NiGHTS Sequel Confirmed (Updated)
Posted by: Dylan Garret on April 2, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Updated: 04-02-06
Well, it looks like the NiGHTS sequel is now officially official, not just the result of skillful internet detective work. NiGHTS producer Takashi Iizukia gives today’s quote:
“It’s been 11 years… A long silence is broken, and NiGHT flies into a new dream world with a new story and on a new platform called the Wii…”
Though the source page is in Japanese, you can catch Kotaku’s blurb here, which basically says exactly what you just read.
Now. . . REJOICE!
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Hot off Kotaku, it looks like all fear and speculation can be put to rest, as the sequel to the Sega Saturn un-classic NiGHTS Into Dreams has been (more or less) announced. As stated in the article, no hardware has been announced yet (just some teaser images that are seriously not a joke for real now), although industry speculation (and an upcoming NiGHTS-themed issue of Official Nintendo Magazine in the UK), have it leaning towards the Wii.
I repeat, NiGHTS. . . on Wii.
Man, I have such good memories of biking three miles to the nearest Toys R Us every day after school to play the demo of NiGHTS as much as I could before sunset, back when the Saturn came out and I was a poor young man without the means to get my own. NiGHTS was the only thing that could make that bike worthwhile. I mean, it certainly wasn’t the Taco Bell next door. And on the Wii, the only system that could still make NiGHTS still seem as fresh and original as that special day back in 1996 when we each grasped that oily demo Saturn controller for the first time, and started flying through rings.
Hell, here’s some old-school gameplay footage via YouTube, just to kick up some memories. Check back for more updates as they come.
2 Responses to "NiGHTS Sequel Confirmed (Updated)"
1 | Wil Hicks
Welcome news indeed. As a somewhat serious videogame collector and owner of Nights and Christmas Nights I’m somewhat excited. Nights was one of those games where you had to get halfway through the game to really see how good it was. I’d be more excited if Yu Suzuki finally decided to finish Shenmue 3 however.
2 | Dylan Garret
That’s true, though for now I’m holding more hope to getting Shenmue Online an international release. I know, it’s no Shenmue 3. . . hell, it may not even be Shenmue period. But it looks nice, going by the 2006 footage (not that horrible trailer for a while back), and I’d like to play an MMO set in 1980s Hong Kong, a place without an orc in sight, and leather jackets over leather armor.
And, practically speaking, it’s probably the closest we have to a finished Shenmue product at this point. I’d still like to see the next part of the actual story, though.
