NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams is a game exploding with charm, great music, and a fun design that it can grow on the player.
NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams is the long wanted sequal to the SEGA Saturn classic NiGHTS of Dreams...! This game remains very close to the original and doesn't try to change that much. The plot focuses on 2 children. A boy named William and a girl named Helen. William is a young soccer prodigy, but he doesn't get much time with his father and starts getting nightmares from being seperated from him. Helen has been neglecting her mother and practicing the violin for an important recital. Helen starts having nightmares too. In their seperate dreams they meet the famed jester NiGHTS. As they grow friendly to the new worlds, they very quickly find out about Wizeman and his super awesome henchman Reala!
--Graphics-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The graphics in NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams is a mixed bag. They can look so different between gameplay and cutscenes. The CG cutscenes look perfect and capture the mood perfectly, but the ingame engine cutscenes, not as much. The ingame cutscenes look pretty ugly and at times alittle blocky. The enviornments can look shabby and the character move far too much. These cutscenes aren't so bad that yoeu should watch them, but it looks far less appealing than the rest of the game.
Gameplay graphics look great! The characters aren't as close and they move well and capture every action perfectly. The enviornments are beautiful. From the Aqua Gardens funky water effects to the neon lights of Delight City! It's hard to say that the graphics look bad! It's a perfect fit! The particle effects, such as NiGHTS' rocket form look great too!
--Sound--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The sound in NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams isn't much to talk about. I mean all the classic sounds from the original game are in this one and some new ones. It all sounds great, but nothing out of the ordinary to mention.
--Music---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The best part of this game. The music is perfect! Many songs are orchrestrated and some are not. All the music fits so well that the tunes are still in my head! The main theme (redone fron the original game) is so great, that I would rank it as one of the best video game themes ever! Just hear it and you'll love it!
NiGHTS VS. Reala 2 (music track) is so awesome!
--Voices--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The voices in NiGHTS are fitting, but nothing worth mentioning. NiGHTS voice fits her well and it really doesn't give a definite gender. Reala has a more raspy voice that fits with his character very well. William and Helen are good for the most part, but at time sound bored. Wizeman sounds so cool!
--Gameplay---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The gameplay of NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams is very unchanged from the original. This time you have 4 control options. You can use the Wii Remote, Wii Remote and Nunchuk, Classic Controller, and the Gamecube Controller. The Wii Remote control scheme has you point toward the screen to move NiGHTS, but it turns out much more annoying to use! I prefered the Wii Remote and Nunchuk control scheme (even though it's almost identical to the Classic Contoller and the Gamecube Controller).
The gameplay itself looks 3D while it's played on a 2D plane. You can move NiGHTS up, down, left, and right, but not forward and backward. The control is very fun and flying is fun in general. You hit any one button to spin and attack. It's so simple, but it plays so perfectly!
The boss fights are so unique! Many bosses play differently and are very fun. I'm not going to spoil anything, but be ready to face the most unique bosses, that use strange physics, card tricks, and even Cerebus (a 3 headed dog!). Reala fights are fun to only a few people, but I found them enjoyable.
In another note there is also Multiplayer. You can play with people in your house via splitscreen. It can do a regular race that plays like single player, but with two people, one as NiGHTS and the other as Reala. Also there is battle mode, which can be very fun! Wifi is so awesome! It only consist of race, but it's a lot of fun!
There is also a virtual pet known as A-Life and the MyDream is veru fun too, but I just wish there was more control over it,
If you like unique games and own a Wii, you must get this game!