Love this series, Glenn. Its great to get a taste of some games that we missed over he in the west. Love the opening where you show the box and manual also. As for the game, I've never actually played any of the N64 Goemon titles...criminal I know, I should really give one a go. All the best mate.
dude get mystical ninja starring goemon first its awesome! the sequel is amazing too but one of the toughest n64 games around and its 2d too with some cool multiplayer where you help each other. huge game too!
I have play this game for some time now, I say more than 10 years and at first can be frustrated, not understanding the mechanic, the monsters, effects, ect. Took me time to know what card do, even into this day, it still does, but the most of it, I know how it works and I enjoy. TBH, I love the game, and I wish there could be a patch to understand some cards that I haven't used or try. Great review.
Great video, the Ganbare Goemon series might be favorite, it’s definitely at the top. This is absolutely a game that any Goemon fan should check out, it took me an hour or two just playing with no guide to really get it. Once I understood it though, I was hooked. I completed it with every character and even beat the hidden boss. It’s at least worth a try.
I am huge fan of the series and I hate the fact we get the shaft with not getting some great titles. I played a few games on my ED and picked up some of how the game played. The music is great. Having seen the box art of yours now it has to go in my collection. Great review
thats the problem with this show...the box etc is half the fun for me i love the stylings and weird choices they make sometimes! wait till you see whats on the way!
I really recommend this game for Goemon fans, I finished this game a couple of years ago without knowing any Japanese, it's kind of slow, but it's totally worthy.
I've watched an entire walkthrough of the game you're talking about and if you listen closely, some of the music has remixes of some of Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon in its soundtrack. I didn't realize it at first but I thought that was something worth mentioning.
In so many Goemon games i played, this one didn't gave me so much attention, but gave a good spirit of Japan tho. For this reason it never came out to Europe and US. Speaking of Goemon very soon i will review on Arcades since i'm working on it on youtube and goemon will appear on my next ones.
I'd have to disagree, the first and 3rd PS1 Goemon games are amazing, it's the middle PS1 game that isn't too good. I do own the first one on PS1, with hopes of eventually getting the 3rd one for a fair price, and I played both through emulation first, both are awesome, and play like the SNES/Super Famicom games. I like them better than the open world Goemon game on N64 (seriously, the second N64 Goemon game IMO is much better than the first N64 Goemon game, it plays exactly like I like my Goemon titles to play, 2D). Seriously, have you even played the PS1 games to make such a statement? Ryan Airzonk, WD was working on translating the New Age Goemon title, which I don't care for as I prefer the traditional Goemon/Ebisumaru/Sasuke/Yae team.
I hope this N64 Goemon game gets translated since all the SNES Goemon games recently got an English translation (with a retranslation of the first SNES Goemon game).
I love the Goemon games. It's just a shame that we don't get all of them released in the west. I must admit I wasn't even aware of this one but it looks like it could be a lot of fun.
Never heard of this , despite loving the Goemon games. Looks great, and even though I enjoy games of this style (really like Boom Street in the Wii for example), as you say, the language barrier is an issue - pity that. Keep this great work up Glenn - it's the only way I have of identifying new games for my import N64.
loving the reviews, quite fair and honest, i cannot say every reviewer i have seen actually have such a claim, they either take complete biased fond memories into it, or they go and dis-regard it and poke at the game until it has its coding bleeding out from its cartridge (Or disk, Or server now...)
