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. Hrhr
    Aug 31, 2022
    6
    it's a bit disappointing that this game is not as fast or as fun the way I was hoping for
  2. Crocco
    Aug 24, 2022
    4
    It's just Mediocre. The 360/Wii U/PS3 versions don't look that great and the default button mapping is pretty lazy once you realize it's pretty much mapped the same way as how it would be on a 360 controller (i.e the OK button is "B") The cut scenes are cheap and the Voice acting is just as cheap. Stay away from the Wii U version.
  3. 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).
  4. greninjaX
    Feb 11, 2022
    7
    eh, it's not THAT bad. sure it's disappointing, but it really is better than nothing
  5. AJCk19
    Jul 9, 2021
    3
    tldr; Just play a real Megaman game.

    CONS 1. lacking extra content during stages. Like no power ups to explorer? 2. No real bonus for getting S ranked. 3. loading times are bad. 4. controls feel clunky 5. no extra features for wii u 6. feels like water down mega man x game (ironic, seeing the original creator made both of them). PROS 1. reminds you that you want to play the    tldr; Just play a real Megaman game.

    CONS
    1. lacking extra content during stages. Like no power ups to explorer?
    2. No real bonus for getting S ranked.
    3. loading times are bad.
    4. controls feel clunky
    5. no extra features for wii u
    6. feels like water down mega man x game (ironic, seeing the original creator made both of them).

    PROS
    1. reminds you that you want to play the other mega man games in these series.
    2. you want to like it, you really do.
    3. artbook and poster was nice.
    4. pricing was good, and came with dlc.    … Expand
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. jugadorhardcore
    Sep 12, 2018
    0
    ahahaha this crap is the biggest fraud! it make me laugh all the stupid people who give money for this.
  9. Rentonator
    Nov 5, 2017
    6
    Story 5/10 the plot is boring and not engaging and the terrible cut scenes lower the enjoyment value even more like THERE MOUTHS DONT EVEN MOVE THE JUST SPEAKING SOME HOW WITHOUT OPENING THEM!
    Graphics 6/10 i prefer the anime artsyle that the concept art used.The final product now looks like a generic ps2 paltformer made on a tiny budget despite this game having a decently huge budget    Story 5/10 the plot is boring and not engaging and the terrible cut scenes lower the enjoyment value even more like THERE MOUTHS DONT EVEN MOVE THE JUST SPEAKING SOME HOW WITHOUT OPENING THEM!
    Graphics 6/10 i prefer the anime artsyle that the concept art used.The final product now looks like a generic ps2 paltformer made on a tiny budget despite this game having a decently huge budget what i want to know is where the money went!
    Game play 5/10
    its watered down mega man with few changes.The robot powers are not very good i only used like 3 of them and the game play is not helped by the terrible level design which is lacks a sense of flow that the old games have they also dont use the new dash mechanic as much as they should have.
    Controls 7/10
    Overall the controls are fine but feel a but more stiff than the old games the dash to me when it was used was very fun and it was satisfying to dash trough enemies the controls overall are not half bad.
    Music 6/10
    its ok techno music i would say more but i can barely hear it over the sound effects like the sound mixing in this game is terrible.
    Worth the price no
    I would say it is worth the very cheap 10$ it goes for now and days but its not worth your time there so many better 2d action games which are way more worth the price
    Final score 6/10 an ok game not worth your time though    … Expand
  10. GoofNewf
    May 11, 2017
    0
    This game is 100% trash. I refuse to even describe the atrocities that I had to endure while playing this anal vomit. I sold this game the day after I stupidly bought it.
  11. mrmastro2002
    May 11, 2017
    0
    Ocean man, take me by the hand, lead me to the land that you understand
    Ocean man, the voyage to the corner of the globe is a real trip
    Ocean man, the crust of a tan man imbibed by the sand Soaking up the thirst of the land Ocean man, can you see through the wonder of amazement at the oberman Ocean man, the crust is elusive when it casts forth to the childlike man Ocean man, the    Ocean man, take me by the hand, lead me to the land that you understand
    Ocean man, the voyage to the corner of the globe is a real trip
    Ocean man, the crust of a tan man imbibed by the sand
    Soaking up the thirst of the land

    Ocean man, can you see through the wonder of amazement at the oberman
    Ocean man, the crust is elusive when it casts forth to the childlike man
    Ocean man, the sequence of a life form braised in the sand
    Soaking up the thirst of the land

    Ocean man, ocean man
    Ocean man

    Ocean man, take me by the hand, lead me to the land that you understand
    Ocean man, the voyage to the corner of the globe is a real trip
    Ocean man, the crust of a tan man imbibed by the sand
    Soaking up the thirst of the land

