Mighty No. 9

 Wii U
User Score
4.6

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 110 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 41 out of 110
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 110
  3. Negative: 60 out of 110
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  1. Sacatuki
    Feb 6, 2017
    8
    A title that isn't that terrible and plays just fine on the Wii U. Mighty No.9 was one of the most hyped up titles that unfortunately, did not deliver on all that it was built up to be and even had a bad marketing campaign for it. Mighty No.9 features a pleasant world where technology is very advanced and there isn't any sort of conflict between other countries and so forth. That is untilA title that isn't that terrible and plays just fine on the Wii U. Mighty No.9 was one of the most hyped up titles that unfortunately, did not deliver on all that it was built up to be and even had a bad marketing campaign for it. Mighty No.9 features a pleasant world where technology is very advanced and there isn't any sort of conflict between other countries and so forth. That is until robots start acting aggressive and hostile. Even our heroes brethren can't control their urge to be baddies. Mighty No.9, or Beck for short, is tasked by his professor and his other professor friend to restore the other Mighty Numbers to their good guy selves and join forces to tackle on the true threat behind of all of these corrupted robots. The game relies heavily on combos and has some small frame rate issues that don't usually take over unless its in certain parts where there is multiples of the infamous "pizza explosions" happening at once. It doesn't freeze the game or make it crash but rather makes it a tad annoying to see. It also is a spiritual successor to the much praised Megaman series and takes on many aspects like the difficult platforming, the ability to absorb the bosses abilities and add them to your own, and a laser beam like megaman. However, this game relies heavily on combos which is performed when you shoot enemies a certain amount of time and dash into them thus absorbing them and gaining points The game runs fine on the Wii U and the load times are ok too. Loading times last about 10 seconds max. Makes me wonder why people complained this version was atrocious. I personally enjoyed the game with it's bright and colorful world along with the difficult platforming, the new abilities to absorb from each boss fight, and some certain characters's personality. Some cheesy jokes are cringe worthy but others are well timed and pretty funny. Especially Avi. However, if you aren't into wanting to hear english dialogue, the audio can be changed to some other languages like french or Japanese. Plus there is subtitles for you to understand what's going on if you choose another language option which is great. Now if only that sort of option would be used for Japanese only import titles so that people who import can understand plots to the games they buy. Anyways, the game isn't as bad as everyone says it is. It just was put on a pedestal and basically let everyone down on all of the hype like No Man's Sky. However, if you come in with no hype and just to play it for some fun, then you'll be pleasantly surprised by this game and I personally would recommend it regardless of port you choose to play it on. Thanks for reading my review and have a good one!… Expand
  2. CengizKaan
    Sep 16, 2016
    8
    Mighty # 9 Review from a MegaMan Fan (Megaman 1-10, Megaman X-X6, Megaman BN 1-6, Mega Man Zero 1-4)
    the main robot name is "Beck" he plays most like "Megaman 3" simple canon fire, jump and dash. the whole game is a mix of Megaman 3 & Megaman X.. when u get the other mighty robots after every Stage. for me is Mighty #9, Megaman on steroids, its look really good and Clean, had a fast &    Mighty # 9 Review from a MegaMan Fan (Megaman 1-10, Megaman X-X6, Megaman BN 1-6, Mega Man Zero 1-4)
    the main robot name is "Beck" he plays most like "Megaman 3" simple canon fire, jump and dash. the whole game is a mix of Megaman 3 & Megaman X.. when u get the other mighty robots after every Stage. for me is Mighty #9, Megaman on steroids, its look really good and Clean, had a fast & good gameplay and its like all other megaman games Very Hard !! Pls set the Sounds efects on 8-bit & Japanese voice, than u will get one of the best Megaman Soundtracks ever!! for me it is not the best megaman but it can hold easy with every other megaman. so i would give this game 80% from 100%. this game had only one slowdown, in the mighty # 4 stage. for me, the bad reviews are from persons they never was a fan of megaman games and try now 2 manipulate with bad reviews this good megaman game & the independent video game developer Comcept Inc.
    some last words for the graphics. like i said it before, it looks good & clean for a Megaman game, the Details are average, i now most of the reviewers hate the graphics, the fact is, this game will release for 3ds and all other systems and ComCept Inc. try a way 2 let this game look on every system the same and this is for the most others maybe a disappointment. the question is what people really expect ? GTA 5 graphics ? or Metal Gear Solid 5 Graphics ? can it look same on 3ds & pc than ? asks yourselves..    … Expand
  3. CarlKarl
    Oct 18, 2016
    8
    Pretty good honestly. I don't see why so many people hate this game. Very challenging and fun, never made me feel like a death was unfair. The performance was pretty good too.
  4. Krossbone
    Jul 10, 2020
    9
    Coming from someone who didn't partake in the Kickstarter and despises Mega Man, I find Mighty No. 9 to be a really fun time. It takes what Mega Man does and makes it actually good lmao. Its level design isn't anywhere near as cheap as Mega Man's, which are consistently full of **** enemy placement, death pits, and insta-death spike traps. MN9 has these, but nowhere near as much. The XelComing from someone who didn't partake in the Kickstarter and despises Mega Man, I find Mighty No. 9 to be a really fun time. It takes what Mega Man does and makes it actually good lmao. Its level design isn't anywhere near as cheap as Mega Man's, which are consistently full of **** enemy placement, death pits, and insta-death spike traps. MN9 has these, but nowhere near as much. The Xel Dash also provides Beck with a much more resilient move than Rock's useless slide dash. The character designs are also all great and the story is much better than pretty much every classic Mega Man game I've played (specifically 1 - 4). On the whole, 9/10.… Expand
  5. bimjowen
    Jul 31, 2016
    9
    This game doesn't deserve a 10. But nor does it deserve the hatred it has gotten.

