Voice acting throughout the title ranges from iffy to worse, with some characters grinding the players patience as they over-act, under-act, or simply sound terrible. Instead of witnessing a heated conversation between Inphyy and her brother on the battlefield, it feels as if the two have suddenly been thrown onto an isolated stage where they are alone, where in reality there is a lot more going on around them. Every cut scene feels empty and lifeless. The storylines interweave fairly successfully, and seeing the war from multiple angles is interesting, but the plastic presentation kills the experience. In contrast, Dwingvatt is a young Goblin warrior that witnesses his older brother fall in battle against Inphyy.

Inphyy, for instance, is the 17 year old leader of the Temple Knights, who leads a campaign against the goblins and orcs but is driven more by her deep seeded hatred for the beings who killed her parents. The six characters featured in the opening movie are the selectable characters, each with their own story to tell during the war between the Light and the Dark. N3 literally sucks all the fun out of killing huge mobs of enemies, which is almost a crime where I come from.Īs players fire up N3 for the first time, they are greeted with a beautiful montage of superbly rendered characters either preparing for battle or wading through mobs of goblins with ease. Ninety-Nine Nights is the first time I have ever looked at a kill count of 2,000 or more and felt completely bored while achieving it.

As much as it is a shame to say this, its obvious that the developers fell asleep at the wheel during this one. In fact, if there werent the occasional dragon flying overhead to pummel the crowd with fire, I would swear we were looking at the newest Dynasty Warrior game. Well, Japanese 360 fans (the six or seven that there are) better have clamored endlessly for a Dynasty Warriors clone, because that is exactly what we have been given with Ninety-Nine Nights. After all, Ninety-Nine Nights was going to be one of the big Japanese titles that would help them claim territory across the Pacific. When Q Entertainment and Phantagram announced their pairing for a new Xbox 360 title, the clamor around the industry was considerable. Meteos on Nintendo DS was quite a quirky strategy title that impressed even the non-DS fan, but Lumines represented the only original property on the Sony PSP worth merit for a considerable amount of time. When you look at the list of Q Entertainments titles, Ninety-Nine Nights is about the last thing you would expect to see.

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