Yume Nikki: Dream Diary Anonymous 01/13/18 (Sat) 23:42:19 No. 1 [Last 50 Posts]
Hey, it's kinda strange there's no thread for the NEW YUME NIKKI GAME?! (or the Steam release of the original)
Here's a link to the countdown site for the new project:
https://promo.kadokawa.co.jp/gamecountdown/ I wonder if that's when the new game release? Or will we just get teased with another trailer or something? Also the name game is being published by Playism, cool! I hope the creator can make some money.
And here is the extended trailer for the new project! Crazy looking stuff, very excited. We're very lucky to get another game after so many years… hopefully this site can continue to live too.
https://youtu.be/dc0KzL1LjBg I guess the new project is called "Yume Nikki: Dream Diary" which is obviously interesting because the subtitle is just the English title. I guess this could be in part to recognize the game's fan-base in English speaking countries, and makes it clear the new title will be marketed to us too.
Anonymous 01/13/18 (Sat) 23:55:42 No. 2
…You're not Green, right? You kind of write like him.
Anonymous 01/14/18 (Sun) 02:19:52 No. 3
>>7305
Anonymous 01/14/18 (Sun) 06:00:32 No. 4
>>1 I'm honestly nervous about it not being too good. For a "western audience" means it's going to go for what a western audience would want out of Yume Nikki, which probably means jump scares and whatever. I mean sure I'm fairly optimistic and excited but at the same time I feel a little worried about things not going smoothly. If Kikiyama is really on board though things will probably be relatively good, but regardless I'm ready to ride this through with my Yume Nikki-loving friends. The game changed my life and I'm passionate enough to want to ride through any of this shit; it being official is mindblowing and it means a lot of attention is going to be drawn to it, so even if the game is bad it'll probably be a fun ride to scream about with them. If it's just mediocre then hey, I can talk about the pros and cons of the game with people. If it's awesome then fuck yeah, I get to play an awesome Yume Nikki successor.
Regardless of what happens, I'm a huge fan and the lone fact that I get to experience this is pretty far out since I expected this game to just be left alone forever. We're most certainly getting some kind of ride, so here's hoping that whatever it is, it's a fun one.
Anonymous 01/14/18 (Sun) 10:06:46 No. 5
There is, just go on the thread about the anime poster in Comiket. It's just a continuation of Kadokawa's madness.
Anonymous 01/14/18 (Sun) 10:28:57 No. 6
>>4 Great post. After the godawful manga I'd be surprised if this next project could be worse, but regardless, the original game stands fine, along with all the stuff it's inspired.
Anonymous 01/14/18 (Sun) 12:16:25 No. 7
It's a fucking visual novel isn't it?
Anonymous 01/14/18 (Sun) 13:08:36 No. 9
>I hope the creator can make some money.
Anonymous 01/14/18 (Sun) 14:39:45 No. 10
Reposting the leaked art 1/2
>>7 Judging from these pics it could be, but I really hope it isn't. I don't think they are from the actual game, but just promotional stuff.
>>4 My feeling exactly, good post anon.
>If Kikiyama is really on board Well his copyright is there, but I doubt he is involved or even supervising, but at the very lest he gave permission (unless Kadokawa is lying, but let's not get in to that argument again).
Anonymous 01/14/18 (Sun) 15:24:19 No. 12
To the Fraudmobile!
Anonymous 01/14/18 (Sun) 15:27:07 No. 13
>>11 That last image isn't very anatomically…acceptable.
Anonymous 01/14/18 (Sun) 15:46:36 No. 14
>>11 Wasn't there a five-armed Monoko?
Anonymous 01/14/18 (Sun) 17:06:32 No. 17
>>16 >本日より配信された『ゆめにっき』の公式ゲームは、ききやま氏から許可を得て制作したifストーリーとなっており、壊れたテレビの中のような世界に迷い込んだ少女の前に、過去に出会ったキャラクターが突如現れるところから物語が始まる。ファンはもちろん、まだ『ゆめにっき』を遊んだことがない人も楽しめる「ラノゲ」になっているので、ぜひ独特な雰囲気で魅力溢れる『ゆめにっき』の世界に触れてみよう。 Could somebody translate this paragraph specifically?
Anonymous 01/14/18 (Sun) 17:19:12 No. 18
>>17 From today onwards the freely distributed game "Yume Nikki" will be turned (under the permission of Kikiyama-shi) into a story made by if
I think that's the penname of the writer . A story of a girl who loses her way inside a world that looks like the inside of a broken TV, where she will face characters she's met in the past. Fans and also people who haven't played "Yume Nikki" will be able to enjoy this game that resembles a VN and will definitely feel touched by the uniqueness of the charming atmosphere of the world of Yume Nikki.
Anonymous 01/14/18 (Sun) 17:29:03 No. 19
>>18 Thanks. Anyway this part
>under the permission of Kikiyama-shi makes me raise my eyebrows a little. Hmmmmmmm, does the shi part have any significance? The game supposedly came out half a year ago, so why hasn't anyone here talked about it?
Anonymous 01/14/18 (Sun) 17:35:47 No. 20
>>19 氏 [Shi] is an honorific, equivalent to -san.
We haven't talked about it because it looks shitty, I suppose. And it wasn't translated as far as I'm aware so I don't even know how you guys would go at playing it.
Anonymous 01/14/18 (Sun) 19:41:20 No. 21
>>17 >>18 Wait so if THIS is a VN, what the hell is the big project?
Anonymous 01/14/18 (Sun) 19:46:13 No. 22
>>21 No, it's not the vn, it's a separate, shitty mobile game made by the same company.
Anonymous 01/14/18 (Sun) 19:53:09 No. 23
>>22 >Fans and also people who haven't played "Yume Nikki" will be able to enjoy this game that resembles a VN and will definitely feel touched by the uniqueness of the charming atmosphere of the world of Yume Nikki. This part. It implies the mobile-game is something like a VN. Why would they hype up the big project if it's just like this one?
Anonymous 01/14/18 (Sun) 20:15:41 No. 24
>>18 WOW that sounds awful. Why not port the actual game to the app store or something?
Anonymous 01/15/18 (Mon) 09:41:59 No. 25
>>18 >game that resembles a VN I think this + the style of the comiket posters is making me imagine a 2D, surreal Night In The Woods or Fran Bow style exploration game, with VN-esque pop-up character interactions (a bit like persona in that last regard, i guess).
honestly, i'm pretty okay with this. I feel like kadokawa/pretty much any studio would struggle to capture the unique feel of a traditional rpg maker yume nikki game, so approaching it from another perspective means it isn't trying to copy/replace something it can't be. also, if it turns out to be a horrible pile of shit, it's distanced itself enough from the original that it can be written off without affecting anything too much.
as with most things, i think it's hard to say how it'll turn out at this point & depends on the people making it themselves (there are loads of ways they could potentially screw it up; imagine a talking madotsuki), but i can imagine yn working with that kind of genre if it's handled properly. cautiously hopeful.
Anonymous 01/15/18 (Mon) 10:25:39 No. 26
>>25 >imagine a talking madotsuki Oh we got that, the manga. What a pile of shit. They couldn't have picked a better artist for a Yume Nikki manga though, so what a shame Tomizawa had to be saddled with that ridiculous writer.
Anonymous 01/15/18 (Mon) 10:40:05 No. 27
>>26 I think a talking Madotsuki can be done right, and I think the manga didn't pull it off too terribly. Rather, the actual pacing and writing of the manga was what made it terrible. The art was good and I enjoyed a few little bits of it but man it was just honestly kind of a mess; I've legit read fanfictions that were more competent and exciting than that manga.
Anonymous 01/15/18 (Mon) 11:36:43 No. 28
>>27 Talking is not for Madotsuki. I wish they just let yume nikki sleep peacefully i still feel bad when i think about the manga.