    This is a perfectly above-average Mega Man-style game. It is difficult and it will punish you for sucking. It will encourage you to rush through the levels and be flashy and it will kill you for doing so if your movements are imprecise. I had more fun playing and dying in this game than I did in Donkey    This game doesn't deserve a 10. But nor does it deserve the hatred it has gotten.

    This is a perfectly above-average Mega Man-style game. It is difficult and it will punish you for sucking. It will encourage you to rush through the levels and be flashy and it will kill you for doing so if your movements are imprecise.

    I had more fun playing and dying in this game than I did in Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze.

    The music is forgettable, but passable. The voice acting is bad, but the Japanese voices with English subs are perfectly fine. The graphics are so-so, but graphics are not the reason you're playing a retro Mega Man game.

    If you're 30 years old and grew up loving Mega Man X and would enjoy a challenging old-school game I see no reason you would not like this game overall.

    If you're too young to remember spiked floors, 3 lives, difficult bosses that require memorization and getting sent back to the beginning of the level when you die, then sure, you are going to hate this game -- and you will probably blame your hatred on the squandered Kickstarter $3 million. But guess what? This is a THIRTY DOLLAR TITLE. FOR WHAT IT COSTS, IT IS BETTER THAN GOOD.

    Deal with it!    … Expand
  6. JHTANG
    Jul 6, 2016
    9
    Um...yeah, so it's really not that bad.
    Finally got around to playing it, and it's actually pretty good...I don't know what all the fuss was about. I think people just wanted this game to be bad because of how the kick starter was handled...but here's the thing, none of that has anything to do with the actual game. So, what? You're all bitter that Keiji Inafune took the money you're    Um...yeah, so it's really not that bad.
    Finally got around to playing it, and it's actually pretty good...I don't know what all the fuss was about. I think people just wanted this game to be bad because of how the kick starter was handled...but here's the thing, none of that has anything to do with the actual game. So, what? You're all bitter that Keiji Inafune took the money you're throwing at him for a game that only needed a small budget? Wouldn't you do the same thing? He probably used it to grow his company, Comcept, a small start up that's now much bigger thanks to this kickstarter.
    The game's not perfect, but, like, the things people are complaining about are non-issues.
    Everyone's complaining about the English voice acting and cutscenes being terrible, but no one's mentioned that there's a Japanese Language option, I have heard, literally, not one critic bring that up; and the Japanese voices are pretty good...also, so what if the voice acting and cutscenes are bad, who **** cares? Remember this **** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h4Vt8MR8NY? And that was a great game.
    The graphics aren't great is the other complaint...yeah, I mean, no, they're not...but again, why does that matter...did you play Megaman for cutting edge graphics?
    Also, I'm playing this on the WiiU, apparently the most broken version due to load times up to a minute long...where is this happening to people? I mean, sure, the load times are longer then they should be, but I've yet to encounter one longer then 10 seconds.
    It doesn't play exactly like Megaman...sure, it doesn't...but did you really want that? There's been about 13 proper Megaman releases, and that's not counting Megaman X, Megaman Zero and Megaman ZX which all play pretty similarly...do we really need another one? It actually plays closer to Azure Striker, which I loved...though, it may be a bit too similar, to the point where I'm kind of wondering why this needed to be a new franchise.
    Bottom line is it plays very well, fast paced, responsive, great for speed runs and score challenges. I don't really know what people were expecting with this title outside of that.
    It's not perfect, certainly, and it def shouldn't have taken this long to finish, or cost as much as it, supposedly, did...but, again, none of that really has anything to do with gameplay.
    I will say though It is disappointing that they choose to use the Unreal Engine (that's probably what's causing all those load times), but plenty of good games that you people all love use that unfortunate game engine...I mean, every Suda/Grasshopper Studios game uses the Unreal Engine and suffers from the same problems because of it, but you all love that **** (I love those games too).    … Expand
  7. GRANDDAD
    Oct 18, 2016
    9
