Nextgen Kids: Legend of the Nine Newborn

The Dreamverse, Night 7: Live and Let the Lost World Live

This level is a callback to classic Yume Nikki, and particularly the Madotsuki Arc of Seven Lights.

Night 7: Live and Let the Lost World Live

"Sniiiiiff...I felt a big heap of energy around here!" André sneered to himself as he flew across the valley. "Yeh...I smell that Chiptoon like the inside of a toad's guts! It should be right around...!"

The region beyond the valley was eclipsed by an indescribable distortion. "Wait... isn't this place..." He was getting a sense of déjà vu. "I, uh... maybe I'll just wait 'til... someone clears this up first. Yeh! This is a... little too scary for my taking." (Play "Quiet and Falling" from Celeste.)

Dream 6: Mado no Nikki

Mission: Fix the Lost Dream.

Madotsuki first entered a green door. She had entered what appeared to be a forest of coniferous trees, but it appeared the trees were fizzing in and out of existence. A pink ghost drooling green was sitting on the path, and when Mado touched it, the ghost wrapped its tail around and stuck to her, its drool drooping on her head. Her movement was weighed as she could only run forward at a slower pace. Madotsuki jumped some small platforms to ascend a tree, but had to apply extra force to her legs with the ghost weighing her down. Once on the next ledge, a purple ghost threatened to latch onto her. Mado could water a small cloud with Sadness's Tears, which could bounce her just high enough to glide over the ghost, despite her weight.

Mado carefully jumped some tree platforms over a chasm, but upon missing a jump, she fell to a lower ground. There was a pair of green diamond pillars, and when she passed through, Mado was warped to a zone of floating Face Carpets, being released from the ghost's grasp. There were bird humanoids in normal clothes called Toriningen, chasing Madotsuki with insane purple eyes. She shot bubbles to take them down before leaping overhead, but it seemed she was unable to step on the fizzy Face Carpets. Mado instead made her way over the Toris to the other end of the room. She passed through another gate and returned to the forest zone. Madotsuki dropped down a few steps and discovered a frog. It was large enough to sit in her hands.

"A frog...?" Madotsuki knelt down and patted the amphibian.

A monochrome vision filled with static appeared in her mind. One night, it rained. But the next morning, it was partly cloudy. Puddles still filled the streets. A younger Madotsuki stood over one and viewed her reflection. Then a frog jumped in the puddle and rippled it. It happily hopped along. Madotsuki crouched like a frog and hopped in the puddle. "*&$H*(?" The next part of the vision was flooded with static, Mado unable to make anything out.

"I'm a frog." Her younger self answered. Then, there was more static. "Ribbit. Ribbit." Madotsuki hopped around the park. She jumped in all the puddles. She seemed to jump further each time. "Ribbit..." She saw a blonde-haired girl with a ponytail sitting behind a tree. "Ribbit." She looked rather lonely, so Madotsuki hopped over to her. She hopped on the lap of the girl's skirt. She merely stared at the frog with narrowed blue eyes. Mado hopped off. The girl stood up and walked away without a word.

Madotsuki's head morphed into a frog as the creature leapt into her window. The forest cleared of static, but as the trees gained a more solid shape, a red Aztec monkey began to hover in the dark sky. Mado returned to the Face Carpet Plaza and was able to jump on the floating faces, with the frog form adding a little boost in her jump. She avoided the spiky platforms that shifted left and right and discovered a rotating red block at the top.