Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon (Nintendo 64)

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Description

The people of Oedo Town are in a panic! A gigantic UFO shaped like a peach has arrived, and the Peach Mountain Shoguns have turned Oedo Castle into one big stage for themselves to perform on! Everyone's relying on Goemon to save the day, but he hasn't even noticed what's happening! Can our hero stop the Shoguns before they do any more damage?

Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon is an action game with light RPG elements, similar in style to The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time. It is also the first localized Goemon game since The Legend of the Mystical Ninja for the SNES. Players control Goemon and his friends as they make their way through Ancient Japan to stop the Peach Mountain Shoguns. You can talk to characters, whack enemies with your pipe (or hurl coins at them), visit a deranged fortune teller who shrieks out "PLASMA!" at random intervals for no reason, and more.

Each member of the Goemon team can also learn a special ability to access new areas as players progress through the game. Goemon earns the "Sudden Impact" power, which lets him move blocks he normally couldn't, Ebisumaru can shrink to small sizes so he can pass through tiny cracks, Sasuke earns an extra high jump, and Yae gets the ability to transform into a Mermaid so that she can swim underwater.

As usual, the gigantic roller-skating robot, Impact, makes an appearance. Players get to use him to trample down buildings and duke it out in first-person mode against gigantic mecha boss characters in a Punch-Out!! style game.

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Alternate Titles

• " がんばれゴエモン ～ネオ桃山幕府のおどり～" -- Japanese Spelling
• "Ganbare Goemon: Neo Momoyama Bakufu no Odori" -- Japanese Title

Part of the Following Groups

• Console Generation Exclusive: Nintendo 64
• Ganbare Goemon series

User Reviews

Just a fun game

Calpis (65)

Critic Reviews

Super Play (Sweden)	Apr, 1998	89 out of 100	89
Mega Fun	Apr, 1998	85 out of 100	85
Nintendo Land	2003	84 out of 100	84
Joypad	Oct, 1997	80 out of 100	80
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	May, 1998		80
Legendra	Dec 13, 2010		80
Jeuxvideo.com	Sep 14, 2015	16 out of 20	80
Nintendo Power Magazine	Feb, 1998	7.1 out of 10	71
HappyPuppy	May 04, 1998	7 out of 10	70
Classic-games.net	Mar 26, 2021	7 out of 10	70

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Trivia

Etymology

The name Goemon actually comes from Japanese folklore about a Robin Hood-like character from the Edo period. That character's name is Ishikawa Goemon.

High Capacity

At the time of its release, and for a few months after, Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon was the largest Nintendo 64 game of its time, requiring a full 128mb cartridge.