Nights Into Dreams

Things that float fabulously in the night

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I opted to take a break from SFM tonight, and wanted to do a livestream. NIGHTS is both a game that is as annoying as it is fabulous. I can’t really say this is something that I’ll repeat playing for an audience… or myself unless I’m in the right mood to take on these weird bosses.

Back in business

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The power supply is in my system, safe and sound. No magic smoke has escaped my case and my system seems to be running perfectly again. To celebrate I played a game, or should I say attempted to play a game.

I’ve only played Nights Into Dreams a few times. It’s a Sega game made for the Saturn in 1996. I never knew anyone who owned that particular console, so I didn’t know much about this game until it released on Steam with a bunch of other selections from Sega’s catalog. I’ve been going into this game blind as a bat trying to figure out what to do without having to look anything up. Here is my description of the game without having done any research first:

You’re a floating gay clown that goes around stealing children from within their dreams and eats floating balls and stars, while also destroying glass crab fixtures and traveling through onion rings that were made with anal beads (what is it with Sega and rings?).

Am I right? Let us consult Wikipedia:

The story follows teenagers Claris and Elliot, who enter Nightopia, a dream world where all dreams take place. With the help of Nights, an exiled “Nightmaren”, they begin a journey to stop the evil ruler Wizeman from destroying Nightopia and consequently the real world. Players control Nights flying through Claris and Elliot’s dreams to gather enough energy to defeat Wizeman and save Nightopia.

 

Well I was close.

I’ve made it to what I think is the first boss? It’s a giant clown sperm fish snake thing I’m not entirely sure how I’m supposed to get through that point. I’ll attempt it again sometime, but if I can’t progress I may have to consult the Youtube’s to see wtf I have to do. Feels kinda silly to need to do that so soon on what is basically the first level… Other than that I really like the game! It’s fun zipping through the air, flying across bright colorful worlds and taking in the sights. The controls are a little wonky when moving as the children, mainly the camera… that might be curable with the Steam Controller though. Perhaps I’ll contemplate this in my dreams… they have better graphics but sometimes the controls are also pretty wonked out. I can fly in my dreams too, but I don’t dress like that. 😛 At least not yet…