Mighty No. 9

[Police Girl]

I imagine its a stock SFX.

[OBJECTION MAN]

The preview build is loads of fun. It feels like Megaman was the inspiration but not the bible for this game. I really like the new mechanics in it.

The dash absorbing is brilliant. It completely changes how you approach combat and enemy formations. You have to sort of un-learn the Megaman combat approach, but once you understand that it becomes loads of fun.

I'm currently still writing my feedback report for Comcept, but I'll give a TL:DR rundown for now.

The buffs you get for absorbing enemies is very confusing in the moment. Since it changes the properties of how your shooting and movement work it can really throw you off for the moments after it activates. For example, suddenly getting the movement speed buff can cause you to slam head on into an enemy or trap as your speed increases instantly. Likewise whether or not you can shoot through walls depends on if you have the attack buff. This wearing off suddenly can momentarily trash your expectations of behavior enough to throw you off. I don't like this mechanic really at all. I think these abilities should be some sort of equipment or upgrade for purchase using in game currency. Maybe instead you get a special boost of money earned by absorbing under certain conditions?

The landmines don't have sufficient animation to make them pop out from the background, leaving me sometimes running into one without realizing.

We REALLY need voice work. Text can often get completely ignored or unnoticed during gameplay. The font is too small and doesn't pop enough for those kinds of messages during gameplay.

More impressions to come later.

[Sakura Leic]

Yeah I agree we need some voice acting for that text, unfortunately that slacker backer kickstarter is barely a tenth of the way to that goal.

[Fxeni]

We could probably live without the VOs if the text has a more prevalent box that pops up.

[Sakura Leic]

And on top of the screen instead of the bottom.

[Protoman Blues]

Well that could just be Beta text!

[Sakura Leic]

Probably,  I still wish we had voice acting.  I like my mission control.

[Nexus]

am I the only one who noticed the gun fire shots sound exactly like those from MegaMan X PSN games 4-6? If not, then I'm pretty sure I've heard those sound fx before somewhere.

It's the Mega Man ZX buster SFX.

[VixyNyan]

Do all backers get access to the beta? I have yet to receive it.

Pledge $80 or more

*COMPLETE* ALL-DIGITAL REWARD SET WITH BETA ACCESS: DIGITAL COPY OF MIGHTY NO. 9, DIGITAL RETRO-STYLE GAME MANUAL, DIGITAL ART BOOK/STRATEGY GUIDE, DIGITAL OFFICIAL SOUNDTRACK, EXCLUSIVE IN-GAME GOLDEN HERO, EXCLUSIVE IN-GAME TRANSFORMATION, **BETA ACCESS** & EXCLUSIVE MIGHTY NUMBER, FORUM ACCESS, NAME IN BACKER CREDITS & BACKER-ONLY PARTICIPATION EVENTS!

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The above pretty much says it all; the differences between this and the lower all-digital tier is at this level you get BOTH the Japanese- and Western-style versions of the digital game manual and art/book strategy guide, AND you get access to the beta version of Mighty No. 9!
Estimated delivery: Apr 2015

However, my pledge was for this:

Pledge $120 or more

PRINTED ART BOOK/STRATEGY GUIDE

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A softcover, full-color version of our combination art book/strategy guide (English or Japanese, your choice). Includes all previous rewards. (Check the reward section of the page for more details.)
Estimated delivery: Apr 2015
Add $20 USD to ship outside the US

[Protoman Blues]

Can you see this?

[Sakura Leic]

I like A and D really.

[Protoman Blues]

I kind of like the idea of a Bow

[Sakura Leic]

I do too, but I don't like the traffic cone it has.

[Protoman Blues]

Yeah. I'd rather they remove the cone as well.

[Align]

That's no traffic cone. It's Weil!

[Phi]

"GET ME OUT OF THIS BLASTED THING!"

[Psycho Yuffie]

I really can't wait for this game. It feels like I've been waiting forever since the Kickstarter was first announced. At the time I was dirt poor, though, so I couldn't invest into it. I wish I could play the beta. Sigh...

[Sakura Leic]

In this update they explained the set up of the Slacker Backer Kickstarter for people who didn't read the first time and don't know how much voice acting costs.  The one thing I'm iffy about is the fact that it was lowered to 100,000 but now it's a choice between English or Japanese.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mightyno9/mighty-no-9/posts/1003342

[Zan]

From what I understand, Comcept funneled in 80k of Backer pledge raisings to guarantee a 100k baseline for voice acting in one language. It now falls on us to decide our preferred language in case future pledges fall short of 200k. As is, we'd either get Japanese or English, and maybe both.

[Sakura Leic]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mightyno9/mighty-no-9/posts/1017021

Okay so by 1000 votes we're guaranteed to get English voice acting, I am pleased with this.  Also dat potential DLC......

[ViperAcidZX]

He's coming back.

[OBJECTION MAN]

Well that one is a bit more of a blatant ripoff than any of the others. I'm pretty OK with this though.

[Sakura Leic]

Well it was inevitable. 

[spoiler]I think he wants revenge for his hair cut in X8.[/spoiler]

[Protoman Blues]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mightyno9/mighty-no-9/posts/1017021

Okay so by 1000 votes we're guaranteed to get English voice acting, I am pleased with this.  Also dat potential DLC......

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Once again, your move Capcom

[Sakura Leic]

Reading the comments of the kickstarter article I find it hilarious that 99.9% of it is about the voice acting.