You start off with one character – Inpphy – and as you complete the game, more characters open up, giving vital new information about the main quest in chronological order. To find out everything going on, you have to complete it with all seven characters, spread across both the 'good' and the 'evil' sides. I put 'good' and 'evil' in quote marks because this is one of the few games that doesn't really have clear-cut goodies and baddies. Even good guys can do evil things, and some evil do-ers have good intentions behind their seemingly evil ways.
The way the story was handled is pretty classy, and is genuinely worth watching instead of hammering the Start button to skip through them, which is also possible if you just want to hack stuff up.
And hacking stuff up is what the core of N3 is based upon.
The controls are fairly intuitive. The left analog moves your character, while the right analog moves the camera, X is a light attack, Y is a heavy attack, B is special, A is jump, RT is dive, LT is block, and LR and RB in coordination with the D-pad assigns orders to your flanking troops. It's a pretty standard setup, and the game deals with button presses very responsively.
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.
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