Anonymous 01/15/18 (Mon) 14:07:59 No. 29
>>14 You are probably thinking about the mobile game
>>20 >>19 >>15 It is indeed shit. I read it. It's a fan theory (and an average one at best) written in an narrative way. Basically, Mado finds a few characters, and she thinks about who they are (Monoko was a childhood friend that was run over by a car, Monoe was the sister of Monoko, that always blamed Monoe, Masada was some family counselor that tried to help her with the trauma and she fell in love with, Poniko is Masada's lover and a bitch that for some unexplained reason ripped her heart appart in the most cruel way possible). If it was a post here, I would maybe think it's interesting, but as a VN it's really lacking.
Anonymous 01/15/18 (Mon) 14:11:36 No. 30
>>27 No one is being fair with the manga, actually. The first few chapters were kind of all right, they were just presenting the setting, but everyone and their mother kept complaining about silly things, before seeing where it went. Then, it got a hiatus, and next chapter changed the pace drastically (it was the Poniko chapter). It was clearly axed. Of course it ended up being a mess. And it's a real shame because precisely, the Poniko chapter showed how much potential there was in the exploration part, with the art being so good. But we didn't get to see any of it.
Anonymous 01/15/18 (Mon) 15:07:41 No. 31
>>29 >always blamed Monoe Obviously, Monoe always blamed Mado. Not sure how I messed that up.
Anonymous 01/15/18 (Mon) 15:22:01 No. 33
>>32 Oh, neat, I missed that one.
Anonymous 01/15/18 (Mon) 20:56:14 No. 34
>>30 You must have read a different manga, I remember how Mars-San turned into some fucking alarm and Masada was an evil mastermind? Unique interpretations are one thing but this was just batshit in the bad way.
Anonymous 01/15/18 (Mon) 21:06:39 No. 36
>>34 That was after the change of pace. Of course it's messy if you want to cramp everything into just one volume. You keep judging the manga for what it ended up being after everyone made it become what it is. The manga is all right until Uboa shows up. Then it falls apart (the pace is bad, the explanations are lacking, the other characters just make a one panel appearance even though there was something clearly thought for them, etc.). And that's the exact moment they decided to cancel it. That's why I say people were not fair to the manga.
Anonymous 01/15/18 (Mon) 21:20:56 No. 37
>>34 >>36 I actually kind of liked how Masada was handled. I didn't see him as evil, just kind of as some strange guardian and mender of the dreamworld. Mars wasn't that bad. I don't mind it being batshit because unique interpretations are always fun, and Yume Nikki is basically a haven for that sort of thing. Shame what happened to the manga as I think good things could've been done with it, but even then I just feel like the good stuff was far and few between and even the first few parts were kind of average.
Anonymous 01/15/18 (Mon) 22:15:44 No. 38
>>37 >tvtropes Not always anon, not always.
Anonymous 01/15/18 (Mon) 22:41:54 No. 39
Anyways, the thread is getting a little off-topic; so what did everybody think about the trailer? I don't believe it's been touched on much in this thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc0KzL1LjBg So? What do you think? The voice acting is putting me a little on edge and it's kind of hard to see anything much from the trailer since it's just kind of a psychedelic mess, but at the same time I feel like it conveys a nice sense of what the atmosphere is going to be like. That ending scene with the moon and the droning music is probably my favorite, and honestly feels like it could've been an amazing location in a YN fangame of sorts, or even YN itself. Kind of reminds me of the Puddle World a little bit, actually.
Anonymous 01/15/18 (Mon) 22:58:07 No. 40
>>38 That's still arguably fun, on a staring a trainwreck kind of way.
Anonymous 01/15/18 (Mon) 23:15:12 No. 41
>>39 What worries me about this PV is that it looks like they are trying to go with the creepy/scary/jumpscare/horror style, instead of the surreal and unsettling style of Yume nikki. Yume nikki was never about those things.
The OST Sounds good tho. The music at the beginning makes me hope for NASU 2.
But anyway, this trailer didn't show shit of the actual game, and at this point it's best to wait these 9 days and see what the game looks like.
I hope it's not Visual Novel, I would take a remake over a Visual Novel.
Anonymous 01/16/18 (Tue) 00:23:55 No. 42
>>41 >jumpscare/creepypasta Yeah I'm worried about this as well. It looks like it might be trying too hard to go down that direction and that makes me a little disappointed if that's the case, but it really is best to just wait and find out. That girl in that black image kind of reminds me of Monoe or something but the tone of it just looks like it might be trying a little too hard. I hope I'm proven wrong. The NASU opening made me really happy and I enjoyed it a lot, but otherwise I'm not sure what to say about the rest of the trailer. Once again I'll say that the voice acting felt a little forced and unnecessary, and I think they should just stick to electronic noises or whatever for the characters in the game; they're a lot more unique and charming.
Anonymous 01/16/18 (Tue) 00:58:37 No. 43
>>42 >>41 So much this. I want it to be good, but it's not giving me any good feeling.
It sounds good, it looks good, but the way the present everything feels so off. It's as if it wants you to be on tension the whole time, while the game was pretty relaxed most of the time… and let's forget about the voice acting.
I think more people in this fandom need to watch benibame's videos (or even gobou's), to get rid of that image that Yume Nikki is some kind of terror game.
Anonymous 01/16/18 (Tue) 04:47:55 No. 44
>>4 It's going to be like Corpse Party because western audiences love Corpse Party and it makes the best use of the high-res portraits while still retaining the topdown exploration gameplay.
I hate it already. The portraits substract from the abstractness of the game, it's like nobody understood what made this game so good in the first place. Fuck my life.
Anonymous 01/16/18 (Tue) 19:06:25 No. 45
>>44 Y'know, personally I never really got the appeal of Corpse Party. It's the absolute most generic J-horror game I've ever seen. It's like a bad Blair Witch ripoff in a spOoOoOoOoky school where a loli ghost girl tries to brutally kill everyone for absolutely no good reason whatsoever. It's only good for gurofags to jack off to.
What warrants it's 50+ spinoffs that try to add more lore to a plot that doesn't really have room for worldbuilding in the first place? And beyond that, all of it's spinoffs introduce five new characters in each new game who will just be killed in the first 10 minutes. Will they just finish Dead Patient already? That at least has some potential.
Anonymous 01/16/18 (Tue) 20:39:05 No. 46
>>45 I wasn't impressed by it either, anon
Every time I see it mentioned or praised I can't help but feel like I'm missing something
Anonymous 01/16/18 (Tue) 20:59:30 No. 47
>>45 I've seen people being wrong before, but wow, anon, you are on a whole new level.
People like Corpse Party because they like the characters. Thee`y get attached to them, and want to save them, even if they know there's no hope. So they keep playing. While there's bound to be some people in it for the gore, it's just like the people that are into YN because of the horror. Of course, the simple gameplay and exploration elements were important, not to talk about the music and voice acting.
Now, there are not that many spinoffs. There's Cemetery, a novel that follows Naho and her paranormal adventures (2nd volume never released, and Naho is fucking dead now anyway), there's Dead Patient, that at this rate will never be finished, and a manga called Another Child. Everything else follows the main timeline (Blood Covered, Book of Shadows, 2U and Blood Drive), with a few short stories here and there. One could even argue that Dead Patient is a sequel to BD, but since there's not really much connecting them so far, I guess it's fine to say it's a spinoff.
No, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's amazing or anything. But it's still good.
Anonymous 01/17/18 (Wed) 05:08:44 No. 48
>>27 What are some of those yn fanfictions which are actually good? I've read very few fanfics for anything but I'd make an exception to that for something good and yn related.
Anonymous 01/18/18 (Thu) 01:42:52 No. 49
>7 days remain
Anonymous 01/18/18 (Thu) 02:24:56 No. 50
>>49 I'm still sort of in disbelief of the whole thing. I'm obviously looking forward to whatever comes of it, but manic 'omgomgomg' sort of high hasn't hit me yet.
