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Apr 6, 2008 - 05:30 PM |
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Hey dudes, go play Yume Nikki |
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Anyone familiar with RPG Maker 2003 should know this by now, but anyone else, here's the translated game, in installer form.
You may, or may not need to also install RTP as well. The files are in the folder already, but I can't tell if RTP is separately needed as I have it on my computer anyway (since I have most RPG Makers installed already). That's the link just in case the game won't start.
Those of you not already downloading, Yume Nikki (or Dream Diary) is an unusual RPG/adventure of sorts about a little girl hikikomori and her slow descent into madness (if you wish to interpret it like that).
She's too afraid to leave her house, but finds no comfort inside either, so her only option is to escape into her dreams, each one bizarre and often nightmarish.
Gameplay wise, all you do is walk around till you discover something to react to. You discover new "skills" from each dream you visit, most of which don't really aid you in the game, some more useful than the others (finding a bicycle, turning into a lamp to light dark rooms). Then you wake up, walk around your room and try exploring another dream.
Your ultimate goal would be to find and collect all the skills (or effects), but it's really about the journey there. There is an amazing attention to detail everywhere, from the little console game you can play in your real life room, the things you can suddenly do in your dream room, to the way each effect has different animations on the action key and the way you pinch your cheek to wake up from a dream.
The graphics are very cute, but the atmosphere is often surreal, constantly bordering on the haunting and downright disturbing. Some of the dreams seriously scare the shit out of you.
(and yes, that's a nod to Mother. There's even a stairway and door filled house with black background)
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