Sonic Team's Best Game wasn't even a Sonic Game! What makes Nights into Dreams is a perfect game?
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
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Every artist has their magnum opus. Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey; Betthoven's Symphony No. 9; and Sonic Team's Nights into Dreams, the killer app for the Sega Saturn that-despite the buzz it generated on its release in 1996, has fallen somewhat into obscurity with a handful of appearances in other Sega games, and a mediocre sequel on a mediocre console.
Sonic Team wanted to break away from Sonic the Hedgehog games and try their hand at creating something new. While Nights isn't the most interesting character they ever created, the game that bears their namesake might just be the closest thing we'll ever get to perfect.
Retro Nick breaks down almost every aspect of this classic, and tells YOU how to get the highest scores and have the most fun with this hidden treasure.
If you want to try Nights and DON'T have a Sega Saturn, you're in luck! Just fire up your Playstation 3 OR go onto Steam and download the HD version of the PS2 port, which also features the models from the excellent Sega Saturn version. Nothing beats OG Nights on OG hardware, but that remaster comes close to touching greatness.
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Nights into Dreams gameplay captured from original software on original hardware through an Elgato HD60 S connected to a RetroTink 2X and recorded using OBS Studio at 60 frames per second. Nights into Dreams is the property of Sega Corporation, and all footage, artwork and music is presented here under fair use.
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Gameplay segments from other games and media included in the video are listed with their respective owners below, and are presented under fair use.
Bojack Horseman: Netflix
Sword of Sodan: EA Games
NIGHTs Into Dreams: Sega
Air Zonk: Red
Robo Pit: Kokopeli Digital Studios
Saturn Bomberman Fight: Hudson Soft
Panzer Dragoon: Sega
Panzer Dragoon Zwei: Sega
Seinfeld: NBC Television
The Simpsons: 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Company
Southpark: Comedy Central
Family Guy: 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Company
Sonic Jam: Sega
Mr. Mosquito: Sony Computer Entertainment, Fresh Games
Star Fox 64: Nintendo
The Naked Gun: Paramount Pictures
Superman 64: Titus Interactive
Sonic Adventure: Sega
Banjo-Kazooie: Nintendo
The Kung Fu/China Warrior: Hudson Soft
Sega Saturn: It's Out There promo: Sega
Sonic Generations: Sega
Sonic Mania: Sega
Night Journey of Dreams: Sega
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 + Knuckles: Sega
Black Sheep: Paramount Pictures
Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law: Cartoon Network
Super Mario 64: Nintendo
Sonic 3D Blast: Sega
Sonic The Hedgehog (film): Paramount Pictures & Sega
Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Cartoon Network
Adventure Time: Cartoon Network
Day of the Tentacle: Lucas Arts
The Last of Us: Sony Computer Entertainment
The Transformers: Hasbro Entertainment
Sonic the Hedgehog CD: Sega
Vitrua Cop: Sega
Attack on Titan: Wit Studio | Crunchyroll
The Centurions: Warner Bros. Television
Spongebob Square Pants: Paramount Television
Ai cho Aniki: Masaya
Bill Engvall: Here's your Sign: Bill Engvall
Golden Eye 007: Nintendo
Spider-man: Sony Pictures Releasing
Naofumi Hataya portrait from the Nights into Dreams wiki fandom
Ayo WTF meme: Memes Bruh - • Ayo WTF meme
Tomoko Sasaki from Segabits.com
Kindergarten Cop: Universal Pictures
Yoshi's Island: Nintendo
Archer: FX Network
"I learned it by watching you!" : Partnership for a Drug-Free America
Lance Boyle Footage from the game “MegaRace” by Cryo.
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fall 1996...
it was a cold dark night in November...
this game is EVERYTHING for me!!!
I always think of Christmas when I play this game. I got it with the Saturn, Street Fighter Alpha 2 and Street Fighter The Movie. 3 quarters of that Christmas were amazing ;p.
I always think about the solution to the final puzzle in Nights. It feels trite to say “the power was in me the whole time,” but MAN was that effective!
@@TheRetron8 it's still pretty tough to beat lol
I feel like it was a true sonic successor
Another classic Nick video ! Loving it man !
Thanks man! It's got more than one sultry voice in it this time around!
Haha, thanks again for letting us be a part of this man. It was so much fun to do. Really hope my voice line turned out okay LOL @@TheRetron8
@@GarganokGames No stress! It sounds great, mmmkay.
This is a fantastic overview! Honestly you're doing a great job~ And it's funny as someone who loves this game I never knew about the A-Life system or I guess cared. I played this game mostly for the chill visuals and feelings without delving more into the nuances such as that.
Thanks for the kudos! When I played Nights back in the day, I was aware of A-Life, but I had NO idea how to work with it and I just played for the score attack gameplay and chill vibes. I wasn't ready for that emotional sucker punch at the end though!
The Nightopian status screen isn't even in the main game! You have to access that through the Christmas Nights disc and it reads their status from your Nights save data. I might do a deep dive on Christmas Nights for the holidays since it goes so far beyond what you'd expect from a typical demo disc. Journey of Dreams had A-Life, but without the Saturn's dedicated audio hardware it couldn't adjust the music the way the Saturn can, so your Nightopians' feelings don't impact the music at all. Yet another let down from Journey of Dreams.
yay i made the mailbox section and you didn't roast me. what an honor!
Yeah you did! You shared such a fun fact. I still haven’t tried it. I’m just not in a hurry to relive that experience XD
I'm gunna apologize for my terrible Mr. Mackey impression 🤣
@@GarganokGames it was hilarious!
@@keironhiggspoet haha thanks ❤️
@@GarganokGames It's great, mmkay?
Your best one yet
Thanks old friend! I'm partial to this one myself. Nights is one in a million.
THIS IS SO GOOD
Thank you!
NiGHTS superiority
Amen!
You'd say Nights trumphs Sonic Team's Dreamcast classic Phantasy Star Online?
For me personally, yes. I enjoyed PSO when it was new, and I think it was a good evolution for the series. That said, I always wanted a nex-gen follow-up to IV, and I'm less of a fan of the real-time combat, so I haven't been back to this one since Seganet was a thing.
Before I even watch the video, I'm gonna say the reason is that you were a child when this game released and you played it a lot.
True, I was a teenager when Nights came out, though I was a child when I first played Bonk, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Super Mario Bros. I played those games a lot, but I wouldn't call any of them "cathartic." Enjoyable? Sure. Perfect? No.