Mighty No. 9: Ray Expansion
releases on TBD
An expansion for Mighty No. 9
A mysterious robot named RAY has appeared and our hero Beck has been tasked with infiltrating an abandoned lab to search for her. Discover the origins of RAY and join her in her quest for answers.
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not really sure why this is listed as TBD when the Ray DLC did infact come out and I got some shiiiiiiiiit to sayyyy
okay so remember how Im like.. kind of a mighty number 9 enjoyer to an extent?
Yea i still am but this reaffirmed why ill bat for the game but not for a full inning LMFAO
LIKE THIS REALLLLLLLLLLLLYY shows how pressed they were straining that wasted budget thin
The chapter you initially play and fight to get Ray in, it kind of Sucks! her boss fight is dookie and way too fucking easy, to the point where it doesnt even show off her gimmick of her gameplay much at all!
Her campaign itself is also..... Something!... she winds up going on her own mission to feed off xels and not feel empty and weak.. and there's like sparing cutscenes inbetween with her coming to conclusions that lead her down a similar path to Beck, White, Call and the others down the regular story's progression. Its almost like an alternate route if you will
This is cool! On paper! In practice its actually horribly underwhelming because Ray is so fucking cool as a character and pieces together asking why Dr White wont talk to her or why she was basically made the same as Beck and Call but is a rancorous bloodfueled constantly siphoning vampire-esque robot that always needs to take something with xels out feel full.
Like.
He says NOTHING to her...
NOTHING!
Not even some parting words that matter out here
She gets packed up after absorbing all those negative xels from the final boss(whos ultimately unchanged from the main story ofc, not even unique dialogue going on)
in an ambulance and then has a majin vegeta-ish explosion happen in the ambulance """""""injuring""""" some cherry dyna workers
and she just... monologues wondering what dr white's deal is... and then goes on her own adventure to feed her insatiable craving for xels bec- bitch.
She literally winds up in a loop like she winds up getting the other mighty number power data like Beck does... but NOTHING IS GAINEDDDD LMAO NOTHING IS EARNED FROM THIS STORY EXCEPT HER MAYBE GETTING A TASTE OF WHAT HUMANITY IS LIKE W/O NEEDING TO FEED
And while it's relevant for the remainder of my review
Some of ray's versions of these abilities actually feel a lot better and rectify the shittiness of things like the seismic ability or the ice ability to me, i think theyre way more useful in ray's story than beck ever had it going on.
But all in all this was pitiful but i do love the concept of constantly needing to feed to keep that hp bar topped off and her dash feels so fucking funnnn and the abilities work in tandem with her pretty well too
Its just really depressing to think that you got Zero from mega man on paper right, and you make him this cool vampiric black woman robot on a path of blood to ask questions on why she was ever born
why was she created to only feed and spill robot blood
why can she not even truly die and just be brittle and frail
why can-.. this is rhetorical
the answer is!!!! who knows!
there's no answer at the end of the tunnel! this isnt even worth a spoiler warning i mean come on there was stuff setup for sequels because at the time im sure keiji inafune and all the other motherfuckers at deep silver and all thought that this would atleast have wiggle room for a sequel and the end result is these characters all just living after the fact through mighty gunvolt burst of all things..
and ill probably check out whatever that is some other day
But after enjoying the main campaign, some of the challenge mission stuff, and frowning through most of this DLC
I think im just sad
Sad for different reasons than most people played mighty number 9 at launch burned by the dice roll of kickstarter backing something that wasnt what you prayed itd be
Sad more like.. I can TASTE there actually being an attempt here, there Was aspects of this that i loved and lows and scuffs that couldve been rectified in a sequel !! but. we'll never get that timeline and thats a shame.
but atleast mega man is still alive rn with its own iterations of games right?...
right???????
