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* MorphicResonance: During the course of the two games, [=NiGHTS=] shapeshifts into a mermaid, a sleigh, a dolphin, a Chinese style dragon, a rocket, a boat, and a roller coaster. All of the forms keeps [=NiGHTS=]'s color scheme and, in a few cases, its ''face''.
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* BlueEyes: [=NiGHTS=], Reala, Helen, and (to a lesser extent) Will.
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** [=NiGHTS=]'s eyes are purplish-blue, though.
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** When you achieve the incomplete ending on Journey of Dreams, whoever you got it as sings the credit music.
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-->''"If there's one game I regret never creating, it was'' [=NiGHTS=]."
-->--''ShigeruMiyamoto''
From the [[SonicTeam creators]] of ''SonicTheHedgehog'' comes this series of thus far two video games about a dream demon flying through a surreal DreamLand while fighting nightmares and helping children learn [[AnAesop Aesops]] by exploring their dreamscapes. NostalgiaFilter has turned the first one, released in 1996, into a legend in VideogameCulture, more or less. The second one was released in 2007 after an 11 year gap, and suffers from a bit of UnexpectedGameplayChange.
On it's sixteenth anniversary, July 5th, 2012, SEGA announced an HD remastered port of the original game for XboxLiveArcade, [[PlayStationNetwork PlayStation Network]], and {{Steam}}. You can watch the announcement trailer [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb_CJLofgPY here]]. The Christmas-themed ''Christmas [=NiGHTS=]'' will also be released as free DownloadableContent for the remastered HD version.
-->''"If there's one game I regret never creating, it was'' [=NiGHTS=]."
-->--''ShigeruMiyamoto''
From the [[SonicTeam creators]] of ''SonicTheHedgehog'' comes this series of thus far two video games about a dream demon flying through a surreal DreamLand while fighting nightmares and helping children learn [[AnAesop Aesops]] by exploring their dreamscapes. NostalgiaFilter has turned the first one, released in 1996, into a legend in VideogameCulture, more or less. The second one was released in 2007 after an 11 year gap, and suffers from a bit of UnexpectedGameplayChange.
On it's sixteenth anniversary, July 5th, 2012, SEGA announced an HD remastered port of the original game for XboxLiveArcade, [[PlayStationNetwork PlayStation Network]], and {{Steam}}. You can watch the announcement trailer [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb_CJLofgPY here]]. The Christmas-themed ''Christmas [=NiGHTS=]'' will also be released as free DownloadableContent for the remastered HD version.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse?: Reala is surprisingly absent from the ending of the second game, and the yellow ideya Ideya is nowhere to be found. [[spoiler:Both [[spoiler: Only the latter is averted in the true ending.]]
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-->''"The part I feel most proud of is that we succeeded in affecting people without using words."''
-->--''Yuji Naka''
-->''"If there's one game I regret never creating, it was'' [=NiGHTS=]."
-->--''ShigeruMiyamoto''
From the [[SonicTeam creators]] of ''SonicTheHedgehog'' comes this series of thus far two video games about a dream demon flying through a surreal DreamLand while fighting nightmares and helping children learn [[AnAesop Aesops]] by exploring their dreamscapes. NostalgiaFilter has turned the first one, released in 1996, into a legend in VideogameCulture, more or less. The second one was released in 2007 after an 11 year gap, and suffers from a bit of UnexpectedGameplayChange.
As of its fifteenth anniversary, July 5th 2011, SEGA has announced its interest in re-making and/or re-releasing the original ''[=NiGHTS=]'', and is asking people for opinions [[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150304755556796&set=a.133608051795.134727.28248536795&type=1 here]].
Features quite a bit of trippy and surreal art.
It had a comic adaption in the late '90s, which can be found [[http://www.nightsintodreams.com/NiD/violet/comics/comics1.htm here]].
A [[Characters/NightsIntoDreams Character Sheet]] now exists.
