If you are reading this, odds are you played N on your PC back when it was a flash game. A sublime experience that has become a rite of passage to the world of gaming; exceptional in design, perfect in delivery. Then what’s the point in N+, I can hear you ask. I wondered the same before playing it. Let me answer by saying simply this: N+ is perhaps the best value video game released on any platform ever.

Not only does it come with a robust and frankly fantastic single player experience, in which you play the eponymous hero ninja trying to collect gold and evade enemies of varying design, it comes with that most magical of things: co-operative play.

Well what game doesn’t these days? Oh, but N+ feels like a game placed on this earth as if its one reason for existence is to play with someone else. Up to four people can play together on one screen, working together or against one another for one simple goal: survival.

You can play a stupidly large amount of levels with someone else, designed from the ground up for co-op. The now well-known N style gameplay of collecting gold, opening doors and flipping switches turns into a breath taking fight for endurance against the odds when you stack up with a friend.

The gameplay remains mostly unchanged, requiring you to do nothing but jump and run. Its simplicity, however, is the genius. But put all of that excellent gameplay into co-operative levels and you get extremely rewarding and thrilling fun again and again. Even more so, throw in all of the single player missions for co-op, not to mention a set of specifically designed versus levels that require you to race an opponent, and a survival mode which pits you against both your friend and the computer, and you have a rich, deep and highly exhilarating experience not found anywhere else.

N+ is, at its heart, fundamentally the same game you played years ago on PC. But what Metanet has done to make this a must-buy is provide you with enough content and multifaceted scenarios that you will be finding new gameplay experiences in this title for many years to come.