Today's squintiest video: NiGHTS phonecam clip

Considering that the guy who made the first game was working with Sega to make a motion-sensing remote type thing eerily similar to the Wiimote for a NiGHTS sequel on the Dreamcast, I'm feeling pretty good about the Wii controls. On top of that, it looks like they're keeping the whole "3D world with really cool 2D gameplay" thing intact, which, in my mind, clears up some concerns about how much of a transition needs to be made from the original (and whether or not said transition will be completely screwed up).

Even if the motion controls suck, you can use a Classic Controller.

Franchise? WHAT franchise? A single game and an Christmas expansion pack?

Well, uh...yeah.

Shhh.

Given that Sega themselves WANTED to use motion control for the original Dreamcast sequel, I have faith that motion controls will work out for the best.

...insofar as you can trust Sonic Team to not muck it up, at least.

Yes, yes. Gather my children, for it is time for a history listen

Once upon a time, SEGA and Sonic Team decided to make a game called "Air NiGHTS" utilizing something called a "Saturn motion pad." But the evil trolls; Sony and Nintendo, killed the Saturn, and it never came around. Then the Dreamcast came, bringing hope again that Air NiGHTS and its tilt-based technology would come about. But Sony the evil troll killed the Dreamcast, and hope died again, and SEGA was diminished, until finally, the dream of "Air NiGHTS" was revived in March 2007, to the joy of all the inhabitants of the kingdom, under a new title

Don't forget that Sony didn't want Radiant Silvergun ported over to the PSX for a US release. Their reason was that they didn't want it because it wasn't 3-D.

yeah, the worlds were 3d but you were on a track as nights, think Klonoa. The parts that are on a z-axis you move left and right.

It was a 2.5D game, as I think they call them now. New Super Mario Brothers type.

I was sorta hoping it would be more like a 3d Flow.