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!!This video game series provides examples of:
* AcidTripDimension: The boss fights from the first game take place in these.
* ActionGirl: Helen from ''Journey of Dreams'', especially when she [[spoiler:rescues Will]].
** Though it's mainly just that one scene that portrays her like that, since most scenes after that play around with her fear of the dark [[spoiler:which causes her to lose her Ideya of courage near the end of the game]].
*** There's also the fact that she ends up running around without [=NiGHTS=]' help quite a bit, beating up {{Mook}}s along the way.
* AllEncompassingMantle: Jackle. Only it kind of... encompasses empty space.
** He also keeps his cards in there.
* AllThereInTheManual: The Japanese manuals give much more backstory than the US versions. There's also an official storybook that gives more information on the relationship between [=NiGHTS=] and Reala.
* AllWitchesHaveCats: Bomamba has a whole swarm of black cats. They're the source of her magic power.
* AndIMustScream: Before the Bellbridge level in Journey of Dreams, Owl warns the visitors that being tossed into the black sea that surrounds the HubLevel would most likely strip them of their Ideya, lock their consciousness in an eternal nightmare, and put them in a coma in the waking world. [[spoiler:When they are eventually forced into the sea by Wizeman, their will and their Red Ideya manage to spare them from this fate.]]
* AnimeHair: In the first game.
* AmbiguousGender: [=NiGHTS=], and fanfic writers take full advantage of this.
* [[spoiler:AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Averted]] in the second game.
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: [[spoiler:Wizeman]] pulls this in the first ending of ''Journey of Dreams'', although [[spoiler:it's subverted in the true ending.]]
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: How [=NiGHTS=] is characterized in ''Journey of Dreams''.
* BlueEyes: [=NiGHTS=], Reala, Helen, and (to a lesser extent) Will.
** [=NiGHTS=]'s eyes are purplish-blue, though.
* BraggingRightsReward: A Ranks.
* CatsAreMean: Clawz. Bomamba, to an extent, since the cats are her weapons [[spoiler:and her weakness]].
* CharacterTitle
* ChasingYourTail: Most of the bosses, and all of the flight stages.
* ChristmasEpisode / HolidayMode: ''Christmas [=NiGHTS=]'', a demo version of the game that would be affected by the Saturn's internal clock. Considered quite the collector's item nowadays, even though it was provided for free with certain magazines.
* ClockTower: This is the final "race" stage of ''Journey of Dreams'', and it precedes the final boss.
* ContinuityNod: Elliot and Claris can be unlocked for use in the HubLevel in the sequel.
* CrapsackWorld: Although never seen, one could argue Nightmare, being the inverse of Nightopia.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Claris (pink hair and eyes) and Elliot (blue hair and eyes)
* DamselInDistress: Arguably Claris in the comics.
** After saving Will in her second dream, Helen becomes this, requiring a rescue on two occasions.
* DarkReprise: The main theme from the games gets a makeover when the player gets a game over (a more melancholy song if the time runs out on a regular level, and a LastNoteNightmare when the player loses in a boss fight). The most well-known version of all is whenever the titular character fights Reala, with the refrain of these battles is an angry, fierce reprise of "Dreams Dreams". ''Another'' instance is the first few seconds of the final boss fight in the original game.
* [[spoiler:DisneyDeath: [=NiGHTS=]]] in ''Nights: Journey of Dreams''.
* DreamLand / {{Magicant}}: Nightopia, the game's main setting.
* EvilTwin / CainAndAbel: [=NiGHTS=] and Reala.
* ExecutiveMeddling: ''Journey of Dreams'' was being developed as an Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 title...until the development team was forced by Sega of Japan to retool the entire game for the Wii. The problem was that they weren't given enough time or budget to properly adjust the game, so they had to rush parts.
