999 IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPRESSIVE GAMES HULK HAS EVER SMASHED!
BETWEEN ADORABLE PUZZLES THAT CHALLENGE EVERYTHING FROM
MUSIC COMPOSITION TO BASIC MATHEMATICS, IT BECOMES PAINFULLY
OBVIOUS THAT THIS BRILLIANT GAME HAS A SOUL!
HOWEVER THAT SOUL DOES NOT SHINE AS BRIGHTLY AS HULK HAD HOPED!
VISUAL NOVELS ARE A LITTLE MORE UNIQUE THEN GAMES! THEY REQUIRE
CHARACTERIZATION! STORY STRUCTURE! A VERY CLOSE EXAMINATION OF
ANY RULES ESTABLISHED INSIDE THE STORY STRUCTURE, AND ABOVE ALL
YOU ABSOLUTELY NEED EVERYTHING INSIDE THE GAME TO FLOW APPROPRIATELY!
IT'S IN THIS LAST AREA THAT 999 ULTIMATELY FAILS!
HULK HAS VERY LITTLE UNDERSTANDING AS TO WHY CERTAIN CHARACTERS
ARE IN THE GAME! WHILE THEY ALL HAVE A BACKGROUND (if you can call it that)
THAT BACKGROUND IS MOSTLY HINTED AT OR VAGUED UPON! THIS PROBLEM
IS EXASPERATED FURTHER BY A NEED TO PLAY EACH AND EVERY ENDING IN
ORDER TO EVEN HAVE A REMOTE CHANCE OF UNDERSTANDING THE ENDING!
DO YOU KNOW HOW CONFUSING IT IS TO PIECE TOGETHER SEVERAL DIFFERENT
STRANDS OF STORYLINE TOGETHER IN ORDER TO SEE SOMETHING? IT'S LIKE
READING SEVERAL DIFFERENT ENDINGS IN A CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE
BOOK AND THEN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT HAPPENED IN WHAT ORDER!
IT'S A MESS! A GAMMA RADIATED MESS!
.... LOOK... HULK MIGHT BE BASHING ON THE GAME A LITTLE TOO MUCH....
HULK GRUMPY BECAUSE HULK UNDERSTOOD THE ENDING TO 999, BUT DOESNT
AGREE WITH THE DIRECTION! HULK CAN RESPECT WHAT THEY DID, BUT HULK
STILL NOT HAPPY WITH THE RESULTS OR "ANSWERS" GIVEN TO HULK!
THEY NEVER SEALED THE DEAL! THERE WERE THINGS THAT NEEDED TO HAPPEN,
BUT THE WRITER CHOSE NOT TO!
HULK WILL NEVER LOOK AT SUV'S OR EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHICS THE SAME WAY EVER AGAIN!
HULK GIVES 999 4 OUT OF 5 FISTS!
THE CLOSER YOU GET TO GRASPING SOMETHING POWERFUL..
THE HARDER IT BECOMES TO HANG ON..
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