Mighty No. 9 was an enormous deal when it kicked off on Kickstarter in 2013. A Mega Man-like sidescroller headed up by unique Mega Man veteran Keifi Inafune—cannot miss, proper? But it surely did miss, and relatively badly. A number of delays led as much as a sport that wasn’t nice, late-arriving bodily editions have been additionally disappointing, and by that point all of us type of collectively determined we would had sufficient and put the entire thing out of our minds.
However I am bringing it again for yet another journey—not as a result of something’s occurring with Mighty No. 9 (there are actually zero individuals taking part in it on Steam proper now) however as a result of it is time to pour one out for Comcept, the studio Inafune based in 2010 to make it: Japanese gaming website Gamebiz (by way of Gematsu) says the corporate has been formally dissolved.
Comcept’s been rattling round aimlessly for a great whereas since Mighty No. 9 tanked. A Kickstarter marketing campaign for a Mega Man Legends-inspired sport referred to as Pink Ash failed to fulfill its goal in 2015, though it did handle to bother some Mighty No. 9 backers who needed to know why the studio was beginning work on a brand new venture when there was nonetheless no signal of the sport they paid for; Comcept ultimately made a take care of Chinese language firm Fuze Leisure to maneuver forward with growth, but it surely by no means got here out (and presumably by no means will). Comcept additionally contributed to the 2016 sport ReCore, one other massive letdown.
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That did not cease Japanese gaming firm Stage-5 from establishing a subsidiary in partnership with Inafune referred to as Stage-5 Comcept in 2017; Inafune left in 2024, a pair years after releasing a Mega Man-inspired NFT assortment, after which Stage-5 Comcept was absorbed by a brand new Stage-5 Osaka workplace. The unique Comcept, Gematsu honcho Sal Romano wrote on Resetera, has continued to exist as a enterprise entity till now.
Some twists and turns, then, however the backside line is that Comcept has been successfully lifeless for some time, and that is actually extra of a burial—a closing farewell to a studio that was as soon as on the head of one of many greatest, most profitable videogame crowdfunding campaigns of all time.
Pity that the whole lot that got here afterwards sucked, however that is the joy of Kickstarter: You pay your dime, you are taking your probabilities, and from time to time you get screwed. (Talking of which, for those who ponied up additional for the 3DS or PS Vita model of Mighty No. 9, yeah, it is most likely time to throw that receipt out. Sorry.)
