In Lucy Dreaming, you play as a younger lady whose repeating nightmares ship her on a homicide investigation involving city secrets and techniques, unusual encounters with residents, and a few fairly insane desires.
The sport begins with Lucy experiencing a nightmare she has each evening. She is falling by the sky for what looks as if endlessly. When Lucy awakes, she decides that is the day she is going to lastly attempt to rid her sleep of the nightmare. Earlier than she will do that, nevertheless, she has to seek out her diary. This comprises a to-do listing, and is the fundamental information for the remainder of the sport. She additionally wants to seek out the password to her laptop, as she has an e-mail she must open.
As soon as the diary is discovered, the sport begins to choose up tempo. In her diary, her first aim is to create a dream field, a psychological idea her father urged. Issues she provides to it should manifest in her desires and assist her face her nightmares. To create this, Lucy units out on an journey by which she explores her home and her city. As soon as she creates her first dream field, she goes to mattress to see if it labored. She enters a brand new dream by which she is in a kind of comedy membership, and has to make jokes to impress the judges. The jokes are ones you discover in the actual world, and subsequently keep in mind in the actual world.
As soon as you discover sufficient jokes, Lucy will get a ok rating, which helps her to seek out her laptop password. She then leaves the dream and enters actuality once more, the place she places in her password and opens the e-mail to a cryptic message of an previous newspaper article in regards to the homicide of a city resident named Fergus Fig. This then sends Lucy on the hunt to determine who his killer was and what occurred. The Fig household performed a giant half within the city, and the story of Fergus dying is believed to be that his brother killed him over disagreements about their household land. Lucy, nevertheless, thinks there’s extra to this story, and believes that it’s by some means tied to her nightmares. The remainder of the sport follows her as she tries to determine all of it out.
Lucy Dreaming could be very straightforward to play, mechanically. To maneuver Lucy, you click on the place you need her to stroll. To work together with objects, you additionally simply click on them. On the backside of the display screen there’s a “have a look at” button, a “choose up” button, a “discuss to” button, and a “use” button. Relying on the way you wish to work together with one thing, or with whom you wish to work together, you simply click on a type of choices earlier than interacting.
You possibly can choose up gadgets to mix and or use on objects. For instance, there’s a level within the recreation the place you mix a tote bag with a stick, and one other time the place you need to use a glass of water and empty it right into a fish tank. Most of Lucy Dreaming, although, entails studying and discovering clues that can assist you clear up Lucy’s scenario.
That is the place the problem of the sport comes by. Lucy dreaming could be very enjoyable and tells an attention-grabbing story, however there are some components the place I discovered myself fully misplaced. You’re given hints typically by Lucy, however among the issues you have to do are onerous to determine until you undergo each risk; go to each space on the map, work together with all the pieces you may, or discuss to anybody yow will discover.
Particularly throughout among the dream sequences, there are moments the place you have to change issues in the actual world, after which head again into the dream to see what’s modified and work from there. You possibly can work together together with your dream field a number of occasions, and including various things both adjustments the situation of the dream or who’s in it. There’s numerous thought that goes into fixing totally different components of this recreation, and so a walkthrough is beneficial. Nevertheless, I discovered that the sport was nonetheless enjoyable and I nonetheless loved taking part in by even when I couldn’t determine some components out alone.
The fashion of Lucy dreaming is a 2D pixel vibe, and it’s very properly executed. There’s numerous element put into not solely the story, but additionally the backgrounds and settings of each location by which Lucy finds herself. There are additionally numerous references to totally different films or books, which is all the time a enjoyable component to any recreation. (It’s Ludo!)
The music can be good and never distracting, and the characters are every distinctive and enjoyable to have a look at. Their voices are additionally properly executed. Often I don’t get pleasure from when video games learn to me, however I didn’t thoughts it with Lucy Dreaming.
Lucy Dreaming presents an in-depth and well-constructed thriller. With many twists and turns, it’s tough to place down. Though some components might be tough to get previous, it’s nonetheless extraordinarily fulfilling. The 7 to 10 hour playtime is filled with thrilling issues to uncover and, the sport’s humorousness and general storytelling are enjoyable and really properly executed.