Mighty No. 9, touted as the spiritual successor to Mega Man, fell tragically short of expectations. While its core gameplay holds some classic platforming charm, it's marred by uninspired level design, frustrating enemies, and a disappointing visual style. The game feels unfinished, with jarring difficulty spikes and a lack of the memorable boss battles that defined the genre it sought to emulate. Despite a few glimmers of potential, Mighty No. 9 is a lackluster experience that fails to live up to its legacy.

I wanted to write that the game should be deleted from everyone who has it on any device, but I got to thinking, even the trash of the gaming industry has a soul. Here the patient actually has not yet completely died. Game design. As I always like to write, it’s crap, it was clearly laid out by crap people, but as a franchise that almost completely repeats the mechanics of MegaMan-like games and tries to pull out at least something pleasant, thank you for that, the external component itself is pleasant. Almost everything in the game is bad, so you have to go through this hell yourself.

Хотел написать, что игру необходимо удалять у всех, у кого она есть на каком либо устройстве, но призадумался, даже у треша игровой индустрии есть душа. Тут собственно пациент еще не полностью умер. Геймдизайн. как я люблю всегда писать, говно, верстали его явно всратые люди, но как именно франшиза, которая практически полностью повторяет механику MegaMan-подобных игр и пытается вытянуть хотя бы что-то приятное, за это спасибо, сама внешняя составляющая приятная. В игре почти все плохо, поэтому надо пройти через этот ад самому.

Enjoyment - 3/10
Difficulty - 5/10

I have the platinum trophy for Mighty No. 9. Who hurt me to think this was a good idea to achieve? Well, the game was on my PSN profile for so many years with only ONE trophy achieved. Initially played it briefly, and hated it. That is the common consensus for most players. Since then, the game has been laughing at me, crying out LOSER every chance it got! I was tired of this treatment, so I geared up and tackled the game.

It is a hot mess. Even after mastering the game, I can't say I fully enjoyed myself. It did feel torturous, but there is a small part of me that saw past the glaring flaws and imagined the polished version of the game. When you get a hang of the game, there is something here but I can't precisely tell you what that is.

If the game took different directions then maybe this would be considered a half decent game. Honestly, playing games like this is part and parcel of being a video game enthusiast. To play all kinds of games develops a deeper appreciation for video games.
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This is another game I’ve had in my sights, and even owned, since last year’s Mega Man Mega Marathon. In all but name, it’s a Mega Man game to me, so I figured it was only appropriate to include it. A friend of mine had an extra Steam key for it lying around, and she was kind enough to give it to me so I could finally experience this controversial title. I had heard all the hate for it back when it came out and since then, but I’d also heard several people I trust say it’s pretty decent, so I went in not really knowing what to think but being pleasantly surprised with what I found. It took me around 4.5 hours to beat the English version of the game.

The game followed our titular Mighty No. 9, Beck, as he tries to get his rampaging fellow Mighty No.’s under control after they suddenly go berserk. There’s a fair bit of intrigue between stages around the reasons why the robots went bad and who was involved, and it all has a very Saturday morning cartoon-vibe to it, right down to the voice acting. I know some people really didn’t care for how the Mighty No.s are characterized and found them annoying, and while I think that’s a fair opinion to have, I really enjoyed their banter, especially for the one who constantly talks like he’s a traffic helicopter XD. The whole game gave me vibes very similar to something like Vanquish but a bit more kiddy, and I really dug it. I understand not vibing with it, but I think the story fits its purpose just fine.

The gameplay very much feels like its made by Inticreates (which it is), as it really does feel like a lost Mega Man X or Mega Man Zero game. Beck controls very much like Mega Man, even down to how he can absorb weapons from defeated bosses and can’t fire up or down, but with the extra addition of a charge move much like Bass or X can do in their Mega Man games. If you weaken an enemy, you can charge through them to destroy them and absorb a temporary buff from them (from more speed to more damage to E-tank fuel), and this is also how you deal permanent damage to bosses (as otherwise they’ll just heal the damage back). That last point isn’t actually properly explained to you, for whatever reason, and that lack of explaining is probably one of my main presentation complaints with the game. I don’t think it works perfectly, but the quick, hit and run style that it encourages was a quite fun way to approach one of these games, and between the stage design and the boss design, I thought this fit right into the quality of Inticreates’s more mid-range titles (right down to the final stage that’s a bit too hard with the final boss that’s a real battle of attrition).

The presentation is just fine. I’m not exactly in love with the 2.5D design of everything, but I don’t dislike it nearly as much as some people. Compared to another Kickstarter 2.5D action game like Bloodstained, I’d say this game’s aesthetic is pulled off much better than that. The music is also by and large just fine, although there weren’t any particularly memorable tracks to me.