* {{Expy}}: [=NiGHTS=] (him/her)-self was expied for ''SonicShuffle'', as "Lumina the Dream Fairy". On Christmas (whenever the Dreamcast's internal clock decides it's December 25), Lumina actually turns into [=NiGHTS=].
** Which is honestly somewhat reminiscent of some of the more bizarre applications of TheJimmyHartVersion, in that Sega ''owns both franchises'' and, thus, wouldn't need to make an Expy for [=NiGHTS=]...
** Sega probably wasn't in the mood to make it a crossover.
* FakeBrit: [=NiGHTS=], Helen, Will, and Reala in the second game.
* FoeYay: [=NiGHTS=] and Reala, with the latter seemingly making it a point of capturing the former every other level or so (and getting up close and personal about it).
* TheFool: [=NiGHTS=], full stop. The kids from the games can also count.
* FriendlyEnemy: Sort of. [=NiGHTS=] expresses concern for Reala [[spoiler:when the other [[ISurrenderSuckers fakes an injury]] in ''Journey of Dreams'']], and the two apparently chat from time to time when they're not beating the crap out of each other.
* GenderBender: [=NiGHTS=] itself is gender neutral, but combines with both boys and girls. Not that this stops fans from claiming it has a canon gender.
* GoKartingWithBowser: [=NiGHTS=] plays tennis with Reala in ''Sega Superstars Tennis'', and the two apparently have quite a bit of fun doing so.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:[=NiGHTS=] in the true ending]].
* GreenHillZone: Splash Garden, Spring Garden, Aqua Garden, and Pure Valley.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:[=NiGHTS=] seemingly performs one of these to take out Wizeman for good during the true ending... only to be revealed as still alive in TheStinger.]]
* HubLevel: Dream Gate in ''Journey of Dreams''.
* KidHero: Claris, Elliot, Will, and Helen.
* KillerApp: As much as the Saturn ever had one.
* LittleBoyBlueNote: When you achieve the incomplete ending on Journey of Dreams, whoever you got it as sings the credit music.
** Helen herself employs the trope, being a skilled violinist.
* TheLostWoods: Mystic Forest and Memory Forest.
* TheMaze: Crystal Castle.
* MonsterClown: Reala, Jackle, Donbalon, and possibly even [=NiGHTS=] itself qualify for this trope.
* MirrorBoss: Reala, especially during the first game.
* MorphicResonance: During the course of the two games, [=NiGHTS=] shapeshifts into a mermaid, a sleigh, a dolphin, a Chinese style dragon, a rocket, a boat, and a roller coaster. All of the forms keeps [=NiGHTS=]'s color scheme and, in a few cases, its ''face''.
* NinjaButterfly: Owl.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Gillwing, a gigantic boss creature from the first game, with a ball-shaped body that's all mouth, evil eyes, and wings sprouting from his cheeks, and a long thin spike-ridged tail.
* TheOwlKnowingOne: Guess who.
* PassThroughTheRings: You do this to refill your dash gauge, with combos adding time on the clock -- and on top of that, it's the point of a few levels.
* PersonalSpaceInvader: The Awakers.
* PinkGirlBlueBoy: Claris (pink hair and eyes) and Elliot (blue hair and eyes).
** And Helen has a pink jacket in the sequel.
* PlayingTennisWithTheBoss: The Reala battles in ''Journey of Dreams'' are more or less a game of dodgeball with explosions.
** Also, [=NiGHTS=] literally plays tennis with Reala in ''SegaSuperstars Tennis'', but that's more of an example of GoKartingWithBowser.
* PronounTrouble: [=NiGHTS=], whose androgyny causes a lot of people hiccups.
* PuzzleBoss: All of them, but ''especially'' [[ThatOneBoss Bomamba]].
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [=NiGHTS=] and Reala are both implied to be this. Then again, they aren't human.
* RuleOfSymbolism: The games are made based on Jungian psychology, so they are peppered with things like archetypes and Personas as gameplay and story elements.
