Doesn't play as well as the original Nights, but it's nevertheless a WONDERFUL tribute, fanart in a way, that brings to the table such good ideas that it's worth checking out anyway. This includes, but is not limited to:
-Updated character design
-visually inspired bosses
-visually inspired side missions
-portrays kids actually bonding with Nights
-giving the kids actual stages (bad thing if you hate 3D platformers I guess!) instead of their gameplay existing only to penalize the player as was the case in the original game
-more coherent goal system (chase the bird) which is vastly more appropriate/fitting for a game about zipping around at max speed, and which does a much better job at actually conveying this to the player, as opposed to methodically touching every object you find
The new kids are kinda lame and the story is kinda cringe but that does not matter. The game's only relevant shortcomings stem almost entirely from the fact it's a gameplay downgrade from the original, which there wasn't really an excuse for but should probably have been expected considering that Sega was a shadow of its former self, and Just Don't Get Things Right (TM) anymore. Oh and framerate is bad too. Neither game is 60 fps but in this it seems to be wildly less consistent.
-Updated character design
-visually inspired bosses
-visually inspired side missions
-portrays kids actually bonding with Nights
-giving the kids actual stages (bad thing if you hate 3D platformers I guess!) instead of their gameplay existing only to penalize the player as was the case in the original game
-more coherent goal system (chase the bird) which is vastly more appropriate/fitting for a game about zipping around at max speed, and which does a much better job at actually conveying this to the player, as opposed to methodically touching every object you find
The new kids are kinda lame and the story is kinda cringe but that does not matter. The game's only relevant shortcomings stem almost entirely from the fact it's a gameplay downgrade from the original, which there wasn't really an excuse for but should probably have been expected considering that Sega was a shadow of its former self, and Just Don't Get Things Right (TM) anymore. Oh and framerate is bad too. Neither game is 60 fps but in this it seems to be wildly less consistent.