Genre: Action
Perspective: 3rd-person
Art: Anime / Manga
Gameplay: Platform, Puzzle elements
Published by: Konami Co.
Developed by: Konami Computer Entertainment Osaka Co.
Released: 1997
Platform: Nintendo 64 (N64)
It is one of the few games in this saga that has managed to leave Japan, also reaching Europe and the United States. United. He has managed to be among the 35 best games of Nintendo 64. In Nintendo 64 he has two sequels: Ganbare Goemon: Dōchū Obake Tenko Mori (Goemon's Great Adventure in America and Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon 2 in Europe) and Goemon: Mononoke Sugoroku, unpublished in West.
Plot
It is the story that develops throughout the game and could well serve as a guide for this. The story begins when Japan is flown by a spaceship, the aliens call themselves the shoguns of Mount Peach, and capture the princess of Oedo Castle . Goemon and Ebisumaru go after the aliens to rescue the princess. Along the way they will be joined by several allies, Sasuke the robot and the ninja Yae, as well as a giant robot called Impact, who goes to the call of Goemon when he is most needed .
Goemon and his friends must travel to space to defeat the shoguns, Lily and Dancin. Finally they defeat them with the help of the Impact robot.
The first dungeon is the Oedo castle, in which Goemon and Ebisumaru manage to defeat the shoguns for the first time, shortly after the first battle with the giant robot Impact arrives, after they manage to reach Zazen town, where they are joined by Yae. To continue the journey they need to beat Benkei, who guards the bridge to leave the city, after beating the robot is handed Sasuke, but without batteries to function. For the next Ebisumaru dungeon you must obtain the magic to access through passages and defeat the head of the castle of the ghosts.
Later Goemon finds the batteries for Sasuke to work, since his bombs are necessary to access the third dungeon Festival Temple. After defeating the enemies of that region they must go to another one, for this it is necessary the magic of Goemon, which makes him stronger to move metal blocks. This is how you get to a new city, where Yae learns the magic to dive to get there to a new dungeon, Gourmet submarine castle, which ends with another battle with the Impact robot. The next thing is to find the kappa Keihachi, who lives in Zazen town, to get the magic of Sasuke.
Once the four special Goemon items have been obtained and the rest must travel to space, where they meet Omitsu and Wiseman, who arrived next to a region that the shoguns raised, in the dungeon "Georgeus my stage" the last battle is fought.
Characters
- Goemon: It is the main character of the adventure. Their weapons are a pipe, which is transformed into a chain to reach inaccessible sites and the ryou (the game coins), which are thrown with flames. With magic, it can be twice as strong.
- Ebisumaru: Always accompanies Goemon. His weapons are a hammer and a camera to reveal hidden paths. Thanks to the magic can become tiny and reach special places.
- Sasuke: It is a robotic ninja, to control it is necessary to find the batteries that start it before. Its weapons are the kunai (which are like daggers), and bombs. With magic it can fly for a short period of time.
- Yae: She is a secret ninja agent. She uses the katana, a bazooka and a flute that allows her to invoke a dragon. With magic she can transform herself into a mermaid and remain in the water for an unlimited time.
- Omitsu: Live in the city of Goemon and work in a tea house, almost at the end of the game is taken into space by the shoguns.
- Impact: It's a giant robot, it's actually a movie star in another country, but it always goes to Goemon's call to fight.
- Wiseman: He is a sage who was kidnapped by the shoguns, he is the creator of Sasuke. He gets in touch with Goemon through an old woman.
Dungeons and bosses
- Oedo castle: Formerly the castle of the Princess of Edo, now it is controlled by the shoguns of Mount Peach. At this level, no weapon is obtained. His boss is a huge head that throws rays and spits fire, easy to beat.
- Ghost toys castle: It's a huge castle full of ghosts, here Ebisumaru can get the camera, necessary to beat the ghosts. The head of the level is a Japanese doll that launches rockets, the camera is necessary to defeat it.
- Festival temple castle: It is the most messy phase of the game, a temple full of traps, the most dangerous enemies are also here. Sasuke can get the kunai from severe cold, which freezes the enemies. The boss is a ghost that throws explosive disks, they must be returned to impact on him.
- Gourmet submarine castle: It is a simple level in which several meals appear.Yae get here the bazoka.El boss is a huge fish that must be defeated with the giant robot Impact at the last moment.
- Georgeus stage: This level belongs to outer space, in it you have to use all the abilities of the characters. In the end you have to face two robots with Impact, one of them the final enemy, Dancin.