NiGHTS into Dreams: A review

Back when the Wii was young, I had the privilege, no the oppurtunity to buy a unique game. Thanks to the review of a friend, I had the thought to buy it. It was Nights:  Journey Into Dreams and I was blown away. I had known of it's predecessor on the Sega Saturn for some time but I never owned one and by the time the N64 rolled around I was won over to Nintendo's team. So I thought it would be one game I thought I would never play, that was until near the end of last year.

But some stroke I saw in the games area on my Xbox360 I saw that the original NiGHTs was a available for download and I was so suprised how well it was.

This version is revamped with newer graphics but you have the option to play in the old Sega Saturn graphics for a real retro exprience. ANd as a bonus, you beat the normal game and you can play the CHristmas NiGHTS promotion game. No kidding! ^_^

Anyway I will give you some nitty gritty for those that are unfamiliar with it.

STORY

This game follows two kids like in the seuql. We have Elliot and Claris.

Eilliot is having concerns on letting his basketball team down, whild Claris is wanting to audition for the special play celebrating their home town's anneversary, but is afraid she will mess up the audition. However they both have nightmares and are drawn intot he dream realm. Turns out Wizeman wants to invade our realm by stealing the idiya of all dreamers who come there, but the one he can't touch is the red Idiaya of courage. But Night's is attracted to those who are. Together they need to get their Idiaya back and stop Wizeman.

There is not much to the cinema of the game, only enough to give you an idea of what's going on. Just sounds and little lines. Okay that is done let's move on to the game.

Gameplay

Each area you have to retrieve your Idiaya taken byt the Nightmarens in each level. YOu have your character duelize with NiGHTS and then in a time limit you have to collect enough blue chips on each course and try to ram it. Each level is divided into seperate courses, each with their own Idiya and the faster you get the blue chips, the better the score. Not to mention there are trick areas where you can have NiGHTS do tricks to earn more chips. Also you can have nights Paraloop to ward off enemis and Drill Dash.

However if you run out of time you will unfuze with Nights and you have to walk your character all the way to the start to duelize with him again.

After you finish each level you go up against a Nightmaren boss and some of them are a little tricky but otherwise pretty good. ANd if you are wondering, yes you will eventually ruan in to NiGHTs counterpart from the 2nd game, Reala. 

If you manage to reach a C rank in all the main levels you can unlock Twin Seeds and take on the final boss. Get at least a C Rank there an you get the best possible ending.

Sounds

Pretty standard good sounds and enjoyable. Nothing much to say.

Music

Has a pretty good soundtrack and the main song Dreams, Dreams is Excellent.


Overall I am glad to finally have BOTH NiGHTS games in my collection as well as the Christmas promotional one but it's all good all the same. Overall I rate this game a good 8 out 10.

That's all from me! ^_^