    Ocean man, can you see through the wonder of amazement at the oberman
    Ocean man, the crust is elusive when it casts forth to the childlike man
    Ocean man, the sequence of a life form braised in the sand
    Soaking up the thirst of the land

    Ocean man    … Expand
  12. Panzidane
    Mar 16, 2017
    7
    O jogo num geral é ruim, diálogos que mais induzem a desligar o console ou trocar o jogo, porém ainda temos um pouco do espirito de Megaman ali presente, isso é a única coisa nesse jogo que faz valer a conferida. Mas de resto... É lamentável.
  13. 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
  14. Toalbooth
    Jan 16, 2017
    3
    If you want to play the biggest disappointment of the whole of Next Gen consoles, look no further than Mighty No. 9.
    Good lord where do I begin? For a game that costs up to $4 Million this has CERTAINLY been absolutely horrible, the frame rate goes all over the place, and even in places you really would think it can run at 60FPS.
    The lack of instructions also doesn't help, two times I've    If you want to play the biggest disappointment of the whole of Next Gen consoles, look no further than Mighty No. 9.
    Good lord where do I begin? For a game that costs up to $4 Million this has CERTAINLY been absolutely horrible, the frame rate goes all over the place, and even in places you really would think it can run at 60FPS.
    The lack of instructions also doesn't help, two times I've counted where I've died because of something the game didn't tell me I could do something different with the Dash move.
    Not to mention how it doesn't like the Wii U controls, as a Nintendo Gamer, I'm used to pressing A to Jump, but Mighty No. 9 seemed to have taken note from Sonic Boom and put B to jump, and even as the default confirm button on the Menus.
    The voice acting is horrible, it sound passable when you start off, but the moment you start of in Mighty No. 3 Dynatron's stage, you will begin to hate the voice acting more and more.
    The graphics do not hold well at all, not even for Indie standards, ESPECIALLY not when it costed $4 Million to make!
    I bought this at my local Gaming Retailer for £15, and that came with a double sided poster, free DLC and a laughably bare art-book.
    I honestly wouldn't be so hard on this game, if it wasn't for its very high budget and constant delays, and the fact that it was made by the man who has made Mega Man games for nearly 20 years.
    The fact that the Wii U version is somehow the worst version, really shows they didn't care, they got the dev kits, they should've known what would work and what wouldn't so they could've released all versions with no faults.
    You must really hate yourself if you're even going to consider buying this game, seriously, just don't, do yourself a favour    … Expand
  15. Luigibros
    Oct 28, 2016
    4
    Before you say this is a ripoff of mega man, it's not, but that doesn't make the game any less horrible, pretty much just mega man but not mega man... I don't have anything to say that hasn't already been said
  16. 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.
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. ricklongo
    Sep 13, 2016
    4
    After a protracted development period that saw many early supporters turn to non-believers, Keiji Inafune's spiritual successor to Mega Man proves it wasn't really worth the wait after all.

    Mighty No. 9 follows closely the formula of Mega Man X games, with an initial stage followed by eight freely selectable master robot levels. It strays where it matters the most, however, as the level    After a protracted development period that saw many early supporters turn to non-believers, Keiji Inafune's spiritual successor to Mega Man proves it wasn't really worth the wait after all.

    Mighty No. 9 follows closely the formula of Mega Man X games, with an initial stage followed by eight freely selectable master robot levels. It strays where it matters the most, however, as the level design spans the spectrum from passable to absolutely atrocious. Unlike masterpieces like Mega Man 3, the difficulty spikes feel supremely forced instead of organic, making some of the sections an exercise in frustration.

    The game introduces a dash mechanic that is actually a pretty neat idea: you first weaken enemies, then have the opportunity to quickly dash through them to get temporary power-ups. Sadly, other gameplay details are less then acceptable. There's the inability to change weapons while paused, for example. Or the E-tank replacement that inexplicably vanishes after each death, preventing hoarding and pretty much completely undermining the item's usefulness.

    Then there's the fact that the game looks, in a word, horrible. The graphics are all blurry, filled with low-definition assets and those already infamously bad explosion effects.

