Alright, I’ve been holding it off for a while now, but I Think it’s time to talk about it. Back in my tuktok Five paborito RPG Maker Horror games, I described this game as being madami surreal than scary, but now that I have matured a little in my writing, and can understand madami basic material now, I’ve now come to notice that this little game is much scarier than one may think. It’s sa pamamagitan ng far one of the scariest games out there. Maybe not the most obvious in its horror, but I think that is what gives this game a very unique style. So, for this article, I want to look at the popular horror RPG Maker horror game called Yume Nikki, or Dream Diary in English.
Yume Nikki was a game created back in 2004 created sa pamamagitan ng indie developer Kikiyama. No one has ever seen this person in real life, and there is absolutely no information known on who this Kikiyama. All we know is that they were the ones behind the atmospheric and creepy Yume Nikki. A game that I really love. Now, I can’t recommend Yume Nikki for just anyone, because this is a very…. Weird game. Yume Nikki is a very strange, very insane, and just very slow game, where there is no story, no sense of direction, and clearly no normality in this game. This game is just all insanity, and I pag-ibig it. In Yume Nikki, you play as a young woman named Madotsuki, which is Japanese for lit and windowed. Madotsuki is, in the Japanese language, a hikikomori, a person who stays inside their room, isolated from the rest of the world. Yume Nikki starts with Madotsuki in her apartment, and you can explore it, go on onto the balcony, and play a minigame on a Famicom-like console, but you can’t leave the apartment. If you try to leave and go out into the outside world, Madotsuki just shakes her head and refuses. You will eventually fall asleep, which will lead you to Madotsuki’s dream world. In the dream world… Well, that’s where the magic happens. The very strange, and mentality-fucking magic.
Inside Madotsuki’s dreams, you are able to explore many different locations. There’s a world filled with eyes, a world made up for many blocks, a land of white and dark sketch like outlines, a sky garden where there are many different characters, a stairway with hands coming from the ground, and a kulay-rosas sea where you meet a special character, who I will not be talking about in this entire article. I know he is the most popular thing about Yume Nikki and no one shuts about about him when the game is brought up, so, I will not talk about him. But do you know what’s just as messed up as the environments? The characters. And oh boy, there are many strange characters. There’s Monoko, the only other character in the game with an official name who has five arms, one coming from her head. Pissipissini is a creature that lives in darkness and looks like he’s suffering from extreme PTSD. Seccom Masada is a spaceship pilot who… Appears to be very similar to Michael Jackson in a way. Kyuukyuu-Kun is a tall multi-colored worm creature who loves rubbing poles… That may be phallic symbolism or something, I’m not sure. Shitai-San is a dead body… That’s about it really. Yet the fandom freaking loves this guy. Type in his name and you’ll find fanart and cosplay of him everywhere. Oh, and then there’s this one popular creature but I don’t care (I mean it. I’m not gonna talk about him). These characters are all so strange, but at the same time, they all manage to have a very unique personality about them. They all seem to be symbolic in one way or another and have a much deeper meaning to them, which is always something I enjoy.
Now, Yume Nikki isn’t exactly a game about just exploration. I mean, exploring the dream world is heavily recommended, but there is madami to it than just that. To actually complete the game, you need to collect twenty four items called Effects. Effects allow you to change Madotsuki’s appearance and give her a special ability. Some examples are the Medamaude Effect, which turns Madotsuki’s head into a hand with an eye and allows her to return to the hub world. Cat Effect gives Madotsuki cat ears and allows NPCs to follow her and get them off her path. Lamp Effect lets you turn Madotsuki’s head into a lamp and allows you to explore dark areas. Bicycle Effect lets Madotsuki ilipat faster. Or the kutsilyo Effect, which will allow you to murder everything (Well, almost everything, but still). Most of the Effects are just kinda silly. Like Fat Effect, which makes Madotsuki fat, or Severed Head Effect, which turns her into just a head. Or my personal paborito Poop Hair Effect, which turns her hair into a piece of literal shit… Boy, what a great Effect. Sure is useful. But, they are the only way to get anywhere in the game and to experience the (What little there is of it) story.
