I'd like to sign as well.

I really enjoyed the first show, and would love to contribute to future 'casts.

I sent mine out. But because I'm tired, I titled the email as a submission for the website instead of as one for the podcast. Watch out for that. =/

For those of you having trouble with SC4, another tip: All the blue chips you need can be picked up while going up the tower. At the beginning of the mare, just make a beeline for the tower and ignore everything else.

Myself, favorite dream is Spring Valley, least is Mystic Forest.

...no, wait. I can do better than that.

Looks great, but I'm not to keen on the behind-the-back camera angle. Gameplay looks a little slow too, but that could all be just for trailer purposes.

But NIGHTMARE LOOKS INCREDIBLE.

By the way, I reccomend www.ld4all.com for lucid dreamers, the forum's got a huge wealth of information that makes for a lot of interesting reading.

Anyway, I found some really odd method by complete accident which has boosted my dream recall and lucidity rate dramatically.

I'm just going to quote my post on ld4all:

1. Find a good Lucid Dreaming hyponsis-type mp3 and load it to an mp3 player/iPod/etc. Make sure to make it in it's own folder if you don't want to be waken up by the next track if you fall asleep.
2. Get to bed at a decent time, of course. 10:30 is good.
3. While in bed I do something to keep my mind going. My favorite activity is a nice, long, run at Chip's Challenge on the Atari Lynx. Obviously, you can read a book too.
4. Once you get really tired and it's hard to focus (usually 30-45 minutes for me), lie down, slip on your headphones/earbuds and play the track you loaded into your media player. If you fall asleep, that's fine.

I might just be completely insane, but this works great for me. I'm also pretty good at WILDing, but waking up in the middle of the night is quite rare for me, and I tend to sleep through my alarm clock anyway, so...

Hey sis.

Yay! I was staring at the board index, hitting F5 over and over again until registrations were accepted ^.^

You might remember me. You probably don't. I amassed a total of like, fifteen posts in the old forum.

Anyway, I'm a guy, fourteen years old, and I've been a fan of NiGHTS for about one year. I found my copy of the game at a Goodwill store. (one of the few good things I've ever pulled out of that den of evil, I only go in there 'cause my mom likes to shop there, and she drags me in with her. >.<) I loved it to death since then.

But in any case, I'm glad the forums are back and such. I'm excited that there's a place to talk about NiGHTS where everyone doesn't give me "weird look" emoticons.

See ya around the forums,
--Lavos

Mmmm... fruit. Love those apples.



So, thanks for opening this up again. I appreciate it.

Ree-AL-uh.

I've always tied him in with "Reality", so I pronounce it like that.

Heh, one, not counting my friends/family that I introduced the game to.

It was an employee at my local GameStop, who showed me a list of upcoming Wii releases, including NiGHTS: JoD. When I mentioned that I was a big fan of the Saturn title and was planning to pick up JoD, he said that I was the first customer that looked at the list and even heard about NiGHTS. He also said he was really shocked that not many people came in and never heard of it (which I was too).

1. Consistency
2. Shortness

If you wanna play as Reala, play a local match with a friend and use the second Wiimote/GC socket.

Yeah, I had that trouble too. I was afraid it was just me.

You know when you could latch on to a mini maren, hit a button, and it'd go flying into the distance? That's the Touch Dash.
The Touch Loop was when you grabbed onto a maren a pivoted aound it in a circle around it to kill the enemy. Major time-waster, but pretty fun.


So, about the article, it makes me grin a lot. From the looks of things, everything's going great so far. We'll have to see what we can get later on, though. They've still got so much to do in so little time... ._.

Anyway... it might just be me, but I really didn't find the original NiD's controls to be terribly user friendly. It took me a while to get it down... maybe it's just 'cause I never got the analog controller.

I've been thinking about the 'Return to goal' conditions. The only time I dont have fun with the game is when you've missed one item and you spend a whole lap flying around looking for that last one, missing it because its higher/lower then you were flying etc. Its annoying. the original didnt have that problem, because the game structure wasnt the same (it wasnt about collecting everything). Maybe have the return to goal come up when theres 5 or less items, but if you collect them all, you get a bonus (points, links, 15 secs instead of 10?). Not a biggie, but its a thought.

What if, after collecting a item, a semi-transparent ghost of the object that can't be collected remains? That way, you can still find your way around the track.

Excellent job on the game. Loads of potential right there, and rather addicting... I think I'll play it again. Aaand again. XD

Well, it could be possible that he was in charge of the Twin Seeds Nightmare area where you fight Wizeman...

..or there could be an eighth Nightmare that NiGHTS used to reside over that we'll see in JoD.

Random question: Just what are those six notes? Does anyone know that progression?

B-C#-E, B-C#-(drop octave)-E.

Okay...dang, the music, the MUSIC! Good music is normally what helps me get interested in a game. (Part of the reason why I wanted to get Kingdom Hearts.) Jeez louise, where to start?

