As you use these buttons to obliterate anything that steps in front of you, your character gains experience and items. These can then be used to increase your player's repertoire of moves, allowing for deadlier damage, more impressive special moves, and general showing off with incredible 2000+ hit combos.

Most missions are simple "kill anything that moves, and if it doesn't move, stab it a few times just to make sure" affairs, but there are a few that buck the trend, where you have to defend structures or key characters from the carnage that lies ahead.

While the game may be repetitive in nature, it gets increasingly more and more challenging the further you delve into the game, and no matter how far I delve in, and no matter how much I play, I still have fun working my way through it.

However, it does have its problems. The biggest problem, in my opinion, is the fact there are no identifying icons or health bars on enemies, so when you're in a middle of a thousand man battle fest, it can get a little confusing as to which units are friendly and which aren't at first glance. It's annoying, but I guess in real battles of this scale it would be the case anyway, so I can't really drop down my rating of the game for this one.

But there is one area in which I do have to mark the game down, and that's the lazy design. Some objects that should be easily maneuvered around (like a little stone) can't be jumped over, and some objects that should not be able to be traversed easily (like some trees and walls) can be walked through like they weren't even there! There's no excuse for shoddiness like that. Bad, Phantagram, Bad! Slap on the wrists for you laddies! Let's hope you fix this for the inevitable sequel!

At the end of the day, N3 won't be everyone's cup of java. If you don't like Golden Axe, Dynasty Warriors, Dead Rising, or if you want a game that will test your mental capabilities to its limits, then don't get this game.

If you want something mindless, fun, chaotic, and thoroughly enjoyable, with plenty of replay value and a nice little fairytale story thrown in for good measure, then grab Ninety-Nine Nights the next time you go videogame shopping.

N3: Ninety-Nine Nights is out now, priced at £49.99/$49.99.

N3: Ninety-Nine Nights is rated 12+ by the PEGI because the game contains depictions of violence.

N3: Ninety-Nine Nights is rated M (Mature) by the ESRB for Violence.