Of course, out of all the crazy settings, characters, and abilities that are pretty useless, the best thing about Yume Nikki is the character Madotsuki herself. Yume Nikki is a silent game. There is no voice acting, no dialogue, no narration or story of any kind, nothing. Not even a single word. The only thing that this game has is the main character’s name, Madotsuki, and that is all there is. Yet, the thing is, despite there being no dialogue, including from Madotsuki herself, she manages to have so much development. If you want a perfect example of a story that shows and doesn’t tell, then you must play Yume Nikki. This game doesn’t tell you a thing. It just shows, and it’s incredible. You learn so much about Madotsuki just sa pamamagitan ng looking at her dreams. She’s antisocial, unable to fit with society in many ways, yet manages to be a tagahanga of video games, like Earthbound. And I am not kidding, she loves Earthbound like crazy. She manages to have as much development as a Silent burol character without having to open her mouth, and considering Silent burol voice pagganap is… hilarious, that probably makes her madami believable and even relatable in a way. I’ve sinabi time and time again that I like flawed characters with nothing that makes them just a pure hearted hero guy, or some moustache-twirling puppy-kicking villain. I like characters who are both kind but also selfish. But I can also like characters who are just flawed mentally, who are unable to be perfect in society because of their mentality, and are just unable to fit in and feel like they don’t belong, in one way or another. And Madotsuki does that perfectly. And she doesn’t even open her mouth for God’s sake.
So, there is a lot about this game that I love. But if I had to pick the best thing about this game (Which is a very hard thing to do, believe me), I think I would go with the atmosphere. This game doesn’t have a lot of creepy monsters. I mean, they are, but they aren’t a threat, since you can’t really die in this game, so the atmosphere is something that really makes the game incredible. There are so many atmospheric scenes to find in this game. There’s the part where Madotsuki reaches a sky garden where she sees three people, who do not interact with her at all and leave her alone (Also, UFOs). There’s another part with a massive threatening looking creature called The Thing With the Quivering Jaw. It looks intimidating, but instead of doing anything, it just ignores Madotsuki, to ipakita that even something threatening doesn’t want to interact with her, ipinapakita her isolation. But I think my paborito part in the entire game is when you meet the creature named Mars-San. After having to go through three different dreams at once (Yep, Inception joke. Who even cares anymore), you find an alien location, and after travelling far, you’d expect something neat or fascinating. But you remember, this is Yume Nikki. When you get there, all you meet is Mars-San, an alien creature with one leg and one red eye. When you find it, it just stands there, crying, as if it’s all alone. The music really adds to the atmosphere, and using the kutsilyo Effect on Mars-San doesn’t kill it, but instead scars it. I may be going out on a limb with this part, but I think that this may ipakita the madami depressing parts of isolation, which is something that Madotsuki clearly goes through. As if she wants to fit in, but can’t. I think that Mars-San really shows this through the atmosphere, the music, and the look on his…. Non-existent face. He’s clearly the best and easily the most popular character in the entire game… Is what I would say if Uboa didn’t steal all the fame from everyone else. And fine, I’ll talk about Uboa, if it will shut you all up.