Verdict: Recommended. While it’s hardly the best Mega Man-like game and certainly not Inticreates’s best title, by the time I was done with Might No. 9, I really didn’t understand the hate pile it got. With how badly the Kickstarter was run, I can certainly understand people being set up to dislike it, but the actual quality of the game just doesn’t reflect that at all to me. As a big Mega Man fan, I quite enjoyed it, and if you’re someone who enjoys Mega Man or Inticreates games too, you will likely have quite a good time with Mighty No. 9 too~.

I genuinely think what makes this game so bad is that it feels as if it was born out of spite. It was sort of a "you don't want me to make Mega Man? Then I'll make Mega Man myself" statement from the creator of Mega Man to Capcom after their continued neglect of the IP. Combine that with the crowd funding and severe overpromising and you get one of the worst games ever created. I really REALLY wanted to like this game and kept telling myself that until I got to the end of the game. Level design is atrocious, the combat downright sucks and the entire game just feels horribly uninspired. It was advertised as a "spiritual successor" to Mega Man but took that statement a little too seriously. Every character and I mean EVERY character in the game has an exact 1:1 parallel in the Mega Man games and does absolutely nothing to have even a taste of originality. This game also rested in development hell for years and still ended up being painfully short - assuming you were masochistic enough to endure the entire game like I did. Very unfortunate proof that sometimes a game designer/developer is only as good as their publisher and studio.

This game is very controversial, and I was completely aware of everything going into it, but I wanted to give it a fair chance. Ignore all outside knowledge and judge the game for what's in the game. How did that go?


it's alright.
It doesn't look the prettiest, and the story can be pretty stupid at times, but I... had a lot of fun playing it. It feels like a stock standard mega man game at times, but... some of the stages were genuinely really fun to go through.

Cleverly used the world's love of Mega Man against us all, it took until Bloodstained for me to even consider playing a Kickstarted game after this disgrace and Yooka-Laylee.

I do like the character designs of pretty much all the robot characters but with Inafune's past work designing Mega Man characters it's good that at least they got that right, gameplay is completly devoid of anything that made Mega Man fun and iconic, in paticualar a disgustingly frusterating Sniper stage, inconsistant difficulty, a final boss difficulty spike that if you made it this far will make you reach for the off switch. Story is completly unmemorable that the idea that this was going to be expanded to a multimedia franchise is nothing short of a gross oversight

It's my headcannon that Capcom released Mega Man 11 to slam dunk on this one to show how it's done and put him back in hibernation, maybe another Mighty number 9 game will give us Mega Man 12...

If you are looking for a true Mega Man successor give Azure Striker Gunvolt or Gravity Circuit a try, even for the Mega Man diehards or those curious this ones worth a skip

1/10

Mighty No. 9 is a very controversial game to say the least, from it's Kickstarter Campaign being a mismanaged clusterfuck to it's eventually release and lukewarm reception, it's a game that's been lambasted and roasted to high hell, but personally I feel Mighty No. 9 is overhated, does it have problems? oh yes it does! from inconstant difficulty to equally inconstant level design, it's a game that's riddled with NES era bullshit, from bottomless pits, instakill spikes and instakill boss attacks,

it's a game that wears it predecessor on it's sleaves, but even with all those complaints aside MN9 can be a very fun experience, once you memorize the levels and boss patterns it can be quite enjoyable, personally this comes from trying to clear levels as quickly as possible while obliterating and absorbing every thing in you're path, I use my favorite Weapon that being the 'Remote Cannon' which is a big fuck you bomb to every enemy in the vicinity, but my least favorite would have to be the 'Electric Seed', it fires 5 projectiles and if stuck slowly drains enemies of health I genuinely didn't see any use for this, not for normal enemies anyway, for bosses with a gigantic hitbox it's actually kinda decent,

my favorite level would probably be the Capitol Building in which you have to dodge bullets that can sometimes follow you, and eventually navigate through instakill tripwires, my least favorite would probably be the Power Planet, it's very basic and uninteresting, only notable things about it are the power generators that you have to carefully slide under other wise you die and that the lights in the level will flicker on and off, although that's completely undermined by the fact that aside from the opening of the stage you always have some form of light leading you where to go, would have been neat if it was a bit more tricky on where you need to go,

but yeah Mighty No. 9 is just an ok game that can sometimes be stupidly unfair, genuinely wish it got a second chance with a direct sequel.

Acredito que essa seja a primeira vez, que eu tenho a experiência de gostar de um jogo que ninguém gosta. Não estou aqui para dizer que Mighty No. 9 é injustiçado, pois isso ele nunca será. Foi um projeto apoiado por muitas pessoas, rendeu rios de dinheiro e, mesmo assim, não atendeu às expectativas. É normal que as pessoas fiquem chateadas. Talvez o Keije Inafune não tenha roubado todo o dinheiro, talvez ele tenha investido bastante em Azure Striker Gunvolt 1 e 2, e Mighty Gunvolt Burst... Nunca saberemos ao certo. Só sabemos que Keiji Inafune foi um lixo humano em dizer: "Mighty No. 9 é melhor do que nada".

