Posted on: January 26, 2025

derrekeva

Games: 187 Reviews: 2

Might and Magic 9

While this can be a fun game and reminds you of past Might and Magic games, it doesnt quite capture the glory of World of Xeen and VI. it just seems there wasnt enough polish put on this one. While not a 1/4th of the way through, im sure ill finish it but it still makes me long for a remake of the classics . While i recommend this to a fan of the past games and RPG's , there are better out there. Please someone make a Might and Magic XI that we can be proud of.

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Posted on: April 2, 2019

BlazingLight

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Games: 83 Reviews: 3

Some fun, and a mountain of frustration.

As stated elsewhere, GOG includes the patched version getting rid of most gamebreaking bugs and unfinishable dungeons. However, it stil needs some TLC to run decently on Windows 10 - grab dxVoodoo patches for graphics and patches for menu performance. However, that's fine. Once the game is set up, it's real fun. Until I got to the unbearably stupid promotion quest system where you have to select characters BEFORE finishing taking the promotion quest. If you didn't do that, you're completely locked out of that promotion path, which lost me some 20-ish hours, because I just took the quests to do them and submit them later. After this, I really didn't have the strength to restart. Now, I might return to MM9 at later date, but after finishing 6,7,8 in a row, I just remembered the disappointment from when I was young and finished the game the first time. I'm giving 3* because the game IS fun once set up, but the frustration with some INCREDIBLY stupid design choices drains all the enjoyment out of it.

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Posted on: December 9, 2024

KDarkmoon

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Games: 567 Reviews: 5

The worst of the Might & Magic games...

I remember looking forward to the release of this when it first came out because I'd been a fan of the Might & Magic games since Might & Magic III was released and it became my first M&M game. Unfortunately due to some bad business decisions in trying to get into the console gaming market with their own console and milking the Army Men IP to death, they'd ended up bankrupting the company. They couldn't even finish M&M 9 properly despite the New World Computing founder and developer Jon Van Canegham sinking $1 million of his own funds in trying to complete it. 3DO literally shipped Might & Magic IX the same day they filed for bankruptcy and laid off everyone despite that it was clearly unfinished and had game-breaking bugs. It is only through the die-hard Might & Magic fan community that the game even became playable. Unfortunately there was only so much they could do without having the actual game code. It is extremely unfortunate that Ubisoft picked up the M&M franchise and then only ever released Heroes of M&M games and that travesty that was Might & Magic X over a decade ago. I really wish someone who loved the Might & Magic games could buy up the franchise and bring it back to greatness.

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Posted on: April 6, 2012

LaRosse

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Games: 408 Reviews: 15

Decent RPG

It has all the basic pros of the MM6-8. However, you will miss the old inventory system and, of course, fly spell as there is not as much freedom in movement as its predecessors. You will also probably like the new mouse targeting system which makes the game movement feel like in a normal FPS (including mouse view). On the other hand you will have to use shortcuts to get to menus (as usual in the modern 1st or 3rd person RPGs). Is summary, with the latest unofficial patch the game is quite enjoyable. I have finished the game like 3 times already. So if you getting bored replaying MM6-8 again and again, try this one.

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Posted on: October 8, 2017

bgillisp

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Games: 573 Reviews: 6

Doesn't work on modern OS

Game fails to load in Windows 10. Avoid unless you have an older OS.

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