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Nights Into Dreams...

The story follows the teenagers Elliot Edwards and Claris Sinclair, who enter Nightopia, a dream world where all dreams take place. With the help of Nights, an exiled "Nightmaren", they begin a journey to stop…

68 5 July 1996

Nights Into Dreams... is an adventure developed by Sonic Team, released 5 July 1996 on Sega Saturn.

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What Nights Into Dreams... is

Nights Into Dreams... is an adventure game developed by Sonic Team and released in 1996. It was published by Sega. It is available on Sega Saturn only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Nights into Dreams is a 1996 action game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega for the Sega Saturn. The story follows the teenagers Elliot Edwards and Claris Sinclair, who enter Nightopia, a dream world where all dreams take place. With the help of Nights, an exiled "Nightmaren", they begin a journey to stop the evil ruler Wizeman from destroying Nightopia and consequently the real world. Players control Nights flying through Elliot and Claris's dreams to gather enough energy to defeat Wizeman and save Nightopia. The game is presented in 3D and imposes time limits on every level, in which the player must accumulate points to proceed.
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How it plays

Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the Nights into Dreams series

Nights Into Dreams... is the first of 17 entries we hold in the Nights into Dreams series. The next entry was Christmas Nights into Dreams in 1996. Its critic score of 68 is 4 points below the series average of 72. The highest-rated entry is Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed at 88.

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How it was received

Nights Into Dreams... holds a critic score of 68 out of 100. That places it above 30% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored 2 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Nights Into Dreams... launched on 5 July 1996, within three weeks of Super Mario 64, Star Gladiator Episode I: Final Crusade, Triple Play 97 and International Track & Field. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Super Mario 64, Star Gladiator Episode I: Final Crusade, Triple Play 97, International Track & Field.

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Nights Into Dreams... was released on 5 July 1996 for Sega Saturn.

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