* SceneryPorn: Totally expected, considering [[Creator/SonicTeam who made the game]]. What especially makes this impressive is that the SegaSaturn had major trouble running most polygonal games, and it executes this game ''beautifully''.
* ShadowArchetype: NiGHTS is a rare positive example in fiction, embodying the positive traits of the protagonists that they've denied and suppressed due to their problems.
* ShiftingSandLand: Stick Canyon and Lost Park.
* SlippySlideyIceWorld: Frozen Bell.
* SprintMeter: The Dash Meter.
* TimedMission: All of them.
* TricksterArchetype: [=NiGHTS=], of course.
* UpdatedRerelease: A remake with updated graphics came out in February 2008. [[NoExportForYou In Japan.]]
* UpgradeArtifact: The Persona in ''Journey of Dreams''.
* ViewerGenderConfusion: Invoked whenever anyone thinks [=NiGHTS=] has a gender at all. Somehow, it doesn't stop the Yaoi between [=NiGHTS=] and Reala.
** Or ''any'' relationship involving [=NiGHTS=] that ignores this.
* VillainousHarlequin: Reala, Jackle, Donbalon, and possibly [=NiGHTS=] at some point.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse?: Reala is surprisingly absent from the ending of the second game, and the yellow ideya is nowhere to be found. [[spoiler:Both averted in the true ending.]]
* WidgetSeries
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-->''"The part I feel most proud of is that we succeeded in affecting people without using words."''
-->--''Yuji Naka''
-->''"If there's one game I regret never creating, it was'' [=NiGHTS=]."
-->--''ShigeruMiyamoto''
From the [[SonicTeam creators]] of ''SonicTheHedgehog'' comes this series of thus far two video games about a dream demon flying through a surreal DreamLand while fighting nightmares and helping children learn [[AnAesop Aesops]] by exploring their dreamscapes. NostalgiaFilter has turned the first one, released in 1996, into a legend in VideogameCulture, more or less. The second one was released in 2007 after an 11 year gap, and suffers from a bit of UnexpectedGameplayChange.
As of its fifteenth anniversary, July 5th 2011, SEGA has announced its interest in re-making and/or re-releasing the original ''[=NiGHTS=]'', and is asking people for opinions [[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150304755556796&set=a.133608051795.134727.28248536795&type=1 here]].
Features quite a bit of trippy and surreal art.
It had a comic adaption in the late '90s, which can be found [[http://www.nightsintodreams.com/NiD/violet/comics/comics1.htm here]].
A [[Characters/NightsIntoDreams Character Sheet]] now exists.
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!!This video game series provides examples of:
* AcidTripDimension: The boss fights from the first game take place in these.
* ActionGirl: Helen from ''Journey of Dreams'', especially when she [[spoiler:rescues Will]].
** Though it's mainly just that one scene that portrays her like that, since most scenes after that play around with her fear of the dark [[spoiler:which causes her to lose her Ideya of courage near the end of the game]].
*** There's also the fact that she ends up running around without [=NiGHTS=]' help quite a bit, beating up {{Mook}}s along the way.
* AllEncompassingMantle: Jackle. Only it kind of... encompasses empty space.
** He also keeps his cards in there.
* AllThereInTheManual: The Japanese manuals give much more backstory than the US versions. There's also an official storybook that gives more information on the relationship between [=NiGHTS=] and Reala.
* AllWitchesHaveCats: Bomamba has a whole swarm of black cats. They're the source of her magic power.
* AndIMustScream: Before the Bellbridge level in Journey of Dreams, Owl warns the visitors that being tossed into the black sea that surrounds the HubLevel would most likely strip them of their Ideya, lock their consciousness in an eternal nightmare, and put them in a coma in the waking world. [[spoiler:When they are eventually forced into the sea by Wizeman, their will and their Red Ideya manage to spare them from this fate.]]
* AnimeHair: In the first game.
