I love how that joke about Johnson aged poorly only a week after you made this video but three years later we've gone full circle and that joke works again.
BoJo is prime minister with Brexit coercion, Australia is up in flames, and the US just shat another dump on top of the middle east cesspool, Yahtzee just can’t catch a break wherever he moves smh
Don't waste your time trying to go back in time to kill meca-Stalin. I actually escaped an alternate universe where that happened and it only created a power vacuum that allowed zombie cyborg Mussolini to take over the world.
+Chris Williams no silly that's Mecha Hitler. Cyber Hitler and Mecha Hitler are completely different! One's Cyber and the other is Mecha, no similarities...at all....not a single one....besides maybe the Hitler part....
only if you can at some point go to the future and see that by you killing MechaStalin MechaHitler has won the second mechanical war and rules the earth.
I think the difference is seeing the flaming bag of faeces being launched at your head then quickly sidestepping it as Yahtzee did and the oblivious types who stood there opened mouthed, reassuring itself that it's actually delicious flambé.
I think something needs to be said in defense of the customers. The fans are down on Mighty No. 9 because, while it's arguably an okay game, several million extra dollars and an added year or so of development time led them to expect a bit more than "arguably okay." When you're promised the moon and the stars you shouldn't really think you'll get them, but you have every right to hope you'll at least have a comet or two. Instead they got a rock. And their expectations weren't entirely unfounded, since concept art and previews promised a far superior product. Beck's versatility was much less fantastical than the shapeshifting he was originally imagined to have, and the graphics somehow suffered a considerable downgrade from what was shown in the test footage. Many people have pointed to other crowdfunded games which look far superior and are being born out of much, MUCH humbler budgets. Speaking of the graphics, you're not the first to raise the apparent hypocrisy of criticizing a game for sub-par visuals when the games it's meant to emulate were on an 8-bit canvas. The thing is, different formats are like different art forms, and vibrancy and creativity can be achieved in any medium. Some of the Mega Man levels I played through when I was a kid still stick in my memory because they were imaginative and polished. Mighty No. 9, on the other hand, looks filled with flat spaces, bland textures, forgettable assets, and elements which don't fall together to create a cohesive environment. A good artist can create something beautiful with 8-bit graphics, but a poor one is perfectly capable of producing mediocrity with even the most modern technology. I mean, my God. Pizza explosions. There's no excuse. Furthermore, any game in this day and age should be expected to function without the various glitches and frame rate issues that were reported across certain platforms, especially one that looks so bare-bones. I've heard rumors of machines almost rejecting Mighty No. 9 outright, treating it (ironically) like some kind of virus. And beyond the game itself there were also cases of backers failing to receive bonuses which they had earned after pumping money into this project, incidents on social media, and one of the ugliest commercials in recent history. That remark about "crying anime fans" sounds more like something I'd expect from... well, from you, actually. They just didn't have the style needed to pull off that kind of insulting crap. This is nothing to do with the mechanics of the product itself, but it sure as Hell rubbed salt in the wound, and customer relations count for something. So, bottom line... don't be too hard on the fans for their indignation. Whatever mistakes they made during this whole affair, they've more than paid for them. With cash, in fact. Lots of it. They've earned their disappointment.
I might, posthumously, even layer on that the game apparently takes a rather insulting approach to challenge. Namely, removing it in favor of just *telling* you when certain abilities will hinder certain bosses, ignoring half the fun of the calculated guessing game of what specials work against which bosses and the challenge o learning to defeat them without that bonus that its predecessor had. So they even got the base gameplay wrong in the context of the challenge the fans were paying for.
@Joe England Unfortunately Yahtzee's gone to this well regarding other franchises too. That is, Sonic the Hedgehog. This "fans don't know what they want, even if they think they do" crap needs expunging. The bad 3D Sonic games are brought down by problems *that are not what the fans asked for* . The fans didn't ask for constant gameplay style changes. The fans didn't ask for Shadow the Hedgehog. The fans didn't ask for godawful bugs and control schemes. These are all on the development teams (or more likely their superiors), not simply "the fans being given what they asked for and are just unpleasable." You can't blame someone for being annoyed when you constantly piss in their face. Those of us more invested in the story of MN9 are fully aware why fans gave up on it, or worse, became *hostile* toward it. They were given plenty of tangible reasons to do so. They didn't need to invoke this mythical "inherent unpleasability" in the face of something they asked for and was promised. They *didn't* get what was promised, and only partially what they asked for.
This whole thing doesn't even touch on the massive delays and the fact that Inafune just outright created another campaign for an entirely new game even before finishing this one. People have all the right to be upset about this game.
2:13 I cannot fully express how much I love the sentence "I place a clear distinction between a game that supplies an enjoyable meaty challenge and one that merely fucks the player about". Also, lol Brexit jokes. I expected them, wasn't disappointed. Cheers Yahtzee!
"It commited its sins before it ever saw the light of day because the people who invested built it up too much and will inevitably be disappointed when it didn't heal their leprosy or travel back in time to assassinate Mecha-Stalin." That's the best way to sum up people's feelings towards the game
+vindikaktus because he doesn't get as much support as some other channels do when his content is 100 times better. He's honestly the funniest person on UA-cam that I know of and he deserves way more attention. I know 800,000 subscribers is no small amount but for the amount of effort he puts into his videos to be entertaining, rather than just spewing out garbage every day like most others, he deserves all the support in the world.
You didn't acknowledge the fact that they did in fact predict either an animated style game with 3D backgrounds, but then settled for an Unreal Engine game, and finally we got muddy water, flat lighting and glitchy ledge clipping deluxe.
Alex Shannon He's not the creator of Mega Man. Inafune said so himself at 2007's TGS. He's more of a businessman that heavily advocated the Mega Man franchise to Capcom's executives, and he had some involvement with the earlier entries, and the earlier entries of X.
