Yume Nikki - general discussion

I put together a soundtrack for the game (the one on the fansite's page was quiet/bad quality, and was missing a bunch of songs), here's the download link for the zip file: http://www.mediafire.com/?7wppx9tgttqz0gn

Also this was a really fun game. Been awhile since a game has made me scared like this.

Has the second one been fully translated yet?

Bump.

So, I was reading James Lileks' commentary on a crappy textbook from the 70's, and one of the illustrations had a face that looked kind of familiar. Very odd.

I'm kind of disappointed that the official troper entry goes on to take the assumptions on Madotsuki as actual fact, when it truth nothing is ever outright stated in the game and everything is left entirely up to the player to assume whether or not it is the dreams that are making her crazy or was she crazy ever to begin with, so the Hikkikomori angle is mere speculation. There are lots of implications but the rest seem like Epileptic Trees.

It's been a few months since I discovered Yume Nikki, but I ran into a strange problem: after installing it and running it, the controls have locked in on up and left: I cant move right or down. I tried uninstalling, downloading from another source and running it again, but the problem remains. I'm guessing the problem has to do with my computer, but I haven't tried to play it on another.

Any ideas? It kinda frustrates me that I can't do anything except play Nasu.

edited 17th Sep '11 2:12:01 PM by Crinias

5 DAYS

5 days for what?

An hour of Googling has brought me the following answer: That's a damn good question.

So, it's just attention-seeking countdown bullshit without explanation. I hate it when people do that. It also makes me pretty desinterested.

Well, considering the unlikely chance that it may be for a new version, I may check back when the countdown is over. Maybe.

4 days left now.

It's probably something, the last update was in 2007.

Could be an unexpected sequel that's being released? That's just my guess, though.

Whatever it is, it'll be better than the PS 4 conference.

Given the recent fiasco on the Yume Nikki wiki, I'd be rather surprised if it wasn't an update at this point.

Or at least something more exciting than cellphone holders, which seemed to be the general consensus for some reason.

Web Comic, Novelization, and Image song CD confirmed.

edited 27th Feb '13 11:00:40 PM by dmysta3000

I'm a tad concerned that none of the people involved in these "official" projects are actually Kikiyama. Or at least they're not credited under that name.

Um... I don't mean to commit necromancy or anything, but I have a question.

Using the link to download the game on our wiki's own page for the game, I found a file labeled "Yume_Nikki.rar". I can't seem to open it.

I'm assuming I need RPG Maker to download it? This is probably a dumb question, but in advance thanks for answering.

Basically it's one file that stores a bunch of other files in a compressed format. You need something like WinRAR to open it.

Thanks! Now, after doing a bit of work, I've downloaded 7-Zip.

...I'll go elsewhere for help on using that, though. Will be back as soon as I'm either smiling from something lighthearted or having nightmares.

Finally played the game a bit... after working up the courage, of course.

Soooooooooo strange. It actually freaked me out, and I quickly woke up (*kisses 9 key*) and saved and came here.

There's this forest area (left door on the top in the dream hub area... place), and there's these still things vomitting that are everywhere. I touched one and it's ghostly image appeared fixed to Madotsuki's head. There were two different kinds, then I went north, walked between a gateway. I entered an area with blue spikey things...

There was this thing running around, it looked like a deformed woman(? I was a bit startled to get the details). It touched me and warped me somewhere else, and right then I flipped out and woke up.

So... what was that thing? Did touching it do anything? I still don't have any effects, so it might be a while before I can really interact with stuff.

Also, I think Buffy Speak is the only way to describe this game.

EDIT: Wow this game is Nightmare Fuel. I was roaming open black space when a bloodstain came into view. Anyways, I have two effects now: Hat & Scarf, and Long Hair. Both of which are cosmetic?

edited 15th Jun '13 7:28:39 PM by NesClassic

RE:NES Classic: That thing that touched you was a Lunatic Toriningen- they're scattered throughout the game, if they touch you, you get teleported to an inescapable area.

On another note, does anyone know how to download Yume 2kki, or if it's in English/has an English patch? I clicked the link on it's page, but as everything is in Japanese and Google translate doesn't work so well, I'm having a bit of trouble.

edited 20th Jun '13 12:09:25 PM by msPaint

Thanks for the name! By now I've discovered there's nice ones too, but stab one and they're all mad. And they might even spawn in unnatural places... oh, I have 19 effects out of (I think) 26.

Is there a point to dropping your effects in the Door Room? The "eggs" look cool, but I don't anything has happened so far...

Dropping all 24 effects in the door room is used to end the game. You drop all 24 effects in the room and then wake up and walk out onto the balcony.

Having finally gotten around to making it work, there is one thing I noticed.

It is in many ways the opposite of a dream. Real dreams are a stream of sensations and thoughts in which the details are unfilled and the world they are in only barely kept together, usually given some illusion of a narrative (I have had some surprisingly coherent dreams, though that may be a post-facto ordering of them) and the dreamer has no apparent conscious control. They never recur exactly. A dream is made of things that change and respond all the time. It can provoke emotional reactions like nothing else because it comes from those very emotions.

This game is a static world in which the player has full control but can hardly affect anything but their position. The art is detailed and orderly, however surreal. Our protagonist shows no emotional reaction of any sort. The world is barren, and always the same.

A more genuine dream-like experience would be randomised and always moving. I prefer to think of Yume Nikki as Madotsuki exploring her mental world rather than dreaming.

A fine game, especially for the art, it kept me playing for hours for three days (halfway through I started referring to the wiki, because it was getting repetitive and there was no way I would find everything on its own). Though the ending feels... flippant. There are subtler ways to let the audience know someone is disturbed.

Though I did not find it scary, for the most part. Mostly because I soon found very few of the residents can do anything to me, and I could always escape. And the mounds of theories about our girl can get creative, but the only ones I felt naturally came out of what I saw are that she is troubled, cut off from society and resentful towards the world. And there is something sexual to it (she is going through puberty). The rest is just reading tea leaves.

It's quite remarkable how widely this single-developer game has spread. Take a look at some brilliant fanmade videos on Youtube. Even this.

Have you played LSD Dream Emulator?

Bumping to say that Yume Nikki can now be conveniently acquired through Steam (still for free, of course) and that some sort of new Kikiyama-approved YN project is apparently arriving within the next three weeks.