Boss Music - The Mantle. Jackle's theme song has a tendency to get stuck in my head and I just LOVE the thing to pieces. The original and the Acid Love remix. Jazzy, upbeat, has that air of mystery and slight insanity to it...and the creepy vocals durring it, too, I just loved that.

NiGHTS and Reala and its additional remix "Theme of a Tragic Revenge" also gets stuck in my head every now and then, mainly when I'm trying to think out fight scenes for my stories.

D'Force Master...my gosh, also something that I just love listening to. Perfect sense of creepy and anxiousness.

Stage Music - Gloom of the N.H.C. was one of my favorites once I heard it. I will listen to this thing for hours on end. This song just gives me that vibe of flying easilly. I can imagine myself flying to this thing, especially with the stage that it describes.

Growing Wings was another one of my favorites after its...creepy beginning. That's the only part that I didn't like about that song, the part in which you're on the ground as either Claris or Elliot (I watched footage of the game - never played it myself) before you start flying.

Other music - Sowing Seeds. When I managed to find the opening to Claris's story on YouTube, I was all 'I NEED TO FIND THAT SONG SHE SINGS'. I loved it. Once that I realized it was Sowing Seeds, I started listening to it a lot. I just love the vocals, even if it's all just 'la la la's.

I pretty much agree with this whole post, yes.

I personally am for the change. It makes him/her look a bit more grown up, and I think most people who've never heard of NiGHTS before would be more likely to pick JoD off the shelves on impulse with the new design rather than the old.

The only thing I dislike is that it makes NiGHTS seem a lot more male that the original design, not good for an androgynous character.

And I do like DiGi's idea of multiple costumes. Perhaps there could be something where you can "unlock" costume pieces, either by finding them in a stage or by achieving a certain goal, an then you can assemble the individual pieces any way you choose? Like Bomberman 64, you know...?

I don't know.. if Reala is in charge in this game, I don't know where Wizeman would fit in. Unless he made some kind of a cut scene appearance.

I read that up to 'cut' and than thought of the boss battle in Donkey Kong 64 where you battle a cardboard cutout of King K. Rool.

Which gave me the idea that maaaaybe... If Reala's in charge, he could create a fake 'puppet' Wizeman that you do battle with, and you don't know it's a fake until after you take it down. And then... that's when you realize Reala's behind it all!

Just a thought. XD They were saying they were putting a lot of emphasis on plot, so I expect to see those kinds of things...

There is one dreamscape that I've visited a few times, all while lucid.

It looks like the street I live on, except the road is replaced with a dark, frozen river, and the street is lined with sakura trees.

It looks really neat.

Fourth...next there will be Tenneis, soccer, bowling, DDR, stripping, cooking---Wait WHAT?! (Seriously no Sega. Please don't...)

COOKiNG MAMA into Dreams?

(credit goes to my sister )

Good job on this one, guys. ^.^

Interviews were great, and the opening had me laughing my head off. XD


Btw, I missed you guys.

Not that Right Said Fred ain't good, but it's just not the same.

I have more than a few stories about my sisters sleepwalking/talking.

A lot of them involving things like crying because of wasted orange juice and waking up in the middle of June yelling "I'm so glad it's Christmas Eve!". XD

Myself, I tend to start crying in my sleep, for completely irrational nonlucid dream-related reasons. Like my mom ripping up a whole bunch of cardboard boxes. And there being no Cratermaze sequel. (which is sad, anyway.)

Oh, and Hill Top Zone is evil. ;_;

Well, of course, I jumped onto the NiD bandwagon rather late. As such, my opinion might differ significantly from others because I haven't been playing, analyzing, writing, and drawing about the game for eleven years.

But anyway, I can roughly compare the situation to one of a SNES game that was my favorite videogame before I discovered NiGHTS... Chrono Trigger. The game was accepted wonderfully, I loved it, just about everyone else who played it loved it, and demand for a sequel was high. So the PlayStation sequel "Chrono Cross" was released. It was horrible, completely twisted up the excellent story of CT, and was just kinda boring. And what's kinda funny is that most fans, when discussing the story, characters, etc, just pretend that Cross doesn't exist. And we say we're still waiting for the "real" CT sequel.

I really think a similar thing will happen should Journey of Dreams crash and burn. We'll accept it as a mistake and move on, hoping that the next one pulls it off. If it works, if it's the sequel NiD deserves, wonderful. But otherwise, it'll just be another waiting game.

It may just be that I've only waited a year, but I'm not terribly worried.

The first time I heard of it was from a friend of mine on the Nintendo NSider forums, back in the Loudhouse thread. He mentioned it, posted a screen, and made a short blurb on how much fun he was having with it.

One year later, I play Sonic Adventure, find the pinball level, and remember that post. I thought this would look like a fun game to buy.

Six months later, I find the game at Goodwill, and around the same time, I get a Sega Saturn from my sister for Christmas.

And from there, I loved the game, and found this website through Wikipedia. And that's where I am now.