Mighty No. 9’s physical rewards are out, and they’re not great

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:

It’s kinda cool! But the Japanese Famicom-looking rewards? Eesh.

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.

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.