[platformer] An Untitled Story

Great game!  Completely unoriginal since it admittedly took SO much from Seiklus, but it definitely expanded upon that.  It took me a few days to 100% it (due to its huge content) and it's easily in my top 20 indie games of all time.

Overall rating - 7.9

Completely unoriginal since it admittedly took SO much from Seiklus,

Beyond the basic features that most explorational platformers share, I don't see many similarities.

...AUS takes more from Metroid than it takes from Seiklus.  Seiklus takes more from Metroid than AUS takes from Seiklus.

1) Graphical Style
2) Sound Effects
3) Map Screen

1) Graphical Style

I...what?

2) Sound Effects

I can't really think of any examples of this. Could you point out some?

3) Map Screen

It's a standard puzzle-platformer map screen, really. Each room is divided into boxes, and they're all displayed in a grid. Then your collected items are displayed next to it.

Note I'm not saying that there aren't any similarities, I'm just saying that it didn't take a ton of stuff from Seiklus.

The graphical style is similar to Seiklus', but not greatly so.  Knytt's style has more similarities to Seiklus' style than the AUS style does, so...yeah.

When I played this game, I felt Seiklus in the tone of background artwork.  I felt Seiklus in the sounds played (e.g. getting hurt) and I felt the map style was formulated with Seiklus clearly in mind.  I hadn't read anywhere before I played the game that this game was completely inspired by Seiklus, I only found that out after completion when it says so in the credits - and that's when everything clicked.  When I played through Knytt I felt no structural similarities, only that they're both explorational platformers.  Just because I felt that way playing it doesn't mean you lot should've too!

I CAN'T GET PAST THE DAMN ROCK GUY FFFFUUUUUUUUU...[/rage]

I remember wanting to try this game, but it kept crashing every time I opened the file, so eventually I gave up. :-(

I love this game, or I love what I've played of this game.

It's the best experience I've had in demistifying über polished graphics as a gaming necessity -- my first major playing experience was Final Fantasy IX, with all it's wonderful pre-rendered backgrounds and their agonizing mismatch with any other graphical element in the game; it's got a competent-to-great soundtrack; it sets up a large world while entirely avoiding epic fantasy/sci fi clichés; it has a special way of feeling shoddy and hastily put together and clunky to control and at the same time elegantly designed and organic and just good to play, just plain good-feeling to play and to get to know as a game. I have no problem with the abundance of power-ups and hearts; it makes the game feel generous and steers it away from masochore clichés that dominate a lot of harder games' mindsets.

It lacks in variation towards the later parts of the game -- which is why I've never gone all the way through. But overall it feels like a playground and it reminds me of the first moments I was excited by games, and it reminds me of trying to draw super-heroes in paint when I was ten years old, and I appreciate that a lot.