When the Dreamcast’s clock was set to December 24, NiGHTS would replace Lumina as the game’s guide in multiplayer matches. NiGHTS popped up again in SEGA’s Sonic party game, Sonic Shuffle, released in 2000. Sonic Shuffle Image from Sonic the Hedgeblog NiGHTS made a brief appearance as two of a multitude of capsule toys that could be collected in SEGA’s 1999 open world game, Shenmue. Shenmue When Ryo couldn’t find sailors, he could at least find capsule toys

It was also possible to create NiGHTS chao by giving them flying animals.

Collecting more then one of the same card nets a load of rings, and opens up a portal to a second, Nightmare themed pinball table.īetween the tables, cards, and two neat looking animations that showcase the NiGHTS world, this remains one of the coolest NiGHTS cameos SEGA has done. Players knock the pinball around the table, trying to collect cards which feature numerous NiGHTS characters. Released in 1998, Sonic Adventure’s NiGHTS pinball game in Casinopolis is the franchise’s earliest cameo, and how many of us were first introduced to it. This is hardly a complete list, of course, but we’re at least touching on many of the character’s more notable appearances! Sonic Adventure I don’t think any celebration of NiGHTS would be complete without an overview of the character’s many, many cameos in other SEGA properties. Classic games kinda get a pass cause they were obviously more arcade-y.Before NiGHTS into Dreams… became widely available with its HD release in 2012, many people (including myself) first encountered the series through its copious amount of cameos, largely in Sonic Team games. This probably sounds very dumb but basically think double jumping in a Sonic game is dumb and doesn’t fit right, at least not for the modern games. With the world Sega set up, you can believe that a blue hedgehog can move faster than the speed of sound, manage to aim himself and home in on enemies (homing attack), and use special tech in some shoes to do things like dash at light-speed along a trail of rings, but suspension of disbelief only goes so far, and it’s hard to suspend said disbelief when that speedy blue hedgehog is defying all laws of physics, so he can jump a second time, in midair. He’s either standing still, or he’s moving at top speed, with very little in between, and that’s without boosting too.Īnd then double jumping, assuming it was in Forces, has never felt right in a Sonic game. He doesn’t feel like he has any acceleration when he moves. Extremely stiff, borderline completely on-rails, drifting is gone, and in both 3D and 2D sections, he feels very stop and start. But yeah, animations are terrible, and the way Sonic controls in Forces doesn’t help with the issues either. Have to agree here, apart from the both models are fine part, Forces Modern Sonic looks too much like Classic and it just doesn’t feel right.

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