Kickstarter backers are finally getting their physical rewards for Mighty No. 9, more than two years after they were originally supposed to. That should put an end to the multi-year debacle that was Mighty No. 9’s crowdfunding campaign ... except that the NES-style game box that some paid big for is a huge letdown.
Some backers ponied up $60 for a physical game box from Fangamer, despite the fact that Mighty No. 9 is exclusively a downloadable title. The Kickstarter page promised that the retro-style box would make for a fine collector’s item, though.
“Mighty No. 9 doesn’t technically NEED a physical box, but then you don’t technically NEED to breathe, do you?” the campaign page reads. “Well yes, of course you do — just like you NEED this box!”
There were two options of the boxes: Famicom-esque ones or NES-style ones, which are slightly larger than the Famicom boxes. Both have the same dimensions as the real thing, developer Comcept promised, and come with manuals “already inside.” (The campaign also pitched an expected ship date of April 2015 at first, but that clearly didn’t happen.)
That’s true with the English-language NES boxes; that manual slides right in and out. Take a look:
Got my @MightyNo9 backer prize today. #NES style box and instructions. pic.twitter.com/UT48BFwLOB
— benjirobinson (@benjirobinson) July 25, 2017
It’s kinda cool! But the Japanese Famicom-looking rewards? Eesh.
oh it's literally just a box and manual. no game hahahaha. and the manual doesnt fit in the box pic.twitter.com/XKYXsLwLZG
— w i nt e rc u t e (@Isfet) July 25, 2017
Note that Comcept never said there’d be a copy of the game inside the box, but that’s not the problem. The problem is that the manual is way, way too big.
Chalk this up to yet another thing that Mighty No. 9’s early supporters are disappointed with.
I know these are going straight into the garbage can. #mightyno9 #EpicFail pic.twitter.com/bJ3UKtCwRg
— Travis .Hack// 15th (@Dungeon00X) July 26, 2017
I finally got my Japanese manual and box from the #mightyno9 kickstarter and the manual DOES NOT FIT IN THE BOX! One last knife to twist pic.twitter.com/WFCWH7np7k
— Tom Lynch (@tlynch117) July 25, 2017
MIGHTY No.9 これはもう詐欺なのでは? pic.twitter.com/qY5n67WjXd
— A.Tale (@airtale_kr) July 26, 2017
With these rewards heading to backers now — an exclusive backers-only update tells those still waiting for theirs to contact Fangamer directly — at least we can say this: We may finally be done grousing about how badly the whole Mighty No. 9 campaign went.