Inafune hops on Kickstarter with Mighty No. 9
Keiji Inafune will forever be known as the father of Mega Man, and his next project Mighty No. 9 on Kickstarter may be the closest thing we'll see to a new Mega Man title in the immediate future.
Launched during a panel at PAX Prime in Seattle, Keiji Inafune and his team of Mega Man veterans at Comcept are looking for $900,000 in order to fund the game and with 29 days left they have already $822,940 secured from 13,965 backers. No big surprise then if they achieve their goal.
"Mighty No. 9 is an all-new Japanese side-scrolling action game that takes the best aspects of the 8- and 16-bit era classics you know and love, and transforms them with modern tech, fresh mechanics, and fan input into something fresh and amazing!
You play as Beck, the 9th in a line of powerful robots, and the only one not infected by a mysterious computer virus that has caused mechanized creatures the world over to go berserk. Run, jump, blast, and transform your way through six stages (or more, via stretch goals) you can tackle in any order you choose, using weapons and abilities stolen from your enemies to take down your fellow Mighty Number robots and confront the final evil that threatens the planet!"
The game is in development for Steam with a spring 2015 release planned.