Yume Nikki: Difference between revisions

The plot is simple: as Madotsuki, a girl that seems to have an obsession with a single, incredibly depressing video game, all you can do each day is sleep - during which you must travel throughout her [[Dream World|dreamscape]] to collect "effects" and reach new areas in the world. It's extremely open-ended, with little hints as to how to actually progress; really, it's more about exploring the strange and disturbing things that go on in her mind than anything else.

 

 

For French Tropers, the game was recently fully translated in Molière's language and is available for download [http://www.rpg-maker.fr/jeux-556-yume-nikki-version-francaise.html here].

* [[Fan Nickname]]: Many of the character and area names are unofficial.

* [[Fan Sequel]]: A number of them, here's a short list:

** ''[[Dot Flow]]'' which ratchets up the horror elements.

** ''Yume Nisshi''

** ''SICKMIND''

** ''[[Amnesia]]'': which stars a ghost girl.

** "Exploration game" is probably the closest guess, but you could call it a number of other types and nobody could say that you're really wrong.

* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: The Toriningen and Monoko have these. Madotsuki also has her braids.

* [[Grotesque Gallery]]

* [[Guide Dang It]]: It's quite unlikely that you'll find every event and place on your own.

* [[Hit Points]]: You start with one. You gain more by drinking soda you get for money. [[Goggles Do Nothing|They serve no purpose whatsoever]] ...seemingly.

* [[Homage]]:

** Remember when your game would crash because the cartridge wasn't inserted correctly or was dirty? There is an event that simulates that.

* [[Image Boards]]: [http://uboachan.net/ Uboachan]

* [[Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence]]: [[Deconstruction|Deconstructed]], when Madotsuki is denied being able to join a Toriningen picnic because of a few plants in her way ([[Fridge Logic|that might easily be cut down by her knife effect]]); this can be taken as a sign of social exclusion.

* [[Jump Scare]]: Could be evoked by several events. For example, encountering Uboa, getting eaten by Big Red, going through the door with FACE in it...

* [[Just One More Level]]: [[Show Within a Show]] NASU.

** However, this could be explained by them being nightmares, in which case one would be likely to either run or fight any beings.

* [[Mental World]]: Of course.

* [[Mind Screw]]

* [[Mini Game]]: "NASU" (Japanese for "eggplant"), the most depressingly futile minigame ever made. It doesn't help one's spirits that the game music (only heard when you start the game and inevitably lose) is off-rhythm and out of tune.

* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: The message boxes, which appear before the "Glitch" event, are unsettling empty. So is the entire dungeon area, which is dark (necessitating the use of the Lamp effect if you wanna see where you're going), and the room where the event occurs is an eerie, nondescript dead-end. See also the [[Empty Room Psych]] example above.

** This also applies anywhere no NPCs can be found in.

* [[Overly Long Name|Overly Long Fan-Given Nickname]]: Seccom Masada's. "Seccom Masada" is the abridged form of [[The Woobie|Sentimental]] [[wikipedia:Komuro Tetsuya|Komuro]] [[Michael Jackson|Maikeru]] [[wikipedia:Ryuichi Sakamoto|Sakamoto]] [[Dada]] Sensei. Fans mostly nicknamed him after several famous people he resembles.

* [[Our Monsters Are Weird]]: What else would inhabit a creepy and surreal dream world?