Mighty No. 9

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About

Mighty No. 9 is an 2.5D action-platform video game currently in development by Comcept^[1] and directed by producer Keiji Inafune, best known for working on titles such as Onimusha, Dead Rising and the Mega Man series. The plot of the game is set in the future, where the creation of highly advanced robots has become possible. The most advanced and powerful of those are a set of nine robots called the Mighty Numbers. But a computer virus of unknown origins attacks machines around the world, including the Numbers, infecting them and making them go evil. The player assumes control of Beck, the titular Mighty No. 9, and the only unaffected one out of the line, now must destroy his rogue “siblings” and discover the evil mastermind behind the crisis. The creation of the game relies on the online crowdfunding website, Kickstarter. Mighty No. 9 is intended to closely resemble the aforementioned Mega Man, another Inafune creation, in both gameplay and character design. This is due to Capcoms, the company that owns the rights to Mega Man, poor treatment of the franchise in recent years and Inafune wanting to give the fans a new Mega Man title, if all but in the name.

History

Mighty No. 9 was announced in a conference at the 2013 Penny Arcade Expo by Inafune and his team. A Kickstarter campaign^[2] for the project launched on August 31, 2013. Barely two days later, on September 2nd 2013, the minimum Kickstarter goal of 900,000$ has successfully been funded. The game is set to be released on Spring 2015.

Reception

The game received an amazing amount of positive reaction from gamers^[4], especially Mega Man fans. Many fans of the Blue Bomber freely admits to consider Beck as a spiritual successor to the franchise, even dubbing him the “New Bomber”. In the short time since Inafune revealed it at PAX 2013, Mighty No. 9 Kickstarter was covered by many video game sites and publicists. There’s also a growing amount of fan art on deviantart^[3].

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