Paris Nights

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Paris Nights
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Cover art of Paris Nights on the J2ME
Developer(s) Gameloft
Publisher(s) Gameloft
Director(s) Matthieu Gosnet, Stanislas Dewavrin
Producer(s) Jerome Levy, Etienne Morin
Designer(s) Azka Suzuku, Ber Cohen, Danny Godin, Dominique Lemire-Nault
Programmer(s) Louis-David Lavoie, Reda Baydoun, Jean-Claude Hamel, Mathieu Grenier II, Alain Cadieux
Artist(s) Christophe Brand, Alex Lan, Yu Gao, Julien Manouvrier
Writer(s) Aska Suzuki, Tammy Blythe Goodman
Composer(s) Enrique Dizeo, Angel Cabral
SeriesNights
Platform(s) J2ME
Release2008
Genre(s) Dating simulator, virtual life, strategy
Mode(s) Single-player

Paris Nights is a 2008 game developed and released by Gameloft for the J2ME platform. [1] It is part of the Nights series by Gameloft. [2]

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Plot

Reception

Paris Nights received generally positive reviews. Pocket Gamer said "Overall it's a lot of fun with a lot of tongue-in-cheek conversations and interactions and vast map-fulls of colourful visuals. There are just a few criticisms." They gave the game 8/10 points. [3]

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References

  1. "Paris Nights Release Info". 2008. Retrieved 24 September 2016.[ permanent dead link ]
  2. "Gameloft - Paris Nights". Gameloft - Paris Nights. Archived from the original on 1 March 2009. Retrieved 24 September 2016.
  3. "Paris Nights review - Mobile reviews".