Thoughts about Knytt Classic and game difficulty

I sat down and plowed through Knytt Classic in a single sitting. While I was doing it, I had a lot of thoughts about why this game was so influential to me and others, and what it was like to be "in" the "scene" of indie game enjoyers who were talking about this game, and others like it, in the late 2000s. I think the biggest thing I have to remind myself about games like this is that they were…