Posted on: November 3, 2011
Morty90
Games: 241 Reviews: 5
Playable, but barely.
I played Might and Magic IX quite a while ago... it wasn't so bad as to turn me away from the computer but after a while I realized that there was nothing keeping me there either and that while I could keep playing, there're many better games out there to spend my time on. All in all, I can't recommend it.
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Posted on: September 16, 2016
godslayerami
Verified ownerGames: 162 Reviews: 1
Broken.
A good game broken on gog. Want to go to the invintory screen? {you will } Well wait 15 or more seconds please!! Oh you want to exit? go to the load/save screen? 15seconds please!!! over and over and over...it makes the game UNPLAYABLE. It would be nice to have known this before buying.
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Posted on: October 11, 2016
Furyzorpwn
Verified ownerGames: 15 Reviews: 2
Review.
This game had potential to be "the best" M&M in series. There are some really good reworks. Now there are no "Must have" class like priest or knight always were just because they were way too powerfull, mage and druid can cover for a priest for support and add more firepower, priest itself will provide alot, both heavy fighter kinda equal with gladiator being just more tanky but assassin is capable to do more damage etc. Yes the ranger is questionable character but still ok i guess. Combat is really cool, if we "remove" AI bugs it is doing pretty good job to provide challenge almost at all stages of game. Economy was better balanced and spells were balanced aswell, now you cant faceroll bless+heroism for 5 hours after completing harmondale, you need to be really skillfull in magic to do good blesses and local heroism aka "faith" is single target, spell and buff management was done REALLY good for M&M. But it seems that is all that devs were able to kinda do before release, their core with classes and combat/magic going with almost empty shell of not completed cities, underworked promotion system, quests, ALOT of bugs, both gameplay and visual aswell as crashes. Even things that alot of people liked like gearing your character maneken in inventory now gone, more than that the pictures of characters dont match race and portrait look, which is huge shame for this series. Consider getting this game if you are looking for M&M gameplay with interesting magic and combat, but if you are looking for well crafted world with stories and dialogues your best shot will be to miss this game. I have rated this game 4/5 since i knew what game im gona play, if it were my first hand expirience it would be 2, maybe 3/5.
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Posted on: September 2, 2017
Gentleman87
Verified ownerGames: 36 Reviews: 1
Needs more Patches
I have owned this game in one form or another since it first came out and have never gotten further then 2 broken hours into this game. No matter what I do the game is glitchy and runs choppy if it runs at all. Most of the time the game freezes on start up taking 5-25min to get to the menu when it does load. Then the loading agian between zones and rooms and interatction is super choppy and I feel there is alway a delay in command interactions. I am a huge fan of the Might and Magic series and have them all installed on my computers so I always have something to play. And this franchise is always new in game play with the combination of choices you can have. SO even though I can't play this game with out stressing on the glitching I hold on to this game in the hope that some programing Genius, Saint or fanatic will work on fixing this programing once and for all. For every one else reading this review definitely get the previous 3 installment to this game you wont be disappointed. I have loved these games for over 15 years.
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Posted on: April 25, 2015
ComradeAart
Verified ownerGames: 471 Reviews: 30
Nice game but a bit easy and a bit buggy
Ok, I bought this game because you can turn your characters into Liches. How cool is that? Back to the review. The MM series have a unique way of increasing your skills, where you first need to learn it and then with skill points (which you get every level) you increase your skill levels. Once getting into certain skill levels you can go to a master to become Expert, Master or even Grand Master at this skill. Your class dictates what skills you can train to what level, so you are forced to have a balanced party. MM9 gives two class promotions per character, so it gives you something to work towards to. In comparison to other MM games, MM9 "streamlined" the skills, so there is 1 skill for all elements (which used to be 4) and like one armor skill instead of one for plate, leather and chain. It feels rushed this way. This game is a Mac and Cheese kind of RPG. By that I mean that it is a lot of fun, but it does not give any challenge or satisfaction at the end, which comes way too fast. On top of that there are a few nasty bugs. I never played it back in the day and if you've read the other reviews, you can tell there used to be WAY more. The GOG version is patched to the latest version and only crashed three times for me. There was one bug that almost forced me to have to start the whole game over. Luckily by cheating (I used a save game editor) I could correct the bug. To save you the trouble there is a way to circumvent it. When you want to promote your character you have to solve a quest, but if you didn't tell the person who can promote you what characters should be promoted before solving the quest, noone can get that promotion anymore! So if you want a promotion, talk with the correct character and already select who needs to be promoted and then solve the quest. Any other order will cause you to want to pull your hair out! I do not think it is worth the price, it should be like $5 instead of $10, but if you just want a quick RPG game this is the game for you.
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