Alex Shannon Actually, no. The very first Mega Man character he himself created was Zero, and that the character of Rock was already made when he was hired by Capcom. He was brought on as a designer earlier on, but he wasn't really the brains of the operation. The biggest part of his job was being an advocate. I strongly recommend reading that interview. I swear on my life, _he said it himself._
+BornFlunky Kamiya said as much as well! twitter.com/pg_kamiya/status/249735186936369153 www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2015/07/08/hideki-kamiya-attacks-mighty-no-9-calls-it-an-insult-to-capcom/
If you are planning to look at the comments can I recommend you don't it's nothing but people complaining about the Brexit jokes, so unless you want to see people arguing, or despise politics. a big fat DON'T LOOK AT THE COMMENTS is all I can say.
As an observer who didn't let my bank account touch this and simply review the media over the game, for what its worth at least the robot bosses sound cool and had some character of being helpful public service being corrupted by evil robo virus. And Beck curing them of this problem made them better off from megaman blowing up the robot bosses with no remorse and stealing their powers.
Can't speak for everyone, but 99% of the rage I saw over Mighty Number 2 was the way its creators released it: By metaphorically crumpling it up into a ball, chucking it at our heads and yelling "CLOSE ENOUGH, FUCKERS!!!"
SuperLoaf how is the second amendment bad? What right do you have to take away my right to self-defence? Is it because you'd rather the government be able to do whatever it wants to you or me?
"A boss with fire attacks, then a boss with ice attacks? I better get off this fucking rollercoaster in case my nose gets nailed to the back of my skull." This is my favorite line in the vid. So bitterly sarcastic, I love it.
Having seen some of the game, I am pretty sure the biggest problem was how insanely broken it was. It crashed so much most found it impossible to even play
Everyone getting mad because Yahtzee made a political joke lol... This isn't the first time. He's commented on the 2015 general election, Hilary vs Trump, and more. If you can't handle political jokes (which are par for the course in British humour generally) that's your problem really.
I don't think people are upset he made a political joke, more that he very poignantly expressed his opinion on the Brexit inside of his joke. I think it's his opinion they are disagreeing with, not the joke itself, but I could be wrong.
But what is there to be upset with if *they've actually won*? If that's their reaction to winning, I don't want to be around when they lose. I have no horse in the race either way, and as an innocent bystander it strikes me just how upset and aggressive and humourless the *winners* are now. Scratching my head in disbelief. They got what they wanted and yet they keep whining and attacking the losers. What gives? Why not just lay back and enjoy what they voted for, and have got? If you can't take even a single innocuous joke from someone who lost to you, that really speaks volumes. Where's the proverbial British sense of humour? Well not in the Leave camp anyway, there it isn't.
And yes, Yahtzee makes political jokes all the time. In almost every episode, actually. Last week's episode had a political joke in it. Nobody freaked out over that one. Nobody even commented on it at all. Not one person. Not a one. Same for two weeks ago, and three weeks ago, and fifty weeks ago, and four years ago. There are hundreds of ZP episodes with political jokes in them.
+Schwallex I imagine it's because even though we have won, the Remain voters and now lashing out in other ways - calling for a second referendum, MPs threatening to block the vote, parties promising to reverse it if they get into power, Remainers saying old people shouldn't be allowed to vote any more, Remainers judgmentally calling all Leavers stupid, uneducated, acting so superior etc etc etc. Hope that cleared some of it up for you :L
That was easily the best and most honest review of Mighty No 9, period. No hype, no self-important hyperbole where you give a bad review simply because the game you yourself hyped up didn't cure cancer. Just pure honesty. It's not a great game, but it's not terrible just because it didn't live up to what you wanted.
it''s not because i disagree with him, it's that it doesn't make sense to bring politics into a topic that isn't politics, this is a video game review.
I'll have two Mighty no. 9s, a Mighty no. 9 large, a Mighty no. 6 with extra Mighty dip, a Mighty no. 7, two Mighty no. 45s, one with Mighty cheese, and a large Mighty soda.
I think Akira helped with MM2 a little and then left the gaming industry completely. Tokuro on the other hand I think rejoined Capcom round 2005-2006 after leaving in 1996. Not sure if he is still there.
the god father after all the other ones died in horribly suspicious circumstances that all lead into a will that left him oddly as the sole heir to their fortunes.
I have to admit. Part of does fee bad for Keiji Inafune. He wasn’t trying rip anybody off. He just bit off more than he can chew. That happens. And he did take responsibility for what happened.
Keep in mind Yatz that this game cost $4 Mil compared to Dust: AET which cost $40000 to make. Also MN9 was made by a team of veteran game developers while Dust was made by 1 guy.
If that dash into enemies move gave you health and better Stat buffs I imagine this could have been a really exciting fast paced megaman game where you're constantly dashing into hordes of enemies to glory kill them to regain the health that you're constantly running out of. Like a 2D 2016 Doom or something like that
Classic example that hype kills. Unrealistic expectations, mishandling, mediocre team, unrealistic amount of stretch goals, misplaced trust, late delivery, no understanding of what Kickstarter really is on both Comcept and the pledgers' sides. The money is an investment of faith - a pledge. People treat it like a glorified pre-ordering system. It's not a store, you don't know what the final product will turn out to be. Inafune apparently thinks Kickstarter is a place where one can just open up shop and expect people to come fund stuff as seen with the Red Ash disaster. As for backers, you may or may not get what you want in the end and the amount of funds does not guarantee quality commensurate to it. Let this serve as an unforgettable example for future projects.
hornylink I hope not for the backers' sakes, lest something like this happen again. But four million dollars, three years of waiting, frustration and disappointment, reports of broken codes and finally relentless negative coverage would be kind of hard to forget I imagine. Backers to this thing can at least choose to salvage a life lesson for what they pledged. Hype only ends up being blown. If anyone should be forgotten, it's Inafune. This revealed that he's a has-been who just preys on old fans' nostalgia for money. The Red Ash campaigns are just disgusting to me.
but bigger budget projects turn out way worse all the time in the triple A realm, and people never learn their lessons, and keep buying the shit the next time. People always forget, as exemplified by you thinking this is some monumental new occurrence.
Kickstarter isn't an investment, if after years of them trying to beat it into people's heads that it's not, if you still think it's an investment you deserve the losses you suffer for making completely un-researched "investments"
If I might interject... Life systems only work in a specific context: That is games built around the player challenging themselves to complete something, rather than the game forcing the challenge on you. They are meant to help create pressure, but if at the end of the day the player is forced to take it as punishment rather than encouraged by the system to occasionally take breaks from a difficult challenge, then a life system becomes tedious, aggravating, and un-fun.
