PS3

Echo Night 2: Nemuri no Shihaisha

Adventure

Plays offline: Yes

Overview

Echo Night 2: Nemuri no Shihaisha is a 1999 first-person adventure video game developed and published by FromSoftware for the PlayStation. It is the second game in the Echo Night series. While it shares common elements with Echo Night, Echo Night 2 takes place in its own timeline.

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 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.

The game starts with Richard Osmond searching for his girlfriend Christina Collins, who's been missing for three months after she was last seen entering the library reserve room of a university she attended. When the police investigation goes nowhere, Richard takes it upon himself to search for her. He enters the university's library and finds a photo of a woman resembling Christina named Jessica Clancy. Learning Jessica's family owns a large estate on the countryside, Richard heads to an old Gothic manor house with a research center behind it to find Christina. Inside he encounters hostile ghosts of family members, household employees and researchers that can be freed by resolving their personal issues.

Echo Night 2 was released for the Sony PlayStation on August 5, 1999, and published by FromSoftware. It was released only in Japan.

The game was reviewed by four writers in the Japanese magazine Famitsu. Most of the writers found Echo Night 2 to be very scary while one said it felt more melancholy than frightening. While one reviewer said the graphics were beautiful and helped enhance the atmosphere of the game, another said the character models improved upon the first Echo Night game, but still had room for improvement.