Anonymous 01/18/18 (Thu) 04:23:37 No. 51
Personally, while I don't want the new project to be a modern horror jumpscare fest, or, horror at all, for that matter, I'd rather they resort to that than fail for not being able to capture the magic of the original. Whatever it is, it's clearly marketed towards fans (even if it's a little misguided) so I'm not gonna worry about it, if it's good, great, if it's bad, we can forget about it, nothing's lost.
Anonymous 01/18/18 (Thu) 06:10:41 No. 52
It's already the 18th and no concept or character art to be seen in the website.
Anonymous 01/18/18 (Thu) 07:08:24 No. 53
lol sent out a tweet with a pic of an updated countdown not too long ago:
https://twitter.com/lol_rust/status/953882480288788480 Is anyone having any luck seeing this? No one else seems to be seeing it.
Anonymous 01/18/18 (Thu) 08:10:42 No. 54
>>53 The image was only viewable for a few seconds. There'll be a new one tomorrow, probably the same time?
2018-01-19T00:00:00+09:00 to be exact.
Anonymous 01/18/18 (Thu) 12:41:52 No. 55
>>53 >>54 See the filename of these pic
>>10 >>11 They should appear each one for a small time period each day, Monoe should be next.
Anonymous 01/18/18 (Thu) 19:12:35 No. 56
One of the devs for the steam release stated that they worked with kikiyama for its release. Chances are pretty good they're involved with the new project then. In a perfect world, kimiyama is making everything themself and Kadokawa is just marketing and publishing but any way it goes SIX DAYS LEFT
Anonymous 01/18/18 (Thu) 19:15:52 No. 57
>>56 Yeah I know kiki too, slept with my sister once. Bloody slut.
Also, here's the code for the images that appear once in a while, which have the exact dates and times (as pointed out by
>>54 ).
https://promo.kadokawa.co.jp/gamecountdown/js/index.js?20180112 Anonymous 01/18/18 (Thu) 23:11:45 No. 58
>>57 So every day up until the 23rd, between midnight and 9 AM? Or between midnight and 12:09 AM?
What about time zones? Are we basing it off of japan standard time or is it calculated individually?
Anonymous 01/19/18 (Fri) 00:05:20 No. 59
>>58 I'm pretty sure it's 00:00 GTM+9, or midnight in Japan, if you prefer. We should try to confirm how long they last though, that java shit is a bit confusing at first glance and I'm not on my computer.
Anonymous 01/19/18 (Fri) 01:29:58 No. 60
>>56 >One of the devs for the steam release stated that they worked with kikiyama for its release. Chances are pretty good they're involved with the new project then. How does that correlate?
Anonymous 01/19/18 (Fri) 03:02:09 No. 61
>>60 Because it seems like a pretty logical assumption that the steam release was done to help stir up interest/coincide with the new project.
And if Kikiyama is still involved with he original, it seems like they'd be involved in a new official product, seeing as they're the creator. Not that they are, just that it doesn't seem like a big leap of logic to me.
Anonymous 01/20/18 (Sat) 01:17:42 No. 62
Hey guys what if Kiki just worked at kadokawa all this time on other stuff? People in Japan have lives too.
Anonymous 01/20/18 (Sat) 01:33:59 No. 63
>>62 So he had a game that was extremely popular ten years ago and he decided to submit it to his boss just now so they can milk the dead cow?
Anonymous 01/20/18 (Sat) 04:18:13 No. 64
>5 days left
Anonymous 01/20/18 (Sat) 04:50:31 No. 65
>>64 Five Nights at Kyuu Kyuu's
No but seriously, it could be anything. The "trailer"s seem to be alluding to something more sinister though. It doesn't have much of the brighter aspects of Yume Nikki though.
Anonymous 01/20/18 (Sat) 05:16:19 No. 66
>>63 If he wasn't very high in the ranks he probably couldn't suggest it at all.
Maybe he also lost interest, or just didn't want to give them rights for it.
Business isn't as simple as you think, and maybe this game doesn't matter as much to him as it does to you
Anonymous 01/20/18 (Sat) 05:27:32 No. 68
>>65 Yeah the trailer seemed like it might've been trying too hard. I hope it's still nice and comfy though.
Anonymous 01/20/18 (Sat) 09:01:02 No. 70
>>64 20 bucks to it being a gacha game.
Anonymous 01/20/18 (Sat) 15:26:27 No. 71
>>70 That'd be hilarious, although a bit disappointing.
Anonymous 01/21/18 (Sun) 07:17:53 No. 73
>>72 MONOKO YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Anonymous 01/22/18 (Mon) 00:41:46 No. 76
I've still got five hours left before it pops up for me
Anonymous 01/22/18 (Mon) 19:36:00 No. 78
Wait Wait Wait. Why hasn't anybody just hacked Kikiyama's email?? Perhaps more knowledge on Kikiyama could be found if we just hacked it! So, why don't we just find and or acquire someone who can hack his email??
Anonymous 01/22/18 (Mon) 19:54:57 No. 80
http://steamcommunity.com/app/650700/discussions/0/1635237606652708114/?ctp=7#c2595630410187209963 "Hi, this is not a bug, but are you able to confirm Kikiyama's consent and participation in this porting of Yume Nikki?"
"Yes, we have worked with Kikiyama to bring Yume Nikki to Steam."
Sadly, my stay at Uboachan just made me too sceptical to believe this.
Anonymous 01/22/18 (Mon) 19:55:48 No. 81
>>80 But it would be awesome as hell if it's true.
Anonymous 01/22/18 (Mon) 22:43:05 No. 83
>>80 I really want to believe that, but the fact that I don't is just another reason why I don't think the new project will be good
Anonymous 01/22/18 (Mon) 22:50:33 No. 84
>>80 I'm glad to know we help.
Anonymous 01/22/18 (Mon) 23:03:08 No. 85
>>82 Midnight here.
Sounds like a problem on your end.
Anonymous 01/22/18 (Mon) 23:21:18 No. 86
>>85 Yeah, figured. I don't know what the issue is, but oh well.
Thanks for posting the screenshot, though. I won't have to worry about it
Anonymous 01/22/18 (Mon) 23:38:37 No. 87
>>84 Yeah. At this point, the real kikiyama could actually show up in person and we wouldn't even believe them.
Kikiyama 01/23/18 (Tue) 00:29:06 No. 88
Hi, it's me. I'm Kikiyama. This romhack is a scam from the russia government. I do not approve. Good day
Anonymous 01/23/18 (Tue) 12:19:01 No. 90
>>41 I like the visuals but definitely agree. The sound effects and noise within the video really is trying its damn hardest to be unsettling and missing the point of what made yume nikki unsettling in the first place. the music is at least nice though, but my expectations for this is low, especially with the kadokawa name attached.
Anonymous 01/23/18 (Tue) 12:23:37 No. 92
also how did they even contact kikiyama if anon from both eng and jap chans have been trying for years without success? sounds a bit sketchy, given the reticent nature of the creator.
Anonymous 01/23/18 (Tue) 13:42:44 No. 93
>>92 I asked myself something akin to that as well, how's the other side of the jap community taking it? (outside of twitter, pixiv, blogs, basically something that's not surface level)
I don't browse the chans because i don't know moon that well but i'm interested to hear if anything new has popped up
Anonymous 01/23/18 (Tue) 15:10:53 No. 94
>>85 Reminder that new artwork KyuuKyuu-kun is for hugging.
Anonymous 01/23/18 (Tue) 15:14:50 No. 95
Honestly I really hope it's an anime because that's the one field YN hasn't crossed over into yet. A series of silent atmospheric shorts would be ideal.