It's okay, they can still find a warm fuzzy feeling inside from pleasuring themselves to thoughts of one day being in their precious perfect Japan land
I don't think his comment on the graphics was apt. The NES style may be "dated" in a technical sense, but it is aesthetically pleasing. The PS1 style graphics of Mighty No 9 are neither up to date nor pleasing to the eye. The PS1/N64 era has never been known for many good looking games with its weird polygonal shapes and choosing to make a game in that style now-a-days is baffling.
Mighty No. 9 is the Daikatana of the 2010s. That "anime fan on prom night" advert may as well have said "Keiji Inafune is about to make you his b**ch".
To summarize people's gripes with this game, it's a combination of it invoking Daikatana and it shifting significantly from even some of the basic shit that was promised in the original kickstarter. Seriously, go look at some of the original material they put out for that thing, it had LEAGUES more potential than this shit. Then they let dipshits play merry Hell in the backend on multiple levels, and they decided that pushing anything with the appropriate brand on it would still sell like booze at a football stadium. As it turns out, selling drainoff from the portashitters and insulting your customers in the process doesn't lead to a very successful business. That wacky shit with the other IP they were trying to push so hard that they gave themselves medical piles didn't help either. Anyone bored enough to look into how that one is going at the moment? I doubt it's gone far, but still.
Two points, One is that the first time you need to use the crouch dash move is to get under a low edge in the intro stage. second absorbing enemies also restores weapon energy??? I only played the game briefly at a friend so maybe every enemy I killed at the time just dropped weapon powerups at the same time.
+Isaac Argesmith from my information he was given a lot of the credit but a lot of the people that worked with him on this project say "he isnt a creator" and such and doubt that he created megaman himself or played a meaningful role
Klonoahedgehog Actually megaman was designed after he came on I believe but he had decent roles in creating the games, with him being an artist for some of the first games but later becoming a producer for the main series around the sorta 8th game and started as an designer, artist, and writer of the X series. Plus he worked a lot in the Legends series I hear. Along with this he was a producer in the network series.
For me, the biggest gripe I had with Mighty No.9 as a game is that a lot of the enemies you end up fighting tend to be flying (or floating above you) - and yet nobody thought that it might be a good idea to let the character shoot upwards, just left and right. It's 2016, guys, you might as well put some of that new-fangled technology into it
Fun fact:The creator of Mega Man is actually Akira Kitamura. Inafune said in an interview that he wasn't responsible for the creation or design of the original game, he only got full control of the series in Mega Man X5
Maybe it's just because I'm feeling more personally offended by the backlash rather than the game itself (even though I helped to back it when I was younger), but I'm really glad this review exists. I really do think it's not even that bad, it's just due to it being hailed as pretty much the second coming of Christ with so much hype surrounding it, the fact that it's mediocre really must've pissed off a lot of people, but this really just points out that it's really our fault for viewing it that way just to disappoint ourselves. I genuinely wish that we could've gotten a better product in the long run and please everybody, but the fact we blew the game up so disproportionately really makes me want to go "Well what the fuck did you expect? Did you want the game to cure cancer or some shit, and if so, what really gave you that expectation with Kickstarter's semi-dubious history of crap management despite a famed, ambitious creator?"
People weren't exactly blindly hoping it would be good. It was supposed to be as good as a Megaman game. And it was supposed to look as good as the Kickstarter promised. 4 million dollars and three years, my friend. When it fails both of those things after all that, you can't get away with criticizing folks for being disappointed. Sorry. You just can't.
Asterra2 Uh... do you have anything to actually prove what you're saying? There was almost nothing that guaranteed that the product was going to be good other than a single guy being the general creator, and have you actually seen the Kickstarter demos? They're roughly on-par with the product, as in "meh."
The images and first demo footage they provided were both superior to the final product, full stop. If you want to split hairs, no, the presence of Inafune and other talent associated with Rockman, in addition to a known template from which to work, was not a guarantee or a promise, nor was the 4 million dollars or the insane extra development time, but you won't find many backers who don't feel cheated, regardless.
and let's not forget that inafune hired an SJW to handle the community for the game and she banned people, backers from betas,forums and when backers asked keiji inafune to do something about it, he did nothing
Seems like Yahtzee didn't even try to play the game. That corridor level was the boss fight, for example, and the crouch dash was quite useful for dodging enemy fire, and infact boosting into enemies does give you an upgrade to regain health @Escapist
He probably can't do that because of copyright infringement upon the Yahtzee game... and because the escapist pay him, they also pay him for his articles that he write, and yes, they got the same fucked up sense of humor that everyone love.
So you refuse to know the behind-the-scenes nonsense for Mighty No. 9, yet you wonder why people are upset about certain aspects of the game... Sometimes, I think Yahtzee makes himself deliberately ignorant just to piss off as many people as he can.
It's definitely a game that's overshadowed by the controversy of its development cycle, that's for sure. As a game it looks more or less functional. Nothing revolutionary, but hardly Sonic 2006.
I knew what I wanted - and that was an old-school point and click adventure. Apparently to the rest of the world any sort of point and click adventure is old-school but as a German, I was horribly disappointed.
The biggest complaint I heard is that some versions wont let you play for more than 20 mins because apparently all the bugs are on a time-delay. XD play for 22 mins and the game dies in front of you unless you give it a break to reset the timers.
Bernie Sanders was Megaman's only hope, and he lost to Burke from Weyland-Yutani. I knew Burke would never make anything of his life if he didn't become a schoolteacher :>
This oughta be GOOOOOOOD. Edit: Actually, that was a pretty tame review for Yahtzee, let alone Might No. 9. Kinda Surprising. I guess that's what you get from a properly unbiased review.
The game turned out basically functional. The reasons people hate it are mostly due to the history of its development cycle, which Yahtzee is downplaying in favor of the old "fans are just unpleasable, even if you give them what they think they want" deflection.
I think most of them are Londonites or middle class ponces who think the economy is a god that needs satitation or we'll all have our crops eaten by locusts and have our firstborn sons slaughtered.