Okay, so, let me be clear, I don’t hate Uboa. I think he was a very creative creature, and I still do think he is very creative in a way, and I will admit, he isn’t AS popularized and ruined like other characters (Cough) Slenderman (Unconvincing cough). But I won’t deny that it does get pretty old to hear that this is the only thing people talk about when it comes to Yume Nikki when there are many amazing things about it, and Uboa isn’t even the best. In a strange cone-shaped house in the kulay-rosas Sea, you’ll find a girl that is called Poniko sa pamamagitan ng the fans. You can turn the lights in this place off many different times. If you walk out and do it again, nothing will happen. But, there is a slight chance that, if done enough times, the famous internet memester known as Uboa will appear. Uboa is the one of the only characters who interacts with Madotsuki, but obviously not in a good way. You’ll be locked in with him, and he will give you the bad touch, sending you to a creepy white world with no way out (Unless you pinch yourself and wake up). Uboa in Japanese isn’t anything. It’s just scrambled words meant to be hard for human pronunciation, like Cthulhu. And I pag-ibig that sort of thing, being too inhuman for mortals to understand. That’s my kind of horror. And I think Uboa fits that. A being that emerges from the house of a young girl that drags you to a world with a giant bleeding smiley face. Yeah, that’s pretty creepy. I also can’t deny that Uboa was a very important part in popularizing the game, so I can at least give it credit for that….. But seriously, he’s not the best thing about this game. Stop saying comparing him to Slenderman and W.D. Gaster already.
Yume Nikki is a very creative, atmospheric, and pangkalahatang creepy game. As I sinabi before in my tuktok Ten Horror Games, Yume Nikki isn’t the scariest game ever. If you aren’t thinking about the world, you won’t find anything in this game scary. You’ll just find it weird and making absolutely no sense. And if you are, you’ll probably still think this way. Yume Nikki is a weird game. It’s a very, very, very weird game. Yet, it is also a smart and emotional game. It manages to evoke many emotions, without even having any character interaction, story, or even dialogue of any kind. It’s just you, the world, the music, and some creatures to look at. Nothing else. And I think that is what makes Yume Nikki the great game that it is. If you want something weird and making absolutely no sense, then I recommend playing this game. Just don’t try to make much sense of it because it will hurt your brain. Take care.
Yume Nikki was a game created back in 2004 created sa pamamagitan ng indie developer Kikiyama. No one has ever seen this person in real life, and there is absolutely no information known on who this Kikiyama. All we know is that they were the ones behind the atmospheric and creepy Yume Nikki. A game that I really love. Now, I can’t recommend Yume Nikki for just anyone, because this is a very…. Weird game. Yume Nikki is a very strange, very insane, and just very slow game, where there is no story, no sense of direction, and clearly no normality in this game. This game is just all insanity, and I pag-ibig it. In Yume Nikki, you play as a young woman named Madotsuki, which is Japanese for lit and windowed. Madotsuki is, in the Japanese language, a hikikomori, a person who stays inside their room, isolated from the rest of the world. Yume Nikki starts with Madotsuki in her apartment, and you can explore it, go on onto the balcony, and play a minigame on a Famicom-like console, but you can’t leave the apartment. If you try to leave and go out into the outside world, Madotsuki just shakes her head and refuses. You will eventually fall asleep, which will lead you to Madotsuki’s dream world. In the dream world… Well, that’s where the magic happens. The very strange, and mentality-fucking magic.
Inside Madotsuki’s dreams, you are able to explore many different locations. There’s a world filled with eyes, a world made up for many blocks, a land of white and dark sketch like outlines, a sky garden where there are many different characters, a stairway with hands coming from the ground, and a kulay-rosas sea where you meet a special character, who I will not be talking about in this entire article. I know he is the most popular thing about Yume Nikki and no one shuts about about him when the game is brought up, so, I will not talk about him. But do you know what’s just as messed up as the environments? The characters. And oh boy, there are many strange characters. There’s Monoko, the only other character in the game with an official name who has five arms, one coming from her head. Pissipissini is a creature that lives in darkness and looks like he’s suffering from extreme PTSD. Seccom Masada is a spaceship pilot who… Appears to be very similar to Michael Jackson in a way. Kyuukyuu-Kun is a tall multi-colored worm creature who loves rubbing poles… That may be phallic symbolism or something, I’m not sure. Shitai-San is a dead body… That’s about it really. Yet the fandom freaking loves this guy. Type in his name and you’ll find fanart and cosplay of him everywhere. Oh, and then there’s this one popular creature but I don’t care (I mean it. I’m not gonna talk about him). These characters are all so strange, but at the same time, they all manage to have a very unique personality about them. They all seem to be symbolic in one way or another and have a much deeper meaning to them, which is always something I enjoy.
