NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams for Wii Reviews by Gamers

NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams is Sega's way of showing Wii gamers how little they'll put into the console. The follow-up to a Sega Saturn game, NiGHTS would have likely gone into the annals of gaming history 10 years ago, but the company resurrected it.
Graphics come off quite well, with nicely rendered textures and character models. I wasn't thrilled with the voice work or the music, which sounds like trance music done with a Casio keyboard. Story... is also there.
The real problem with this game is the gameplay. You start levels as a couple of kids, who can run around and collect stuff for awhile. Then you jump into NiGHTS, the colorful jester whose soul powers are flying and making stardust circles around everything. Controls for this pseudo-2D side-scrolling flight action are too frustrating and sensitive. Just flying through a ring takes some getting used to.
Eventually, you'll face off against a boss, who can be beaten if you have a clue how to do that. Likely, you'll just try a bunch of stuff to no avail and time will run out. This kicks you back to the beginning of the level, not the boss battle. So, get prepared to recollect and refly the whole thing again... and again.
This game makes no sense, has no purpose and doesn't work properly. It's a frustrating, confusing mess that most gamers will easily forget inside a day. Why even bother?

First, let me start by saying that I could play this game for at most 30 seconds. The graphics were bad, think like somewhere inbetween late N64 and early GC bad. The control scheme is where this game truly hits the bottom of the barrel, however.

To say that the bad controls made the game unplayable would be a massive understatement. Trying to play with the wiimote as a pointer was entirely pointless. The cursor moved so badly that it made Red Steel seem like a well designed game. I had to put it down after about 5 seconds to laugh at how poorly the control scheme was executed.

Don't buy this game. Don't even rent this game. Pretend it never existed.