I love how that joke about Johnson aged poorly only a week after you made this video but three years later we've gone full circle and that joke works again.
I thought the exact same thing I thought this video was made this year
BoJo is prime minister with Brexit coercion, Australia is up in flames, and the US just shat another dump on top of the middle east cesspool, Yahtzee just can’t catch a break wherever he moves smh
@@TheLivetuner And 2 months later, it's worse.
@@Newt0rz And 2 months later, it's worse.
@@zangetsuCBA just going to pre emptively post a "but wait! it got even worse!" for the end of 2020
Don't waste your time trying to go back in time to kill meca-Stalin. I actually escaped an alternate universe where that happened and it only created a power vacuum that allowed zombie cyborg Mussolini to take over the world.
Name checks out.
I'm more willing to believe you're a time traveler than the statement that Mussolini was competent at something haha.
Help fund my Kickstarter campaign to defeat Mecha Stalin.
Shut up and take my murican pennies.
Sorry I can't, all my money went into funding the Kickstarter campaign to defeat Cyber Hitler.
So you mean the original/sequel Wolfenstein game? That's where you fight Hitler in like a Cybersuit with two chainguns or something.
+Chris Williams no silly that's Mecha Hitler. Cyber Hitler and Mecha Hitler are completely different! One's Cyber and the other is Mecha, no similarities...at all....not a single one....besides maybe the Hitler part....
Surely Mecha Merkel....
This game's quality makes me cry like an anime fan on prom night.
DAYYM!
Damn dude, I can copy and paste to.
I never understood that joke.
+Noah & Toad You're the anime fan.
Damn dude, I can copy and paste to.
Meanwhile somewhere anime fans are having a great time on prom night.
No they're not.
they are watching anime.
+Luchingador on prom night
+Paradox Acres ain't u that huniepop bloke? how did ur petition go?
thetrue wise gamer and that makes them happy
I think people's biggest issue was that it got delayed so much and it cost 4 million dollars to make. But still looked and played like shit
Sidebar: Who wants to Kickstart a game about traveling back through time to murder MechaStalin?
I'd buy that for a dollar
+Dubspool _
or five, depending on his qualty
Trash animations
As long as you promise to act like an entitled child when it doesn't cure your SpaceAIDS, I think we've got a winning idea!
+Dubspool _ I got the reference, friend
only if you can at some point go to the future and see that by you killing MechaStalin MechaHitler has won the second mechanical war and rules the earth.
Who knew that Yahtzee would be the only reviewer Not ripping this game apart.
He's most likely the only one not blinded by nostalgia and love for the franchise.
You'd have to be blinded by something to not see what a steamy pile the game is. It's just _not fun_.
Or the rage of throwing too much money into something that's still early in the making.
I think the difference is seeing the flaming bag of faeces being launched at your head then quickly sidestepping it as Yahtzee did and the oblivious types who stood there opened mouthed, reassuring itself that it's actually delicious flambé.
no, Johnny vs. Mighty No. 9 did it first, he too isn't a big fan of megaman either.
I think something needs to be said in defense of the customers. The fans are down on Mighty No. 9 because, while it's arguably an okay game, several million extra dollars and an added year or so of development time led them to expect a bit more than "arguably okay." When you're promised the moon and the stars you shouldn't really think you'll get them, but you have every right to hope you'll at least have a comet or two. Instead they got a rock.
And their expectations weren't entirely unfounded, since concept art and previews promised a far superior product. Beck's versatility was much less fantastical than the shapeshifting he was originally imagined to have, and the graphics somehow suffered a considerable downgrade from what was shown in the test footage. Many people have pointed to other crowdfunded games which look far superior and are being born out of much, MUCH humbler budgets.
Speaking of the graphics, you're not the first to raise the apparent hypocrisy of criticizing a game for sub-par visuals when the games it's meant to emulate were on an 8-bit canvas. The thing is, different formats are like different art forms, and vibrancy and creativity can be achieved in any medium. Some of the Mega Man levels I played through when I was a kid still stick in my memory because they were imaginative and polished. Mighty No. 9, on the other hand, looks filled with flat spaces, bland textures, forgettable assets, and elements which don't fall together to create a cohesive environment. A good artist can create something beautiful with 8-bit graphics, but a poor one is perfectly capable of producing mediocrity with even the most modern technology.
I mean, my God. Pizza explosions. There's no excuse.
Furthermore, any game in this day and age should be expected to function without the various glitches and frame rate issues that were reported across certain platforms, especially one that looks so bare-bones. I've heard rumors of machines almost rejecting Mighty No. 9 outright, treating it (ironically) like some kind of virus.
And beyond the game itself there were also cases of backers failing to receive bonuses which they had earned after pumping money into this project, incidents on social media, and one of the ugliest commercials in recent history. That remark about "crying anime fans" sounds more like something I'd expect from... well, from you, actually. They just didn't have the style needed to pull off that kind of insulting crap. This is nothing to do with the mechanics of the product itself, but it sure as Hell rubbed salt in the wound, and customer relations count for something.
So, bottom line... don't be too hard on the fans for their indignation. Whatever mistakes they made during this whole affair, they've more than paid for them. With cash, in fact. Lots of it.
They've earned their disappointment.
I might, posthumously, even layer on that the game apparently takes a rather insulting approach to challenge. Namely, removing it in favor of just *telling* you when certain abilities will hinder certain bosses, ignoring half the fun of the calculated guessing game of what specials work against which bosses and the challenge o learning to defeat them without that bonus that its predecessor had. So they even got the base gameplay wrong in the context of the challenge the fans were paying for.
It's not arguably okay tho
It plays like dog, and not the gameplay, I mean on a mechanical level
@Joe England Unfortunately Yahtzee's gone to this well regarding other franchises too. That is, Sonic the Hedgehog.
This "fans don't know what they want, even if they think they do" crap needs expunging. The bad 3D Sonic games are brought down by problems *that are not what the fans asked for* . The fans didn't ask for constant gameplay style changes. The fans didn't ask for Shadow the Hedgehog. The fans didn't ask for godawful bugs and control schemes.
