A quick and easy journey sport with a significant message.
Night time Reverie, put merely, marks an nice start line for these unfamiliar with top-down adventure-puzzle video games. For many of its roughly two-hour runtime, you may be transferring from room to room inside a medium-sized home, placing objects collectively, and interacting with a handful of characters to maneuver the story ahead. These with extra expertise on this style will probably discover its simplicity and lack of depth unsatisfying, however I discovered it a pleasant change of tempo after among the longer titles I would been taking part in not too long ago.
You play as Matt, a boy who dons a cape and pretends to be a personality known as the Night time Explorer. Minutes after the sport begins, you’re transported to a seemingly alternate model of your house, which is each related and totally different on the similar time. Seeking your sister, you encounter a small ball of flame named Sparky, and the 2 of you traipse about the home, fixing puzzles to study her whereabouts. You find yourself encountering dwelling, human-sized variations of stuffed animals from the actual world, and far of the journey sees Matt fixing puzzles to amass objects that these come-to-life friends are searching for.
In reality, although, Night time Reverie is not extremely puzzle-y; it feels extra like a sequence of fetch quests. It’s worthwhile to completely search every room in order to not miss an merchandise you have to to resolve an issue, fulfill a request, or open a locked door afterward. At occasions you may want to mix objects out of your stock to kind one thing new, however not one of the duties requiring mixture have been all that difficult. There is a straightforwardness to the sport that newcomers are prone to admire and that will flip off extra seasoned gamers. There are additionally a number of mini-games that you simply get to play, and these added a little bit of selection to the proceedings.
Night time Reverie gives a nice journey sport jaunt with primary mechanics and a touching ending. It is a serving of lite fare when you’re within the temper for one thing that will not overly tax your mind (however nonetheless would possibly make you are feeling a wee bit intelligent); in the end, although, it is quite a lot of placing spherical pegs in spherical holes. Whereas the pixel artwork is sweet to have a look at, the textual content font is decidedly not. As a palette cleanser, it did the job for me, however I can not say it should linger on my thoughts for greater than an evening.
