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The A-Life system also felt pretty revolutionary back then. Using it to control Nights was a complete joy and easily elevated the game from good to brilliant. Flying through the numerous sky rings and collecting blue chips successfully will build up your Links and the real fun comes in learning each course to maximise this and build up your Links into the hundreds.īundled with most copies of the game was the analogue pad, the first experience of its kind for many gamers. Each Dream has a boss to battle at the end of it. This gives you a grade between A and F depending on your performance. Ostensibly you have to collect enough blue chips to pass each section or Mare. Nights is in 3D, but you can only control the little flying jester in two-dimensions. Each section works as a sort of on-rails racecourse. Players control Nights through four sections of each of the seven levels or ‘Dreams’. When Elliot or Claris enter the Ideya where Night’s is held prisoner, control reverts to the titular character, who can fly and pull off a range of acrobatic stunts. Both can be controlled on the on-foot sections but the main part of the game sees you control Nights.

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Whether such hype was justified is debatable, but nonetheless Nights Into Dreams, to give it its full title, is a brilliant and often overlooked game.ĭeveloped by Sonic Team, the game takes place in a dream world called Nightopia, accessed by the two child protagonists of the game, Elliot and Claris.

In fact, the purple pixie shared equal front-cover space with the moustachioed plumber on C&VG that year. Upon it’s release in 1996, Nights was being heralded by some as important a release as Mario 64.

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