She has no desire to go outside, just like the original. If you walk to her front door, she shakes her head. She has her Famicom-like console still-now adoringly named Kikiyamacom, a reference to the original game's developer-and her room is slightly messy. Then you snap back to reality, to the familiar room of Madotsuki. As her, you exit a convenience store and run to the right across the quiet domestic world, before you happen upon a puddle of blood. You're outside, for starters, something Madotsuki quite literally can only dream of in the original game. The start of Dream Diary is jarringly different from the original pixelated game. "After seeing that, I really felt that ‘Yume Nikki is a global IP.’" "From the figures, America leads in the number of downloads by country, and many South Americans also played the game as well," Mizutani tells the Japanese games site. In an interview with 4Gamer, as translated by Siliconera, director Shunji Mizutani of Dream Diary is well aware of the game's surprising global reach. Its reach is stronger than ever now with the Steam release, and the release of the official 3D reimagining. Thanks to the internet, Yume Nikki's legacy never died. Its surreal nature led it to a fervent fan base who carried on the game's legacy long after it stopped being updated by its anonymous creator Kikiyama in 2007. Exploring the dreams is anything but linear too in my experience, it's one of the first games I played that truly experimented with exploration, as there was no clear cut path to "beat" the game. Yume Nikki is careful never to veer directly into horror territory, maintaining its eerie atmosphere on visuals and sound alone. These doors lead to dream worlds, the peaceful and unsettling environments of her dreams. Her small room is messy and claustrophobic, but when she goes to sleep, she enters the Nexus, a world of many doors. In the original Yume Nikki you play as Madotsuki, a hikikomori (a shut-in) who doesn't leave her apartment, seemingly suffering from depression. A comparison of two similar sequences in Yume Nikki and Yume Nikki: Dream Diary. And unfortunately, quite a bit is lost in the modern retelling. The game released last week on February 23. Sure enough, when the countdown struck zero, a trailer was revealed for a 3D Yume Nikki "reimagining" named Yume Nikki: Dream Diary (stylized as Yume Nikki -Dream Diary- Yume Nikki translates to Dream Diary in English, making the refreshed name technically redundant). Fans quickly deduced through leaks that this wasn't like the previous side projects in the Yume Nikki canon, which consist of manga and light novels. The original game released on Steam last month for the first time, its first release on any sort of major Western platform. Yume Nikki, the experimental Japanese freeware RPG Maker game that thrived with updates from 2004 to 2007, hit a resurgence this year.
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