These are all on the development teams (or more likely their superiors), not simply "the fans being given what they asked for and are just unpleasable." You can't blame someone for being annoyed when you constantly piss in their face.
Those of us more invested in the story of MN9 are fully aware why fans gave up on it, or worse, became *hostile* toward it. They were given plenty of tangible reasons to do so. They didn't need to invoke this mythical "inherent unpleasability" in the face of something they asked for and was promised.
They *didn't* get what was promised, and only partially what they asked for.
And not even a glittery, expensive rock like a diamond.
This whole thing doesn't even touch on the massive delays and the fact that Inafune just outright created another campaign for an entirely new game even before finishing this one. People have all the right to be upset about this game.
A britan, a german and Keiji Inafune walks into a bar. Keiji asks "Do you want to buy my game mighty..."
"No"
"Nein"
LEAVE
@@xenan7889 no
Nyet, Cyka Blyat
Goddamnit.
@@IndigoStorm27 nien
It must be mentioned how ironic how rather moderate his displeasure was for this game
He knew it was a bad game, but he had no big expectations for it, unlike everyone who was excited for it
i personally find those kind of reviews better because you get something out of it besides "gwarhhh!!! inafune took your monies!!! why!!!???"
He did the same about the Walking Dead Survival.
Before I watched this, I took Mighty No 2
I took a mighty No 2 while watching this =D
+Edward Libby currently doing so!
+Skye Troy same here
The developers took a mighty No 2 by making this game
im going to take a Mighty No 2 once my grandfather gets out of the bathroom
Wanted to make a witty comment about anime fans on prom night... About 9000 people beat me to it.
Nah, I'd say over 9,000 people have.
I mean, you could try coming up with something new. But IT'S NO USE!
lmao... "About 9000"
The one day that Vegeta just completely stopped giving a shit...
Wanted to make a witty comment about 'over 9000,'... I was beaten to that too
They beat you like bullies beat anime fans on prom night.
*_LIKE THE POUND DROPPING LIKE AN EX-PRIME MINISTER'S PANTS IN A PIG FARM_*
Not going to lie, I snorted at that.
Don't snort around David Cameron...
He'll get an erection
+Ryan Joyce always someone who has to explain the joke...
+otakuploader
PINGAS?
Don't let him hear that.
2:13
I cannot fully express how much I love the sentence "I place a clear distinction between a game that supplies an enjoyable meaty challenge and one that merely fucks the player about".
Also, lol Brexit jokes. I expected them, wasn't disappointed. Cheers Yahtzee!
Coming back to this, Yahtzee's Brexit predictions were scarily spot on
And since Brexit just happened, it proved that the British never actually changed their minds.
The official Sonic twitter mocked Mighty No.9, but I think they're forgetting Sonic 4, episode 1-2 was a thing that happened.
And Sonic '06
Please, they run the 06 jokes to the ground.
Can't forget Sonic Boom as well even if it is a tie-in game to some tv show. Yahtzee certainly won't since he bought it.
+Jack Wilson don't forget sonic boom
And sonic boom
I cried like a PR rep on a Mighty No 9 trailer.
"It commited its sins before it ever saw the light of day because the people who invested built it up too much and will inevitably be disappointed when it didn't heal their leprosy or travel back in time to assassinate Mecha-Stalin." That's the best way to sum up people's feelings towards the game
The Brexit jokes were fucking savage.
Meh.
Same hyperbole repeated by salty Londoners a million times since the vote. Probably would've been funnier if I saw this episode a week ago.
TIL people don't know what savage means
+Firefox is red, Explorer is blue. Google+ sucks and Chrome does too. And watch it on The Escapist? Nobody should do that...
Next weeks ZP has Brexit jokes too.
I'm sure someone already pointed this out, but I'm pretty sure the boss' blurred voice line at 03:15 is "How's this for a lift?"
4:48 PFFFT I swear I hear genuine anger when he says "skull". I lost it.
might no. 9
more like
no.
Might Number 9...
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...more like Mumbo Number Five
Mighty Number Nine?
More like Shiety Trump Landmine.
More like a Giant No. 2
Mighty No. 2/9
More like Might no 9
11..
Those damn kids and their Mecha-Stalin. GET OFF MY LAWN!
Yahtzee being the no.1 most underrated UA-camr for like 10 years
How the fuck is he underrated
+vindikaktus because he doesn't get as much support as some other channels do when his content is 100 times better. He's honestly the funniest person on UA-cam that I know of and he deserves way more attention. I know 800,000 subscribers is no small amount but for the amount of effort he puts into his videos to be entertaining, rather than just spewing out garbage every day like most others, he deserves all the support in the world.
he has less subscribers than shitheads like:Leafy,The diamond minecart,pewdiepie ,smosh,DRAMA ALERT,and many more
Yeah 'cus averaging at 400k views, on all you videos and even more, on popular games.
Truly "underrated".
+vindikaktus Yahtzee has 200k subscribers and the Escapist UA-cam channel has 900k. While PewDiePie has like 40-50 million. That's how.
10/10, cried (with laughter) like an anime fan on prom night
You didn't acknowledge the fact that they did in fact predict either an animated style game with 3D backgrounds, but then settled for an Unreal Engine game, and finally we got muddy water, flat lighting and glitchy ledge clipping deluxe.
"Made by the creator of Mega Man"
Well, nope.
+Oliver Sdao It was literally made by the creator of Mega Man and the team that worked on most of the Mega Man games.
Alex Shannon He's not the creator of Mega Man. Inafune said so himself at 2007's TGS.
He's more of a businessman that heavily advocated the Mega Man franchise to Capcom's executives, and he had some involvement with the earlier entries, and the earlier entries of X.
BornFlunky Inafune literally created the character. He was the designer on the series for years.
Alex Shannon Actually, no. The very first Mega Man character he himself created was Zero, and that the character of Rock was already made when he was hired by Capcom. He was brought on as a designer earlier on, but he wasn't really the brains of the operation. The biggest part of his job was being an advocate.
