Trivia / NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams

• Creator Killer: The critical and commercial disappointment of Journey Of Dreams, along with Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), was one of the factors that led to the death of Sonic Team's international offshoot Sonic Team USA (called Sega Studios USA in later years). After the games were released, the studio was dissolved and its staff were folded back into the main Sonic Team studio in Japan.
• Executive Meddling: Similarly, the story and mini-games were largely added because the higher-ups didn't believe people would want to play arcade styled games anymore, and prefer more story-driven narratives.
• Franchise Killer: Although director Takashi Iizuka has expressed interest in a third entry, the poor sales and mixed reception of this game has seemingly all but killed off any chance of a new NiGHTS game in the near future. Since the game's release, NiGHTS has largely been reduced to occasional appearances in crossovers, with the only major products afterwards being a HD remaster of the first game in 2012 and a slot machine in 2021.
• Fake Brit: NiGHTS, Helen, Will, and Wizeman's actors are all pretending to be British.
• Sequel Gap: The game came out in 2007, 11 years after NiGHTS into Dreams… came out on the Sega Saturn.
• What Could Have Been: A sequel to NiGHTS into Dreams… had been planned as far back as the Sega Saturn days, with one of the original plans being a title called Air NiGHTs, which would have utilized motion controls and would had been released for the aforementioned Saturn, however after scrapping the motion controls in favor of a traditional control scheme and then getting moved to the Sega Dreamcast later on, the game was ultimately scrapped. The motion control technology planned for the game would eventually see use in Samba de Amigo and some of its ideas would later get used in Journey of Dreams (such as the integration of motion controls).

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