Welcome to the world of Nightopia!
At the start of each dream, the Nightmaren steal almost all of your dream energy except for the most precious and powerful energy of all, Bravery. Now it's time to fight back and recover all of your lost dream energy.
Nearby is an Ideya Palace. Just walk right in and NiGHTS will come to your aid! Immediately you start floating off of the platform. Have fun flying!
Spring Valley ~ the IDEAL ~
[Claris]
Spring Valley is a beautiful world lush with vegetation. Walk on natural stone bridges which cross over small ravines. Strong breezes at the top of the mountains send you to treasures. Other items are hidden in giant trees. Look high and low or you'll miss some of the goodies.
Did you know?:
Spring Valley is a dreamscape created from Claris' high admiration for her father. Her 'Ideal'. Remember on the last Mare (lap) to tag the Nightopian flying above the Ideya Palace.
Splash Garden ~ the AFFECTION ~
[Elliot]
Glide above lakeside parks where fountains shoot jets of water high into the sky. Giant blue orbs hold tempting treasures, but knock you off course when you enter them. Plunge into the water and race along the lake bottom, picking up as many items as you can.
Did you know?:
This dream has connections to Elliot's mother. Also the working floral clock will chime at 12pm as it is cleverly timed by the consoles internal clock!
Mystic Forest ~ the POSSIBILITY~
[Claris]
Stone blocks are solidly in place in some parts of the forest, but pillars lay broken and scattered in others. Traffic signs which dot the land seem out of place in the dark and silent surroundings. Look for the core of this dream, a "shining" cave buried deep in the ground. The forest growth here might help send you on your way.
Did you know?:
This dream is created from Claris' inner spirit of enquiry. 'Forest of Maze' and 'Swamp of Temptation' were development names for the familiar ingame areas. Beware! Leave NiGHTS in the underground cave for too long and he will be flattened paper thin!
Frozen Bell ~ the CONSCIOUSNESS~
[Elliot]
The frozen landscape is highlighted by railroad tracks which lead into the distance and towers which soar into the sky. Fly and climb over snowy mountains covered with steep slopes. Look high and low while swinging on the bars, for you can find many goodies. Race the bobsled run to gather Star Chips and Color Chips.
Did you know?:
Frozen Bell is about Elliot reflecting on his past. Hitch a ride on the train that travels around the stage. NiGHTS turns into a bobsled on the last lap of this dream!
Soft Museum ~ the CONFUSION~
[Claris]
A large museum towers in the middle of a European style garden. The ground seems to warp underneath you, and red brick roads suddenly end without warning. The museum has no obvious door, so you'll need to find another way to enter.
Did you know?:
Some of the Nightopians in this dream will sculpt silver statues of NiGHTS. Also you can rack up quick points indoors by bouncing on the museum walls and doing tricks. Bonus!
Stick Canyon ~ the REVIVAL~
[Elliot]
The canyon is set in the middle of a desert. It is filled with numerous traps which are designed to slow you down. Giant magnets suck in everything that passes. Another type of machine magnetizes you, so that items and creatures stick to you as you pass them. You need to reach amazing heights to get through this dream..
Did you know?:
Stick Canyon represents the process of Elliot growing up. Also you can reach the top of the metal tower by taking a ride in the hidden elevator on foot with Elliot.
Twin Seeds ~ the GROWTH~
[Elliot & Claris]
Claris and Elliot share this final dream. To unlock it you must have C+ grades. Take a giant leap of faith and discover your own inner courage. Then fly as either Claris or Elliot to the exciting showdown with Wizeman the Wicked.
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[ From the original US/EU SEGA Saturn instruction manuals and official websites 1996. ]
Nightopia in Peril
That night Elliot and Claris return home, thinking of themselves as failures, not realizing that the real challenge is about to begin. In the world of Nightopia where our dreams are played out, an evil being is gaining tremendous power. He is Wizeman the Wicked, and through his creations the Nightmaren, he captures precious dream energy from humans. If he is not stopped, he will rise from the subconscious and enter our world. No power on earth will be able to stop him.
