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Knytt Stories (and taoism)

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I was tempted - really tempted - to post this in the taoist subforum, but I have a feeling that people don't trust me there enough.

 

Knytt Stories is a fairly popular computer game. It's a free indie platformer exploration game. It's also a beautiful nature experience.

 

The beauty about Knytt Stories (especially the official story The Machine) to me, is that it shows a different perspective. It shows the beauty and serenity of being small and energetic. Juni doesn't involve herself in politics. She doesn't watch the news about the war in Over-there-istan. She just runs around and climbs whereever she can, like a force of nature. Her hands and feet speak, and nature speaks back, and we have this beautiful friendly, non-judgemental conversation going on, without a single word spoken.

I hope that you will feel as calm and refreshed from playing it as I've done.

 

http://nifflas.ni2.se/?page=Knytt+Stories

 

...and after that, there's hundreds upon hundreds of fan stories to play, if you want more. (A warning, though: Many of those are made to be unfair jumping puzzles, so watch out.)

 

When I speak of "master Juni", yes, I'm talking about the protagonist.

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