Ninety-Nine Nights

Ninety-Nine Nights

Ninety-Nine Nights is a fantasy hack and slash video game developed for the Xbox 360 by an alliance between Q Entertainment and Phantagram. It is set during the time of struggle between light and dark when a magical orb was shattered, where humans and elves band together to fight the dark forces of the goblins who have aligned themselves with the Lord of Darkness. This game has an ESRB: Mature (M) / CERO: Ages 15 and up (C) / PEGI: 12+ rating.

Features

Ninety-Nine Nights is a game where players battle hundreds of foes simultaneously. The game has seven different characters with different play styles, but gamers start with a character named Inphyy, which is the first unlocked character at the beginning. Successfully completing each character’s story will unlock one or two new characters, until they have all been revealed. After completing levels in Ninety-Nine Nights, a player’s performance is scored, with both a letter grade and ‘points’ being awarded, depending on how well the player did. Points can be spent to unlock extras, such as concept art and character bios. The game’s objective is to gain levels and utilize performance-enhancing items which can be found in the different stages. As the characters gain levels they learn additional attack combinations, but there is no opportunity for skill customization. Some power-up feature on this game is the "Orb Attack"/"Orb Spark" element. Killing enemies yields red orbs that are stored up until the "Orb Attack" bar is full which can be unleashed by pressing B to enter "Orb Attack" mode. Enemies killed while in this mode drop blue, not red, orbs which can in turn. Once a player has stored up enough blue orbs (which usually requires several "Orb Attacks"), he or she can unleash a super-devastating, screen-clearing "Orb Spark" attack. Killing enemies yields the occasional equipment drop, which users can equip and time during a map as long as they are not retaliating from an attack, in midair, or in the middle of an attack. Each character in the game has their own unique attacks, weapons and orb attacks, as well having their own questline (of around four stages on average). Each level takes the form of a series of smaller battles which are often interspersed with cutscenes. These cutscenes are rendered using the in-game character models. Progress through levels and the game is mostly linear, with several objectives peppering each level.