After that last Nightmare of a game....hehe...I did a pun...My expectations were set pretty dang low for this one. Much to my delight, Nightmare surprised me.
This game really does everything right, which sucks because now I can't think of anything else to say about it. I guess I can make every high school English teacher cry and summarize the game instead...
Well, truth be told, there's not even that much to summarize. You control 2 characters at a time with WASD and the mouse, respectively. The fairy, whom you control with the mouse, dispatches baddies to protect the little girl whom you control with WASD. You have to get the little girl from point A to point B without her getting hunted down by creepy creatures of the night. Hey, I think I just figured out how to make escort missions bearable...give us control over the person we're supposed to be escorting.
The enemies are nice and varied, ranging from tiny little guys who can be taken out with one quick slice while holding down LMB to creepy Jack-in-the-box type things that have to be dangled with RMB until they disappear.
I think there are 2 areas in which this game truly excels: variety and artistic design.
Let's get the easy one out of the way first. The artistic design is beautiful. I'm not an artist, so I don't really know how to explain it, but everything is eerie without getting overbearing and it all just looks damn good.
Now let's talk variety. It's the spice of life, after all. Every one of the 6 levels in Nightmare is different in its own special way. This keeps the game engaging from beginning to end and really demonstrates how masterfully the devs can craft a game. Whether you're frantically running away from some unseen instakill beast or sleuthily hunting down keys with which to open doors, this game makes sure you know what you're doing and that you feel good doing it.
This one's definitely worth your while and certainly earns my seal of approval. Good job, guys.
Links
Sweet Dream: https://www.digipen.edu/?id=1170&proj=26615
Correct link: http://games.digipen.edu/games/nightmare#.Uv4yePl_tUM
ReplyDeleteyeah, thanks for that. After the site redesign that completely screwed this entire project 2 weeks before its completion, all of the links I posted became outdated, though as far as I know, they all still work :P
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