Mighty no. 9

I really want to support the game
But all of the negatives with the game (due to bad PR, miscommunications to the fans)
I will wait for a sale of the game first
By the way, how much does it cost in USD?

I dont think its intis fault actually, i think inafune raided the cookie jars way too early with his plans for an anime and movie and sequels and red ash double feature, he took a very corporate way of saturation in a place where it takes a while for people to recover from the hype, and i think it really made mn9 suffer visually

However, looking at the gameplay parts the visuals work, where it falls apart is the close up and angled shots, where i dont think they relit and reshaded for that shot, they just moved the camera in engine

In any case i think the actions inafune took deserves to be analyzed later to see what works and doesnt in crowdfunding, but for the game itself im hoping its fun, which will be the real test of the game

Right, and as myself and Asty pointed out in the shoutbox, Inafune himself is making MN9 and Red Ash animes, so...what? How can you...ugh.

Yeah, it might be just Deep Silver here, but their recent KOF XIV trailer was pretty good. It's really like they're trying to appeal to a wider audienece, but they most likely wouldn't take to the game regardless.

Exactly. For Red Ash it wasn't as terrible as it seemed, because from what I understand, they wanted to give the team members who were done with Mighty Number 9 a new project to work on ASAP. But there was absolutely no reason for them to even think about an "animated series" or movie or anything like that, because the game wasn't even out yet and MN9 is very far from an established property. It was very very silly.

I have faith in IGA 8) Really though, even at this early stage Bloodstained is looking better than MN9--I'm not just saying that, but it seems to me IGA and the Bloodstained team avoided a lot of the pitfalls that hit Inafune.

1: Unreal Engine 4 is still supported and seems to be much easier to work with than UE3, which stopped receiving support while MN9 was being developed, I think.

2: The Bloodstained team seems to have a better sense of focus. While I can understand why Inafune wanted to get started on Red Ash ASAP (if folks were finished with work on MN9, it made sense to have them set up on a new project), but some of the other stuff was distractions. I can't understand why anyone thought it was a good idea to even think of a MN9 animated series or movie before the game was even out.

3: From what I understand, the 3ds was a significant bottleneck (in terms of graphics and a lot of other things) for MN9 as a whole. Bloodstained, fortunately, doesn't have to worry about that.

4: More abstractly, I think IGA just has a better handle on the aesthetics of the games he's trying to build on than Inafune did. Granted, some of this may be due to the aforementioned graphical limitations of UE3 and the 3ds, but still...I mean, just look at Miriam's *test* animations alone. IGA remembers exactly what people liked about how Alucard moved in SoTN, along with little details like the glowing crystal sparks coming from Miriam's back. Looking at MN9 as it's close to release, it seems that team wasn't paying as much attention to what people loved about Mega Man's enemy, level, and character design, resulting in a game that looks considerably more generic and considerably less interesting.

Now, as we all know, it's still a long road to release and many things could go wrong. But I still feel safe in assuming IGA has a better hand on things than the MN9 team did, because of how well things have been proceeding lately, as measured by the updates.

The trailer was a huge turn-off, but I'll play the game. I did back it after all....

Yeah, Yeah..I know.

That is a good point and while I'm trying not to beat myself up over it, that trailer is just an insult to all the fans who backed the game. 

However, I do not live in the past and I can only live in the present moment, the future is unwritten. ONWARD TO BLOODSTAINED!!!! 

just means inti will keep a tighter quality control on any future trailers after this, just one of those pitfalls any dev team falls into eventually

In the greatest of video game heel turns, Konami is the publisher to Bloodstained.

Konami is Vince McMahon.