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The Official NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams thread
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CurseoftheGods
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EDarkness said:
Doesn't look like that case at all. The game is getting reviews similar to that of the original.
Do you mean that some people like it and some people hate it? Because if so, I should warn you - I loved the Saturn game, and still hoping that the PS2 version rescues my nostalgia, but the Wii game is awful. Like I said, I may give it a bit more time to see if the game itself can hold its own, but my experience so far has been very, very bad.CurseoftheGods said:
Yeah, apart from having to catch that stupid bird. Oh, and the level designs are a little, hmm, suspicious. There are a lot of areas where you have to fly through a small gap, but there is so much movement above and below the height of that gate, that it can be difficult to find at times, with little visual cue. That happened a bit in the original too, I know, but it happens a lot more in this.y2kev said:
CurseoftheGods
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Jonnyram said:
Shit. :/
Absinthe (Permed)
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Nights is polarizing people? Man, oh man, didn't see that coming!
Greatness Gone
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Oh god, no. :-(Jonnyram said:
Will pick up when it is in a bargain bin for, like, $10.
CurseoftheGods said:
Impressions from the public is really whats gonna make or break this game and if copies are already showing up used in Japan (which I'll check later today), then that's not good. I do wonder if people have a strange view of what the original NiGHTS was like because I played it a while back and it wasn't anything like I remember it. I think people expectations might be a little too high.
Segata Sanshiro
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I'm still buying it, though as I said before, I hold Jonny's opinions on games in pretty high regard. Anyway, maybe you'll warm up to it a bit over the next couple of days, Jonny. Please give the heads-up if your feelings on it change.
Only a week left for NA, then many more of us will know exactly how this game is going to settle in for each of us.
Only a week left for NA, then many more of us will know exactly how this game is going to settle in for each of us.
Greatness Gone
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This is true, but then they'd fuck it up. Remember Nightshade? lawl.Bebpo said:
Greatness Gone
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False hope, FTMFL.Lobster said:
I've always said that this was gonna be a fucking trainwreck (despite Lobster's and Segata's insults! :lol ), and i am really sorry to see i was right.
The whole project was born under some WRONG decisions: you fucking cannot bring a top notch franchise like this (Into Dreams is the best game of all time IMHO) back by spending a pretty low budget and just 10 months on it, expecially if you are the nowadays Sega.
And remember what Iizuka said when they announced it, the fact that the game was being devoloped for Wii because of the unprecedented controller possibilities and blablabla: how come this whole aspect of it -something that should have been the most important asset for a NiGHTS sequel- is COMPLETE SHIT?
Plus there's the whole art direction thing, something that may be a little subjective but that has always quite disturbed me due to the shift from the uniqueness of the original to the generic disney style of JoD (and i'll never forget/forgive the new beefed samurai Reala).
We've been waiting ELEVEN years, if this is the result... Sega shouldn't have really bothered.
All this said, i'm still gonna buy it on day one... Just to see how much Sega can rape my beloved dreams.
EDIT: Of course thanks Jonny for the hands on.
The whole project was born under some WRONG decisions: you fucking cannot bring a top notch franchise like this (Into Dreams is the best game of all time IMHO) back by spending a pretty low budget and just 10 months on it, expecially if you are the nowadays Sega.
And remember what Iizuka said when they announced it, the fact that the game was being devoloped for Wii because of the unprecedented controller possibilities and blablabla: how come this whole aspect of it -something that should have been the most important asset for a NiGHTS sequel- is COMPLETE SHIT?
Plus there's the whole art direction thing, something that may be a little subjective but that has always quite disturbed me due to the shift from the uniqueness of the original to the generic disney style of JoD (and i'll never forget/forgive the new beefed samurai Reala).
We've been waiting ELEVEN years, if this is the result... Sega shouldn't have really bothered.
All this said, i'm still gonna buy it on day one... Just to see how much Sega can rape my beloved dreams.
EDIT: Of course thanks Jonny for the hands on.
I've been playing this game a couple of hours.
My first impressions are:
-TOO FUCKING MUCH POINTLESS CUTSCENES.
-Cutscenes models sucks hard, they are SO ugly, NiGHTS' face is fucking creepy.
-The controls feel a little unresponsive for me. In the original NiGHTS I remember myself nailing every ring and linking a lot of them, but I find the controls in this one a bit harder.