* AmbiguousGender: [=NiGHTS=], and fanfic writers take full advantage of this.
* [[spoiler:AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Averted]] in the second game.
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: [[spoiler:Wizeman]] pulls this in the first ending of ''Journey of Dreams'', although [[spoiler:it's subverted in the true ending.]]
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: How [=NiGHTS=] is characterized in ''Journey of Dreams''.
* BlueEyes: [=NiGHTS=], Reala, Helen, and (to a lesser extent) Will.
** [=NiGHTS=]'s eyes are purplish-blue, though.
* BraggingRightsReward: A Ranks.
* CatsAreMean: Clawz. Bomamba, to an extent, since the cats are her weapons [[spoiler:and her weakness]].
* CharacterTitle
* ChasingYourTail: Most of the bosses, and all of the flight stages.
* ChristmasEpisode / HolidayMode: ''Christmas [=NiGHTS=]'', a demo version of the game that would be affected by the Saturn's internal clock. Considered quite the collector's item nowadays, even though it was provided for free with certain magazines.
* ClockTower: This is the final "race" stage of ''Journey of Dreams'', and it precedes the final boss.
* ContinuityNod: Elliot and Claris can be unlocked for use in the HubLevel in the sequel.
* CrapsackWorld: Although never seen, one could argue Nightmare, being the inverse of Nightopia.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Claris (pink hair and eyes) and Elliot (blue hair and eyes)
* DamselInDistress: Arguably Claris in the comics.
** After saving Will in her second dream, Helen becomes this, requiring a rescue on two occasions.
* DarkReprise: The main theme from the games gets a makeover when the player gets a game over (a more melancholy song if the time runs out on a regular level, and a LastNoteNightmare when the player loses in a boss fight). The most well-known version of all is whenever the titular character fights Reala, with the refrain of these battles is an angry, fierce reprise of "Dreams Dreams". ''Another'' instance is the first few seconds of the final boss fight in the original game.
* [[spoiler:DisneyDeath: [=NiGHTS=]]] in ''Nights: Journey of Dreams''.
* DreamLand / {{Magicant}}: Nightopia, the game's main setting.
* EvilTwin / CainAndAbel: [=NiGHTS=] and Reala.
* ExecutiveMeddling: ''Journey of Dreams'' was being developed as an Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 title...until the development team was forced by Sega of Japan to retool the entire game for the Wii. The problem was that they weren't given enough time or budget to properly adjust the game, so they had to rush parts.
* {{Expy}}: [=NiGHTS=] (him/her)-self was expied for ''SonicShuffle'', as "Lumina the Dream Fairy". On Christmas (whenever the Dreamcast's internal clock decides it's December 25), Lumina actually turns into [=NiGHTS=].
** Which is honestly somewhat reminiscent of some of the more bizarre applications of TheJimmyHartVersion, in that Sega ''owns both franchises'' and, thus, wouldn't need to make an Expy for [=NiGHTS=]...
** Sega probably wasn't in the mood to make it a crossover.
* FakeBrit: [=NiGHTS=], Helen, Will, and Reala in the second game.
* FoeYay: [=NiGHTS=] and Reala, with the latter seemingly making it a point of capturing the former every other level or so (and getting up close and personal about it).
* TheFool: [=NiGHTS=], full stop. The kids from the games can also count.
* FriendlyEnemy: Sort of. [=NiGHTS=] expresses concern for Reala [[spoiler:when the other [[ISurrenderSuckers fakes an injury]] in ''Journey of Dreams'']], and the two apparently chat from time to time when they're not beating the crap out of each other.
* GenderBender: [=NiGHTS=] itself is gender neutral, but combines with both boys and girls. Not that this stops fans from claiming it has a canon gender.
* GoKartingWithBowser: [=NiGHTS=] plays tennis with Reala in ''Sega Superstars Tennis'', and the two apparently have quite a bit of fun doing so.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:[=NiGHTS=] in the true ending]].
