NightCry

 PlayStation Vita
  • Publisher: Playism
  • Release Date: Jan 31, 2019
  • Also On: PC
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  • Summary: NightCry is set on a cruise ship, and you have been invited along for the cruise of a (possibly short) lifetime. While your surroundings are luxurious and the guests are friendly, not everything is as it should be. The guests and the crew start to turn up dead, the victims of some foul murderer.

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  1. Cubed3
    Apr 8, 2019
    20
    Even as is, the core content is substantial, and even has a Zero Escape style flow chart that tracks the various branching paths and bad endings. The kills and creative deaths are actually very entertaining, and even the bizarre acting ends up working for the lack of budget. Maybe one day it can be salvaged into the cult hit people would love, since it is very clear that the ones behind NightCry really did care about what they were making. It is a shame that their vision is suffocating under the weight of so many technical flaws.
  2. PlayStation Universe
    Jan 31, 2019
    20
    NightCry goes beyond the usual borders of broken games and into new nightmarish territory. I have frankly never played a game as rife with issues as this one. If ever there were a game that could be labelled "unplayable", NightCry is the game. Outside of not loading at all, I can't think of another way this game could fail. If NightCry were the last game on Earth, I would not play it. I mean that literally. It's that bad.
  3. Gaming Age
    Jul 18, 2019
    0
    The crazy thing about NightCry is that it’s not hard to imagine a world in which it actually turned out okay. It’s got an impressive pedigree, and manages to be a little spooky in spite of itself, so if it had been made a little more expertly, it could easily have lived up to its promise. It wasn’t made any better than this, though, and we’ve got to grade NightCry on what it is, not what it could have been in some fantastical alternate universe. And the sad truth is, in this world, NightCry is one of the worst games I’ve ever experienced.

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  1. deadislandhomie
    Feb 5, 2019
    6
    I have been waiting for this game to come to the Ps Vita for a couple of years since it was announced.I have seen the Pc gameplay and I am aI have been waiting for this game to come to the Ps Vita for a couple of years since it was announced.I have seen the Pc gameplay and I am a big fan of the Clock Tower series on SNES, PS1 and Ps2.This is done by the same creator.
    Now that being said I am however not really impressed by this port.there are a few playable characters, some light puzzle solving and multiple endings.the inventory management is fine.you will have to talk to people, search rooms and use your phone to progress the story when stuck.
    This reminds me of Obscure a little.Mostly you search a cruise ship and other areas, learn of the Killer and other weirdos, hide and like I said solve puzzles.My game ended suddenly in the 3rd chapter and I was stumped until I realized I had to revisit the story tree and see what I had missed to go further.It is buggy, it crashes, but saves often manually and auto so it is kind of fair. at a $25 price range it is okay- fine.For Clock Tower fans though kind of a must.Just remember it is severely underwhelming compared to the PC version which looks awesome.    … Expand