Anonymous 01/23/18 (Tue) 15:25:01 No. 97
>>96 Oh right. Well maybe in the future then.
Anonymous 01/23/18 (Tue) 19:54:38 No. 98
>>96 >VNs are "games" Also did anybody see and save what last night's image was?
Anonymous 01/23/18 (Tue) 20:45:34 No. 99
>>98 read the thread next time
>>85 Anonymous 01/24/18 (Wed) 05:08:42 No. 102
>>100 Damn, missed that one by seven minutes. I was hoping I was gonna be able to get to see one but I guess it's over now. Ah well. Gonna try and be around for when the countdown timer hits zero. Should be fun, for better or worse.
Anonymous 01/24/18 (Wed) 11:13:14 No. 105
>>104 AHHHHH 3D YUME NIKKI HOLY FUCK
Anonymous 01/24/18 (Wed) 11:27:48 No. 106
>>104 I says here that Kikiyama is fully supervising the project.
Release date: February 23, 2018 (Friday)
Price: 1,980 yen (tax included)
Platform: PC
Language: Japanese · English · Chinese (Simplified / Traditional Chinese) · Korean · French · Italian · German · Spanish · Russian
Only available in digital donwload
From the pictures it looks like a remake, maybe with new stuff.
It actually looks neat.
Anonymous 01/24/18 (Wed) 11:30:25 No. 107
>>106 Anything on System Specs? I hope this can run on a toaster.
Anonymous 01/24/18 (Wed) 11:33:02 No. 108
>Mr Kikiyama
Anonymous 01/24/18 (Wed) 11:36:54 No. 109
>>107 Nope, this looks like leaked stuff, for more we have to wait 18 hours.
I don't think it will be too much demanding.
>tfw played the original on a shitty laptop >tfw gonna enjoy this in beautiful 4k 60fps on a 55' tv >in just a month Hyped as fuck here
Anonymous 01/24/18 (Wed) 11:47:29 No. 111
>>106 >I says here that Kikiyama is fully supervising the project. Every time that is said outside of his website this loses credibility.
Anonymous 01/24/18 (Wed) 12:03:37 No. 112
>>111 Okay but what about this?
>>110 Could this be actual new art from Kikiyama? I'm not sure if it is or maybe one of the Sewer Murals.
Anonymous 01/24/18 (Wed) 12:07:55 No. 113
>>112 Nevermind, I just checked, this isn't from the Sewers.
Anonymous 01/24/18 (Wed) 13:57:25 No. 114
Why doesn't the twitter page and the website link work?
Anonymous 01/24/18 (Wed) 13:58:06 No. 115
>>108 >ききやま氏 As mentioned above in another post, this is Kikiyama-shi, and it is akin to saying Kikiyama-sensei. It's a genderless honorific. It's usually used as a sign of respect towards creators (artists, composers, etc.).
Anonymous 01/24/18 (Wed) 14:00:25 No. 116
>>114 You mean, this?
http://yume-nikki.com/ https://twitter.com/k_yumenikki Because obviously it hasn't been officially announced yet. We need to wait those few hours left.
Anonymous 01/24/18 (Wed) 15:04:07 No. 118
>>7494 >Being this stupid
Anonymous 01/24/18 (Wed) 15:33:42 No. 119
Oh hey, the logo appears for a couple seconds everytime I refresh the page
Anonymous 01/24/18 (Wed) 18:02:14 No. 122
>>110 >a dripping penis >a woman with spread legs >anal Real subtle guys.
Remember when "Mado was raped" was just a theory? Seems like they're trying to canonize it.
Anonymous 01/24/18 (Wed) 19:12:38 No. 123
>>120 >>121 Yeah, the logo is now displayed.
10 hours to go.
Since the release is in a month I hope for a gameplay trailer.
Anonymous 01/24/18 (Wed) 22:23:42 No. 124
>>103 If the worst happens I'm going to weather the storm with the rest of my friends who loved the original game. The chill fans will always exist; they might be scattered but they'll always be around. Yume Nikki to me is an experience, and I consider interacting with the fans and experiencing the culture to be part of the experience, too.
Anonymous 01/24/18 (Wed) 22:24:51 No. 125
>>122 I always felt like YN was a little uncomfortably subtly sexual anyways. I think the design is pretty Yume Nikki; it just feels like a new take on the style and it's kind of cool to see.
Anonymous 01/24/18 (Wed) 22:42:27 No. 126
Gentle plead to have someone take a screenshot or be recording when the timer reaches zero in case something crazy happens, for those who won't be able to attend it live. Thank you
Anonymous 01/24/18 (Wed) 23:07:34 No. 128
>>126 >>127 Will do.
By the way, midnight here for the last time, they just repeated the last pic.
Going to sleep now, since I have to wake up at 6:40 to be there when it reaches zero.
Only 7 hours to go.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 00:19:50 No. 131
oh my god
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 00:28:24 No. 132
I like this premise a lot, but is anyone else really worried by the game's graphical quality?
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 01:45:36 No. 133
whatever it is, I hope all the Paracas mythology themes stay intact or at very least the aesthetic
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 02:15:03 No. 134
>>132 it looks okay I just hope I can run it on my potato
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 03:15:08 No. 135
2 more hours dudes
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 03:25:17 No. 136
>>135 I know right? It feels like only two weeks ago when the counter was at 14 days remaining. Crazy shit.
>>133 I loved that part of the original Yume Nikki aesthetic. It'd be great to see it come back.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 03:27:00 No. 137
>>134 That depends, is it a Japanese potato?
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 04:15:32 No. 138
>>136 It feels like it was two weeks ago because 14 days is practically 2 weeks ago.
Anyway, 2:40 hours go. Can't wait to read all the complains and claims that this the biggest shit since the manga.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 04:22:20 No. 139
>>138 It's not that I can't wait to, it's just that I'm happy to experience, with everyone else, whatever ride we get. It's kind of big to have something new to flip shit about in YN so it should be pretty fun.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 05:42:02 No. 143
>>141 Shame that the speculation and tension is coming to an end, but yeah shit's going to go down soon and I'm excited for that. I saved a bottle of cream soda for this moment and I'm gonna crack it open to celebrate or just have a drink to Yume Nikki and us in general.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 05:42:57 No. 145
the countdown ends at midnight for me exactly
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 05:43:09 No. 146
>>144 I am very homosexual for Yume and his Nikki
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 05:43:24 No. 147
>>143 Despite how much of a shitshow this whole countdown deal has been, it's been really fun sharing it with you guys.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 05:43:43 No. 149
>>145 Damn son. I'm EST so I get it at 1 AM.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 05:44:47 No. 150
oof
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 05:45:54 No. 151
Do you think Nikki is going to figure out xis gender identity in this one?
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 05:46:45 No. 152
I know we're all very excited but lets try and keep the shitposting down a little, as fun as it may be.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 05:47:14 No. 153
I haven't been on this site in years but it's heartwarming to come back to join you all in collectively losing our shit over this
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 05:48:02 No. 155
>>151 please clue me in on this 'madot is trans' meme
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 05:48:10 No. 157
>>154 11 minutes you mean.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 05:48:17 No. 158
>>153 It is, isn't it? Welcome back home motherfucker. The ride's just about to start and we might get mediocrity but we also might get something good. Here's to us chilling out for many more years and having god damn kickass times together and enjoying what Yume Nikki has to offer.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 05:48:39 No. 159
>>155 Really old theory that got taken over by shitposters and tumblr.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 05:48:41 No. 160
wow this thread has gotten even more active oof
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 05:49:24 No. 161
10 MINUTES
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 05:49:51 No. 162
Hmm, I'm still a little skeptical…
Tii 01/25/18 (Thu) 05:53:43 No. 164
maaan I am so happy to be back in here.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 05:55:07 No. 167
>>165 monoko really activates my almonds if you know what i mean
rollerskate 01/25/18 (Thu) 05:55:34 No. 168
before the countdown ends what are you favorite areas of the original game? i like the torinigen party
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 05:56:06 No. 169
>>168 I really liked the boss fight with The End
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 05:57:15 No. 170
>>168 Sky Garden, without a single doubt.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 05:57:17 No. 171
Every time I refresh the page it resets to 33 minutes and 5 seconds and counts down from there.
rollerskate 01/25/18 (Thu) 05:57:48 No. 172
2 minutes!!! excited
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 05:58:36 No. 173
holy shit i hope its a new game
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 05:59:37 No. 175
BRACE FOR IMPACT
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:00:38 No. 176
It's sitting at 0 seconds for me.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:00:40 No. 177
ah ?
rollerskate 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:00:48 No. 178
are you serious? nothing happened
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:01:28 No. 180
absolute jape
rollerskate 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:01:58 No. 182
oh worm?