Now, Yume Nikki isn’t exactly a game about just exploration. I mean, exploring the dream world is heavily recommended, but there is madami to it than just that. To actually complete the game, you need to collect twenty four items called Effects. Effects allow you to change Madotsuki’s appearance and give her a special ability. Some examples are the Medamaude Effect, which turns Madotsuki’s head into a hand with an eye and allows her to return to the hub world. Cat Effect gives Madotsuki cat ears and allows NPCs to follow her and get them off her path. Lamp Effect lets you turn Madotsuki’s head into a lamp and allows you to explore dark areas. Bicycle Effect lets Madotsuki ilipat faster. Or the kutsilyo Effect, which will allow you to murder everything (Well, almost everything, but still). Most of the Effects are just kinda silly. Like Fat Effect, which makes Madotsuki fat, or Severed Head Effect, which turns her into just a head. Or my personal paborito Poop Hair Effect, which turns her hair into a piece of literal shit… Boy, what a great Effect. Sure is useful. But, they are the only way to get anywhere in the game and to experience the (What little there is of it) story.
Of course, out of all the crazy settings, characters, and abilities that are pretty useless, the best thing about Yume Nikki is the character Madotsuki herself. Yume Nikki is a silent game. There is no voice acting, no dialogue, no narration or story of any kind, nothing. Not even a single word. The only thing that this game has is the main character’s name, Madotsuki, and that is all there is. Yet, the thing is, despite there being no dialogue, including from Madotsuki herself, she manages to have so much development. If you want a perfect example of a story that shows and doesn’t tell, then you must play Yume Nikki. This game doesn’t tell you a thing. It just shows, and it’s incredible. You learn so much about Madotsuki just sa pamamagitan ng looking at her dreams. She’s antisocial, unable to fit with society in many ways, yet manages to be a tagahanga of video games, like Earthbound. And I am not kidding, she loves Earthbound like crazy. She manages to have as much development as a Silent burol character without having to open her mouth, and considering Silent burol voice pagganap is… hilarious, that probably makes her madami believable and even relatable in a way. I’ve sinabi time and time again that I like flawed characters with nothing that makes them just a pure hearted hero guy, or some moustache-twirling puppy-kicking villain. I like characters who are both kind but also selfish. But I can also like characters who are just flawed mentally, who are unable to be perfect in society because of their mentality, and are just unable to fit in and feel like they don’t belong, in one way or another. And Madotsuki does that perfectly. And she doesn’t even open her mouth for God’s sake.
So, there is a lot about this game that I love. But if I had to pick the best thing about this game (Which is a very hard thing to do, believe me), I think I would go with the atmosphere. This game doesn’t have a lot of creepy monsters. I mean, they are, but they aren’t a threat, since you can’t really die in this game, so the atmosphere is something that really makes the game incredible. There are so many atmospheric scenes to find in this game. There’s the part where Madotsuki reaches a sky garden where she sees three people, who do not interact with her at all and leave her alone (Also, UFOs). There’s another part with a massive threatening looking creature called The Thing With the Quivering Jaw. It looks intimidating, but instead of doing anything, it just ignores Madotsuki, to ipakita that even something threatening doesn’t want to interact with her, ipinapakita her isolation. But I think my paborito part in the entire game is when you meet the creature named Mars-San. After having to go through three different dreams at once (Yep, Inception joke. Who even cares anymore), you find an alien location, and after travelling far, you’d expect something neat or fascinating. But you remember, this is Yume Nikki. When you get there, all you meet is Mars-San, an alien creature with one leg and one red eye. When you find it, it just stands there, crying, as if it’s all alone. The music really adds to the atmosphere, and using the kutsilyo Effect on Mars-San doesn’t kill it, but instead scars it. I may be going out on a limb with this part, but I think that this may ipakita the madami depressing parts of isolation, which is something that Madotsuki clearly goes through. As if she wants to fit in, but can’t. I think that Mars-San really shows this through the atmosphere, the music, and the look on his…. Non-existent face. He’s clearly the best and easily the most popular character in the entire game… Is what I would say if Uboa didn’t steal all the fame from everyone else. And fine, I’ll talk about Uboa, if it will shut you all up.
