999: 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors

akonnick's 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (Nintendo DS) review

I Want to Play a Game: A Bad Game

If you've seen the movie Saw 2, you have all the information needed to evaluate this game. It starts off with an interesting premise of being trapped on a Saw-esque cruise ship worth of trap rooms and puzzles where success is the difference between life and death and then flushes all interest down the toilet in spectacular fashion. What are 999's chosen tools of enjoyment destruction? Awkward dialogue by a variety of bad anime trope characters (actually much like Saw 2), horribly boring and predictable puzzles and poor pacing dragged down by useless conversations full of trivia. I literally couldn't go on any longer after a few hours as I found myself clicking through the boring dialogue to get to the boring puzzles. Luckily, there is this magical contraption called the Power button that lets you turn off bad games for which I am grateful. I picked up this game after seeing the number of glowing reviews for the game and I have absolutely no idea what people are thinking. This game is just bad - plain and simple. Don't mistake uniqueness for quality and avoid this game.

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