I strongly recommend reading that interview. I swear on my life, _he said it himself._
+BornFlunky Kamiya said as much as well! twitter.com/pg_kamiya/status/249735186936369153
www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2015/07/08/hideki-kamiya-attacks-mighty-no-9-calls-it-an-insult-to-capcom/
If you are planning to look at the comments can I recommend you don't it's nothing but people complaining about the Brexit jokes, so unless you want to see people arguing, or despise politics. a big fat DON'T LOOK AT THE COMMENTS is all I can say.
Thanks, I got like 10 comments down and yours has saved me.
You did god's work.
I scrolled down to read the comments and this was the first one I saw. Now I'm turning back.
You are a hero we need and deserve
People have been triggered, it seems.
Pussies. I came for blood.
As an observer who didn't let my bank account touch this and simply review the media over the game, for what its worth at least the robot bosses sound cool and had some character of being helpful public service being corrupted by evil robo virus. And Beck curing them of this problem made them better off from megaman blowing up the robot bosses with no remorse and stealing their powers.
Can't speak for everyone, but 99% of the rage I saw over Mighty Number 2 was the way its creators released it: By metaphorically crumpling it up into a ball, chucking it at our heads and yelling "CLOSE ENOUGH, FUCKERS!!!"
Seeing the the cutout of Beck's face appear gave me a good chuckle. Thank you Yahtzee
2:53 all that was playing in my head was "MEGAMAN, MEGAMAN!"
this is probably the nicest review for the game I've come across
A+ Brexit, Davey Cameron, and 2nd Amendment jokes
Don't worry, next week's ZP has Brexit jokes too.
Except that the pound is higher than it's been since 2011.
And there's nothing wrong with the second amendment.
+Joseph Connell both of your facts are wrong. Better luck next time!
SuperLoaf how is the second amendment bad? What right do you have to take away my right to self-defence? Is it because you'd rather the government be able to do whatever it wants to you or me?
"A boss with fire attacks, then a boss with ice attacks? I better get off this fucking rollercoaster in case my nose gets nailed to the back of my skull."
This is my favorite line in the vid. So bitterly sarcastic, I love it.
Having seen some of the game, I am pretty sure the biggest problem was how insanely broken it was.
It crashed so much most found it impossible to even play
The greatest part about Yahtzee is that I can never see the joke coming.
Everyone getting mad because Yahtzee made a political joke lol... This isn't the first time. He's commented on the 2015 general election, Hilary vs Trump, and more. If you can't handle political jokes (which are par for the course in British humour generally) that's your problem really.
I don't think people are upset he made a political joke, more that he very poignantly expressed his opinion on the Brexit inside of his joke. I think it's his opinion they are disagreeing with, not the joke itself, but I could be wrong.
But what is there to be upset with if *they've actually won*?
If that's their reaction to winning, I don't want to be around when they lose.
I have no horse in the race either way, and as an innocent bystander it strikes me just how upset and aggressive and humourless the *winners* are now. Scratching my head in disbelief. They got what they wanted and yet they keep whining and attacking the losers. What gives? Why not just lay back and enjoy what they voted for, and have got?
If you can't take even a single innocuous joke from someone who lost to you, that really speaks volumes. Where's the proverbial British sense of humour? Well not in the Leave camp anyway, there it isn't.
And yes, Yahtzee makes political jokes all the time. In almost every episode, actually. Last week's episode had a political joke in it. Nobody freaked out over that one. Nobody even commented on it at all. Not one person. Not a one. Same for two weeks ago, and three weeks ago, and fifty weeks ago, and four years ago. There are hundreds of ZP episodes with political jokes in them.
No one is upset by that joke.
+Schwallex I imagine it's because even though we have won, the Remain voters and now lashing out in other ways - calling for a second referendum, MPs threatening to block the vote, parties promising to reverse it if they get into power, Remainers saying old people shouldn't be allowed to vote any more, Remainers judgmentally calling all Leavers stupid, uneducated, acting so superior etc etc etc. Hope that cleared some of it up for you :L
That was easily the best and most honest review of Mighty No 9, period. No hype, no self-important hyperbole where you give a bad review simply because the game you yourself hyped up didn't cure cancer. Just pure honesty. It's not a great game, but it's not terrible just because it didn't live up to what you wanted.
0:40 Welp, Yahtzee made a political joke. Can't wait to see how many people get upset.
Love his support of fascism and handing his country over to regressives and rapists from the middle east; best game NA :3
How about you give me an example of a time that politics made people happy.
case in point
it''s not because i disagree with him, it's that it doesn't make sense to bring politics into a topic that isn't politics, this is a video game review.
Skyswindler I understand that, this is a video game review and politics should not be involved, even as a joke
I'll have two Mighty no. 9s, a Mighty no. 9 large, a Mighty no. 6 with extra Mighty dip, a Mighty no. 7, two Mighty no. 45s, one with Mighty cheese, and a large Mighty soda.
Yahtzee... Do you just have pictures of everything TF2-related just sitting in a folder somewhere?
I always think of exactly this whenever I see him use an image of a TF2 flamethrower, or indeed, as is the case here, a gibus.
Yeah....google search.
This episode continues the trend of new episodes appearing while I'm on the toilet. This is an odd cycle.
Funny how people still think he created Mega man.
Akira Kitamura \m/>.
But where hav he and Tokuro Fujiwara been since then?
I think Akira helped with MM2 a little and then left the gaming industry completely. Tokuro on the other hand I think rejoined Capcom round 2005-2006 after leaving in 1996. Not sure if he is still there.
He has said he didnt, that he is more like the god father of mega man.
the god father after all the other ones died in horribly suspicious circumstances that all lead into a will that left him oddly as the sole heir to their fortunes.
"...get over it and motorboat some cantaloupes instead."
That's strangely inspirational.
I have to admit. Part of does fee bad for Keiji Inafune. He wasn’t trying rip anybody off. He just bit off more than he can chew. That happens. And he did take responsibility for what happened.
Keep in mind Yatz that this game cost $4 Mil compared to Dust: AET which cost $40000 to make. Also MN9 was made by a team of veteran game developers while Dust was made by 1 guy.
So, it's a 'member game? You know, the "'member Megaman?" game, or the "'member Banjo" game, or really any old game people want again.
