A DEEPER LOOK AT KNYTT STORIES

As with his earlier look into the subtle complexities that made World of Goo so rewarding, David Rosen has turned his attention now to nifflas’s Knytt Stories, a game I chose as one of the top five freeware releases of 2007 in a former life.

As I said there, Stories takes the best parts of Cave Story (the similarly excellent freeware game), particularly the joys of its pure platforming and exploration, and Ico/Shadow of the Colossus‘s “propensity to strip away all of a game’s unnecessary layers until its shining core is revealed,” both of which Rosen expounds upon nicely with his attention on Knytt‘s smart handling of “progression” and control.