Echo Night 2: The Lord of Nightmares
Echo Night 2: Nemuri no Shihaisha[lower-alpha 1] is a 1999 first-person adventure video game developed and published by FromSoftware for the PlayStation.[1] It is the second game in the Echo Night series, however the games do not share the story and setting despite featuring a player character with the same name and age as the first game's protagonist. A fan translation was released in 2015, translating its title as Echo Night 2: The Lord of Nightmares.[2]
| Echo Night 2: The Lord of Nightmares | |
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| 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 |
| Series | Echo Night |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation, PlayStation Network |
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| Genre(s) | First-person adventure Survival horror |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Story
The game is set in an old Gothic manor house.[3]
Gameplay
Like the first game, Echo Night 2 is played from a first-person perspective, but 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
The game was released for the Sony PlayStation on August 5, 1999, and published by FromSoftware.[1] It was released only in Japan.[4]
In 2007, it was re-released for the PlayStation Network in Japan.[5]
In 2015, an English language fan translation was released.[6]
Notes
- (Japanese: エコーナイト#2 眠りの支配者)
References
- "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.
- Batchelor, Carl (10 July 2015). "FromSoftware's Echo Night 2: Lord Of Nightmares Finally Translated". Niche Gamer. Archived from the original on 20 May 2017. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
- "TGS '99: Tokyo Game Show 1999". Gamer's Republic (13): 36. June 1999.
- "Replay – Echo Night". Game Informer. Archived from the original on 2018-02-15. Retrieved 2018-09-10.
- Gantayat, Anoop (2007-10-10). "Sony Doubling Archive Output in Japan". IGN. Retrieved 2018-09-10.
- "Echo Night #2: Nemuri no Shihaisha". ROMhacking.net. Archived from the original on 2018-03-24. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
