I haven’t even broached the mountainous lack of polish the game possesses, leading to the only logical conclusion that it is in fact an unfinished product (which the two patches since release on February 23rd support.) There was an area I entered in the game where my screen cut to black, and the game immediately crashed on the spot, apropos of nothing but trying to explore the game clearly in vain. The stealth portions take the game from unending doldrums to clustered tedium, creating a true chore for the player to slog through that is so deprived of any kind of reward on completion that the alternative of simply not doing that part of the game sounds like a far better use of your time. The platforming sections in Yume Nikki: Dream Diary are just a goddamn bore, constructed of tired levels that could have been shaped into any middle-of-the-road, 2.5D, side-scrolling section thrown together in Unity and then sheepishly hocked on Steam for $5 a hit. The game is an aggressively unnecessary creation, where the meager table scraps of exploration you’re able to pool together in a cruel charade of the original Yume Nikki are tarnished by invisible walls and puzzles that would make an early Myst game blush from their levels of inanity, all of which is blended to a gray-vanilla flavored puree and then topped with a spoonful of game-crashing glitches. Yume Nikki Dream Diary removes all aforementioned elements from its predecessor, instead bringing us a chimera of only the most uninteresting indie game elements, creating what is the functional equivalent of Yume Nikki by way of Amnesia: The Dark Descent, forming an unholy union with Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project. You wanted to get lost in Madotsuki’s psyche because it was so visually stunning. The original game was steeped in surreal, hypnotic atmosphere that was so perfectly complementary to the bizarre dream world it lovingly crafted.
While it did have the objective of collecting all the effects, that certainly was not the goal of the game. The first Yume Nikki was a game where you were encouraged to explore and see all there was to see. Yume Nikki: Dream Diary falls short all on its own, but the title does it absolutely no favors. If this game were called Sweater Girl’s Stealthy Dream Dunkin’, it wouldn’t have even breached the surface of the Steam shitty-horror-indie game ocean, and there would be no need to review it. This is the inevitable issue that comes with reviewing Y ume Nikki: Dream Diary, which is bad as a Yume Nikki game but merely poor as a video game. You don’t get to have the marketing cake of naming your game after a genre-redefining action series and then eat it too by telling your audience to suck it up because “it’s a reboot” when the game was ultimately rejected for a myriad of reasons, most of all for being a bad video game. You can claim it’s whatever weird spin-off you want, but when you use the words Devil May Cry, in that order, in the title of your game, it invokes a certain idea.
My gripe with this argument made by the defenders of DmC: Devil May Cry is that, like it or not, this game is called Devil May Cry. The people who enjoyed the game saw this as unfair, as DmC made no claims to be a sequel to the previous games and was instead a reboot. When DmC: Devil May Cry was released, the term “not just bad for a Devil May Cry game, but a bad video game” was the most popular criticism.
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