Ugh! That's pretty much all I have to post to be honest. UGH! Nights was one of those fanboy things that everybody was drooling over so I put it on my wish list. Unfortunately it came out quite late in decemenber so, late that the reviews (of how bad it was) didn't come in until after xmas and it was too late to warn my relatives. Every single solitary thing about this game sucks so far. I say so far because I've only gotten to level 2, not because of difficulty, but sheer lack of interest. To stress just how badly this game sucks I'm gong to go over various qualities about the game.
Graphics:
You are first treated to a cut-scene in typical sega fashion and you think "wow this game is gonna be bad-ass!" Well hold on to that feeling as long as you can, because it'll be the last time. As soon as the beautiful cut-scene is over, you are tortured with a live action cut-scene. It is at this point that you wonder if you disc is damaged. Yes, it's THAT bad. The only game in the history of modern gaming with cut-scenes this bad would have to be mk shaolin monks. If you aren't familiar with that game then just google it sometime to see the horror of the cut-scenes. Sadly the actual game's graphics aren't that much better. The problem seems to be the lack of shadows. There isn't any shading at all on the game, making it look like models loaded in an editor rather than a finished game. Aside from a higher resolution, the graphics in the original saturn version are probably better.
Story/ Voice Acting/ Ect:
It's all horrible. The plot is basically peter pan with some mystic do-dads threw in. Nights is now a man with a girl's voice (like peter pan). The childern are annoying, as most children are. The icing on the suck cake though is this stupid owl. He's the most poorly rendered, poorly animated, poorly designed owl in the history of owls. He also says "hoo hoo" at the end of every sentence. Also there's this stupid plot point about the children and nights merging (ewwe) so that nights has more power. This doesn't make any sense as nights is prefectly capable of flying around by himself, which is the extent of any power needed to play the game.
Controls:
More suckage. You'd think that a wii title involving flying would be pure gold right? Wrong! The wiimote only version of the controls equates to trying to play a 360 game by rubbing your butt against the control stick. It is completely unplayable, forcing you to plug in a nunchuck and use the analog stick, which pretty much defeats the purpose of it being released on the wii. On top of that, you can only contorl nights on a 2d level, even though the stages a full-on 3d and the camera moves in 3d. Also because you are flying there aren't any visible barriers. Couple this with the camera panning and you are completely confused as to how to control your character. There are also levels in which you control the kids, but they are tacked on, don't involve any goals and are essentially useless. Fighting inolves running smack dab into your enemy and pressing a. Yup that's pretty much it. There are a few other moves you can pull off, but you'll find them useless and unnecessary.
Level Design:
Now keep in mind I can't fully comment on this as I'm not very far, but.... Remember pilot wings? Well that's pretty much what the game looks like only there is some land under the skyline. Yeah, even the level design is pretty bland. Also I *think* they actually stole textures and set pieces from sonic and the secret rings. Of course without any real shading and bad blending effects they look a ton crappier, but they still look familiar to me.
That's all I care to write about this on because it's so bad. Don't buy it. Even if you were a fan of the original don't buy it. It's crap people. Crap!
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