Ninety-Nine Nights (N3) was one of the games that was supposed to sell 360’s in Japan. It didn’t do a great job of it and now it’s come to Europe to create some bruised thumbs.

N3 starts you out as Inphyy who happens to be a 17 year old girl and leader of the Temple Knights. The first mission is a nice easy introduction to the game and gives you an idea of the huge amounts of units you can see on screen. Most of the missions involve you running around a battlefield destroying anything in your path with the occasional boss battle thrown in (which can be tricky). You’ll be doing a lot of hacking and slashing with a neat and easy to use combo system, which allows you to pull off all sorts of spectacular moves in a few button presses smashing enemy troops all over the place - it’s quite satisfying sending 20 goblins flying with your attacks.

Overall I think Ninety-Nine Nights is a decent game. But while it may be next gen in the graphics department the game itself is very old skool, due to the fact that you’re just going from point A to B to C hacking and slashing through non-interactive environments. I still enjoyed it but underneath it all it’s not the greatest 360 title around.