Last game you finished and your thoughts

So it seems like there's a fuckload of potential endings here. The initial ending I went with involved me killing Kenny and then INSTANTLY regretting it after his dying words and finding out that Jane lied about the baby being dead. So, after finishing that route, I decided to replay the last chapter and made a second save.

Letting Kenny kill Jane is much more of a definitive ending route, I reckon, and a happier ending to boot. Even though I left with Kenny instead of entering Wellington, I can't help but feel that Clem will be better off with a man who, despite all his flaws, is genuinely caring and would die for her. Jane strikes me as the sort to abandon Clem if it meant saving herself - somewhat exemplified by how she left at a moment's notice with the baby after the car crash. The whole "manipulating Kenny into a bloodthirsty rage" thing really didn't sit well with me.

Also, there's an ending where you can let Kenny kill Jane and then shoot Kenny and head out with the kid alone. Definitely bleak.

I thought Kenny was too far gone and the way he acted when he thought the baby was dead just further proved he had lost it. I didn't trust him around Clem any more and thought that he was only going to get worse. The baby was pretty much all he was left hanging on to, not to mention Clem would never be able to find another group with Kenny around because he's too volatile.
I was genuinely speechless when I found out that Jane had tricked Kenny about the baby though. Didn't even give an answer to her about whether I forgave her, just sat there stunned.
It did annoy me that because it was Jane they went back to Carvers, I really did believe Wellington was the way to go, just didn't think Kenny was the man to get her there.

My opinion of this game won't be everyone's. I had an Acorn Electron as a kid (sometimes I know I say BBC Micro, as the Acorn's bigger brother is the one everyone knows from their time at school); alongside all the generic early 80s arcade game rip-offs and Much Better Versions of Boulderdash, there were a number of flick-screen puzzle platformer adventures, e.g. Citadel - VVVVVV is a more recent and direct homage to these. They reason why these games proved popular was not any kind of fighting against the inhabitants of the world, but the exploration, the discovery of a new item that can be used to solve a problem elsewhere, or a secret path or shortcut. (side note: this is a point about e.g. the Elder Scrolls games; as much as I love - and I do love - their sprawling open worlds, the end of each mission is usually "kill this guy").
Knytt Underground conjures this same sort of feeling; you're given a map, with all the room clearly gridded out. Later on, you'll look at the map and realise "hang on a minute, there's a gap in the grid there" - it therefore becomes vitally important to you to trudge back to that area of the map (there is fast travel, but it's not instant and you can fail at it) in order to find a secret path; thanks to the (initially irritating) climbing and bouncy ball jumping, there's no place that can't be used to hide a route.
The graphics are prettty awesome, with the backgrounds made from Photoshopped... photos... of various real-world vegetation, with a moody twilighty lighting scheme (you're underground see) and the walls in pitch-black. It is however clear that, despite quite a few artists in the game, Nifflas can't really draw people. There's a nice Tinkly-Tinkly But Just About Music As Opposed To Ambient Bollocks soundtrack as well, which differs from the TV to the GamePad, acting as a sort of surround sound for your main character.
Another plus point for be is the subversive nature of the storyline and characters. Sometimes you go on an item collect-athon, return to the chap that wanted the items, and he'll be like *shrug*. Also, despite the main plot being that your character has to halt the incoming apocalypse, the game

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Negatives: Well, the control scheme is initially frustrating, and, probably after the first two (short) chapters you might think that this is a bit of a throwaway C-level game (hint: it's not). It does suffer from the indie game "secret" difficulty also; I thought I was doing well, having found all rooms (and a secret environment outside of the map), and all of the items in the inventory. Then on completing the game, it turns out that I've only got one "badge" - an achievement equivalent. Having briefly looked on the internet (there's not wide GameFAQs-esque coverage of this game), it looks like there's a load of really specific secret things, and might even be a secret ending; like Cave Story, it looks to suffer from the idea that, to truly complete the game, you have to do - or not do - something that you'd never think of doing to progress in the game, and would have to replay several hours over to make that decision. In an interview about Affordable Space Adventures in this month's ONM, Nicklas does say that he likes making immensely difficult games, and then scaling back for mere mortals.
Also, sometimes the plot, although overall brilliant subversive, sometimes attempts to deal with edgy grown-up issues with the subtlety of a trowel; this may be due to a language barrier though.

But (sorry I wrote too much) this game is fantastic. But it only may be fantastic if you're me.

9/10*

Sorry, I wrote too much.