Nights: Journey of Dreams is a 3D platform game with the slight difference that you can fly as well. After a cut scene that was actually very good graphically by WII standards, we're led into the tutorial of a very average-looking game. The basic storyline is that you have entered the world of dreams, with a figure called "Nights", who looks suspiciously like a female Sonic, acting as your guide. The tutorial gives you the basics of game and flight mechanics, and off you go via the inevitable evil guy bent on world domination and suchlike.
Once you get into the game you have collect things, free things, chase things, avoid things and jump on things - we've been here many times before in 3D platformers, and Nights doesn't add much that's new except the flying ability. The world of "Nightopia" looks okay, with the 3D feeling solid enough without anything looking particularly impressive, and there is some level of creativity in the game world and level design. The music is okay, though its relentlessly cute and happy tone does begin to grate on the nerves after a while. The voice acting is reasonably okay, a bit annoying really but probably not to the game's target audience, who are evidently quite a bit younger than me.
Unfortunately, any potential audience for this game is likely to be extremely put off by the controls. While on the ground they're okay but once airborne, at the point where the game should have the chance to shine, they're awful. The game has two separate control methodologies for flight, one using just the Wiimote and the other the nunchuck, and both are terrible. The controls always feel sluggish and awkward, and to get your character to do what you intended is very rare. In addition to this the perspective often shifts suddenly without warning and you find yourself going in the opposite direction for no apparent reason. Then you have the restart points - spaced ridiculously far apart and with timed challenges to accomplish that, thanks to the unresponsive controls, are more or less impossible. Needless to say this review isn't based on me getting very far in the game or playing it for very long, but I'm sure you can appreciate that it wasn't long before my patience with Nights ran out completely.
There is a two-player mode, but again the controls ruin what could be relatively enjoyable. It's got a PEGI age rating of 7+, but I'd recommend you only play this game if you are at least a hundred and fifty years old.
Overall, Nights: Journey of Dreams looked like it would have been, at best, a rather average platformer; however with such unsatisfactory controls, the dream soon becomes a nightmare. Sorry for a less detailed review than usual but there's no way I'm going to waste more of my life on this gaming atrocity!
If you want a fun 3D platformer for the WII, go for Crash of the Titans instead.
Once you get into the game you have collect things, free things, chase things, avoid things and jump on things - we've been here many times before in 3D platformers, and Nights doesn't add much that's new except the flying ability. The world of "Nightopia" looks okay, with the 3D feeling solid enough without anything looking particularly impressive, and there is some level of creativity in the game world and level design. The music is okay, though its relentlessly cute and happy tone does begin to grate on the nerves after a while. The voice acting is reasonably okay, a bit annoying really but probably not to the game's target audience, who are evidently quite a bit younger than me.
Unfortunately, any potential audience for this game is likely to be extremely put off by the controls. While on the ground they're okay but once airborne, at the point where the game should have the chance to shine, they're awful. The game has two separate control methodologies for flight, one using just the Wiimote and the other the nunchuck, and both are terrible. The controls always feel sluggish and awkward, and to get your character to do what you intended is very rare. In addition to this the perspective often shifts suddenly without warning and you find yourself going in the opposite direction for no apparent reason. Then you have the restart points - spaced ridiculously far apart and with timed challenges to accomplish that, thanks to the unresponsive controls, are more or less impossible. Needless to say this review isn't based on me getting very far in the game or playing it for very long, but I'm sure you can appreciate that it wasn't long before my patience with Nights ran out completely.
There is a two-player mode, but again the controls ruin what could be relatively enjoyable. It's got a PEGI age rating of 7+, but I'd recommend you only play this game if you are at least a hundred and fifty years old.
Overall, Nights: Journey of Dreams looked like it would have been, at best, a rather average platformer; however with such unsatisfactory controls, the dream soon becomes a nightmare. Sorry for a less detailed review than usual but there's no way I'm going to waste more of my life on this gaming atrocity!
If you want a fun 3D platformer for the WII, go for Crash of the Titans instead.
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