If that dash into enemies move gave you health and better Stat buffs I imagine this could have been a really exciting fast paced megaman game where you're constantly dashing into hordes of enemies to glory kill them to regain the health that you're constantly running out of. Like a 2D 2016 Doom or something like that
Classic example that hype kills. Unrealistic expectations, mishandling, mediocre team, unrealistic amount of stretch goals, misplaced trust, late delivery, no understanding of what Kickstarter really is on both Comcept and the pledgers' sides. The money is an investment of faith - a pledge. People treat it like a glorified pre-ordering system. It's not a store, you don't know what the final product will turn out to be. Inafune apparently thinks Kickstarter is a place where one can just open up shop and expect people to come fund stuff as seen with the Red Ash disaster. As for backers, you may or may not get what you want in the end and the amount of funds does not guarantee quality commensurate to it. Let this serve as an unforgettable example for future projects.
it's more likely to serve as an already forgotten example.
hornylink I hope not for the backers' sakes, lest something like this happen again. But four million dollars, three years of waiting, frustration and disappointment, reports of broken codes and finally relentless negative coverage would be kind of hard to forget I imagine. Backers to this thing can at least choose to salvage a life lesson for what they pledged. Hype only ends up being blown.
If anyone should be forgotten, it's Inafune. This revealed that he's a has-been who just preys on old fans' nostalgia for money. The Red Ash campaigns are just disgusting to me.
but bigger budget projects turn out way worse all the time in the triple A realm, and people never learn their lessons, and keep buying the shit the next time. People always forget, as exemplified by you thinking this is some monumental new occurrence.
Kickstarter isn't an investment, if after years of them trying to beat it into people's heads that it's not, if you still think it's an investment you deserve the losses you suffer for making completely un-researched "investments"
If I might interject...
Life systems only work in a specific context:
That is games built around the player challenging themselves to complete something, rather than the game forcing the challenge on you.
They are meant to help create pressure, but if at the end of the day the player is forced to take it as punishment rather than encouraged by the system to occasionally take breaks from a difficult challenge, then a life system becomes tedious, aggravating, and un-fun.
Superb job on the episode Yatzee. It seems to me you just went above and beyond. I loved it. I haven't laughed this much in a while.
This review was on point. Well done, Yahtzee.
Yahtzee was more disappointed
than an anime fan on prom night.
you mean anime fans expect anything on prom night?
Are you kidding me? I was watching a series finale instead of going to prom. Best decision ever made.
+Liam Thompson (ChibiWolf) I second that.
+The Adam Belinson I understood the reference, cheers to you for that one.
It's okay, they can still find a warm fuzzy feeling inside from pleasuring themselves to thoughts of one day being in their precious perfect Japan land
1:12 Omg, was that Isaac's mom?
Yahtzee’s art style and vulgar humor would line up.... I think that you have a theory brewing!
That character from Sesame Street is now the Prime Minister so...
Yahtzee can predict the future. He only was three years to early.
Since he was up against a character from a Soviet-era black and white cartoon, he was clearly the superior choice
"Revolution number 9"
Number nine. Number nine. Number nine.
Lol, when did you write this episode Yahtzee? Your Brexit joke has aged quicker than a Progerian drinking from a false last crusade chalice!
Well, it was written for an episode that was supposed to come out a week ago.
Also, hello Larry.
..you arent verified?
Un7ucky
I don't have my own website :(
Don't do it Larry. Commenting further on Brexit is going to upset to many idiots. Me included.
Your face is stupid
I remember the first time I saw one of Yahtzee's reviews on X-Play, back when g4tv was still around.
I don't think his comment on the graphics was apt. The NES style may be "dated" in a technical sense, but it is aesthetically pleasing. The PS1 style graphics of Mighty No 9 are neither up to date nor pleasing to the eye. The PS1/N64 era has never been known for many good looking games with its weird polygonal shapes and choosing to make a game in that style now-a-days is baffling.
this review made me cry like a football fan at comic con
Mighty No. 9 is the Daikatana of the 2010s. That "anime fan on prom night" advert may as well have said "Keiji Inafune is about to make you his b**ch".
'The water looks like Keith Richards pissed in it'. instant six pack of laughter.
To summarize people's gripes with this game, it's a combination of it invoking Daikatana and it shifting significantly from even some of the basic shit that was promised in the original kickstarter. Seriously, go look at some of the original material they put out for that thing, it had LEAGUES more potential than this shit. Then they let dipshits play merry Hell in the backend on multiple levels, and they decided that pushing anything with the appropriate brand on it would still sell like booze at a football stadium. As it turns out, selling drainoff from the portashitters and insulting your customers in the process doesn't lead to a very successful business. That wacky shit with the other IP they were trying to push so hard that they gave themselves medical piles didn't help either. Anyone bored enough to look into how that one is going at the moment? I doubt it's gone far, but still.
His mother looked like the mom from the Binding of Issac.
Why is that bit about brexit even more accurate three years on? Does Yahtzee have the power of prophecy
Remember the time he predicted President Trump back in August 2015? That's a definite yes at this point.
Flynn°-°94, I think he dose.
I think the "Water is murky like Keith Richards pissed in it" joke is a strong candidate for my favorite Yhatzee joke ever.
MechaStalin, that's how Berlin fell in 1945.
Two points, One is that the first time you need to use the crouch dash move is to get under a low edge in the intro stage.
second absorbing enemies also restores weapon energy??? I only played the game briefly at a friend so maybe every enemy I killed at the time just dropped weapon powerups at the same time.
Here are Boris Johnson officially became prime minister
Wow, 4 years later and I just realized that the figure at 1:15 is Isaac's mother
Yahtzee seems to be a bit miffed at Brexit.
Yahtzee is always a great guy for a funny review, but this time he was incredibly savage. I loved it.
I hope, I REALLY hope Koji Igarashi's Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night doesn't end up like this.
Alex i'm just as worried as you
I'm from the future, and I came to tell you that it's going to turn out just fine, in fact, it will do so well, that a sequel will be made too.
@@fevermario Thank you, traveller. I've yet to play it.
This also summed up the entire existence of Armikrog quite well (except for gameplay specifics).
5:00 - 5:23
Amazing, amazing review, though Inafune didn't create Mega Man at all.