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:03:54 No. 189
>>YUMENIKKI -DREAM DIARY- was created under supervision and with the full cooperation from the original creator, Kikiyama themselves.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:04:55 No. 191
>>189 The only thing that can confirm his life is an update to his site. His site has not been updated.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:05:05 No. 192
>>189 I'll believe it when kikiyama's website is updated…
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:06:38 No. 195
The new game looks like shit.
rollerskate 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:07:10 No. 197
i'm staying optimistic, maybe the screenshots are before the game is finalized
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:08:47 No. 198
>>196 From where did you get that picture?
And people have already asked the publishers on Steam to ask Kikiyama if they could update their site.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:09:46 No. 199
it actually looks really good.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:10:03 No. 200
>>198 >>8002
site link posted here
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:10:11 No. 201
> 4 weeks
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:11:10 No. 203
>>196 I really like this image. It gives me some hope for the project.
>>191 >>192 >>194 While you can be as skeptic as you want, this time they are not only saying that they have Kiki's permission, but that they have their designs for different creatures like
>>110 >>198 It's in
http://yume-nikki.com/#p6 Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:11:14 No. 204
Watching numbers flow was fun at least…
Jimbles 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:11:38 No. 205
Yall check
http://yume-nikki.com/#p1 we getting a new game bois
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:14:07 No. 207
"YUMENIKKI -DREAM DIARY- was created under supervision and with the full cooperation from the original creator, Kikiyama themselves. We hope it will help to create a whole new wave of fans, as well as push the envelope in terms of what RPG Maker games can become. -
http://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791461390040#announcements/detail/1665638172193352604 Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:17:54 No. 210
>This diverging follow-up combines influences from the original game and other recent indie juggernauts to create something wholly unique.
rollerskate 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:20:41 No. 213
locked official twitter account :) :) :) :)
rollerskate 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:21:41 No. 217
it's true kikiyama is madotsuki's father
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:24:10 No. 221
>>215 I really enjoyed Kikiyama's seminal release
If you enjoyed Kikiyama's seminal release you got good taste
I loved playing around in Kikiyama's seminal release
I loved playing with Kikiyama's seminal release
I waited so long and hard for Kikiyama's seminal release
Kikiyama's seminal release was so refined and beautiful
KIKIYAMA'S
SEMINAL
RELEASE
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:25:29 No. 226
this game looks gay lol
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:25:39 No. 229
>The RPG Maker team at Kadokawa has paired up with Active Gaming Media’s development team
rollerskate 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:26:27 No. 234
it really got moved :(
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:28:51 No. 236
trying to stay neutral on my hype, but it sure is good to have yume nikki discussions again. and the potential for new kiki clues.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:29:49 No. 237
Cool, there's a new board!
rollerskate 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:32:11 No. 239
kikiyama seminally released on all of us
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:32:39 No. 240
Was Yume Nikki raped?Pls don't ban
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:33:10 No. 241
>>217 That would make sense, given his seminal release.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:33:13 No. 242
>>240 Yes, Kikiyama seminally released inside of her.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:34:06 No. 244
Guys I love Kikiyama's SEMINAL release
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:35:06 No. 246
>>243 looks like an LCD from 2004
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:36:38 No. 247
>this thread >all of this hype and discussion building up to a bunch of seminal release memes
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:38:31 No. 249
>>248 Quite the opposite to tell the truth.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:40:55 No. 252
>>250 That drip coming out of her mouth just screams "seminal release"
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:41:11 No. 254
>>250 It's appreciated all the same if that counts for something?
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:42:38 No. 256
The text description in Japanese is slightly different from the English translation.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:44:19 No. 258
>>255 Nice.
>>256 >and that the Kadokawa team faced Kikiyama to give their thanks with this project. So, Kikiyama didn't make it, they made it as a "thank you" project?
rollerskate 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:46:10 No. 260
i bet kikiyama is mad at the writer who wrote seminal release cause we're all making fun of him now
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:46:55 No. 261
>>258 Kind of, but they also say that it has the full approval, supervision and cooperation from them. All the information that is in English in the page is there in Japanese too. The only two bits missing are those I mentioned there.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:47:32 No. 262
>>260 >i bet kikiyama is mad at the writer who wrote seminal release cause we're all making fun of him now We're not making fun of him, we're just embracing his SEMINAL RELEASE.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:48:30 No. 264
So will this have Yume 2kki in it?Does Yume 2kki have multiple SEMINAL RELEASES?
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:48:37 No. 266
>>263 How else would it be a seminal release? Are you implying Kikiyama is a futa?
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:49:11 No. 267
>>264 Actually yes. It's on seminal release number 0.106a right now. That's a lot of seminal releases! Wow!
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:50:35 No. 269
>>268 I mean
vomit monster
this one is the giant poop monster
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:51:54 No. 270
>>268 That thing looks very phallic. I've noticed in its design that it looks like a woman spreading her legs. The lack of arms seem to show symbolism of helplessness, which fits rather well, and the one eye and dribbling seminal releas- I mean "ooze" also fits the phallic design. Yume Nikki was always a little uncomfortable sexual, so I think it's kind of cool to see the themes of it be taken and developed into more of an art style.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:58:24 No. 274
>>273 It did say it was taking inspiration from recent indie hits. I'm guessing that means Undertale and DDLC but I'm hoping it's just some shitty translation issue and is actually talking about the fangames or something cooler.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 06:58:50 No. 275
>>273 Yeah, definitely
Kill yourself
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 07:01:34 No. 278
>>277 Pretty good.
Regardless of how I feel about the look of the game, its cool to see so many people talking about Yume Nikki again.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 07:03:00 No. 280
>>274 The Japanese literally says "modern indie game style", whatever that means.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 07:03:22 No. 281
Twitter is dead. Doesn't exist anymore.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 07:03:27 No. 282
>>276 Yeah exactly. The original game had some shit like that, and there were the uterus monsters and some things that were vaguely phallic. I think it's nice. The Mars eye feels a little cut-and-paste but I think it adds a lot to the redesign.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 07:05:37 No. 284
>>283 >new manga and anime soon I fucked up
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 07:06:33 No. 285
>>279 It's almost like some tags don't actually mean anything.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 07:07:48 No. 286
>>281 i saw some people trying to talk with this account and flooding
but now the only info we have are mysterious those 4 tweets
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 07:08:45 No. 287
>>284 You tried.
>>282 Doesn't it look a bit like Mars-san from a different angle?
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 07:29:37 No. 295
I hope they don't go the manga route and make Uboa a huge part of the game.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 07:31:47 No. 296
>>286 >>288 Did anybody cap the posts?
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 07:32:14 No. 297
Twitter is back! And there are posts!
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 07:32:51 No. 299
>>295 I don't mind Uboa being a recurring character, but if they do that, they need to make Poniko one too; they're tied together and exploring Poniko and learning more about Uboa could potentially be a really cool experience. Especially if this turns out to be an adventure game/walking sim hybrid.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 07:33:19 No. 300
>seminal release jokes
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 07:34:17 No. 302
>>300 …Are they reading the thread along with you?