As Wizeman's Nightmaren start fulfilling his horrible plan, a Nightopian escapes from the dream world and begs the sleeping Elliot and Claris to save the world from the evil being. Just a few moments ago they felt like total failures. But now that the world needs their help, Elliot and Claris feel, for the first time in their lives, a courage growing within them. They accept the Nightopians desperate request.
The creature explains to them that they need to recover four types of dream energy from Wizeman's Ideya capture, a group of large machine-like beings. The four energies are White (representing Purity), Green (Wisdom), Yellow (Hope), and Blue (intelligence).
Wizeman will attempt to steal Elliot and Claris' dream energy and try to confuse them by placing them in strange dream worlds. These worlds are places developed from the depths of their minds. The fifth and rarest of the dream energies, Bravery (Red in colour), is the only type of energy Wizeman and his henchmen cannot steal. It is said that the only one not yet under Wizeman's power is NiGHTS, who appears as an aerial acrobat and is attracted to red dream energy. The Nightopian believes that Elliot and Claris possess this rare energy, and thus NiGHTS will come to their aid.
The Nightopian warns that sooner or later Wizeman will send the most powerful of his Nightmaren, his henchmen, after Claris and Elliot. The two children will need the help of NiGHTS every step of the way to thwart Wizeman's plans if they are to restore peace to Nightopia.
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A collection of official character biographies and basic structure for newcomers to the series.
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A fan comic adaptation by Lynne Triplett
*Last updated 23rd of July 2012*
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ALSO UPDATED @ DEVIANT ART & DRUNK DUCK
*Rated T for teen. This non-profit online comic is a work of fan homage and is not officially endorsed by SEGA in any way. All artwork © of Lynne Triplett 2012*
Thanks for all your lovely (and crazy) varied entries to our NiGHTS Christmas competition! We have 10 winners to announce ~ so without further ado the winners are:
3rd Place: MidniteandBeyond
We liked the amount of effort that had been put into this entry. A cute and funny tale of how Reala stole Christmas.
2nd Place: Ketrin
'You are not far away'
A striking image with a beautiful message. Well done!
*1st Place: Viperxmns*
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7 runners up!:
Jessica Stanley // Daimondstar07 // CrossingJ2000 // SaiferDracondrali // Light-Girl // Terry M // Zander Rosell
Thank you for your entries! Runners up winning entries can be seen in full [ HERE ] in our forums.
All winners will be contacted soon for mailing details regarding prizes.
Firstly, Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a great holiday season and ate terrifying amounts of food.
I just wanted to take the time to write a little post about 2011 since it was a year of a lot of personal triumphs for our fanbase. As usual things were pretty quiet on the official front this year but as always it didn't stop us from making a noise. This year marked the 15th anniversary of NiGHTS into Dreams. For a good few of us that meant a bit more than others because it was around the age of 14/15 we first discovered the game ourselves. That would make the game half our lifetime old. Appreciating anything for that amount of time is pretty special, I know it was for me. It marked a milestone for this fanbase and I was able to look back at where we started from.
I started this website years ago on my Dreamcast browser before I ever owned a PC. The only way I could upload images was to go to a internet cafe in the city to use their scanner. I'd input html code with a control pad. Hotlink peoples seizure inducing images as backgrounds. Plaster rainbow colored text everywhere like it was the greatest discovery ever and oh BOY when I found the code to embed midi's I was an unstoppable force of INTERNETS. I created my site to be able to share my artwork and love for NiGHTS. Words can't express the happiness I felt when the first person NOT trying to sell me Viagra posted a comment in my guestbook. It was a fan, an actual person on the other side of the world who shared the same interests as me. Then over the weeks more and more people came to visit the site. The community grew and grew, the Guestbook was replaced by a forum. Over time the little personal webpage evolved into the hulking global beast of the site you see today… minus the midi's.
2011 started off with the sad news regarding Mr Kevin Eva stepping down from his position as Community Manager at SEGA. He had worked his butt off to help strengthen this community in an official capacity and in the capacity of actually giving a real damn for the franchise and the people who love it. His departure left me feeling a little worried as a fan but over time it just served to make me work harder and be more determined to represent you all in the respectful, polite and creative way from within SEGA that I know you all so well for. You'd be surprised at how many people love and remember NiGHTS. Proud even, because many of them remember or came from this website. As a fanbase we are stronger than ever.
