Night Creatures

Not to be confused with Nightmare Creatures Developer: Manley & Associates, Inc. Publisher: NEC Technologies Available On: Turbografx-16 Release Year: 1992 Genre(s): Action, Horror If I had a nickel for every time I found a non-Japanese PC Engine game that felt like a really weird fit for the console and covered it on this blog, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice. Well, buckle up, because I’m about to get myself a third nickel! Night Creatures is a preposterously weird game to me. Nothing about it feels like it’s what or where it should be! It’s made of disparate elements found in similar yet different games– Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest, Wonder Boy III: The Dragon’s Trap, Altered Beast, heck, even a little Midnight Mutants– but none of them congeal in a way that feels properly realized. So much about the game’s design doesn’t even feel like it had a chance to breathe for even a moment that it makes me wonder if it was developed in a super…