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 07:35:56 No. 303
>>300 did the seminal release cause you to make a public release of your own?
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 07:37:01 No. 304
but will it have steam cards
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 07:37:25 No. 305
>>296 The posts couldn't have been capped since the Twitter was protected, only people who were accepted as followers could've seen it and I tried following it hours ago with no luck on being accepted. As a side note since this morning the Twitter went from 2 tweets to 4.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 07:38:48 No. 306
>>304 I hope it has Steam Market support for skins for each effect. Can't wait to uncrate a red frog.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 07:42:05 No. 309
>>297 The site edited the original Twitter link to direct to a new page @Y_DREAMDIARY
It makes me wonder if it was by mistake they linked to @k_yumenikki.
I just wonder what the tweets were.
Was it Kikiyama?
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 07:43:42 No. 311
>>303 Not this time but I've done that too.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 07:45:02 No. 312
>>309 >@k_yumenikki. The old leaked article linked to that website, so it probably wasn't a mistake.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 08:05:29 No. 316
>>297 how is it back up ? can't find it
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 08:09:57 No. 318
>>316 Its on the bottom of the Yume Nikki website. There
was a new twitter account made.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 08:13:35 No. 319
>>317
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 08:53:13 No. 324
>>319 Will it run on my Japanese potato? It doesn't have any graphics cards but I think it has a hole in it.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 10:46:29 No. 331
>>330 that's weird, what's monoe doing with an umbrella?
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 10:51:09 No. 333
>>330 I wonder why it got changed. Maybe they will post another new image on a few hours?
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 11:01:27 No. 336
>>335 I forgot to add that it's raining indoors, so it's obviously the umbrella effect. It's even white since Monoe is using it. What does it mean?
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 11:02:32 No. 337
>>335 if it's a game version of the manga they will all be in the same dream world. I think it is just a 3D version of the old game
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 11:03:10 No. 338
>>332 kikiyama's battlegrounds. torinigens have to hunt down the yume nikkis. yume nikkis must find effects to survive. 100 players a server, so hyped
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 11:12:20 No. 343
>>339 >>341 These were posted earlier but honestly it's kinda nice to see them again so I don't really care.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 11:14:49 No. 345
>>332 Also remember that the full-length vid was titled "We can't wake up" or something along those lines.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 11:27:51 No. 350
I just really hate the 3D look. Sprites and Pixel Art will always just look so much more appealing to me. Even though the original was dark, it was still colourful. These new screenshots just look way too dark.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 11:31:05 No. 353
>>339 Looks really ugly, to be quite honest.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 11:44:41 No. 356
>>354 That's true, also reminded me a bit of some of the parallax art from graffiti and windmill world but that's probably stretching it a bit. Can only wonder what it's doing floating around the barracks Mado, though.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 11:51:03 No. 357
>>356 >the barracks Mado About which image are you talking about?
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 11:57:21 No. 358
>>357 Fucked up the grammar sorry, ignore the barracks bit. I'm talking about the pic that appears on page 1 of the new site. Creature shown by her head doesn't seem to be in any environment that looks like the image in the original game.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 18:27:00 No. 385
>>110 >>122 >>209 >>268 >>269 I propose that we call the new guy Bikdut.
He looks like a Bikdut.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 21:30:00 No. 400
>>385 He's based on one of the sewer drawings iirc. Doesn't that drawing already have a name? We could just use that name.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 21:46:48 No. 403
>>400 Actually nevermind. That original sketch looked so close to something you'd see in the sewers that I swore it was from the original game. I checked, and it's not. It even has those weird little hand things you see in this sketch, here.
Bikdut is a fun name but it doesn't flow off the tongue that easily. Something more Yume Nikki-ish like "the dribbling monster" or "Awadatsu", following the trends of calling things monsters or giving them Japanese names based on something. Awadatsu is Japanese for "ooze", though, "Tereru" is for "to hang" or "to drop" which kind of fits his head. Awadatsu-san has a nice ring to it though. Tereru-san isn't bad either, but "dribbling monster" fits his inhuman nature. We could wait until the game releases and see if he has anything to do with Mars-san, and if so, we could name him something related to Mars like Phobos-san.
I don't mean to get so indepth into this but it's kind of fun to talk about. It might be best to see the characters functionality in game first, and even then, I think it's something that everyone has to agree on.
Anonymous 01/25/18 (Thu) 22:28:03 No. 406
>>403 Never thought I'd see a new creature being named
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 02:04:16 No. 418
>>261 Yeah, I have Kikiyama's full approval to do some Yume Nikki shit too. It's true because I said it on the internet and people don't go on the internet and tell lies!
Until there's a kikiyamaHP update, this is 100% fraud, end of story.
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 02:18:40 No. 421
>>418 >Until there's a kikiyamaHP update, this is 100% fraud, end of story. This is fucking stupid.
I hope you realize you're setting up a pretty much impossible endgame if you ever want this confirmed, as Kikiyama has no intention of interacting with the community ever again likely.
So you're just looking for an easy excuse to call this a fraud likely because you just don't like the way the game looks.
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 02:22:16 No. 423
>>418 So, you think that a major company that has been around for 63 years is knowingly taking the risk of publishing the successor to a well-renowned and loved indie game under completely falsified permission from the original developer?
Using a small group of developers with a passion for the game, and extras who were literally required to play the original game through to the end to ensure that they are true to the source material?
Just to sell it exclusively on the internet for $20?
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 02:24:56 No. 426
>>424 Sorry, accidentally blank posted. It seems like most of the hate toward the game is based off of two less pleasant-looking screenshots from Madotsuki's home, despite everything else looking borderline perfect
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 02:31:59 No. 427
>>423 You clearly have NO IDEA how companies work. They don't give a shit about some decade-absent developer; they have money and lawyers. The point is that if it's official it should be mentioned on the official Yume Nikki website.
IT'S FUCKING NOT.
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 03:21:11 No. 429
>>427 Alternatively, instead of being a fraud, everything that's been released so far has been completely true. Kikiyama doesn't want to be involved on the public side, and the website isn't updated because they don't want it to draw all that attention when Dream Diary already has its own site set up and everything. And why bother? Because a handful of people are skeptical?
It could be IP theft. Or Kikiyama could just be being reclusive.
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 07:57:20 No. 439
Anything else get posted or do we still have the same stuff from before? I still love that image of Monoe with the umbrella effect.
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 08:30:45 No. 441
>>378 Oh god I love Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou. Good taste anon. And yeah, it has a very dreamlike and quiet explorative feel. I consume a lot of media with that kind of atmosphere (Kino no Tabi, Oyasumi PunPun, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, Mushishi, etc.) so I didn't immediately draw comparisons with YN, but it definitely has a similar quality.
As for this new project, I'm going to wait until I see it in motion.
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 09:08:20 No. 443
>>429 This logic makes no senses whatsoever; not wanting to be involved in the public side… wtf does that even mean? It's not like he's updating the site with his house address or anything or even speaking to anybody. Why wouldn't you want attention to a website you created? Pretty sure having the Yume nikki on steam would be a pretty big deal for him. As well, the link to kikiyama hp is present on Yume nikkis game page. "Why bother"… because for years hundreds of people have been wondering if this man/woman is still alive on this godamn planet. If he doesn't want to be involved publicly, what would make you think he would want to be involved at all?
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 09:25:40 No. 444
daily reminder that s e m i n a l r e l e a s e and i'm a fucking child so i won't ever stop finding that funny
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 09:40:10 No. 446
>>443 Just because Kiki doesn't conform to typical expectations of how a person should interact with the public doesn't mean they don't care about whether or not an official follow up to their creation is decent or not. It doesn't mean they don't care about their fans.
