Night Lights Review (PlayStation 5)

Our Night Lights Review has us playing as a tiny robot beacon of light in a dark and puzzling world. Pierce the darkness and enter Night Lights. Learn the tricks around the incredibly unique mechanic of manipulating light and shadow to change the surrounding environment, solve intricate puzzles, and ultimately collect shards to resurrect a fallen star.

Night Lights Review

Night Lights Pros:

  • Abstract art-looking graphics.
  • 159.1MB download size.
  • Platinum trophy.
  • Puzzle platformer gameplay.
  • Button prompt pop-ups act as the tutorial.
  • Map uncovers as you play and you can fast travel to any discovered location.
  • Chilled soundtrack.
  • Only 12 trophies for the Platinum.
  • Quick to learn controls.
  • The game is set at night and you use light to manipulate and change the level.
  • Over 40 levels.

Night Lights Review

Night Lights Cons:

  • Can’t rebind controls.
  • Only 12 trophies.
  • Hangs when using the map.
  • A few occasions of my character disappearing and I couldn’t do anything.
  • Few instances of black screens.
  • No replay value.
  • A lot of backtracking.
  • Solutions are not always straightforward.

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Night Lights Review

Night Lights:

Official website.

Developer: Meridian4

Publisher: Ratalaika Games S.L.

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PlayStation

  • 7/10
    Graphics - 7/10
  • 7/10
    Sound - 7/10
  • 7/10
    Accessibility - 7/10
  • 7/10
    Length - 7/10
  • 7/10
    Fun Factor - 7/10
7/10

Summary

Night Lights is a very chilled puzzle platformer. It feels like another game I played many years ago where you manipulate light to solve puzzles, but it does a good job of keeping the core mechanics simple so more of a good thing is alright. Apart from manipulating the world, you are always trying to get to a jew teleport machine which will send you to another one which will usually put you in a new part of an old level or a whole new level. I had a lot of control niggles like black screens and jump grabs not counting but overall it is just a nice comfort puzzler, I didn’t feel compelled to push myself too far or go too deep, it’s just comfortable.

Jim Smale

Gaming since the Atari 2600, I enjoy the weirdness in games counting Densha De Go and RC De Go as my favourite titles of all time. I prefer gaming of old where buying games from a shop was a thing, Being social in person was a thing. Join me as I attempt to adapt to this new digital age!