Decline Mighty No. 9 - It's better than nothing.

[80Maxwell08]

So Keiji Inafune has finally gotten around to making a spiritual successor to Megaman and has taken it to Kickstarter.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mightyno9/mighty-no-9

He's currently asking for $900,000 and has stretch goals up to 2.5 million. The base game costs $20 but apparently to get a manual you need to spend $40. He has a good amount of people from the original team, including the soundtrack composer (thank god). Also apparently he's trying to have a lot of community interaction asking backers about the parts they liked in the old games, what to focus on, and a contest to design an enemy.

If I had $60 to throw in for a box I would probably go for it but I don't think I'll be able to give to this regardless. What about anyone else?

EDIT: Can't believe I forgot to mention this but there's a couple of backer excluvise things in the game like a shin and power. Still don't like backer exclusive stuff so not too keen on that.

 

[Ninjerk]

Nah, there's enough megamen for me.

 

[Hobo Elf]

This looks more like a Chinese bootleg of Mega Man than anything else. Screenshots look like some flash game. He's drawing more inspiration from the Classic Mega Man rather than X so fuck that noise.

 

[Excidium]

I guess it is not only CRPGs that suffer from "more of the same" kickstarter syndrome

 

[kaizoku]

So Keiji Inafune has finally gotten around to making a spiritual successor to Megaman and has taken it to Kickstarter.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mightyno9/mighty-no-9

megaman you say!?

fucking mickey mouse aesthetics

 

[felipepepe]

Make me a spiritual successor to Zero, ad then I'll be listening.

 

[evdk]

Make me a spiritual successor to Zero, ad then I'll be listening.

Zero is an emo bastard, X or go home.

 

[felipepepe]

 

[TigerKnee]

Zero is an emo bastard, X or go home.

Are you serious? Have you played X6? Or heck, X4's ending? X tends to be ridiculously emo as a character as well.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Also, outside of that one infamous cutscene, Zero is pretty cold from what I've seen. He's generally all business.

 

[e-mailio estevez]

I want a new Megaman game, but yeah, not liking the aesthetics of this new character very much.

Still, looks like it'll easily hit its goal. Any kind of middle finger to Capcom is a good thing.

 

[Ninjerk]

I don't consider or care about any Megaman game after X4 (maybe 5, but I don't remember that one too well, was there a space shuttle or some shit?). Zero was the fucking ma- err, robot?

 

[TigerKnee]

It was probably X5. They launched a space shuttle as the final ditch effort to stop Axis's Colony Drop... uh, I mean Sigma's colony drop.

 

[felipepepe]

Zero's gameplay is much more interesting, instead of guns that you have to keep swapping, he gets new abilities, like double jump, spinning attacks, deflecting blasts, mid-air dashes, etc...

 

[Ninjerk]

Not to mention fucking SHORYUKEN

 

[felipepepe]

Not to mention fucking SHORYUKEN

And REVERSE SHORYUKEN!

Spoiler

Mega Man X4

Raijingeki
(雷神撃? "Raijin Attack") Web Spider By pressing the Special Weapon button while standing, Zero will perform a forward thrust with the Z-Saber as a blade of blue lightning.

Kuuenbu
(空円舞? "Air Waltz") Split Mushroom The Kuuenbu technique allows Zero the ability to jump one more time after an initial jump. (This is not actually an attack. Zero keeps this ability in most of the later games.)

Kuuenzan
(空円斬? "Air Circling Slash") Split Mushroom
The Kuuenzan technique allows Zero to perform a rolling slash attack with his Z-Saber whilst in the air. The slash will still go on as Zero changes directions.


Rakuhouha
(落鳳破? "Falling Phoenix Crusher") Cyber Peacock As his Giga Attack, Zero punches the ground, sending out waves of energy in a fan-like pattern.

Tenkuuha
(天空覇? "Aether Supremacy/Sky Command") Storm Owl The Tenkuuha technique upgrades the Z-Saber, tinting it violet and allowing it to destroy energy shots.

Ryuenjin
(龍炎刃? "Dragon Flame Blade") Magma Dragoon
By pressing Up and Special Weapon button while standing, Zero will perform a leaping upward slash with the Z-Saber as a blade of red flames. This move has a fixed height.


Hyouretsuzan
(氷烈斬? "Ice Fury Slash") Frost Walrus Zero will perform a falling downward thrust with the Z-Saber as a giant light blue icicle. Can not be interrupted, but he can aim the icicle left or right to hit the target more effectively.

Hienkyaku
(飛燕脚? "Flying Swallow Feet") Jet Stingray
The Hienkyaku technique allows Zero to perform a dash in mid-air. (This is not actually an attack.)


Shippuuga
(疾風牙? "Hurricane Fang") Slash Beast
By pressing the Special Weapon button during a dash move, Zero will perform a large, twirling slash with a pink blade, hitting up to three times in a row. Take note that Zero can only do this while dashing on the ground, and not while performing Hienkyaku at the same time.

Best moveset ever.

 

[Ninjerk]

God, the hits you could get with Raijingeki. I want the Shoryuken as smiley. Dunno what for.

 

[deuxhero]

Make me a spiritual successor to Zero, ad then I'll be listening.

The few times Roll was playable, her gameplay was based on Zero's. Prehaps one of the mystery stretch goals is playable Roll Call?

 

[Whisky]

Not really a big Mega Man guy, but my friend is. He was pretty much destroyed during that MML3 debacle, I hope this makes him feel better.

 

[Hobo Elf]

Not to mention fucking SHORYUKEN

But X had Shoryuken as well.

 

[Fat Dragon]

Not my type of game but it's nice to see Jap developers start using KS. Plus Inafune is the real deal and it looks like his team have their shit together, much better than the Project Phoenix guys . Mega Man is mostly dead these days so there's plenty of demand for this type of game from that fanbase.

Also, I am fucking jealous of Japan right now, from that video it looks like they still have stores that sell old video games and hardware like NES.

 

[Gozma]

I had no idea they made more Mega Man games after the NES, where there were like forty of them. Shit is like Sonic to me, they apparently just kept making them

 

[Ninjerk]

Not to mention fucking SHORYUKEN

But X had Shoryuken as well.

He did? Either I don't remember or I didn't play it.

 

[LeStryfe79]

Looks like this thing is headed for at least 2 million. The part where they describe Beck using martial arts moves is pretty cool too.

 

[Damned Registrations]

I don't think I've played a single megaman game other than X on SNES. Is there a dearth of sidescrolling platformers these days? I remember dust a furry tail going on steam sales a couple times.

A dearth of good ones, yeah. Dust was all flash and no substance. Lots of artwork, voice acting, totally irrelevant gameplay that you could button mash through, and all the secrets felt pointless. And most of the smaller indie stuff is either a really primitive shit platformer made for people who never even played mario bros, or just badly designed. Best ones in recent memory are Cave Story and Iji, and I'd still rate those two below X1-3, or SotN.