Then came the long anticipated Summer of Sonic 2011. It was an event that really gave me a lot to think about on my journey home. Not only did we get to finaly meet creators Takashi Iizuka and Yuji Naka along with a whole host of Sonic related A-listers…. but I got to meet the next generation of NiGHTS fans. DiGi was supposed to have done a podcast about this but never did, so just let me say, when really young fans approached me because of being huge fans of Journey of Dreams, I was really overwhelmed with proudness. I spotted a lot of NiGHTS cosplayers who I'd never met before. Had kids come up to me and ask me who Jackle was! haha. It's like the whole Modern Vs Classic Sonic thing that happens with Sonic fans, except there was no animosity here at all. Both classic NiGHTS and Modern NiGHTS fans were just happy to be there talking to eachother. I remembered what it was like to be a new fan to NiGHTS into Dreams. I felt really happy to sit there at our NiGHTS booth and realise that this was living proof of keeping the love for NiGHTS alive. I hope that these guys reach their 30's and have fansites and fond memories too.
Meeting Yuji Naka and Takashi Iizuka was more than a huge honor for me. It felt like we were there to say 'Hey we're the NiGHTS fanbase, so many people still care about NiGHTS, here we are, look at the things we've achieved because of NiGHTS.' So it was pretty special. Handing them over a copy of Lucid Dreaming and seeing their faces light up was priceless. I wish every one of you could have been there. It was very surreal. What really shone through was how passionate they both still were for NiGHTS despite how many years had passed.
On the subject of NiGHTS: Lucid Dreaming, I still listen to the album on repeat on my way to work in the mornings. I still can't believe fans created something so perfect. OCR are genius and I feel downright blessed to have been involved with the project. It traveled all across the internet from Kotaku to even MTV! When the teaser trailer aired on the big screen on the stage at Summer of Sonic you could genuinely feel the buzz from the crowd. Hearing people clap and cheer for NiGHTS was the greatest feeling ever! Well done guys!
2011 was also a year of campaigns. Our NiD15 campaign garnered the attention of SEGA and several large online news sites. On the day of NiGHTS' birthday SEGA turned to Facebook to ask if fans would be interested in seeing a port of the original – to a scarily overpowering YES. That one post of theirs got more responses than many of the other announcements put together. In fact the post is STILL getting responses MONTHS later. I think it's fair to say SEGA know NiGHTS is wanted now. Thank you to all 6956 of you who have stood with us through our campaign site so far. Thanks also to the fans who may not be in any active NiGHTS community but who can still say positive things about the old game through various message boards, magazines and news portals. You've all helped us a lot, but we wont give up on a NiGHTS port until it becomes a reality! So lets keep supporting the cause: http://www.nid15.com
The other big event of the year was after SoS I was gifted a huge stack of NiGHTS into Dreams concept art from the original 90's game. Some of the images hadn't been seen before outside of Japan or in a high quality. So I was blissed out to be able to share those with everyone. It's one of those strange things were a franchise over a decade old still keeps giving. I was given a lot of positive feedback on my own artwork from the creators of the game which in turn inspired me to kickstart a new personal NiGHTS fan-comic project of my own:
This will be updated regularly this year in 2012 as a way of grabbing more fans back into the fandom. I'm really excited and motivated to work on this project of mine and I really hope you enjoy reading it in the future 
Things have been incredibly busy at work for me this year but I've always been thinking of NiGHTS or how to involve the fanbase in some way or another. I miss doing lots of fanart, it's how I got started afterall, so my new years resolution this year is to work really hard on giving you all something new to enjoy reading! Through this our website will have much more regular updates from now onwards. I'm also interested in featuring your own fan comics as updates. More on that later.
The end of the year was marked by an absolutely beautiful complete christmas duet by Cameron Strother, the original singer of DREAMS DREAMS back in 1996. Two dreamers reunited again. I can't think of a better more symbolic way to end the year.
It's 2012 now. I want to echo a sentiment from my fellow webmaster Dreadknux across at Sonic Stadium. As long as there are fans I will never give up on NiGHTS or this community. Even if there were NO fans I still wouldn't give up on NiGHTS. I'd sift through pages of spambots to just find that one single real fan from across the other side of the planet who loves NiGHTS too. Real life gets crazy, busy and very demanding… but I wouldn't be were I am today if it wasn't for NiGHTS, so for that I'm incredibly grateful and will always be here.