    If you're a fan of Mega Man (like I am), Mighty No. 9 can scratch the itch for a few hours. After that, chances are you'll feel so unenthusiastic that it's gonna be hard even finding the will to see it through.    … Expand
  20. veedub
    Sep 1, 2016
    7
    My review of this game is mixed. From a pure merits of the game itself, it's a great game. It scratches the itch I've had for a MegaMan style game that I've had for years. Love the characters (the chatter in the fight with Avi is hilarious), the boss fights are fun, the mechanics for competitive play / speedthrough are there, and the Xel absorption mechanic makes the game feel differentMy review of this game is mixed. From a pure merits of the game itself, it's a great game. It scratches the itch I've had for a MegaMan style game that I've had for years. Love the characters (the chatter in the fight with Avi is hilarious), the boss fights are fun, the mechanics for competitive play / speedthrough are there, and the Xel absorption mechanic makes the game feel different enough from MegaMan that it isn't a complete ripoff from the original experience. Overall it's one of the funner games I've played.

    But from a technical standpoint, the team did an awful job. While I don't mind the simplistic look (in fact I rather like it), it seems like it takes *waaay* too much processing power to produce the look. Super Mario 3D World has a better appearance, more details, and a larger world, yet experiences absolutely no detectable frame drops, just for comparison. The frame drops in Mighty No. 9 are terrible, especially in sections that are particularly difficult, such as the falling fireballs / dropping platforms section on the Oil Platform, or the section in the Construction Site where you have to run from the drill. Dropping frames when you need them the most for quick reflex purposes is a sure sign of an unrefined game.

    Further, the cutscenes have completely lazy animation. While you could get away with that in a Wii game with no voice acting, you really can't get away with it here. Sure, you could easily cut corners by having mouths move anime style and have some meaningful body language -- and in fact something like that would be completely appropriate -- but they did literally nothing to make the cutscenes bearable to watch.

    I can imagine the game being made in "retro" style, like the Shantae series, and the game scoring 10's in all reviews. The gameplay is fresh, the level design is excellent, the characters are enjoyable, and having a retro-style game wouldn't take away from any of that. Everything "bad" about the game comes exclusively from their technical choices.    … Expand
  21. Coolamanen50
    Aug 20, 2016
    4
    Mighty no. 9 is a game that is fun but the wii u version just isn't playable, it lags and loads for ages.

    Despite that the game isn't even amazing it's just fun and solid.

    4/10
  22. 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
  23. Toshi3x
    Jul 29, 2016
    1
    I playing this game, this game are very bad graphics, bad controls, bad history, this game is bad , much bugs , in wiiu are crashes and the credits during 4 **** hours
  24. GamecubeLover
    Jul 21, 2016
    1
    The game has 3ds graphics even though it is a WII U game. The game crashes a lot for no reason and your wii u burns for no reason. The controls suck and the game lacks almsot everything! This is not mighty at all!
  25. EpicLadySponge
    Jul 10, 2016
    4
    If one were meant to confuse this with Mega Man, just confuse it as a bad Mega Man game and that's pretty much simple. Sadly, no one can resist having this title in their Wii U collection and all that money they threw in were wasted. Avoid this title for once.
  26. 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
  27. JBS
    Jul 5, 2016
    3
    15 minutes into my first play of MN9, my Wii U completely froze and had to be turned off. I should have left it off rather than continue with this frustrating endeavour. The level design is really poor, and when the game is difficult, it seems purely by chance, rather than being intentionally challenging. I was relieved when "Game Over" flashed up on screen.
  28. Promotheus
    Jun 27, 2016
    2
    UPDATE to my old review. Now the game runs a lot smoother. Maybe my console was overheated? I've had it since launch and that has never happened before. Or maybe the update (which I 100 percent downloaded before starting the game) did not get applied properly. I did not "cover the vents" on my Wii U or anything, I'm not retarded, there is plenty of space around it. In any case, the gameUPDATE to my old review. Now the game runs a lot smoother. Maybe my console was overheated? I've had it since launch and that has never happened before. Or maybe the update (which I 100 percent downloaded before starting the game) did not get applied properly. I did not "cover the vents" on my Wii U or anything, I'm not retarded, there is plenty of space around it. In any case, the game still has a lower frame rate than PC, and suffers from frame drops. But it is playable in its current state. I would advise getting the PC version if at all possible, or the XBone/PS4 one I suppose.

    The game itself is not very impressive. It would never live up to the hype, but to me the biggest shortcoming is the level design, it's just not where it needs to be. A platformer like this lives and dies with the level design. If instead of spending all that time with online mode, voice acting (which still turned out horrible) and God knows what other useless crap, they instead would've focused on level design I think this would've turned out a lot better. This is very much an IntiCreates game, and as per usual the levels rely way too much on "spikes" and various instant death setups. It's half assed, and does not come close to for example the Mega Man ZX-games. I would rate this worse than most Mega Man-games except possibly for X4-X6, but not by much.    … Expand
  29. 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

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

Critic Reviews

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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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