-Now every level has different missions, most of them kind of boring. The ranking system it's not like in the original Nights, where you could stay flying through the level until the very last second collecting blue chips and linking. Now it's more the faster you can finish the level or something, I don't really get it yet. Missions with the kids walking around suck really hard.
-The "My Dream" thing with the A Life system it's pointless, it's not like Chaos in Sonic Adventure, you almost can't interact with the Nightopians, other than carrying them from place to place. Also, the garden is HORRID.
+One of the levels, the Glass garden or something like that, looks really great. The game looks nice if you forget the cutscenes.
+Music is great too, many catchy tunes, but not as great as the original. The music in the character selection screen is the same you heard on the original NiGHTS, it made me smile.
+The persona masks thing looks interesting, I'd have to play more to tell
I don't know if the game sucks or not yet, but don't get your hopes very high guys, although it looks like it is a decent (but not awesome) sequel.
My first impressions are:
-TOO FUCKING MUCH POINTLESS CUTSCENES.
-Cutscenes models sucks hard, they are SO ugly, NiGHTS' face is fucking creepy.
-The controls feel a little unresponsive for me. In the original NiGHTS I remember myself nailing every ring and linking a lot of them, but I find the controls in this one a bit harder.
-Now every level has different missions, most of them kind of boring. The ranking system it's not like in the original Nights, where you could stay flying through the level until the very last second collecting blue chips and linking. Now it's more the faster you can finish the level or something, I don't really get it yet. Missions with the kids walking around suck really hard.
-The "My Dream" thing with the A Life system it's pointless, it's not like Chaos in Sonic Adventure, you almost can't interact with the Nightopians, other than carrying them from place to place. Also, the garden is HORRID.
+One of the levels, the Glass garden or something like that, looks really great. The game looks nice if you forget the cutscenes.
+Music is great too, many catchy tunes, but not as great as the original. The music in the character selection screen is the same you heard on the original NiGHTS, it made me smile.
+The persona masks thing looks interesting, I'd have to play more to tell
I don't know if the game sucks or not yet, but don't get your hopes very high guys, although it looks like it is a decent (but not awesome) sequel.
sevenchaos
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This thread makes me sad. I hate you Sega.
GrotesqueBeauty
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Man, I'm bummed to hear they've bogged it down with superfluous content and made seemingly arbitrary changes to the way you progress. Those are two of my pet peeves in sequels. The original NiGHTS was all about flow and the immediacy of the gameplay and it sounds like they fucked those elements up. It's always painful when you realize a game would be better if only the developer had the good sense to take some of the fluff to the chopping block.
Damn. I was holding out hope for this one. I guess I'll wait for more impressions to roll in.
Damn. I was holding out hope for this one. I guess I'll wait for more impressions to roll in.
Lobster said:
I'm a HUGE fan of NiGHTS, and the game isn's as good as the original, there's no question.
At this moment, Christmas NiGHTS (yes, the one level special disk) is way better than what I've played of JOD.
It's sad, but it's true, and it's Sega, you know, the people who brought us Shadow the Hedgehog and SONIC 06 after all...
Chao said:I'm a HUGE fan of NiGHTS, and the game isn's as good as the original, there's no question.
At this moment, Christmas NiGHTS (yes, the one level special disk) is way better than what I've played of JOD.
It's sad, but it's true, and it's Sega, you know, the people who brought us Shadow the Hedgehog and SONIC 06 after all...
can you elaborate?Chao said:I'm a HUGE fan of NiGHTS, and the game isn's as good as the original, there's no question.
At this moment, Christmas NiGHTS (yes, the one level special disk) is way better than what I've played of JOD.
It's sad, but it's true, and it's Sega, you know, the people who brought us Shadow the Hedgehog and SONIC 06 after all...
what do you like? what dont you like? is it completely unplayable etc?
please! details man!
>.>
Chao said:I'm a HUGE fan of NiGHTS, and the game isn's as good as the original, there's no question.
At this moment, Christmas NiGHTS (yes, the one level special disk) is way better than what I've played of JOD.
It's sad, but it's true, and it's Sega, you know, the people who brought us Shadow the Hedgehog and SONIC 06 after all...
Well, more specifically, it's the same exact team that brought us Shadow and Sonic PS360.
FallenAngelV
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Why? Why couldn't they just keep everything the same, rather than forcing in platforming, cutscenes & changing the scoring system? All they had to do was replicate the same bloody gameplay with new stages & decent controls/aesthetics and I would've been happy. God fucking dammit, Sonic Team. Can't you do anything right?