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 10:12:09 No. 449
>>447 Oh shit that's pretty cool. I've always liked O-man because of his weird therapist feel; he plays a nice song and gives you the flute, which is probably the most relaxing and reassuring effect in the game.
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 10:22:46 No. 450
>>447 I think these aren't bad at all but I prefer the armless stubby look they had in game. I'm not sure if Kiki intended for them to be outright humanoid. I do hope the other weirder looking characters get to actually remain weird looking, though I can imagine certain changes being necessary for 3D modeling and animation.
I hope fanartists won't take these as the "actual canon" look for the characters. Interpreting them is much of the fun, and this game should just be considered another interpretation like the manga, even if it has Kiki's supervision.
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 10:39:46 No. 454
>>453 Huh! It's Pain Blob but this area is brand new. Interesting.
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 10:40:32 No. 455
>>453 I wonder if this means the game will have puzzle solving?
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 11:09:51 No. 457
>>455 An adventure game/walking sim hybrid? That sounds like a fun idea; I brought it up earlier in the thread after me and some friends talked about the idea a bit if I remember correctly. Might be cool to see!
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 11:20:33 No. 459
>>458 I am really worried that this might be a 2.5D game.
I Really hope not.
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 11:21:36 No. 460
>>459 Worry no more. It clearly is.
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 11:31:58 No. 461
>>459 >>460 I don't think it is judging from the Pink Sea screenshot
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 11:33:25 No. 462
>>459 >>460 Look at
>>339 , these are all fully 3D views
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 11:35:25 No. 463
>>458 This is the most baffling screenshot yet. What on earth is happening here? Monoe isn't in the White Desert and she SEEMS to be in an antagonistic role. It looks like they're in a High School.
It's clear already that this has diverged a lot from the original game, so I don't think we're looking at a straight up 3D remake.
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 11:36:23 No. 464
There's something that seems to tip me off about the 2.5d thing - and that is the dilapidated school screenshot. Had this be an actual 2.5 environment, Madotsuki would not be farther off the screen or they would even do enough space for chairs on front.
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 11:43:43 No. 465
>>464 I'm wondering if it will be a side-scroller, a lot of the screens seem to imply that.
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 12:12:25 No. 467
I wonder if this game will even have effects (besides maybe the knife). None of the screenshots have shown any.
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 12:14:32 No. 468
>>467 I could see them just replacing effects with conventional items, but they could also just be saving them for last.
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 12:17:23 No. 469
>>467 Madotsuki's holding a lamp in two screenshots, so I think we can assume the lamp effect's present.
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 12:20:58 No. 470
>>469 She's holding a lamp, yes, but the Lamp Effect replaces her head. So something different is being done with the effects.
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 14:49:05 No. 472
>>443 So Kikiyama should want to update their personal website because other people want them to update their personal website. Got it. And a person who has diligently gone out of their way to maintain their anonymity should definitely want to be directly interacting with their fans, especially since their fans want them to. And they can't possibly just want to work on their stuff behind the scenes now that someone else can take care of the more bothersome PR aspect.
It's completely inconceivable.
>>465 We've already got some screenshots that make me think it's not, like her room and the Pink Sea, but some of the others like in this recent batch definitely do have a sidescroller feel.
They've gone out of their way to clearly show her face, though. I wonder if that's just a stylistic choice for the screenshots, or if it'll be a thing in the game itself too.
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 14:50:01 No. 473
>>472 >They've gone out of their way to clearly show her face Not to clearly show her face. That is an important keyword.
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 15:38:02 No. 475
>>472 >like her room and the Pink Sea Those could easily be from a cutscene tho, like if you interact with the balloon or the console the camera moves for a cinematic shot
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 15:48:25 No. 476
>>472 I'm sure it's taken 10 years for any type of company to notice the capitalize ability of this game. He's not involved, you're in denile and describing the description of a dead person.
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 16:06:32 No. 477
>>476 At this point it doesn't matter if you're willfully trolling or not, you're wasting or time being a fucking moron online.
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 16:12:21 No. 480
>>476 We're both shitting out explanations with no definite proof and basically no way of getting it. I'd say we're on basically even footing. If not being cynical enough to automatically assume the worst and immediately dismiss all other explanations without definite proof either way means I'm in denial, okay. I'm in denial. Congrats on being definitely and irrefutably correct.
>>475 Yeah, it could be cutscene stuff. I'd be kind of disappointed if that was the case. I'm hoping it's just the layout of a couple places that kind of give it that look.
Anonymous 01/26/18 (Fri) 18:41:49 No. 489
>>480 You can't prove me right, and I can't prove you wrong. I see there's no point in arguing from the beginning, but your saying shit about how kikiyama personality is that you have no clue about. Plus, you seem to like sucking playisms small COCK.
Also thanks for proving me right
Anonymous 01/27/18 (Sat) 01:57:53 No. 543
>>475 Personally, I'd kinda like it if the camera was at a fixed angle, but you still had full 3D control of Madotsuki.
Anonymous 01/27/18 (Sat) 03:13:19 No. 554
>>548 Yeah seems like it. Kind of a cool redesign; he's lost a lot of his mysticality but the redesign is pretty cute. Kinda looks like a Kirby 64 enemy now or something.
Anonymous 01/27/18 (Sat) 03:14:21 No. 555
>>458 That's two images with Monoe in them recently. Is she gonna have a bigger role in the game? Honestly I'd be incredibly open to that as the Mono Sisters are my favorite.
Anonymous 01/27/18 (Sat) 03:32:51 No. 556
>>543 Honestly the game could be both 3D free walking and 2.5 line walking considering the original had rooms like the staircase where the movement was locked.
Anonymous 01/27/18 (Sat) 11:01:13 No. 563
>>556 yeah that could be the case
same goes for the sewers
Anonymous 01/27/18 (Sat) 14:46:21 No. 567
>>448 Is it just me, or is Madotsuki's neck really long in that picture?
Anonymous 01/28/18 (Sun) 04:11:01 No. 647
>>448 Woah, I missed this one earlier. Seeing the fisherman in 3d really gives him a different vibe. I think it makes him stand out and feel a bit creepier, since you can see the depth and shape of his human figure more clearly in a rather dark and empty place. I like it.
Anonymous 01/28/18 (Sun) 22:46:46 No. 666
>>649 It makes sense to leave it up. If someone were to check in after missing out on the countdown or forgetting about it, they'll go "Oh wow it's already over? Cool". It's just kind of letting people know it's over, almost.
Anonymous 01/28/18 (Sun) 23:15:34 No. 668
>>666 Wouldn't it be better if it served as a redirect to the new game's website, though?
Anonymous 01/28/18 (Sun) 23:22:45 No. 669
>>668 It does. If you click on the logo, it sends you there. But I agree that they should do something with it to make things clear. As it is, it's weird and confusing, as if they forgot about it.
Anonymous 01/29/18 (Mon) 03:27:16 No. 671
>>444 are you the guy that started that steam discussion?
if so, the pinned answer made me smile thanks
Anonymous 01/29/18 (Mon) 03:43:40 No. 672
>>671 i'm the guy who gave the pinned answer and accidentally started the meme by poking fun at the wording on the steam page
Anonymous 01/30/18 (Tue) 12:20:58 No. 681
>>680 My main gripe with the redesigned title is the one enormous K. Plus the "Dream Diary" text looks so obviously slapped onto the bottom, without any attempts to make it look like an actual part of the logo. It's so fucking hideous.
Anonymous 01/30/18 (Tue) 12:54:55 No. 682
They should have named this Dream Diary Squared because this title is so redundant.
Anonymous 01/30/18 (Tue) 14:05:44 No. 683
>>680 I would be fine with it if it was just a maze, but the fact that it was actually the title (ゆめにっき), and that now they covered it, takes away some of its charm.