    Masterful. I haven't played any Mega Man games before, but I can tell this game is above and beyond them. For starters, the graphix. They look A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. ESPECIALY the explosions. It also introduces an interesting gameplay mechanic I haven't seen before. The game will actually slow down the frame rate sometimes, which adds some fun unpredictability and challenge to the game. Sometimes,Masterful. I haven't played any Mega Man games before, but I can tell this game is above and beyond them. For starters, the graphix. They look A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. ESPECIALY the explosions. It also introduces an interesting gameplay mechanic I haven't seen before. The game will actually slow down the frame rate sometimes, which adds some fun unpredictability and challenge to the game. Sometimes, the game will even crash! It adds some fun tension no other game has replicated, especially not those lame old Mega Man games. The dash mechanic is really fun too. It's nice to have a way to get a quick burst of speed in a game like this, another thing no other Mega Man game has ever done. Seeing a pattern? This game is like Mega Man, but good. In fact, it's one of the greatest games I've ever played, second only to Sonic Boom. The only flaw I can see with it is the fact it's a platformer. They should have just made it an FPS instead.… Expand
  8. Expertspecter
    Jun 26, 2016
    9
    Honestly, there is way to much hate for this game going around. As soon as I started playing, it rekindled that mega man spirit in me. I don't know what reviewers like Promotheus have done to their console, probably covering all the vent ports and wondering why the games run like crap. It has run smoothly for me. I enjoy the frantic mix of action and dashing. The only flaw I saw was notHonestly, there is way to much hate for this game going around. As soon as I started playing, it rekindled that mega man spirit in me. I don't know what reviewers like Promotheus have done to their console, probably covering all the vent ports and wondering why the games run like crap. It has run smoothly for me. I enjoy the frantic mix of action and dashing. The only flaw I saw was not including a charge shot of some kind. Which is fine. It rates well for a 20 dollar game, and few games have been able to reach the number of consoles this game has. It is much better than some of the other 15 or 20 buck releases on the wii and other consoles.… Expand
  9. Prof_Wild_Young
    Jun 10, 2020
    10
    You wanted Mega Man and got it. The only issue? YOU forgot that Mega Man can have, and is mostly made of, **** entries. This happened to be the case this time.

    ... Or so keep saying, most likely because it isn't what's familiar to them. However, I agree that the game did some things quite right! Dashing was fun, absorption was not. Some of the powers were useful instead of 1 or none    You wanted Mega Man and got it. The only issue? YOU forgot that Mega Man can have, and is mostly made of, **** entries. This happened to be the case this time.

    ... Or so keep saying, most likely because it isn't what's familiar to them. However, I agree that the game did some things quite right! Dashing was fun, absorption was not. Some of the powers were useful instead of 1 or none throughout the game so don't believe the myth that only 3 were useful because there was so many more, weapon energy has recovery and isn't hard to lose to encourage actually using it. Enemies are decently varied and entertaining to go up against, spawning directly on top of MN9 was not. Ducking is automatic in hazardous areas, except one? A mixed bag, but absolutely leaning on positive!    … Expand
  10. FruitPunch12
    May 21, 2022
    10
    It's a nice game, but I wouldn't recommend the Wii U version.

    I'll still give it a 10/10, but that's because I feel like that it's very underrated (Especially this version).

Awards & Rankings

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#16 Best Wii U Game of 2016
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#6 Most Discussed Wii U Game of 2016
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#10 Most Shared Wii U Game of 2016

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48

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 9
  3. Negative: 2 out of 9
  1. Pelit (Finland)
    Oct 11, 2016
    52
    Mighty No. 9 is a game you don’t want to continue playing. It tries to ride on the wave of Mega Man nostalgia without understanding why people love Mega Man. [Sept 2016]
  2. Nintendo Force Magazine
    Sep 7, 2016
    60
    My fingers are crossed that Comcept gets their act together and can create a sequel that is the Mega Man 2 to this underwhelming original. [Issue #23 – September/October 2016, p.68]
  3. FNintendo
    Aug 26, 2016
    50
    Mighty No. 9 created very high expectations and could have reached a perfect formula for success but as it is, it failed to capture Mega Man's essence and doesn't build up on what its inspiration did best.
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