I hope you will too.
Happy New Year guys. I appreciate you sticking with us.
xx
TRiPPY
A beautiful Christmas gift – Sweet Snow the way it should have been! ;)
Those of us who bought Journey of Dreams a couple of years ago pretty much can all agree that the Sweet Snow version of DREAMS DREAMS is incredibly beautiful and like eating the best kind of icecream while drowning in 90ft of deep nostalgia and not caring. What made that song so special (other than just sounding ultimately pretty!) was the fact that the original girl who sang the song as a child – Jasmine Ann Allen, returned to sing the song once more as an adult. We all thought of her as the Claris of the song and tried to sing along as best we could as kids ourselves, lol.
But there was another equally important part to DREAMS DREAMS that Sweet Snow unfortunately missed out on. That was … Cameron Strother.
Cameron Strother was the Elliot Edwards to Jasmine's Claris and thanks to the wonderful Joshua Goring and Cameron himself we have a truely magical gift for you all.
Merry Christmas, happy 15th and a brilliant new year everyone!
Dreamers reunited!
I was very young when I first heard and sang this song. I'm not sure how many years ago it was now but it seems like I recorded it a year or two before NiGHTS was released. It was my first paid singing job. I was paid a handsome sum (didn't mean much to a kid) and was given an armful of Sega Saturn games (meant the world). More than the money or even the games though, I remember the special feeling I got when visited the Sega HQ building. Video games were my chocolate so I felt like I was walking around Willy Wonka's factory, witnessing a magical process.
I remember seeing the early plans for a game that was supposed to replace Sonic the Hedgehog as Sega's new flagship series. I was supposed to keep quiet about it but I told all my Japanese school friends about this amazing new game that was coming out and how I had seen the secret last boss. Suffice to say, It was an awesome experience and it holds a very special place in my childhood memories and I was glad to revisit that happy time by singing Dreams Dreams again. I myself am a big NiGHTS fan and I'm still holding out for a proper sequel or at least a good re-release for the current generation of consoles.
Thanks for keeping NiGHTS alive!
-Cameron Strother*This is a fan made song/edit/tribute not created for profit and is not endorsed by SEGA in any way*
NiGHTS’ Festive Freestuff Competition! – ‘In a dream I could see…’
*COMPETiTiON NOW CLOSED! – Winners will be announced this week*
*EDiT* The closing time for ALL entries is 12 midnight GMT (London) on Christmas day.
It's coming up to that time of the year. The one that involves digging out Saturns and playing that certain Xmas edition of that one game. Therefore in the (preemptive) spirit of the season I would like to festively launch sparkly gifts at your heads in the shape of our newest competition 'NiGHTS' Festive Freestuff'.
I've been hoarding a few things away in case of emergency NiGHTS fan gift givage and I figured it'd make a nice little activity for us on the run up to Christmas.
SO, what can you win?
. : THE PRiZES : .
. : Original Artwork : .
. : Giant A1 Reala Poster : .
. : A2 NiGHTS Poster : .
. : NiGHTS: Lucid Dreaming music album : .
. : Sonic Colors wrapping paper and SEGA Lanyard : .
1. Grand Prize winner: 1 Giant A1 Reala poster. 1 A2 NiGHTS poster. The original Inked, signed artwork for the cover of my upcoming NiGHTS fan-comic 'NiGHTS: Descent into Dreams.' And a physical copy of the amazing OCR NiGHTS: Lucid Dreaming album.
2nd Place: 1 A2 NiGHTS poster. A copy of NiGHTS: Lucid Dreaming. Sonic Colors wrapping paper promotional item. SEGA ribbon Lanyard.
3rd Place: 1 A2 NiGHTS poster and a copy of NiGHTS: Lucid Dreaming.
Runners up: We have 7 more copies of NiGHTS: Lucid Dreaming to give away
. : HOW DO I ENTER? : .
What do you have to do in order to be in with a chance of winning one of these prize packs? Simple!