Anyway, I don't want to judge things too early. Let's see what they say now.
Anonymous 01/30/18 (Tue) 14:23:23 No. 684
>>680 Seriously why is that K capitalized? I literally just noticed and now it's really bothering me.
Anonymous 01/30/18 (Tue) 14:37:37 No. 685
>>684 There's three things I can think of.
1. The big K stands for "Kikiyama".
2. The big K stands for "Kodakawa"
3. The K looks the way it does because the name of a really important character starts with the letter K.
Anonymous 01/30/18 (Tue) 15:21:30 No. 686
>>685 What if (and I know this sounds crazy) it's like that because they liked how it looked? What if they thought it was nice how it mirrored the position of the っ in the Japanese name, marking that little stop in the word? What if there's no deeper meaning to it?
Anonymous 01/30/18 (Tue) 19:36:26 No. 688
>>684 Maybe it's capitalized because of the little tsu that a double letter in Romaji implies of the Japanese spelling. There is a verbal "jump" at that point when pronouncing it. So they could be stylizing that.
Anonymous 01/30/18 (Tue) 23:13:17 No. 695
>>680 >>683 I always thought it was a girl laying down; head on the left, feet on the right. It could still be that, just with the title inside of the design. I always thought the maze represented exploring her dreamworld; the world inside of her.
Anonymous 01/31/18 (Wed) 06:08:41 No. 698
Official twitter dropped a new video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZx47XHhmaQ It has a whole 2 seconds of KyuuKyuu-kun among other little things
Am I allowed to be concerned yet
Anonymous 01/31/18 (Wed) 06:35:39 No. 699
>>698 this is becoming quite the roller-coaster of expectations
Anonymous 01/31/18 (Wed) 07:21:54 No. 702
>>698 It's fucking nothing.
The game is out in 3 Weeks, why can't they just release a goddamn full trailer that actually shows the game in action?
Anonymous 01/31/18 (Wed) 07:30:10 No. 703
>>698 I really don't like that music.
I thought at least the music would be fine after seeing the first teaser, but now i am even worried about that.
Also Official twitter changed their icon again.
Anonymous 01/31/18 (Wed) 07:53:41 No. 706
>>702 >That KyuuKyuu-kun model >No texture, no color aside from red Looks soulless as fuck.
I'm really trying to be optimistic about this, but it's becoming harder every time they show something new.
Anonymous 01/31/18 (Wed) 12:06:08 No. 712
>>706 Actually I think Kyu looks ok, we've seen it retained the texture in the concept art so it might just not be visible in this poorly lit area.
By that's also my problem, because the area completely lacks the atmosphere of the original. Where's the Aztec symbolism? That was a huge part of that game and I'm really worried they've done away with it.
Anonymous 01/31/18 (Wed) 12:23:31 No. 714
If they do items instead of transformation, how the everloving fuck will they do the Frog effect? Just leave it out or?
Anonymous 01/31/18 (Wed) 12:38:18 No. 716
>>714 I think that the red boulder rock thing that we see in a building is some sort of new effect, so I think the effects could be a mix of physical items, and transformations.
Anonymous 01/31/18 (Wed) 12:43:07 No. 717
>>716 You mean this thing that Mado pushes at some point?
http://yumenikki.wikia.com/wiki/Pain_Blob Anonymous 01/31/18 (Wed) 13:11:49 No. 721
A thing that worries me about the screenshots and what've seen so far is the general tone shift from Yume Nikki. Yume Nikki felt neutral in that the areas it conveyed weren't meant to be spoopy, it was just a wild dream (aside from 2 or so areas)
The way the lightning is employed in the screenshots (excluding Pink Sea) seems to be going for the scare factor and less for the wows or weirding people out. The countdown artwork also has this darker and edgier approach (Mado looks like a fucking yandere, and don't get me started on Poniko…)
The screenshot were Madotsuki shat herself over Monoe, although funny, seems to be aiming for that horror vibe. It might be because of it's transition to 3D though, because to be frank that's why lots fo the things in the game have the appeal they do, the ambiguity. And it also makes the game feel detached. Heck, some fangames have tried for years to be spoopy and all of them failed. Maybe it's just a difference of perspective.
>>41 fuck i just realized someone said the exact same thing i just wrote but i spent 20m on this so fuck society
I agree.
Anonymous 01/31/18 (Wed) 13:29:52 No. 722
>>718 Nah, I think she just pushes it around
>>453 Anonymous 01/31/18 (Wed) 13:59:29 No. 723
>>721 Anon you replied to here, you explained the problem much better than i did.
The best thing about yume nikki was the atmosphere, it was never trying to be scary in any way, it was just what it was, an exploration game with surreal ambients. It never tried to be anything else, it was just that.
I don't really care if YNDD has bad graphics or stuff like that, I just want it to be recapture that sensation of exploration the original had, but I am really uncertain after what we have seen.
Anonymous 01/31/18 (Wed) 14:07:53 No. 724
>>721 >Mado looks like a fucking yandere She's just holding the knife but otherwise looks bored as shit. It's not even close to being half as edgy as most of her fanart.
She definitely has a creepy gaze but it's not too out of line given that she's also Uboa.
Your concerns are valid otherwise though.
Anonymous 01/31/18 (Wed) 15:12:58 No. 726
>>712 >Aztec I hope you meant Paracas/Topará.
Anonymous 01/31/18 (Wed) 15:42:32 No. 730
>>727 Probably the only hope I have left at this point.
Anonymous 01/31/18 (Wed) 16:34:09 No. 732
>>731 It's very very clear that they're purposefully withholding the more interesting stuff, letting out only bits here and there. People have been complaining that all the shown locations are too 'boring' and realistic but that might be the point.
We just have a month to go anyway at least.
Anonymous 01/31/18 (Wed) 19:59:51 No. 737
>>734 one in the deleted image is just piccolo
Anonymous 02/02/18 (Fri) 07:56:26 No. 806
>>737 Holy fuck I can't unsee it
Anonymous 02/04/18 (Sun) 06:37:48 No. 865
So, anything else that's happened? Thread's kind of slowing down.
Anonymous 02/04/18 (Sun) 14:36:43 No. 868
>>867 Just checked. Wow… Well, they've freshly changed it, once again. What's the deal with that?
Anonymous 02/07/18 (Wed) 05:19:28 No. 911
>>901 Pretty cool. Snooped around on the website myself; I really regret that nobody backed up the older versions listed on that site or even the Steam versions with the unique trippy bugs and whatnot. Those are kind of part of the history of the game.
Anonymous 02/08/18 (Thu) 20:26:57 No. 935
>>11 Jcm2 is that you?
Anonymous 02/09/18 (Fri) 13:02:14 No. 952
29 new screenshots of the game were released, here's an article with all of them.
http://www.4gamer.net/games/407/G040781/20180209031/ Anonymous 02/09/18 (Fri) 13:22:28 No. 957
>>952 Damn awesome find. Thanks for sharing!
Anonymous 02/09/18 (Fri) 16:22:52 No. 963
>>962 "Photograph fragment" GET!
Anonymous 02/09/18 (Fri) 17:49:07 No. 969
>>963 Huh. Wonder what kind of role the photograph fragments will play.
Anonymous 02/09/18 (Fri) 18:27:26 No. 971
>>969 The power to timetravel to when the picture was taken.
Anonymous 02/09/18 (Fri) 18:31:28 No. 974
The photo looks like a girl(that looks like a hair, an ear, and a hand to me) in some building ,like a school or hospital or some shit like that.
Anonymous 02/09/18 (Fri) 20:11:09 No. 981
>>971 That's a fucking sick, twisted reference, but I won't pretend I didn't get it.
Anonymous 02/10/18 (Sat) 23:59:50 No. 1077
>>971 not gonna lie, i thought the same thing when i saw it…