Got 99 Problems and the bitch only had one!
By RelentlessKnight 3 Comments
Ninety-Nine Nights II
The hack-and-slash genre hasn't been very fond of me, the repetitive button-mashing, hordes of bad AI to annoying bosses. One that comes up in mind is the Dynasty Warriors franchise, that has gone too much to be derivative, bland and frustrating - now that's not me bashing that franchise, I liked the second and the third one to a extent and had fond memories of playing as Lu Bu or Liu Bei hacking and slashing hordes of Mongolians to prevent them from climbing up the Great Wall of China. Besides that, that franchise has gotten me interested more in Chinese history, learning more about Genghis Khan invasion of China and the Civil Wars between factions in China - it was interesting reading about the history.
But anyways, another game that comes in mind with hack-and-slash quantities is Ninety-Nine Nights by Q Entertainment - as frustrating as Dynasty Warriors gets and such. When that game was released, I was only playing the demo of it and having no fun whatsoever only that its very boring and the fingers hurt like a motherfucker. Recently when they announced the sequel, Ninety-Nine II - I didn't care for it but was reluctant to have another try and still is rather disappointment and annoyed that I played this game. Developer Tak Fuji said this game will remain more ''extremee'' and seriously it is fucking ''extremee'' to a point of getting huge headaches and being bored by the combat, a few hours in.
As I started the campaign and had to live through the boring-ass cinematic and some emo-ass, revengeful duel-wielding swords faggot whose started crying out his sister's name because of her being killed in the battlefield, it then proceeds to him charging to a mob of guys and doing the same damn stunts like any other games with battlefields(not the game), ending with a special ability that has a huge AOE effect with magical swords in a circle and then a explosion knocking the mob. And then, you get the control of the character and I must say there are some redeeming qualities to it, the camera is abit better, charging and hacking/slashing the enemy is quite entertaining and the special abilities that I said earlier looks impressive. Besides the camera, the controls of hacking and slashing, camera switching especially when you're surrounded by mobs is quite a difficult task to do, making you a target for being raped by the mob. The tutorial pretty much sums up in displaying the controls but not telling you them at the starting, making you figure out by yourself. But nevertheless, the first mission is to destroy the three spawning points where the bad guys spawn and then the barrier disappears as you have to fight a group of monstrous horseman and a presumed mini-boss or elite (shaded in gold), the problem is that the golden horseman has some assholish special shock-wave ability that knocks you out and takes an amount of damage. I had died once killing them and having to use my special abilities to kill them.
After killing the dreaded horsemens, another stupid-ass cutscene appears and you're suddenly dropped in the throne room, as you are ''greeted'' by the Elven Chancellor and your name is revealed to be Galen (quite ironic), you are also introduced to a hot elven princess chick with alarming boobs - thanking him for preventing the Lord of Night minions from invading their castle, and then proceeded to ask him to liberate a fort near the castle... oh before that she tells him about the Lord of Night growing to one million minions and annihilating those who threaten them and intended to rid of hum.. or elven civilization - as previously they started to invade their lands. As the reluctant hero or Avenger accepts - I proceeded to the Coliseum instead for some hack and slashing bloodbath, with senseless killings
And the bitch or princess that you probably want to bang is playable character that has a separate storyline from Galen - as from the introductory cutscene with her, is to escape to the sewers from her safety from the invading armies. Though I didn't chose her and continued on with Gaylen's storyline which is to liberate a fort near the castle. The objectives in your first assigned mission is to pretty much hack until its light blue on the crystals to proceed as not only its to activate the triggers to the blasted gate but opening doors, and also the enemy catapults had the glowing crystal thing that you had to bash them to destroy it. Other than that, this area introduces more of the tough minions, from stronger foot soldiers, obnoxious archers to even more obnoxious stronger horsemen which there's an area that is FUCKING crowd with these ''elites'' that will seriously gang-rape Galen (not that he matter considering that it looks like he likes it). The map also is filled with crates and pillars that is require to bash to do platforming from, sorta like God of War as you climb up and murder those pesky archers and catapults.
After activating the four main crystals, the blast gate opens with your reinforcements arriving to protect the outside and asking you to go in. What's unfortunately and undoubtedly inside is a boss that I'm still stuck at, which is fucking annoying due to the main spawning generators that seems invulnerable to my attacks as the huge-ass rock boss keeps on hulk smashing me and also smashing his minions. It is pretty frustrating fight and the one that I won't be finishing because of those annoying-ass archers and knights and ALSO that HULK killing me over and over. Seriously THAT princess bitch might have a problem but I have 99 problems or nights for have you...
I might or might not decide to play this game anyone, its rather frustrating and a chore to play.. Again as I stated earlier, I'm not fond of this genre and will probably never play these types of games...