler:If the hero has lived in his DoomedHometown his whole life, why would he just now need to be informed of its MacGuffin that keeps everyone alive?]]

* {{Easter Egg}}s: The game world consists of 48x45 rooms. The top 48x30 are used for the three main chapters, meaning the bottom 48x15 are entirely reserved for secret rooms and the main menu.

* {{MSTing}}: [[spoiler:The secret RPG story has Cilia riffing on a generic SaveThePrincess plot. Not for long, though.]]

** [[spoiler:The Bard's JRPG story stops after he's heard enough of Cilia's heckling.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Because [[spoiler: Bob stopped Dr. Cliche's bomb]], the human war came to pass. The result is a CrapsackWorld on the surface, constant earthquakes, lava and acid,[[spoiler:Saira being the last human left in her timeline,]] etc.
* NoEnding: [[spoiler:Nicklas cuts the story short right before you ring the final bell. Depending on how many sidequests you carried out, though, you can get a few epilogue scenes.]]

* RipVanWinkle: Bob the Ball had apparently been asleep in Dr. Cliche's lab for a ''very'' long time, until he decided to leave.

* [[spoiler:NoEnding]]: [[spoiler:Nicklas cuts the story short right before you ring the final bell. Depending on how many sidequests you carried out, though, you can get a few epilogue scenes.]]

* HiddenElfVillage: The pixie village in Crystal Path. You can find lost pixies and bring them back to it. [[spoiler: There's also a tail village hidden under the map.]]

* MST: [[spoiler:The secret RPG story has Cilia riffing on a generic SaveThePrincess plot. Not for long, though.]]

* ClusterFBomb: Cilia swears enough to net this game an M (PEGI 16) rating!

* {{Metroidvania}}

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: ''Everyone''.

* SavePoint: 60 total. The game keeps track of how many you find.

* StraightGay: [[spoiler:Cilia.]]

* CreatorCameo: Nicklas himself appears as the narrator.
* EasterEgg: A hidden level where you [[spoiler:play as Juni]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Because [[spoiler: Bob stopped Dr. Cliche's bomb]], the human war came to pass. The result is a CrapsackWorld on the surface, constant earthquakes, lava and acid,[[spoiler: aira being the last human left in her timeline,]] etc.
* [[spoiler:NoEnding]]

* SaveTheWorld: What you're trying to do.

* CanonWelding: Establishes that ''Knytt'' and ''Within A Deep Forest'' are set in the same universe as ''Saira''.

** Various glyphs[[note]]Keys from a keyboard.[[/note]] are interpreted by the Internet as symbols such as mountains or a full moon, but only one person in a remote cave ever considers the possibility that they might instead represent sounds.

* HiddenElfVillage: The pixie village in Crystal Path. You can find lost pixies and bring them back to it. [[spoiler:There's also a tail village hidden under the map.]]

* MythologyGag: There's a brief reference to the fan-made ''Knytt Stories'' level "Don't Eat the Mushroom".
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Because Bob stopped Dr. Cliche's bomb, the human war came to pass. The result is a CrapsackWorld on the surface, constant earthquakes, lava and acid, Saira being the last human left in her timeline, etc.

* ParasolParachute: You can't actually use it, but one quest tasks you with finding Juni's umbrella from ''Knytt Stories''.

* TwoPartTrilogy: The first two games had an ExcusePlot. This game, however, has a very detailed backstory with many characters who have dialogue, and explains how all the previous games (including ''Within a Deep Forest'' and ''Saira'') tie together.

''Knytt Underground'' was released on December 18, 2012 on PlayStation3 and PlayStationVita, with a PC and Mac release following on December 22. A WiiU version was also released in December of 2013. Download the demo [[http://nifflas.ni2.se/?page=Knytt+Underground here]].

* CanonWelding: Establishes that ''Knytt'' and ''Within A Deep Forest'' are set in the same universe as ''VideoGame/Saira''.