Echo Night 2: The Lord of Nightmares

Echo Night 2: Nemuri no Shihaisha[a] is a 1999 survival horror first-person adventure video game developed and published by FromSoftware for the PlayStation.[1] It is the second game in the Echo Night series. While it shares common elements with Echo Night, Echo Night 2 takes place in its own timeline.

Echo Night 2: The Lord of Nightmares
Developer(s)FromSoftware
Publisher(s)FromSoftware
Director(s)Akinori Kaneko
Producer(s)Toshifumi Nabeshima
Programmer(s)Akinori Kaneko
Artist(s)Masahiro Kajita
Writer(s)Toshifumi Nabeshima
Eiji Matsumoto
Hiroyasu Sugiyama
SeriesEcho Night
Platform(s)PlayStation
Release
  • JP: August 5, 1999
Genre(s)First-person adventure
Survival horror
Mode(s)Single-player

Story

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The game is set in an old Gothic manor house.[2]

Gameplay

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Like the first game, Echo Night 2 is played from a first-person perspective. However, unlike most other first-person games, there is no use of firearms in the game. When confronted by a ghost, the player must turn on the lights in the room by means of a light switch. The player is often transported into the past via the passengers or certain objects. Once the player fulfills a task important to a spirit, they will vanish and drop an "Astral Piece" which can be used to get a different ending scene.

Release

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The game was released for the Sony PlayStation on August 5, 1999, and published by FromSoftware.[1] It was released only in Japan.[3]

In 2007, it was re-released for the PlayStation Network in Japan.[4]

In 2015, an English language fan translation was released.[5]

Reception

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Japanese gaming publication Famitsu gave it a score of 32 out of 40.[1]

Notes

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  1. ^ (Japanese: エコーナイト#2 眠りの支配者)

References

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  1. ^ a b c "エコーナイト#2 眠りの支配者 [PS] / ファミ通.com". www.famitsu.com. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  2. ^ "TGS '99: Tokyo Game Show 1999". Gamers' Republic (13): 36. June 1999.
  3. ^ "Replay – Echo Night". Game Informer. Archived from the original on 2018-02-15. Retrieved 2018-09-10.
  4. ^ Gantayat, Anoop (2007-10-10). "Sony Doubling Archive Output in Japan". IGN. Retrieved 2018-09-10.
  5. ^ "Echo Night #2: Nemuri no Shihaisha". ROMhacking.net. Archived from the original on 2018-03-24. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
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