#Nightgate osu archive
#Nightgate osu skin

It’s a fun, sort of unique mash-up of puzzles and survival, set in a post-apocalyptic computer world. Genuine question, why does everyone make the theme of their skin so 'high-tech' or 'futuristic' instead of the theme of the character. It might not be action-y enough for some, or relaxing enough for others, but I think it’s worth checking out regardless. Nightgate is an pretty cool mixture of laid back and frantic plain and pretty varied and repetitive.

#Nightgate osu archive

Once you’ve seen one abstract digital landscape of floating shapes, you’ve sort of seen them all. This is an archive channel for the now closed skins channel.All credit goes to the original skins team. Levels are usually distinct enough thanks to the use of background geometry and the color of the various floating shapes that aren’t out to get you, but it all kind of blurs together after a few levels.

Sacrificing the ability to see what’s coming for the sake of a pretty view just doesn’t seem worth it.Īnd as much as I do enjoy the visuals on display here, I sort of wish Nightgate mixed things up just a little bit more. While I absolutely appreciate the way the camera sometimes shifts around to give you an interesting vantage point (and makes for all kinds of wonderful screenshot fodder), it also tends to make navigation a lot harder. Sometimes the presentation gets in the way of the gameplay, though. It looks sort of like a combination of Tilt to Live and Rez, and I’m all kinds of okay with that. The way things glow and often seem to float off into the background add a surprising amount of depth to the graphics as well. The way it combines simple geometric shapes into new and interesting patterns (usually with animations) works really well to drive the whole “you’re inside a computer!” concept home. Right from the start, I found myself seriously digging Nightgate’s style. Just wander into one of these and everything will slow down, giving you enough time to react and adjust your course. In the event that there are smaller gaps or other situations that require more precise timing, the levels almost always throw in a sort of time-slowing bubble around the tricky areas. They feel a teensy bit clunky when trying to make tight turns, but there’s usually enough space between angry red things to dodge through without a problem. Just move around and avoid the bad stuff. You’ll have to move over specific spots/nodes/whatever to access the next area, and you’ll want to avoid anything that’s bright red - but you won’t need to split your focus in a million different directions. You drag a finger on the screen to change direction, and that’s it. Playing Nightgate is very straightforward. So basically good Skynet, I guess? Your job in Nightgate is to explore the network’s digital world - activating things, avoiding other things, and steadily making your way further and further. Nightgate has this somewhat odd backstory where the last living thing on planet Earth is a massive network of computers that have their own intelligence. Some viewing angles make avoiding hazards more difficult than necessary Could have used a little more visual variety between levels