Xbox 360 Inafune Kickstarts spiritual successor to Mega Man, No. 9

[Claptrap]

For all of you who wanted Capcom to do Mega Man justice with a brand new HD style game, prepare to have your prayers answered by the big mega gaming man himself, Keiji Inafune, with some help by his company comcept, Inti Creates, and a whole mess of other former Mega Man devs. It's called Mighty No. 9, and it literally looks like a true Mega Man game from top to bottom.

The protagonist is named Beck, and he's the ninth robot in a line of ones [eight robot masters] who were infected by a virus [Mavericks]. He'll run through six stages [Mega Man 1], and copy abilities from his fallen foes with support from his female friend [Roll], as he fights various lesser enemies throughout the landscape, one of which is themed after a construction object [Metools]. Reading through the Kickstarter, fans of the Blue Bomber will spot even more references, which has me even more giddy to see it in action.

Right now the game is slated for the PC platform (with gamepad support) by way of Steam and a few other avenues, but stretch goals include Mac, Linux, and consoles.

As a Mega Man fan, I can't express how excited I am for this!

Source: Inafune Kickstarts spiritual successor to Mega Man, No. 9 - Destructoid
Kickstarter: Mighty No. 9 by comcept USA, LLC ? Kickstarter

It's not coming to consoles unless they reach $2.5million, though, so let's at least throw a buck their way and make this happen.

 

[BlackSolaris]

When i first heard about it, it was at 11k. And now they are close to 600k in less than 24 hours, so it might be my two cents, but i am pretty sure it will reach the consoles.
Really funny how similar it is to Megaman, but oh well, it's Keiji, he's cool!

 

[sc_shark]

11,521
Backers
$679,781
pledged of $900,000 goal
29
days to go


it would be kinda neat to see his concept other than him just talking about itl

 

[Claptrap]

11,521
Backers
$679,781
pledged of $900,000 goal
29
days to go


it would be kinda neat to see his concept other than him just talking about itl

Well, what more do you want to see? There's concept art and stuff in there and the guy is just basically making a new Mega Man. This is just a new Mega Man, made by the guy that created Mega Man but it's pretending to be a new franchise because Capcom owns Mega Man and Inafune can't do anything with it. Kinda similar to the Dark Souls situation, with Dark Souls being a "spiritual-sequel" to Demon's Souls because FROM Software wanted to make it multiplatform but Sony owns the Demon's Souls IP.

 

[Esperahol]

Interesting... I will say that Kickstarter is really starting to become a thing in terms of gaming. Let's just hope we don't end up with another Ouya situation. I think I'll go look over that page now.

 

[bifftape]

You know, I was already excited enough about Mega Man being in the new Super Smash Bros game. However this is even greater news! At this rate the goal looks more than realistic. I would help if I could.