My OperaOh Those Summer NiiGHTS
By AntonCaptainSeagull. Monday, April 2, 2007 8:44:16 PM
"Walu walu waulu walu OOMF! tell me more tell me more!" - I know this song all to well. Let's just say you are about 8 years old and you are playing a demo in a store near christmas time. The demo has your character flying and spining and looping around the air of a world where the ground is above and below you, and you are dressed in this awesome purple outfit. You are enveloped by the game, you MUST have it even though you can't figure out exactly waht to do yet. You ask for it, but you can't understand why you can't have it because it's a sega game. So? Sega games are made for Nintendo's right? (remember when video game systems were ALL called Nintendo?). No, they won't. Well let's just say that this particular Sega system tanked very early on in it's life and was never heard from again.
But as you grow up, you have this burning desire to find this game, no matter what the cost, the treasure hunt continues. And out of some twisted luck of unbelievable fate, NiGHTS Into Dreams for the Sega Saturn shows up in a used game shop for about 10 dollars. It comes with the box, the instructions, AND the special 3D gamepad! You swoop it up and feel as if you just recieced the Nobel Prize for solving world hunger, you feel that good! Even though you still have to wait till you can find the rumored "recalled and destroyed" system. In a couple years you find it at the same shop and pick it up for 20-30 bucks.
You get home, set the thing up, and live a piece of your childood that was stolen from you, and STILL feel as if the game is ahead of it's time, somehow flying in this game has exceeded all other games of free character flight. It is just so darned fluid! - So the end of the story is, that you love the hell out of this VERY hard to find, super obscure game.
Fast-forward to today, you have been hearing rumors of a supposed sequal or remake being made. You, as an ultra fanatic of the game MUST deny these claims, because if you begin to believe, you will destroy yourself if they are false. That and the original creator has left Sega anyway. Rumors start surfacing saying that it will be Wiixclusive to your new favorite video game console, the one with the sweet controllers built from the ground up for motion sensing. You MUST deny these claims. BUT, now, you read how official the rumors really were! NiGHTS will be returning to our living rooms in a sequal for Wii!! - The Captain then rushes to the bathroom to avoid crapping his pants!
Appearantly "NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams" IS a sequal, and NOT a remake. This game has a new dream world, A new stage, a and a new story. So far we don't know if the children characters are the same or not. But the one we truely care about is NiGHTS himself. In the old game you were either a boy or a girl character who went to bed so you could enter the dream world and take control of NiGHTS so you could save dreams. Nightmare creatures were replacing all the dreams with nightmares. The more lucid your dream was, the better off you were, you could control NiGHTS most of the time, but if you took to much time or damage, you began to wake up loosing the ability to control the flying jester. Resorting to running around as the kid, without the awesome music, and the level began to fade away.
Here is the official press release for NA and the UK: "In 1996, under the concept of 'a refreshing feeling of flight,' we created Nights, a character of the world of dreams who dances through the skies. Eleven years later, the long silence broken, Nights will soar through a new dream world. A new stage, a new story, and a new plaftorm, the Wii. Please look forward to the new adventure of Nights and friends."
"We plan to deliver a gameplay experience never before seen on the Wii with NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams," said Scott A. Steinberg, vice president of marketing, SEGA of America. "The game takes full advantage of the unique Wii Remote controller enabling gamers to guide NiGHTS through spectacularly designed dream worlds intertwined with a story about hope and courage."
So far the release date is vague in "2007", with a so far exclusivity to Wii.
- Captain Seagull
But as you grow up, you have this burning desire to find this game, no matter what the cost, the treasure hunt continues. And out of some twisted luck of unbelievable fate, NiGHTS Into Dreams for the Sega Saturn shows up in a used game shop for about 10 dollars. It comes with the box, the instructions, AND the special 3D gamepad! You swoop it up and feel as if you just recieced the Nobel Prize for solving world hunger, you feel that good! Even though you still have to wait till you can find the rumored "recalled and destroyed" system. In a couple years you find it at the same shop and pick it up for 20-30 bucks.You get home, set the thing up, and live a piece of your childood that was stolen from you, and STILL feel as if the game is ahead of it's time, somehow flying in this game has exceeded all other games of free character flight. It is just so darned fluid! - So the end of the story is, that you love the hell out of this VERY hard to find, super obscure game.
Fast-forward to today, you have been hearing rumors of a supposed sequal or remake being made. You, as an ultra fanatic of the game MUST deny these claims, because if you begin to believe, you will destroy yourself if they are false. That and the original creator has left Sega anyway. Rumors start surfacing saying that it will be Wiixclusive to your new favorite video game console, the one with the sweet controllers built from the ground up for motion sensing. You MUST deny these claims. BUT, now, you read how official the rumors really were! NiGHTS will be returning to our living rooms in a sequal for Wii!! - The Captain then rushes to the bathroom to avoid crapping his pants!Appearantly "NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams" IS a sequal, and NOT a remake. This game has a new dream world, A new stage, a and a new story. So far we don't know if the children characters are the same or not. But the one we truely care about is NiGHTS himself. In the old game you were either a boy or a girl character who went to bed so you could enter the dream world and take control of NiGHTS so you could save dreams. Nightmare creatures were replacing all the dreams with nightmares. The more lucid your dream was, the better off you were, you could control NiGHTS most of the time, but if you took to much time or damage, you began to wake up loosing the ability to control the flying jester. Resorting to running around as the kid, without the awesome music, and the level began to fade away.
Here is the official press release for NA and the UK: "In 1996, under the concept of 'a refreshing feeling of flight,' we created Nights, a character of the world of dreams who dances through the skies. Eleven years later, the long silence broken, Nights will soar through a new dream world. A new stage, a new story, and a new plaftorm, the Wii. Please look forward to the new adventure of Nights and friends." "We plan to deliver a gameplay experience never before seen on the Wii with NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams," said Scott A. Steinberg, vice president of marketing, SEGA of America. "The game takes full advantage of the unique Wii Remote controller enabling gamers to guide NiGHTS through spectacularly designed dream worlds intertwined with a story about hope and courage."
So far the release date is vague in "2007", with a so far exclusivity to Wii.
- Captain Seagull
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Dustin WilsonKhadgar # Monday, April 2, 2007 8:50:18 PM