In Lucy Dreaming, you play as a younger woman whose repeating nightmares ship her on a homicide investigation involving city secrets and techniques, unusual encounters with residents, and a few fairly insane goals.
The sport begins with Lucy experiencing a nightmare she has each evening. She is falling via the sky for what looks like without end. 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, nonetheless, she has to seek out her diary. This comprises a to-do checklist, 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 steered. Issues she provides to it would manifest in her goals and assist her face her nightmares. To create this, Lucy units out on an journey wherein 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 wherein 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 true world, and subsequently keep in mind in the true world.
As soon as you discover sufficient jokes, Lucy will get a adequate 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 concerning the homicide of a city resident named Fergus Fig. This then sends Lucy on the search 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, nonetheless, thinks there may be extra to this story, and believes that it’s one way or the other 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 there’s a “take a look at” button, a “decide 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 kind of choices earlier than interacting.
You may decide up gadgets to mix and or use on objects. For instance, there’s a level within the sport 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, includes studying and discovering clues that can assist you remedy Lucy’s scenario.
That is the place the problem of the sport comes via. Lucy dreaming could be very enjoyable and tells an attention-grabbing story, however there are some elements the place I discovered myself utterly misplaced. You might be given hints generally by Lucy, however a few of the issues that you must do are exhausting to determine until you undergo each chance; go to each space on the map, work together with all the things you possibly can, or discuss to anybody you will discover.
Particularly throughout a few of the dream sequences, there are moments the place that you must change issues in the true world, after which head again into the dream to see what’s modified and work from there. You may work together along with your dream field a number of occasions, and including various things both modifications the placement of the dream or who’s in it. There’s plenty of thought that goes into fixing totally different elements of this sport, and so a walkthrough is beneficial. Nevertheless, I discovered that the sport was nonetheless enjoyable and I nonetheless loved taking part in via even when I couldn’t determine some elements out by myself.
The model of Lucy dreaming is a 2D pixel vibe, and it’s very properly carried out. There’s plenty of element put into not solely the story, but in addition the backgrounds and settings of each location wherein Lucy finds herself. There are additionally plenty of references to totally different motion pictures or books, which is at all times a enjoyable aspect to any sport. (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 carried out. Often I don’t take pleasure in 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 elements will be tough to get previous, it’s nonetheless extraordinarily pleasing. 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 carried out.