Mighty No 9 is a Dud

I play the PS3 more, and most of my platformers are there already.

I don't care for graphics so I don't mind if the PS4 version is a little bit sharper.

For the PS4 I only get games I can't get on my PS3.

By the way I was playing the game today and I'm afraid it's too easy.

I haven't tried the Maniac mode yet but maybe that will help the challenge.

It looks like they were aiming for kids, like the Bend 10 crowd at least. I'm afraid that affected the level design because the jumps are not hard at all to make, you can basically run through every level. There are not platforms tricky to reach or cliffs easy to fall on.

The presentation reminds me of Carnival Island which is a game I like, but for a platformer like Mega Man I can see how people is disappointed because they probably wanted a theme a bit more mature.

I like the levels music, but I care less for the menus music.

The game could benefit from a larger campaign. This is just a SNES size campaign.

The defining factor for me is that this is the only new game out there that has a character that shoots and moves like Mega Man X. So it is impossible for me to complaint about the gameplay. It is good (just make sure you change the dash from R1 to O).

If I was getting a game like this ever 3 to 6 months maybe I could be more critical but considering the options we have as players for these kind of games, I'm happy we are at least getting this one.

A .com file instead of a .exe?!?!?  Holy crap, that takes me back to the 90s!  I fell like I need to break out my old DOS for Dummies book.

stratogustav If you like speed run-ish platformers, i recommend Ranko Tsukigime's Longest Day. Its a hybrid of a game, and 4 other animated movies. Its a collaborative effort of animation and video game's industries most talented figures. I'm not sure if it came out in america, but its worth checking out. iirc i wrote something about it in the old forums, basically its a surreal experience.

Yep that's true. Makes you look for the goods in the game rather than the bad - the opposite of an immaculately reviewed game.

I'm of a mind with Happy Console Gamer. Inafune was just spread too thin with other commitments to devote full attention and all his talents into it.
ReCore, Red Ash, even Yaiba for a time during M9's development cycle. Always a bad idea to think you can doo many things and expect excel at all of them...

Makes me worried for ReCore now, even if I don't have an X1 to play it with (yet)...

I didn't think it looked good or interesting to begin with, I like the Mega Man series overall but I never really wanted more new games like Mega Man 9 and 10 or Mega Man X7 and X8, I would've been infinitely much happier if they just made the rest of the planned Maverick Hunter X series for PSP instead. Anyway, today I tried the demo of Mighty No 9 from Xbox Live and it confirmed my suspicions that it sucked pretty bad, even the two latest Mega Man X games on PS2 outperforms it, and by a lot at that.

Sluggish controls, the shooting felt weaker than it should, annoying gameplay gimmick focused around dashing into enemies to do damage and kill them outstayed its welcome after the third time I used it, gimmick got worse on the boss where if I didn't dash after every attack it would regain the health I had shot off, this was not a gimmick I enjoyed at all, the same annoying stop of flow due to cutscenes with talking all the time that the Mega Man series has gotten a lot of flak for was present as if they had learned nothing from decades of complaints, bland level design both visually and gameplay wise, music so generic I didn't even notice it let alone remember any of it, and that was just the demo, I can't imagine how tedious the whole thing would be to play through.