...
https://prnt.sc/iW_RdXLO67VE
oh right i was doing a final thoughts thing uh
if there's any line youre gonna read and not skim over while reading any of my rambling on i leave you with this:
you could say Keiji Inafune is the modern day Icarus of the gaming industry
(haha and thts even funnier cause kid icarus came out like, a year before mega man 1... and also.. the same.. month?.. and.. wtf two days apart.... huh.)
okay so remember how Im like.. kind of a mighty number 9 enjoyer to an extent?
Yea i still am but this reaffirmed why ill bat for the game but not for a full inning LMFAO
LIKE THIS REALLLLLLLLLLLLYY shows how pressed they were straining that wasted budget thin
The chapter you initially play and fight to get Ray in, it kind of Sucks! her boss fight is dookie and way too fucking easy, to the point where it doesnt even show off her gimmick of her gameplay much at all!
Her campaign itself is also..... Something!... she winds up going on her own mission to feed off xels and not feel empty and weak.. and there's like sparing cutscenes inbetween with her coming to conclusions that lead her down a similar path to Beck, White, Call and the others down the regular story's progression. Its almost like an alternate route if you will
This is cool! On paper! In practice its actually horribly underwhelming because Ray is so fucking cool as a character and pieces together asking why Dr White wont talk to her or why she was basically made the same as Beck and Call but is a rancorous bloodfueled constantly siphoning vampire-esque robot that always needs to take something with xels out feel full.
Like.
He says NOTHING to her...
NOTHING!
Not even some parting words that matter out here
She gets packed up after absorbing all those negative xels from the final boss(whos ultimately unchanged from the main story ofc, not even unique dialogue going on)
in an ambulance and then has a majin vegeta-ish explosion happen in the ambulance """""""injuring""""" some cherry dyna workers
and she just... monologues wondering what dr white's deal is... and then goes on her own adventure to feed her insatiable craving for xels bec- bitch.
She literally winds up in a loop like she winds up getting the other mighty number power data like Beck does... but NOTHING IS GAINEDDDD LMAO NOTHING IS EARNED FROM THIS STORY EXCEPT HER MAYBE GETTING A TASTE OF WHAT HUMANITY IS LIKE W/O NEEDING TO FEED
And while it's relevant for the remainder of my review
Some of ray's versions of these abilities actually feel a lot better and rectify the shittiness of things like the seismic ability or the ice ability to me, i think theyre way more useful in ray's story than beck ever had it going on.
But all in all this was pitiful but i do love the concept of constantly needing to feed to keep that hp bar topped off and her dash feels so fucking funnnn and the abilities work in tandem with her pretty well too
Its just really depressing to think that you got Zero from mega man on paper right, and you make him this cool vampiric black woman robot on a path of blood to ask questions on why she was ever born
why was she created to only feed and spill robot blood
why can she not even truly die and just be brittle and frail
why can-.. this is rhetorical
the answer is!!!! who knows!
there's no answer at the end of the tunnel! this isnt even worth a spoiler warning i mean come on there was stuff setup for sequels because at the time im sure keiji inafune and all the other motherfuckers at deep silver and all thought that this would atleast have wiggle room for a sequel and the end result is these characters all just living after the fact through mighty gunvolt burst of all things..
and ill probably check out whatever that is some other day
But after enjoying the main campaign, some of the challenge mission stuff, and frowning through most of this DLC
I think im just sad
Sad for different reasons than most people played mighty number 9 at launch burned by the dice roll of kickstarter backing something that wasnt what you prayed itd be
Sad more like.. I can TASTE there actually being an attempt here, there Was aspects of this that i loved and lows and scuffs that couldve been rectified in a sequel !! but. we'll never get that timeline and thats a shame.
but atleast mega man is still alive rn with its own iterations of games right?...
right???????
...
https://prnt.sc/iW_RdXLO67VE
oh right i was doing a final thoughts thing uh
if there's any line youre gonna read and not skim over while reading any of my rambling on i leave you with this:
you could say Keiji Inafune is the modern day Icarus of the gaming industry
(haha and thts even funnier cause kid icarus came out like, a year before mega man 1... and also.. the same.. month?.. and.. wtf two days apart.... huh.)