He didn't create the character them self but from my understanding he was a major player in the actual series.
Even in the begining he was a fucking liar :/
+Isaac Argesmith from my information he was given a lot of the credit but a lot of the people that worked with him on this project say "he isnt a creator" and such and doubt that he created megaman himself or played a meaningful role
From what i understand he designed Megaman but didn't actually come up with the character of Megaman.
Klonoahedgehog Actually megaman was designed after he came on I believe but he had decent roles in creating the games, with him being an artist for some of the first games but later becoming a producer for the main series around the sorta 8th game and started as an designer, artist, and writer of the X series. Plus he worked a lot in the Legends series I hear. Along with this he was a producer in the network series.
For me, the biggest gripe I had with Mighty No.9 as a game is that a lot of the enemies you end up fighting tend to be flying (or floating above you) - and yet nobody thought that it might be a good idea to let the character shoot upwards, just left and right. It's 2016, guys, you might as well put some of that new-fangled technology into it
"Oh no, this won't be pretty." - Everyone who saw this video in their subscription inbox.
Fun fact:The creator of Mega Man is actually Akira Kitamura. Inafune said in an interview that he wasn't responsible for the creation or design of the original game, he only got full control of the series in Mega Man X5
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That made me shiver in pain.
Maybe it's just because I'm feeling more personally offended by the backlash rather than the game itself (even though I helped to back it when I was younger), but I'm really glad this review exists. I really do think it's not even that bad, it's just due to it being hailed as pretty much the second coming of Christ with so much hype surrounding it, the fact that it's mediocre really must've pissed off a lot of people, but this really just points out that it's really our fault for viewing it that way just to disappoint ourselves.
I genuinely wish that we could've gotten a better product in the long run and please everybody, but the fact we blew the game up so disproportionately really makes me want to go "Well what the fuck did you expect? Did you want the game to cure cancer or some shit, and if so, what really gave you that expectation with Kickstarter's semi-dubious history of crap management despite a famed, ambitious creator?"
People weren't exactly blindly hoping it would be good. It was supposed to be as good as a Megaman game. And it was supposed to look as good as the Kickstarter promised. 4 million dollars and three years, my friend. When it fails both of those things after all that, you can't get away with criticizing folks for being disappointed. Sorry. You just can't.
Asterra2 Uh... do you have anything to actually prove what you're saying? There was almost nothing that guaranteed that the product was going to be good other than a single guy being the general creator, and have you actually seen the Kickstarter demos? They're roughly on-par with the product, as in "meh."
The images and first demo footage they provided were both superior to the final product, full stop. If you want to split hairs, no, the presence of Inafune and other talent associated with Rockman, in addition to a known template from which to work, was not a guarantee or a promise, nor was the 4 million dollars or the insane extra development time, but you won't find many backers who don't feel cheated, regardless.
I firmly agree.
and let's not forget that inafune hired an SJW to handle the community for the game and she banned people, backers from betas,forums and when backers asked keiji inafune to do something about it, he did nothing
Seems like Yahtzee didn't even try to play the game. That corridor level was the boss fight, for example, and the crouch dash was quite useful for dodging enemy fire, and infact boosting into enemies does give you an upgrade to regain health @Escapist
when is the escapist channel gonna be renamed to Yahtzee?
That would be funny
He probably can't do that because of copyright infringement upon the Yahtzee game... and because the escapist pay him, they also pay him for his articles that he write, and yes, they got the same fucked up sense of humor that everyone love.
+Kevin Laprise yeah, here's the thing though, I was making a joke
Sorry,it's hard to know who is serious and who is joking with all those butthurt people in the comments rambling about politics.
+Kevin Laprise there's no better place for misinterpretation than the internet lol
So you refuse to know the behind-the-scenes nonsense for Mighty No. 9, yet you wonder why people are upset about certain aspects of the game... Sometimes, I think Yahtzee makes himself deliberately ignorant just to piss off as many people as he can.
This is all 7s fault.
Actually the most well-considered, unbiased review of this game I've heard. And it's 2018, so nobody's ever buying another copy.
It's definitely a game that's overshadowed by the controversy of its development cycle, that's for sure. As a game it looks more or less functional. Nothing revolutionary, but hardly Sonic 2006.
"mecha stalin" . . .hmmm, i want to kill that
Sounds like a fight that would be Wolfenstien meets Cold War meets Dark Souls
I knew what I wanted - and that was an old-school point and click adventure. Apparently to the rest of the world any sort of point and click adventure is old-school but as a German, I was horribly disappointed.
Yahtzee's final judgement was definitely not one that I was expecting, but it's still better than nothing.
Cantaloops.
The biggest complaint I heard is that some versions wont let you play for more than 20 mins because apparently all the bugs are on a time-delay. XD play for 22 mins and the game dies in front of you unless you give it a break to reset the timers.
Trump only needed one million dollars...just let that sink in.
#MakeMegaManGreatAgain
What does it want now?
Bernie Sanders was Megaman's only hope, and he lost to Burke from Weyland-Yutani. I knew Burke would never make anything of his life if he didn't become a schoolteacher :>
This oughta be GOOOOOOOD.
Edit: Actually, that was a pretty tame review for Yahtzee, let alone Might No. 9. Kinda Surprising. I guess that's what you get from a properly unbiased review.
The game turned out basically functional. The reasons people hate it are mostly due to the history of its development cycle, which Yahtzee is downplaying in favor of the old "fans are just unpleasable, even if you give them what they think they want" deflection.
3:38 That part of the game really annoyed me.
3:33 Hey Snake, there are lasers there.
Dat Brexit joke tho
A second amendment and David cameron joke as well.
Next weeks review has Brexit jokes too.
It was odd, i have yet to meet a Leave voter who regrets their vote...... remain seem to be having a good tantrum though lol
I think most of them are Londonites or middle class ponces who think the economy is a god that needs satitation or we'll all have our crops eaten by locusts and have our firstborn sons slaughtered.
Man, last time I was THIS early that joke about Anime fans on prom night was still original.
I'm crying like a Brexit supporter on prom night!
or baby who lose he's mom in a car accident
ok
Crying like a remain supporter all day every day?