Goemon's Great Adventure
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Goemon's Great Adventure, known as Mystical Ninja 2 Starring Goemon in Europe, is a video game developed and released by Konami for the Nintendo 64 on December 23, 1998. It is the third game in the Goemon series released in North America and Europe, following Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon, released two years earlier. Featuring platform gameplay in 2.5D, it returns the series to a side-scrolling format.
Plot
Goemon and his friends must stop Ebisumaru's descendant Bismaru, who plans to use one of the Old Wise Man's inventions in order to unleash another disaster. Specifically, the Old Wise Man (who has appeared in every game in the series) has created a "ghost return machine" that can bring the dead back to life. Bismaru is attempting to create an army of undead creatures for her master, Dochuki, the master of the underworld. Enemies like ghosts, skeletons, and creatures from Japanese folklore have been unleashed and must be stopped.
Why it's a Great Adventure
- The graphics, just like the prequel are very detailled and beautiful for a 1998 N64 game.
- it's also way more detailled than Ganbare Goemon: Kuru Nara Koi! Ayashige Ikka no Kuroi Kage on PS1 release the same same day as this game.
- The controls are once again extremely tight and responsive, even despite the fact that this game play faster than the SNES games, and the controls would never fail to ever respond to your commands.
- You can now double jump which is a nice feature and was not seen in the previous games so this is also a nice addition.
- The plot is still very good and interesting.
- It's one of the few 2D platformer on the console, and it's also one of the best 2D platformer on the N64 along with Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards and Yoshi's Story.
- The gameplay is once again very fun to play as it is very fast-paced and in fact it is even faster than the SNES games, which is great for those who like fast-paced platformer.
- The length is longer than the other Ganbare Goemon 2D platformer, as you can complete it in 4/5 hours, howewer it is much shorter than the first game on the N64.
- The soundtrack is awesome, and while there's not as much vocal songs, there's still a lot of pretty catchy musics to listen to such as the village theme.
- Some cutscenes are pretty funny, just like the other Ganbare Goemon game, at such the storylines are once again hilarous.
- Just like Ganbare Goemon 2 on SNES in the levels end, there are a tanuki statue in where you can get money, which can once again help you to buy something from the village.
- You can play with all the Goemon and all of his friends, all of them have their ability.
- The final boss is very memorable and epic.
- The scream that Goemon doe when you fall to your death is both funny and hilarous.
Bad Qualities
- The game over Screen is really infamous due to the dancing demon being innapropriate for a kid game.
- At least in the prequel it's was not as innapropriate as this game.
- To move in the map, you have to press the B bouton which is really akward and a bit stupid.
- The villages is too big and you can lose yourself easily in these part unlike Ganbare Goemon 2 on SNES.
- The International versions remove some cutscenes such as the one with Impact and Miss Impact.
Reception
The game was received well, with more than 160,000 copies sold worldwide. Reminiscent of older, 16-bit games, the side-scrolling system was lauded by reviewers, who also praised the two-player cooperative mode. The game's vibrant graphics and musical score earned high marks as well. Reviewers have considered it the best side-scroller for the Nintendo 64. The game have a score of 80% in Gameranking. IGN give it a 8/10, a 3.5 out of 5 at GamePro and a 7/10 at GameSpot.
Trivia
- This game was release the same day as Ganbare Goemon: Kuru Nara Koi! Ayashige Ikka no Kuroi Kage on the PS1.
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