Mighty No. 9, the spiritual successor to the Mega Man series of video games, has suffered yet another release date delay. According to the a post on the project's Kickstarter, the game won't be available to play due to the engine that it runs on not receiving any more updates. Instead of a February 2016 launch date, we'll have to wait for Spring 2016 to play this new game from the team of developers over at Comcept.
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This title was originally set to hit shelves in August of 2015, was then delayed to September, but was then pushed to Feb. of this year. Now backers have to wait a few more months for Mighty No. 9.
"The reason for the delay is rooted in bugs inside the network modes, and specifically problems with matchmaking. There are two large reasons for this problem, one of them being the large number of platforms supported (the solution for each platform is slightly different) and the other stems from the fact that the engine we are using is no longer being updated which means adjustments for matchmaking and online code are being made manually (actually reprogramming parts of the engine by the dev team themselves)," said game creator Keiji Inafune announced on the Kickstarter page. "Unfortunately, this is all a result of miscalculations on the part of us, the development staff. As a result, our fans who have been looking forward to Mighty No. 9 have been forced to wait for over half a year longer than expected, and for that we are sincerely sorry. I want to take this chance to apologize personally, and on the behalf of the development staff."
According to Gamenesia, Inafune, who also create Mega Man, promised supporters back in October of 2015 that the game would not see another delay past the February goal. Unfortunately, he was speaking too soon.
The crowdfunding project raised over $4 million for development, but has attracted criticism for not delivering a finished product yet, according to Polygon.
While you wait (even longer) for the game's release, check out some recent gameplay footage:
