Does it ****? Yeah, it ****, alright. This game is nothing more than a crappy, poorly optimized, terrible-looking Mega Man. But while they copied a ton from Mega Man, they still ruined his **** you like this game, I feel bad for you. Trust me, if you like this game, go play more 2D platformers. I'm telling you this is one of the worst platformers I have ever played. It's not bland or boring; it's just **** illustrate this, let me name a bunch of the big-name 2D platformers that came out before Mighty No. 9 (It's also a really stupid **** 2014, we saw DK Tropical Freeze and Shovel Knight, 2015 gave us Ori and the Blind Forest and Downwell, and 2016 gave us Inside, Owlboy, and Unravel. Out of these games, Mighty No. 9 is nothing by comparison. But even compared to eh 2D platformers, Mighty No. 9 Stands alone as one of the most incompetent and poorly created games I've played up to this **** goes on sale often for 2.99, it's not even worth that.

.While not as bad as Some say, the game is seriously flawed, for staters special weapons are no useful in most escenarios, (except for the sword, it is overpowered) you will be using only the basic attack, then there is the level design, it is simplistic, predictable, mainly because stages were designed for the dash mechanic, which doesn't work too well, manly because Beck can't walljump and here are many insta-deaths in the stages There are far better megaman spiritual succesors out there.

Overall a mixed bag that isn't as terrible as it may seem but also doesn't succeed in any outstanding ways and ultimately falls short of the hype built up by its Kickstarter campaign. Starting with the positives, Beck controls fairly responsively, his ledge grab is a welcome addition and most importantly his dash can feel incredibly exhilarating to use. Keeping a quick pace darting through levels while absorbing enemies with your dash and managing to stack up buffs can be rewarding and cathartic, but only when the level design allows it to be. Plenty of stages simply aren't properly designed around the dash, with it either breaking stages such as No 2.'s stage where the infinite dashes can skip entire underwater segments, or stages just being impossible to run through quickly such as No 7's where your own pace is reliant on the level's own pace of providing you new cars as platforms. Enemy design is often uninspired and forced gauntlets of enemies in stages, while brief, hurt the pacing of the game even more. Some special weapons are really useful while others only serve as boss fodder. In terms of presentation, the soundtrack is alright but mostly forgettable with some standout tunes, and graphics can be really bad, especially during story cutscenes which lack any mouth movements, and fall short of some of the really promising concept art released for this game. Ultimately I'd describe this game as just mediocre; if you were to compare this against other classic or X series Mega Man games, its far from the best but also still not the worst. But when you consider all the hype and money that went into this project and all it was built up to be, its hard not to feel underwhelmed with how this game feels ultimately just lukewarm.