Ninety-Nine Nights
by Microsoft
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Video Game Reviews of Ninety-Nine Nights
Customer Review: finally a good game...
Summary: 5 Stars
this game is awsome! great graphics, easy control system, and very indepth story line.when i first looked at this game in best buy, i never thought id be playing an rpg like this. i mean, i never liked rpg's before so why now right? wrong! this game is awsome and i would recomend it for any fan of rpgs or non- rpg fans to. this game IS adicting and you will like it. but dont take my word for it, play for yourself. but i garentee youll love it to. it has verygood re-playability to its just plain fun.Customer Review: Worth Every Penny!
Summary: 4 Stars
This game was really fun. Worth every penny I payed for it. Sadly i found that it was kinda short. It makes up for it with good replay value and beautifal graphics. One issue some may have is that it has the same game play style as Dynasty Warriors. Control one person and destroy an entire army while your guys don't do to much. The enemy tends to attack you far more often then anything else and that can be a bit frustrating. But I still loved the game and hope more purchase it. One note though, if you want a game with a twisting and hard to guess story line, just walk away now.Once you play it with one character, you can pretty much guess what will happen as you play the rest.Customer Review: Great Game, But Know What You're Getting Into
Summary: 4 Stars
There have been some bad reviews of this game but I think they're because people don't understand what they're getting into. This game isn't Oblivion; it isn't incredibly deep. It is a "button-masher," plain and simple. It's essentially the same as Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, if you like that kind of game. (The only reason MUA has gotten so much hype and bette reviews is because of the comic book fandom, IMHO.)
The game is a lot of fun despite it being repetitive. Instead of having 4 high-powered characters mashing down on one or two opponents, you have one (with backup which basically just helps hold the line) and you're slaughtering 50+ fiends at once. If you've seen LOTR (who hasn't?), you're essentially like Sauron in the first scene, hacking away at enemies and sending them flying with a few swipes of your sword (or other weapon depending on the character). I still haven't grown tired of charging into a battalion of baddies and launching them into the air and hacking my way through. There isn't any slowdown which is impressive when there are that many fiends on screen at once.
The graphics are gorgeous, I might add. This is the perfect game if you just want to sit down, not worry about how much magicka you have (or whatever else), and just slash away. It's a great "in-between classes" game for us fellow college students. It is repetitive (what "button-masher" isn't), but there are several characters to unlock, each with his or her own weapon and way of dispensing enemies, so that adds replay value to the game.
As long as you know what you're getting into with this game, ignore all of the bad hype. It's a lot of fun and I reccommend it.
Customer Review: An Attempt to Lure the Asian Audiences by MicroSoft
Summary: 3 Stars
Ninety Nine Nights is a brand new hack `n' slash action beat 'em up game developed by Q Entertainment; the company responsible for the popular portable titles: Meteos and Lumines, along with Phantagram, the developers of the critically acclaimed Kingdom Under Fire series on the original Xbox, which Ninety Nine Nights unsurprisingly resembles.
It is difficult to talk about Ninety Nine Nights without mentioning the long lasting Dynasty Warriors series. While Ninety Nine Nights doesn't have the strategic elements that Dynasty Warriors so prominently featured in its latest rendition, it is apparent almost immediately that the storylines are much more inspired, and accompanied by some truly awesome looking cut-scenes. The strength of the fantasy humans vs. goblins storyline helps inspire players to play through the game.
Ninety Nine Nights allows you to play as 7 different characters, each of which feature their own unique storylines. Some stories such as Inphyy and Aspharr campaigns cross over, meaning you may end up playing the same missions twice but from a different perspective and with slightly different objectives. Other Characters - such as the rugged mercenary Myifee's story - are completely independent.
Each character's storyline includes around 6 missions lasting roughly 20 minutes each. At the start of every mission you will be given a choice of two groups of soldiers to follow you into battle, these can include swordsmen, archers and axmen. You can then command these soldiers as they engage the enemy. But make no mistake, it is you who will be doing most of the fighting, as your army serves as more of a distraction while you slice up your foes.
The Fighting system in Ninety Nine Nights is relatively basic, but rather fun at the same time. You will find your character pulling-off these insane one thousand hit combos on gigantic groups of enemies. The combo system mostly involves pressing X and Y in the direction of nearby enemies, but as basic as it sounds it can be surprisingly enjoyable thanks to the satisfying sight of watching your enemies fly across the terrain as a result of your deadly blows. Ninety Nine Nights also features an RPG style levelling up system which helps give a little more depth to the mindless hack `n' slash gameplay. As you play, your character levels up and gains bigger and better combos, providing an important incentive for doing the best you can. Sadly few of the campaigns are expansive enough to make the most of the level up feature as they can often be completed within a couple of hours. Thankfully, as you progress through the missions they get more difficult, meaning you may decide to go back and play previous levels to increase your character's abilities. You can also pick up new items andweapons on the battlefield, which subsequently changes stats such as attack range, power and speed, but doesn't effect the style each character fights with.
Graphically Ninety Nine Nights can be very impressive in places. The thing which stands out most prominently is the epic amount of enemies on-screen at one time. A large battle often involves a few hundred well crafted characters, and looks very impressive indeed. Also, the cut-scenes are well animated and very pretty to watch. Sadly some things are less impressive, such as the annoyingly over the top distance blur and the occasionally choppy frame-rate.
On another note, the sound in Ninety Nine Nights won't win any awards. The character voices all sound particularly low quality and even crackly in places. The battle sounds are also rather comical. Unfortunately the music for the most part isn't much better either, and although there are some memorable pieces, most of the in game music will have you reaching for the custom soundtracks in no time.
Ninety Nine Nights is an interesting addition to the hack `n' slash action genre, but it could have been a whole lot better. Aside from the basic RPG elements and decent storylines, Ninety Nine Nights remains a shallow game with little to make it stand out. However, fans of the Dynasty Warriors series who could do without the strategy elements in favour of a stronger storyline may want to check this game out.
Customer Review: Amazing graphics just don't cut it
Summary: 4 Stars
After playing this game I kinda sat back and was WOW. Amazing. So I started playing it and the graphics are amazing and the control are easy to learn. And than 3 hours into it and a very long mission about an hour long I die. Normally that's fine. But this hour long mission I had to start over and over again from the beginning. There isn't enough save locations to really enjoy this game if you have other things to do. Please developers people do have lives. Also its a lot of the same stuff over and over again. Its a 100% hack and slash game. Its has some fun areas but at the same time it gets boring fast. I say rent it. If you like it buy it.