* GreenHillZone: Splash Garden, Spring Garden, Aqua Garden, and Pure Valley.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:[=NiGHTS=] seemingly performs one of these to take out Wizeman for good during the true ending... only to be revealed as still alive in TheStinger.]]
* HubLevel: Dream Gate in ''Journey of Dreams''.
* KidHero: Claris, Elliot, Will, and Helen.
* KillerApp: As much as the Saturn ever had one.
* LittleBoyBlueNote: When you achieve the incomplete ending on Journey of Dreams, whoever you got it as sings the credit music.
** Helen herself employs the trope, being a skilled violinist.
* TheLostWoods: Mystic Forest and Memory Forest.
* TheMaze: Crystal Castle.
* MonsterClown: Reala, Jackle, Donbalon, and possibly even [=NiGHTS=] itself qualify for this trope.
* MirrorBoss: Reala, especially during the first game.
* MorphicResonance: During the course of the two games, [=NiGHTS=] shapeshifts into a mermaid, a sleigh, a dolphin, a Chinese style dragon, a rocket, a boat, and a roller coaster. All of the forms keeps [=NiGHTS=]'s color scheme and, in a few cases, its ''face''.
* NinjaButterfly: Owl.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Gillwing, a gigantic boss creature from the first game, with a ball-shaped body that's all mouth, evil eyes, and wings sprouting from his cheeks, and a long thin spike-ridged tail.
* TheOwlKnowingOne: Guess who.
* PassThroughTheRings: You do this to refill your dash gauge, with combos adding time on the clock -- and on top of that, it's the point of a few levels.
* PersonalSpaceInvader: The Awakers.
* PinkGirlBlueBoy: Claris (pink hair and eyes) and Elliot (blue hair and eyes).
** And Helen has a pink jacket in the sequel.
* PlayingTennisWithTheBoss: The Reala battles in ''Journey of Dreams'' are more or less a game of dodgeball with explosions.
** Also, [=NiGHTS=] literally plays tennis with Reala in ''SegaSuperstars Tennis'', but that's more of an example of GoKartingWithBowser.
* PronounTrouble: [=NiGHTS=], whose androgyny causes a lot of people hiccups.
* PuzzleBoss: All of them, but ''especially'' [[ThatOneBoss Bomamba]].
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [=NiGHTS=] and Reala are both implied to be this. Then again, they aren't human.
* RuleOfSymbolism: The games are made based on Jungian psychology, so they are peppered with things like archetypes and Personas as gameplay and story elements.
* SceneryPorn: Totally expected, considering [[Creator/SonicTeam who made the game]]. What especially makes this impressive is that the SegaSaturn had major trouble running most polygonal games, and it executes this game ''beautifully''.
* ShadowArchetype: NiGHTS is a rare positive example in fiction, embodying the positive traits of the protagonists that they've denied and suppressed due to their problems.
* ShiftingSandLand: Stick Canyon and Lost Park.
* SlippySlideyIceWorld: Frozen Bell.
* SprintMeter: The Dash Meter.
* TimedMission: All of them.
* TricksterArchetype: [=NiGHTS=], of course.
* UpdatedRerelease: A remake with updated graphics came out in February 2008. [[NoExportForYou In Japan.]]
* UpgradeArtifact: The Persona in ''Journey of Dreams''.
* ViewerGenderConfusion: Invoked whenever anyone thinks [=NiGHTS=] has a gender at all. Somehow, it doesn't stop the Yaoi between [=NiGHTS=] and Reala.
** Or ''any'' relationship involving [=NiGHTS=] that ignores this.
* VillainousHarlequin: Reala, Jackle, Donbalon, and possibly [=NiGHTS=] at some point.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse?: Reala is surprisingly absent from the ending of the second game, and the yellow ideya is nowhere to be found. [[spoiler:Both averted in the true ending.]]
* WidgetSeries
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