N3II: Ninety-Nine Nights II Developer Interview

Cathartic Denoument

[My initial comment shortly after this article was posted]:

FINALLYYY!!!
I've been waiting for you guys to have coverage for this game!
I hope its a HUGE improvement on the 1st game. (=
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[My comments after having played the demo]:

OMG..
..The "mini"-boss at the end of the first mission & the GIANT boss mission were SOO unbelievably difficult to whittle down!
I haven't even beaten that giant Boss mission yet, 'cuz I don't have enough health to last through to the boss itself! It keeps shooting a rain of these large fireballs on this narrow path, while there are enemies to attack you..and OMG..CAMERA CONTROL is STILL TERRIBLE!!! Actually its MORE terrible!

I'm glad that feelPlus & Konami picked this game up (since Phantagram is no longer part of the development process), but "Q?|Q Entertainment" (as seemingly the main developer, over Phantagram) still somewhat dropped the ball on this one (in terms of the demo, at least), and I hope they're still working out the kinks to the game even though its less than a month from the street date sale (which means the final version should already be on disc & mass-produced).

I WILL state the fact that I loved how they streamlined everything, in terms keeping track of & maintaining things for your character; and the fact that they added the option to custom tailor your characters abilities/"magic" & passive traits on the fly (meaning, you can change them in-between dying & restarting from the last checkpoint, or on the Continue screen).
I haven't fully explored it beyond that, but hopefully you can also change them when the game is paused mid-mission.

Oh! And that 3-button QTE with the giant Boss mission was SO UNEXPECTED, especially for a Ninety-Nine Nights game.
And the difficulty equally reminded me of the ever-so-frustrating game I'm still trying to slog through - Ninja Blade. (-_-)' G@wd..

Judging from the demo, it only seems like a Rent - probably a 3/5 - but hopefully, they've improved the game a lot since the demo launched (especially with the terrible camera control).