We want you to finish off the following line-
"In a dream I could see…"
See what? What did you see and how insane and creative can you get with this? You can answer by writing, drawing a picture, making a video, ANYTHING. If it makes us laugh it's a major bonus. People who put effort into their entries will be in with a better chance of winning – so make sure you get really imaginative with this. Make sure it's somewhat NiGHTS related though!
SEND YOUR ENTRIES TO: [email protected]
. : RULES : .
The competition closes on the 25th of December. Prizes will be sent out after this date to avoid the xmas post. Winners will be notified via email and this website when the winning entries are publicly posted. Only one entry per person. Any fan created material used must belong to you – don't go stealing things from other fans without permission – be considerate. Prizes cannot be exchanged for other items or money. Contest not affiliated or endorsed by SEGA. Have fun!
It's time for a heart to heart with mother TRiPPY guys,
I wont lie, It's been a little bit surreal over here at NiDcom towers the past few weeks. You go from feeling hopeless for years as a kid, wondering if all these famous people who created the thing you love even know how much you appreciate their efforts - to years later being able to tell them everything you ever felt. It's not very often that fans get to reach out like this I guess, which is sad, but I guess it just makes it more special when it does eventually happen.
A short while after Summer of Sonic I ended up being befriended by my childhood hero. It was actually him who asked me about my artwork first. Which completely floored me. The guy who I look up to the most and who has been an inspiration for everything I've done in the past 15 years. I'd always hoped that I'd get the chance to say thank you to him one day but I never expected to be so warmly accepted in return. Naoto Ohshima the creator of NiGHTS and Sonic is downright amazing and I'm honored to be called his friend. I even inspired him to draw NiGHTS again after so many years ^_^
After 15 years I had a lot of thank you's to pass on from you guys directly, to say how much we all really cared. To explain WHY NiGHTS is so important to us for different reasons. The struggles of the fanbase. To say thank you for all those times NiGHTS gave us hope or saved us from bad dreams when we were just little kids. NiGHTS gave us all the courage to fly. I got to speak my heart without feeling small or like a stupid fangirl. I guess it was the peace of mind I'd been searching for after so many years of trying and trying to keep NiGHTS alive for other people.
So after 15 years the fan was finally able to properly say thank you to the creator
But that's not all. Ohshima san was very moved by it all and wanted to say thank you in return so he gave me a seriously epic mind-blowing gift. Some of which I have permission to share with you all today. You know all those tiny blurry concept images that were featured in Japanese magazines and walkthroughs that we all used to speculate over, well how would you guys like to see the images up close from the actual artworks themselves? ^-^
It gives me great pleasure to present to you some of the concept arts that we have come to love over the years. Thank you Ohshima and Iizuka san. Enjoy!
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Things to note:
* Images 1 to 9 are drawn by Naoto Ohshima, images 10 to 17 are drawn by Kazuyuki Hoshino and images 18 to 31 are by Miyake (the artist responsible for the Japanese NiGHTS storybook).
* Reala's final design was the result of a collaboration of ideas taking elements from both Ohshima and Hoshino's designs.
* Ohshima is responsible for designing NiGHTS, Jackle, Claris and Elliot, Nightopians and the other main boss Maren. He also had a hand in level design concept ideas, such as Twinseeds Tower.
* Each of the characters had numerous design concepts before they arrived at the final designs.
* It would appear Wizeman has always had a face… lol.
(These images will all be added to our Concept Art gallery tommorow to replace the smaller images).
And then like life wasn't crazy enough he drew me this little picture of NiGHTS.
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Achievement Unlocked: Life complete 9999999G
Taken from the original SEGA Facebook message:
"To our wonderful NiGHTS fans – we haven't forgotten that today is the 15th anniversary of NiGHTS, so happy 15th anniversary to NiGHTS and huge thank you! to everyone for supporting the character and game for all these years! How would you feel about seeing the original "NiGHTS into dreams…" being re-released? Also, if you think this is a good idea… which platform do you think NiGHTS should be released in? We'd love to hear your thoughts!"
Like I said. Nothing is impossible. SEGA themselves are now asking. And look at those numbers *lol* we hit over 6000 port votes today and Facebook is currently going crazy over NiGHTS.
Today is a good day to be a fan…
Get to it people : FACEBOOK. GO THERE. NOW
Happy birthday NiGHTS.