She is a quiet Hikikomori who has no qualms about stabbing numerous innocent creatures to death within her highly disturbing dreamscape. Creepy Child: Madotsuki could be interpreted as this.Some places are even in between like the refugee camp, the mall or the monster bar. From Hell, to the park at night time, to the world of blocks, to the forest, cheerful neon city. Crapsack World/ Crap Saccharine World/ Eldritch Location/ Sugar Bowl: All the dreamscapes exist somewhere on this spectrum.Cosmetic Award: Almost all of the effects do nothing meaningful except alter Madotsuki's appearance.Body Motifs: Eyes and hands, as well as anything Freudian.It's also where you find Monoko, the five-armed girl. The white desert itself seems to be composed of various body parts sticking out of the ground in places.Like those horrifying portraits you find in the sewers. A lot of the things you find around the dreamworld could apply.Blackout Basement: The Dark World and the dark maze.Bizarro Fiction: One of the few non-literature works that can definitely be called this.Berserk Button: Normal Toriningen do not appreciate it when they or their brethren get stabbed.Most areas have different styles, like Number/Neon world, the forests, the wildernesses. Art Shift: Pretty much the whole game.An Ice Person: The "Yuki-Onna" effect gives Madotsuki the ability to start a snowstorm.You can change the hand she holds the knife in by pressing '1'. Madotsuki always holds the knife in one particular hand regardless of what direction she's facing. Ambidextrous Sprite: Averted with the Knife effect.Amazing Technicolor Population: Mainly the people in the Mall, but there are strangely colored people in other areas too, like Shitai.All Just a Dream: The entirety of Madotsuki's adventures.Alien Blood: Averted: when Madotsuki stabs a creature it doesn't matter what it is (a bird girl, a giant foot-Martian who cries green tears, a poop monster, a horrified face on the wall), they will always bleed red blood.Acid Trip Dimension: Madotsuki's dream world certainly qualifies.See also LSD Dream Emulator, a game with a similar premise, only in 3D and with randomized environments. Download, and have fun playing this in the dead of night!įor French Tropers, the game was fully translated in Molière's language in 2010 and is available for download here. The version 0.10 of the game was released in October 2007 along with an English translation of the effects and menus. It's extremely open-ended, with little hints as to how to actually progress really, it's more about exploring the strange and disturbing things that go on in her mind than anything else. during which you must travel throughout her dreamscape to collect "effects" and reach new areas in the world. The plot is simple: as Madotsuki, a girl that seems to have an obsession with a single, incredibly depressing video game, all you can do each day is sleep. Such is the origin of Yume Nikki (Japanese for "dream diary"), a bizarre adventure game that's been described as " EarthBound meets Silent Hill" or " Eraserhead in RPG Maker" and does not fail to bring on the weirdness factor. In 2004, Japanese Freeware developer Kikiyama popped open the RPG Maker 2003 game application and thought to herself, "Hey, wouldn't it be an awesome idea to make something that'll creep a lot of people out?".
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