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
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
SeriesEcho Night
Platform(s)PlayStation, PlayStation Network
Release
  • JP: August 5, 1999
PlayStation Network
  • JP: October 10, 2007
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]

Reception

Japanese gaming publication Famitsu gave it a score of 32 out of 40.[1]

Notes
  1. (Japanese: エコーナイト#2 眠りの支配者)

References
  1. "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.
  2. 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.
  3. "TGS '99: Tokyo Game Show 1999". Gamer's Republic (13): 36. June 1999.
  4. "Replay – Echo Night". Game Informer. Archived from the original on 2018-02-15. Retrieved 2018-09-10.
  5. Gantayat, Anoop (2007-10-10). "Sony Doubling Archive Output in Japan". IGN. Retrieved 2018-09-10.
  6. "Echo Night #2: Nemuri no Shihaisha". ROMhacking.net. Archived from the original on 2018-03-24. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
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