Yume Nikki is an adventure game produced by Japanese developer known as "Kikiyama".
The game revolves around adventuring in Madotsuki's strange dreams. The game has lots of wrapping maps, so navigating can be a challenge sometimes. This game is also very disturbing and depressing, and fans have been developing different theories about meaning of these dreams.
Oh, so there's an english version now? I downloaded the japanese version a long time ago but never got it running as you need to mess with the PC configs a bit.
I heard this game is so scary some people are reluctant to keep playing.
It really is pretty creepy! Definitely got a sense of nightmarish dread from it that only a few games in the past have really managed to convey (Mother 2 and Silent Hill spring to mind), but this one does it utilising all the characteristic limitations of a classic JRPG. Scary stuff! And any game that has so many psychoanalytic interpretations is bound to float my boat, anyway
Makes me lament the fact that Nanashi no Game was never published overseas even more
MX7 wrote:It really is pretty creepy! Definitely got a sense of nightmarish dread from it that only a few games in the past have really managed to convey (Mother 2 and Silent Hill spring to mind)
Yeah, if you simply judge Yume Nikki based on its merits as a game, it's pretty shallow and simple one. To me, however, it's something that many "real" games can't really never achieve. As an experience it's quite thrilling and even when there are times when I've no idea where I'm going, the atmosphere is still strong and I just know there is something waiting for me - and when I find it (or the other way around) I mostly end up smashing number nine like crazy.
I quite like wandering aimlessly, though; it wasn't an insult. The atmosphere is so awesomely creepy. Haven't touched it in a long time, however I still listen to this awesome song all the time.
There's a countdown. What could it be? [Absolutely love this game, by the way, and I actually enjoy the wandering gameplay itself.]
EDIT: By the way, are there any console/commercial games based around wandering aimlessly? I don't mean like Dear Esther though, that one feels really linear overall (in addition to its atmosphere being nothing special; no surprise at all), and I thought The Path was awful. I loved Journey, but that one's again, too linear. Silent Hill is probably the closest I can think of. And maybe the SaGa games, but that's a different kind of aimless wandering
For those uninformed, Surfers Paradise has been known to release the "official" Yume Nikki merchandise that's been posted here a few times. They're also known to sell physical copies of games, and it's always seemed like kikiyama has been in cahoots with them, though that's never been confirmed.
i'm not expecting much though
EDIT: By the way, are there any console/commercial games based around wandering aimlessly?
LSD for the playstation
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Dragoforce wrote:
No offence, but you got scared by Earthbound?
I guess you never played it through to the end! The cognitive dissonance of a game that suddenly... Well I won't spoil it, but let's just say it's one of the most satisfying moments of self-sabotage in a videogame
Also, just realised I'm responding to a three year old post :p
OT: I need to finish Yume Nikki. How long is it roughly?
Edmond Dantes wrote:I wouldn't mind trying some of those remix games, like dot-flow or Yume 2kki, which are supposed to be even more fucked up.
.flow is great, 2kki is kind of a mess imo. it can't hurt checking out either though
I downloaded Yume Nikki three years ago, but for some reason I couldn't get it to run properly. Time to give it a new go?
maybe you downloaded the japanese "original"? there's been a version out that's optimized to run on western machines (with english translation) for a while now, you might want to try that one. finding and installing the right set of RTP files should be easy too.
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Who are this? the publisher? some company that bought the rights to yume nikki?
Few times a doujin game gets better after being bought/influenced by a comercial company.
Very few doujin games get influenced by commercial entities during production, and the current crop of companies that localize doujin games usually do a pretty good job. (What Omegath did to Sora immediately comes to mind as an obvious exception, though...)
Anyway, Surfers' Paradise is an online retailer that sold some official Yume Nikki merchandise a few years ago. It's possible that they're preparing a line of new products or something; I guess we'll find out in a couple of days.
Yeah, I'm a little disappointed too. I was so excited for the possibility of finally getting a version 1.0. Ah well. At least the soundtrack is bound to be cool, since YN remixes are always pretty cash. I can't read Japanese yet though, so the other two don't help much.
A PSP release of Yume Nikki would have been awesome though. I wonder what kind of changes actually have to be made to get an RPGMaker game running on PSP - I guess you'd have to ask the Corpse Party folks.