Mighty No. 9 é um jogo muito bom, desafiador, BONITO e, com certeza, uma boa maneira de reformular o que Megaman foi um dia. Sei que muita gente vai discordar disso, mas o jogo não tem o gráfico com "explosões de pizza" que tanto disseram, os designs de chefes e personagens principais são INCRÍVEIS, e a jogabilidade é extremamente rápida e fluida. É um plataforma muito desafiador, onde sua ideia consiste em se arriscar para executar combos cada vez maiores e, ao final de cada fase, conseguir uma grande pontuação através disso... Só que... Ninguém esperava isso.

Mighty No. 9 não é Megaman, como as pessoas esperavam que fosse, mas sim um parente distante, algo que bebe muito da fonte, mas não fica naquela mesmice. Ele tem ideias inovadoras, que foram até mesmo utilizadas com uma roupagem diferente na série 'Azure Striker Gunvolt'. O level design de cada fase é projetado pra te fazer pensar em como você conseguirá "dar stun" no seu inimigo, ao mesmo tempo que deverá encontrar uma janela de oportunidade entre os obstáculos e os ataques dos seus inimigos, pra destruir o inimigo que você "stunnou", e conseguir uma pontuação de 100%, garantindo uma contagem para o seu combo.

Não se trata de um jogo de plataforma somente pela plataforma. Mighty No. 9 posiciona seus inimigos de forma certeira, garantindo que a experiência da mecânica de combo, não fique só no papel, e se torne também parte de seu level design, e isso é fantástico. O frenesi de cada fase nova, te leva a construir um combate contra você mesmo e a sua "afobação". Você precisa ser perspicaz e encontrar um método pra se distanciar dos obstáculos das fases e continuar o seu combo.

Quando se fala em Megaman e, consequentemente, no seu criador original, é óbvio que a maioria das pessoas esperam um jogo onde você só tenha que estourar os seus inimigos na espada (Zero) ou no tiro (X, ou só o Megaman, da série clássica), só que Mighty No. 9 é outro tipo de jogo de plataforma. Ele te convida a experimentar as pontuações a nível de hack n slash, mudando o fato de que você pode tomar dano, você só não pode fazer uma pontuação abaixo de 100%.

Focar no que o jogo te apresenta como oportunidade de jogabilidade, é o prato cheio dele, e eu acho que isso deveria ser óbvio. Jogar um jogo a partir do objetivo que ele foi criado, e não a partir da expectativa de ser idêntico a outra franquia que você já conhece.

Além de tudo isso, mais uma vez, os gráficos de Mighty No. 9 podem não ser a melhor coisa do mundo, e eu entendo no quesito de: "doamos dinheiro pra cacete pra esse cara fazer o jogo que ele prometeu", só que ainda é um jogo MUITO BONITO. Eu fiquei realmente impressionado. Essa é a primeira vez que eu jogo Mighty No. 9 na vida, eu nunca tinha visto mais do que apenas uns 10 minutos de gameplay, e sinceramente, toda a estética artística que mistura cartoon com algo próximo do Megaman X8, me agrada infinitamente. Eu sei que as pessoas queriam um jogo com gráficos de última geração, quando se fala de 2016 e PlayStation 3/PlayStation 4, mas dizer que o jogo é feio SÓ POR NÃO TER GRÁFICOS ATUAIS, é negar um estilo artístico que brinca com estética cartoon e modelos de transição PS2/PS3. Se o seu problema for o tanto de dinheiro que o Inafune ganhou, a crítica correta seria: "os gráficos poderiam ser melhores".

Com uma jogabilidade tão rápida e desafiadora, nós temos um ótimo plataforma, com mecânicas únicas e uma intensidade em te fazer querer tirar pontuações mais altas. O jogo é curto, a duração das fases também é curta, e tudo isso colabora para o fator replay, que é o objetivo do jogo com a sua jogabilidade.

Existem modos co-op online e corrida online também, muita coisa pra fazer, e nossa... Eu amei isso aqui. Não sei como ele saiu em 2016, mas eu esperava que mais pessoas gostassem... Eu realmente esperava não ser um dos poucos a gostar tanto disso aqui. A nota 9/10 é com o coração, é particular meu, mas se fosse pra ser mais sincero até 8/10 passava. Recomendo a todos que gostam de um bom plataforma e não está esperando exatamente um Megaman... Apenas o processo criativo que realmente envolve muita criatividade, bons levels designs e rapidez. Garanto que você vai se divertir.

Aos que não gostam de Mighty No. 9: nada contra, eu só acho que o jogo é bom, mesmo com os problemas de seu criador e toda a polêmica envolvendo o kickstarter.