Okay, so, let me be clear, I don’t hate Uboa. I think he was a very creative creature, and I still do think he is very creative in a way, and I will admit, he isn’t AS popularized and ruined like other characters (Cough) Slenderman (Unconvincing cough). But I won’t deny that it does get pretty old to hear that this is the only thing people talk about when it comes to Yume Nikki when there are many amazing things about it, and Uboa isn’t even the best. In a strange cone-shaped house in the kulay-rosas Sea, you’ll find a girl that is called Poniko sa pamamagitan ng the fans. You can turn the lights in this place off many different times. If you walk out and do it again, nothing will happen. But, there is a slight chance that, if done enough times, the famous internet memester known as Uboa will appear. Uboa is the one of the only characters who interacts with Madotsuki, but obviously not in a good way. You’ll be locked in with him, and he will give you the bad touch, sending you to a creepy white world with no way out (Unless you pinch yourself and wake up). Uboa in Japanese isn’t anything. It’s just scrambled words meant to be hard for human pronunciation, like Cthulhu. And I pag-ibig that sort of thing, being too inhuman for mortals to understand. That’s my kind of horror. And I think Uboa fits that. A being that emerges from the house of a young girl that drags you to a world with a giant bleeding smiley face. Yeah, that’s pretty creepy. I also can’t deny that Uboa was a very important part in popularizing the game, so I can at least give it credit for that….. But seriously, he’s not the best thing about this game. Stop saying comparing him to Slenderman and W.D. Gaster already.
Yume Nikki is a very creative, atmospheric, and pangkalahatang creepy game. As I sinabi before in my tuktok Ten Horror Games, Yume Nikki isn’t the scariest game ever. If you aren’t thinking about the world, you won’t find anything in this game scary. You’ll just find it weird and making absolutely no sense. And if you are, you’ll probably still think this way. Yume Nikki is a weird game. It’s a very, very, very weird game. Yet, it is also a smart and emotional game. It manages to evoke many emotions, without even having any character interaction, story, or even dialogue of any kind. It’s just you, the world, the music, and some creatures to look at. Nothing else. And I think that is what makes Yume Nikki the great game that it is. If you want something weird and making absolutely no sense, then I recommend playing this game. Just don’t try to make much sense of it because it will hurt your brain. Take care.
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TROY: Yeah. The Reese character..
TROY: Remember Eminem?
ME; Oh yeah.. He's the black one right?
TROY: Yeah. And Dr Dre is the white one.
ME: Thanks for clearing that all up.
TROY: No problem.
He dosen't know I'm a brony.
So I never mentioned MLP..
ME: Oh yeah.. I remember that from spongebob.
TROY: No. No.. It was family guy.
ME: No it wasn't.
TROY; Yeah.. Remember. Family guy is the underwater one.
ME: (catches on) Oh right... Spongebob was the one with Quaqmire.
TROY: Yeah.. And remember South Park.
ME: Oh yes. With the talking bears... and Barinsteen bears is with the fat kid.
TROY: Oh yeah. And the Jew with the green hat.
ME: I don't get why Barinsteen bears is rated G.. It's so much swearing.
TROY; Yeah.. And remember walking dead.
ME: Yeah. The one with all the chemicals.. And the guy from Malcolm in the middle.
TROY: Yeah. The Reese character..
TROY: Remember Eminem?
ME; Oh yeah.. He's the black one right?
TROY: Yeah. And Dr Dre is the white one.
ME: Thanks for clearing that all up.
TROY: No problem.
He dosen't know I'm a brony.
So I never mentioned MLP..