Ninety Nine Nights is pretty interesting, and a lot better than what all the reviews gave it credit for...
All the reviews gave crap about this game and that the only good thing was the tons of enemies on screen, but this game deserves better than that. Ninety Nine Nights takes you through battlefields where you pretty much hack-the-poop- outta soldiers and monsters. It gives the feel you experienced while playing rather Dynasty or Samurai Warriors, but Ninety Nine Nights is more intense and interesting.
You only start with 1 out of the 7 playable characters in the game. By reaching certain conditions, you will unlock the other 5 characters, plus a special character when you beat all of the other 6 character's Story mode. Confused? :P
Just like the Musou Mode of the Warrior's game, each character has his/her own Story, with on average around 4-6 battles. Some of the battles are short, some are tremendously long, but either way there's always action and always something to kill or reach. The "War with No Name" is the war that Ninety Nine Nights takes place in, and each of the characters plays their own part in it. Each character's Story mode is interesting and will of course revolve around them, but will also intertwine with the other characters as well. That is the deepness of this game.
When the battles start, you rather have to reach a certain goal, or just start obliterating everything you see. Sometimes you can do both, but this is what makes the battles so long. There are hundreds and even thousands of enemies to be slain in each battle, and you have the power to do so. In a majority of the battles you will see the same enemies over and over, but a boss or two is thrown in rather in the middle or end of a stage, which kind of makes up for it. There are certain objectives you must complete in the battles, example "Destroy the archers!" or "Meet character at rally point" or "Destroy all the wizards", stuff like that. When you complete each mission, a new one is made and sometimes there's several missions that must be done at once. That is whatever what makes the battles fun. If there were no objectives, the fighting would get so boring and old fast.
The combat system is very basic. You run around slaying countless thing at the hands of only 2 buttons. The X and Y button are the attack buttons, and you can do several different combos. More combos are unlocked as you reach higher levels for that certain character. Each character has a unique fighting style.
The graphics in this game could have been better with the case that it's Xbox 360 but they look good. The background can get blurry along with the enemies if they are too far away. And even though you may have thought that this game would never lag, guess again. If there are too many enemies on screen, it lags tremendously!
The soundtrack in this game will get annoying fast, in my opinion anyway. Good thing is you can turn it on or off via the Options menu.
Overall, Ninety Nine Nights is a better game then what all the reviews have been saying. The fact that hundreds of enemies can be onscreen at once isn't it's only accomplishment. If you are a fan of hack-n-slash or the Dynasty/Samurai Warriors series, this game is a definite buy. Even if you're not a fan, try it, rent it, whatever. Atleast experience this beauty before saying "No".
I'd sure like to know what Gamespot was doing when they gave this game a 5.9......