Nightopian Jester turns up in ASR
Sometimes, it pays to be persistent. For months, now, a question has been posed by the users and staff of Nightsintodreams.com: where’s NiGHTS? For over a decade, NiGHTS has had a habit of turning up for cameos in all manner of games: the NiGHTS Pinball table in Sonic Adventure, a NiGHTS-centric quest in Phantasy Star Online Episode 2, and he has been a staple of the Sega SuperStars line of games (Eyetoy and Tennis). But, with the relative flop of NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams, doubt was cast on whether or not NiGHTS would make an appearance in Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing. “Don’t forget NiGHTS!” they cried.
Today, Steve Lycett, Executive Producer on Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing has answered: “We didn’t forget NiGHTS!”
Though not a racer himself, NiGHTS has taken over white flag duties in All-Stars Racing, making him sort of like Mario Kart’s Lakitu. “He also resides over Time Trial, whenever you set a new lap record, you’ll have NiGHTS flying along with you celebrating!” says Lycett, in a post on the Nightsintodreams.com forums.
But is NiGHTS permanently barred from the driver seat? Lycett has been vocal about adding more racers through Downloadable Content (DLC) post-release. Could NiGHTS be added to the roster of drivers sometime in the future? Lycett: “That’s a question I can’t answer right now – it all depends on how well the game does.”
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At the very least, it is -something-, you know? This cameo further paves the possibility of actual DLC for playability — and, even if it doesn’t, the movement of the fans to make this a reality is a pretty clear indicator that, sometimes, the developers -do- listen.
Perhaps… we can make this a trend with any future games, yeah? It’d be cool.
I personally like the fact that NiGHTS is in another one of his cameo appearances. I think that’s pretty cool. NiGHTS would look a little weird in a vehicle…
I can’t tell from the size of the screenshot, but is it just me or do the Chaos look weird? Like in the face region.
Hehe, cool!
I think it’s a very good idea! But I don’t really like Nights so… yeah… xD
At least Lycett is considering adding NiGHTS to DLC. That should tide the fans over, no?
NiGHTS is also seen in Sonic Battle (GBA) in the racing minigame with Sonic and Shadow.
I love NiGHTS. She definitely deserve to be in it. If they add NiGHTS to be a playable DLC, it will be a whole lot sweeter. NiGHTS would look cooler when she riding a vechile and racing with the sega characters.
What a wonderful troll! Now they are going to milk money out of Nights’ fans microtransaction style.
@Shego13: You do know Nights is a boy right?
@ Dr. Eggfang, I am not a troll. I was trying to help out.
@ChaosZX: You do know that NiGHTS doesn’t actually have a gender, right?
Regardless of NiGHTS being genderless, you may refer the character as a boy. As so did Will,Owl,and Reala in Will’s dream on NJoD, I don’t see Helen refer NiGHTS as a boy either in her dream. The reason why I refer NiGHTS as a girl because when I first played the original NiGHTS on Saturn and whenever get hits, NiGHTS sounds like a girl. Also when I first saw the preview and got the JoD game, NiGHTS have a feminine British voice. Despite the female voice, the character actually genderless so the player can refer NiGHTS either a “he” or a “she”. But more importantly I’m proud that the developers didn’t forget NiGHTS. I’ve appreciated.
It’s an ‘it’ not a ‘he’!
And cool
Now NiGHTS is in every race! XD
i bet it was hard to make a car or bike design for him