Progress feels linear even when there are multiple pathways and there’s little control of deciding which destination to travel to. Exploration throughout areas seems as though each passageway takes the player to a random environment. The visuals are a major strong point, as there are some fantastically unsettling environments and interesting creature designs. The biggest strength and weakness of Yume Nikki: Dream Diary is how it successfully recreates the feeling of being lost in a strange dream world. It’s one of those games where there aren’t strong feelings about it being bad because there are some aspects that are enjoyable and well done, but it also isn’t really that great. Yume Nikki: Dream Diary is a bizarre title and not just regarding its subject matter.
Playing Yume Nikki: Dream Diary is not that dissimilar of an experience.
Even the parts we can recall don’t make a modicum of sense if we try to explain them to someone else and often the more we think about it the less sense they make to us. Occasionally we can recall what we believe to be an accurate account of what happened in the dream, but more often then not the memories fade away seconds after we awaken, save for a few odd images or snippets of what might have happened in the dream. During the time when we are actually dreaming we may experience everything vividly sounds, sights, smells and other sensations as if they were real even though what’s actually happening may be far too surreal to ever exist in the real world. We’ve all had bizarre dreams at one time or another.
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