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About
Mighty No. 9 is an upcoming 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. It is being funded on Kickstarter and it’s set to be released in 2015.
Background
Mighty No. 9 was announced in a conference at the 2013 Penny Arcade Expo by Inafune and his team. 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. Its Kickstarter campaign[2] launched on August 31, 2013. Barely two days later, on September 2nd 2013, the minimum goal of 900,000$ has successfully been funded, while its four strech goals had been reached within the first week. The game is set to be released on Spring 2015.
The Plot
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.
Reception
In the short time since Inafune revealed it at PAX 2013, Mighty No. 9 Kickstarter was covered by many video game sites, such as Polygon[7][8], Blistered Thumbs[5][6] and GameSpot[9][10]. Several prominent Youtubers, such as Angry Joe[12], Gaijin Goombah[13] and Happy Console Gamer[14], have also expressed their support for the game.
The game received an amazing amount of positive reaction from gamers[4], especially Mega Man fans. Many of them freely admits to consider Beck as a spiritual successor to the Blue Bomber, even dubbing him the “New Bomber”. There’s also a growing amount of fan art on deviantart[3] and pixiv[11].
Search Interest
External References
[1]Comcept – Official Comcept English Page
[2]Kickstarter – Mighty No. 9 Kickstarter Page
[3]DeviantArt – search results for Mighty No. 9
[4]NeoGAF – Mighty No. 9 Thread on NeoGAF
[5]Blistered Thumbs – Keiji Inafune’s Spiritual Mega Man Sequel Kickstarter Has Reached its Goal
[6]Blistered Thumbs – BT PodCast
[7]Polygon – Mega Man spiritual successor Mighty No. 9 meets Kickstarter funding goal
[8]Polygon – Interview with Inafune at PAX 2013
[9]GameSpot – Mega Man creator launches Kickstarter for Mighty No. 9
[10]GameSpot – Mega Man Creator On How Kickstarter Could Rejuvenate The Japanese Gaming Scene
[11]pixiv – search results for Mighty No. 9
[12]Youtube – AJS Vlog: Update & Mighty #9 Pledge!
[13]Youtube – Mighty No 9 Promo Video (Game Exchange)
[14]Youtube – MIGHTY NO.9!! WOW! ROBMANEXPLODES!