Freeware Game Pick: Yume Nikki (Kikiyama)
In Yume Nikki (Dream Diary), you're cast as a young girl living in a small apartment. There is very little to do in your room, but fall asleep and an entire dream world is yours to explore. The Z key can be used to interact or gain new effects. Certain locations beyond each door may yield more than one effect for the player to discover. Press 9 to wake yourself up. Use the desk in the room to save your progress, and hold the escape key for more than two seconds to exit the NASU console game.
Acquiring the bicycle, lamp and knife should be at the top of your list, as these items will double your character's speed, light up dark areas and allow basic attack moves to be executed. Nearly all locations are wrapped around, hence walking in one direction endlessly will always bring you back to the starting point.
Installation instructions are provided in the zip file. Yume Nikki does have a proper ending. (source: Sekhem, Starmen.Net)
Name: Yume Nikki
Developer: Kikiyama
Category: Adventure
Type: Freeware
Size: 40MB
Download link: Rapidshare, WHFF, mirror (unzip .rar files using 7-Zip)
Comments
Very bizarre game.
I didn't expect to see it here.
Posted by: Anonymous | April 8, 2008 12:08 AM
Oh god, it's this game.
I never expected it to be here either.
Posted by: Choja | April 8, 2008 2:12 AM
Would it be possible to make a zipped binary of the english version of this game without going through the daunting little installation?
Posted by: Mark Johns | April 8, 2008 5:57 AM
I have a feeling that the installation is a prerequisite, as the author of the game uses a funky naming process for all the files - interpretable only with the language pack... :(
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3168/2397259167_5df70d1fcd_o.png
Yume Nikki might or might not be your cup of tea; there's a lot of walking to do in empty spaces, so it's recommended to take a look at the gameplay video before going through the hassle of getting it to work as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG2dfzow9ac
And I'm not sure what you guys mean by not expecting to see the game here...
Posted by: Tim | April 8, 2008 6:33 AM
Oh god, its like the bastard love child of Soup and a crappy RPG maker game
Of course I'm judging without palying it
Posted by: PoisonedV | April 8, 2008 8:38 AM
I can't get rpgmaker2003 to install no matter what I do, and this looks like the kind of thing I would really enjoy. :
Posted by: Ash | April 8, 2008 10:46 AM
Nevermind, got it to work
Posted by: Ash | April 8, 2008 11:07 AM
Hah, I knew this would appear on here. I thought it was great, some of the art and scenery is pretty sweet.
Also, I'M BREEAAAAKKKING THE HAAAABBBBIIIIT TONIGHT
Posted by: Troy RULES | April 8, 2008 10:18 PM
I like it. But it's a pity that it keeps crahing when changing locations. For instance it's 5th door (ccw) in doors room - one of such places. :_(
Posted by: Dizzy | April 8, 2008 10:34 PM
Apparently, the version being distributed cannot play MP3s, leading to crashes when you enter certain areas. A temporary fix is to simply rename all the MP3s the game uses - if it can't find them, it won't crash. (Or at least, it's not seeming to have any problems without them)
There should be 8 MP3s altogether, though I don't know if all of them are used.
Posted by: TFMurphy | April 9, 2008 1:51 AM
Big thanks!
Returning to enjoying the game...
Posted by: Dizzy | April 9, 2008 1:45 PM
Apparently, the version being distributed cannot play MP3s, leading to crashes when you enter certain areas."
Actually, I don't think that's the problem, assuming the same happens for you as me. Here's how I fixed it;
Start up Yume Nikki.
Hit Alt+Enter to put it into windowed mode.
Enter the game and find one of the areas with MP3 background music (I'm assuming you HAVEN'T renamed your MP3s here, if you have change them back).
Okay, Yume Nikki's screen went black like before right? BUT, you should notice ffdshow has popped up a dialog behind the game window asking if Yume Nikki should be allowed to use it for mp3 playback.
Say yes, always allow it to use ffdshow and click okay.
Yume Nikki should have no more problems with mp3s. :)
Posted by: xen | April 13, 2008 8:19 PM
holy crap this looks really horrible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG2dfzow9ac
Posted by: bbr | April 25, 2008 12:27 PM