Ninety Nine Nights (N3) combines appealing visuals and perfect controls for a satisfying experience action fans shouldn’t miss.

Ninety Nine Nights (N3) is a military hack and slash action game in the spirit of Dynasty Warriors and Kingdom Under Fire, which tasks players with killing hundreds upon hundreds of enemies using powerful melee combos and ancillary support from backup soldiers. The degree to which gamers enjoy repeatedly killing large groups of enemies with increasingly stylistic and powerful moves will determine their enjoyment of this title, as it offers little else in the way of game play. There are some mild strategic elements with regard to selection and application of support troop types, but the strategy definitely takes a back burner to the more immediate focus on your character, and their ability to kill with maximum efficiency and style.

Games of this sort are all about conveying a sense of power, and to its credit, N3 conveys this feeling of raw killing energy better than any other game in the genre. Initially your characters will start off with a dozen or so tiny combination moves that are effective against only small groups of enemies. As they progress by cutting swaths through wave after wave of soldiers, characters level up, granting them new abilities or longer versions of existing combos. These longer moves however come at a price and often make the character vulnerable for a moment, so one can’t just repeat the same uber-powerful sequence of attacks repeatedly. The various combos all have an appropriate context, and part of the thrill of N3 is reading the battlefield and pulling off the appropriate combo at just the right moment.