N+ Comments by Dan Whitehead

Great review of a wonderfully addictive and frustrating game. I heartily agree - 800 points for over 400 levels is insanely good value. Highly recommended.

Yeah, good review. Really explains the salient points of the game.

N+ ?

Sounds more like an A- to me.

Just an addendum - you can use your User Generated levels in some of the online modes.

Shame the co-op is so fucking laggy online.

i don't find it laggy ... and by 'eck the co-op is good fun :)

First!

I've been playing this on my PC lately - it's rather difficult.

/sadly does not possess ninja reflexes

Bloody hell, was really expecting a 9 or 10 at the end of that redicuously loving review :)
I played the demo, thought it was kind of groovy, but the type of thing that I'd simply give up on if I got too stuck, so there's not much point in me buying it, I possibly would if it was 400pts mind.

"Just an addendum - you can use your User Generated levels in some of the online modes. "

How so?

Honestly, I'm not sure. I literally stumbled over a rather deeply buried multiplayer option to disable the sharing of User Generated levels last night, which implies that they're shared by default. Although I've never come across any of my own, maybe I've been playing other people's and not realised.

I'm going to have another tinker later on and see if I can make sense of it.

Its an absolutely brilliant game. Loved the demo so a must buy for me.

You can auto-download user-created levels used in custom matches, i.e. if the host has created a level and creates a custom match on there, you'll download it once you join his game (unless the option was disabled, of course).

It is a grand game, but the online co-op and race mode are hopelessly laggy and pretty much broken with teleporting homing rockets, wall jumps not registering and bizarre exploding mine animations being played despite not walking over them. Hopefully they'll patch it because this game is a fiendish fun.

Im sold on anything with a level editor . . . .

After playing the demo, to confirm that it's exactly what the free flash one was, I simply walked away from it. It's a fun game but, just too hard for it's own good (lazer gun death anyone!).

I'll save my 800 points for something that I actually have a hope in hell of completing.

This is a great game. Really addictive, and a bit of a time-waster.

"There's a secret Achievement in N+ that gives you 15 Gamerpoints for dying one thousand times."

:D

One of the guys on the forums chastised me for revealing that and said I should have spoiler tags wrapped around it. Here's the review using it as the first line! That's made my day Eurogamer.

Seriously though it's really great. Really addictive.

I gave up on the tutorial levels :p. After around 50 attempts I still couldn't pull off wall jumps - particularly the ones where you bounce back and forth on a single wall.

I have a feeling that even if I had managed to get the hang of it, this is just the type of game that would have me screaming in frustration in minutes - even if I like the concept in theory. But to each their own of course :) - I can certainly see why the game could be worthy of a high score.

Nice review.

N+ is (apart from Warlords coming to XBLA RSN) almost the perfect XBLA game. Qucik. Disposable. Addictive. Fun.

Difficult - well yes - but it's really more of acquiring a knack than needing sheer Ninja style reactions (in contrast to blast-fests like Geo Wars or Mutant Storm). And when you do die (and you do, a lot) you never feel like it's the game's fault; you know what you did wrong and you can be back playing the same level and getting it right in under 2 seconds. (Don't press X by accident BTW - it's the self-destruct button).

It's the perfect XBLA platformer - making Prince of Persia XBLA bloated and tacky by comparison.

Put it this way; if - say - Bioshock is a Chateau Margaux '82 and PGR3 is a case of Budvar - the N+ is a can of Special Brew with a Thunderbird chaser. What higher recommendation can there be? :-)


ps. If the online is broken (haven't played it yet), then that's a shame - as N+ does rely on split second timing in a lot of situations.

hang on, isnt that just a port of an old flash game on the internet...

Loved the demo - to echo some of the above comments, a perfect blend of style and substance. The soundtrack is pretty fun too.

But it is bloomin' hard!

The levels of the PC-version are convoluted, the levels of the Xbox version are streamlined, well-defined, whatever. Bottom line is N+ feels like a professionally made game, N does not.

Thanks for the freeware linky. It's great!!!!

I really enjoyed the Demo last night, I might get this when I have some time to play it. It's rare that I play a live arcade trial and actually want to buy it so thumbs up I say.

Brilliant game - well worth a splurge of 800pts :)

Downloaded the PC version as well to kill time in work! :D

The charm of this game seems to have passed over me . Thought it was quite dull .

I have more fun doing poos than I did playing this game.

@slivir: if that's meant to knock the game, you're obviously pooing wrong.