Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune's Mighty No. 9 has been delayed again, this time just two weeks ahead of its previous February 9 release date. The sidescrolling shooter/platformer starring a blue-clad humanoid robot named Beck that shoots energy out of his arm cannon (yeah, the similarities are a little on the nose) was not given a new, specific release date in the announcement post on the game's Kickstarter page. Instead, Inafune wrote that fans can "realistically" expect the game sometime this spring.
Inafune attributed the delay to network coding issues. "There are two large reasons for this problem, one of them being the large number of platforms supported (the solution for each platform is slightly different) and the other stems from the fact that the engine we are using is no longer being updated which means adjustments for matchmaking and online code are being made manually (actually reprogramming parts of the engine by the dev team themselves)," he wrote. Inafune personally apologized for the delay, as well as on behalf of the development team.
