Adrenalini

Only a few fragments this time. The first was just a constant third-person perspective of a video-game, a sort of cross between Bahamut Lagoon and Kirby 64. The overworld was that of a SNES RPG, while the action was a side-scrolling shooter.

IN addition, the 'player character' consisted of a group of three characters who worked together (think Sonic Heroes), and I'm pretty sure that two of them were these guys:

I couldn't really make out the third, but I imagine that they also had an obscured face. I remember that they were female and wearing black clothing. *shrug*

So, these three went through a fairly generic side-scrolling shooty level with lots of flying objects to blow up (though oddly the screen was scrolling from right to left where it's usually the other way around). Then a hole appeared in the ground, they were forced through it, and suddenly a boss battle began involving Acro (the whale in pic #2) and a METRIC TON of falling rocks.
Once the whale was ultimately defeated, a message popped up essentially saying: "That's your game." and the game reverted to a town hub (as in pic #1) with a variety of side-missions. If the dream-me was PLAYING the game, then I imagine I just gave up at that point, because I can't remember anything after that.