thanks stacey! some people think I'm bias as this is solely an n64 channel but if they watch the 2 or 3 videos i tend to upload a week they'll see that i am happy to trash bad games, praise the good ones and the ones which fall in-between generally get pros and cons discussed! I'm a collector so id love every game to be a gem but sadly they cant all be that way! cool avatar by the way! :D
***** i completely agree, whilst some games like, sonic R, not that brilliant of a racing game, but its quite open with paths, has some balancing issues between the characters whilst the music is top quality, it is the sort of thing my mom would be listening to, and i might have accidentally got a friend of mine to play it in multiplayer with me haha! since then we regard the game as being the known cause of insanity! to be honest, im not really a collector, im a retro gamer more than anything, whenever i buy a game from the 90s (mostly n64 or mega-drive, and from some charity shops, which are more like PS and PS2 titles) i usually go for cartridge only for the n64, megadrive i try and get everything, and the PS / PS2 i try and get everything, i have never bought a game without the case (which i think is kind of silly) i bet my college friends are loving this, since the google update to youtube, you can only change your name so many times, they changed my name to Stacy, and i cannot change it back for 2 years! lol
haha thats crazy! I'm a complete in box collector so like total OCD when it comes to having the full package, I've slown down on purchases recently a little as prices of n64 are nuts now but focussing more on japanese import for this series as i like making these episodes as a lot of the time its something new for me too
its a bit of a shame pal region cannot play NTSC or the Japanese imports, it kind of drives me nuts, but i will say this, dispite being someone who goes for just the cart for the n64 games (because i buy to play not to collect, my friend does though) i once bought off ebay a game that costed 80 quid for the PS during high-school, everyone went crazy and was like Dude you could have bought a used xbox (ugh... its 360 you nit-wits!) the game was blood omen, and they went and apparently looked it up how "cheap" you can get it, i can say 80 quid, i LOVED it and i outright find it fantastic, i hold no regrets, (Dispite how you can get it for 30 quid) and no i didnt get it brand new, most expensive n64 title... Starcraft 64... 70 quid, my friend is completely jealous of that, but then i keep looking on ebay just to see how many are on there, and theres only 2 at most on ebay in pal format and apparently, one of the most rare n64 titles in this region... not gonna brag in the slightest haha haha!
yeah starcraft was a PAL AUS exclusive game so it was pal region but didn't get released in europe only australia...hence the price of it being insane, like a PAL snowboard kids 2 also
Immensely enjoyed Goemon 5 and 6 (friend had the JP import of Mystical Ninja and I immediately pre-ordered it for the US and is one of my favorite N64 titles to this day). I could not go for this one not only because of the heavy language barrier but also the card-based theme that didn't sit with me -- I was hoping for another Goemon platform. It's worth adding that Konami billed live instrumentals and solos for the jazzy brass intro theme that reprises throughout. Konami always knew how to maximize the underwhelming cartridge sound capabilities (see: Hybrid Heaven!) and it shows with one of their last titles.
N. DiMaio yeah i too would have loved another platform game, i would love a true follow up to mystical ninja but goemons great adventure was fun especially in the secret 4 player mode
Man, very impressive review I've no idea this kind of game was released in the console, however I've played the other 2 games that were out here in America. Pretty glad you're doing this reviews by the way are you going to cover Gamecube/Wii an Wii U? just wondering
nah this channel will always be just n64, i do reviews, the n64 beta project, n64 japanese eye and n64 magazine time capsule episodes so I've tons of different shows i work on. plus i didn't like the wii and hated the wii u even more so cant see me wanting to cover them ever :)
I am familiar with thr goeman series on the n64 I played goeman`s great adventure on the n64 It was really good but I had no idead that there was a third one in japan great video gleen
great review as always glenn i do love me the goemon series which mystical ninja staring goemon was my first goemon game i ever played which i rented the game from blockbuster back in 1998 when i was i think 12 years old maybe 13 years old now im 28 years old i first heard about about this game from a goemon fansite called geomon international back in the early 2000s if i recall and the graphics sure looked beautiful for a n64 game ^_^ it almost remind me of nintendo's/square soft's super mario rpg graphical style and the soundtrack does sound awesome ^_^ im going to give this game a shot by playing it on my project 64 emulator which im going to do a trial and error on this game just like i did with the super famicom goemon sequels on the zsnes emulator although this is embearssing to say that i havent beat the super famicom goemon games its not that i dont have the patience to beat them because its in japanese nessecery its just i was busy playing other games im what you call a multitasker i usully have a habbit of playing and beating games all at once rather then play and beat a game one at a time if you know what i mean so whenever i have the time im going to eventully beat the super famicom goemon sequels on my zsnes and give goemon mononoke sugoroku a shot on my project 64 emulator im quite the otaku if i do say so myself so all in all great review glenn keep up the good work ^_^
Lol the last time i saw you ya dressed up like Goldust. you look so different lol im glad your a fellow Ganbare Goemon fan! Also its actually pronounced "Goy-Mon" just thought i'd help!
NICE WORK Japanese is fun! XD I have always heard good things about N64 (goemon) games, but never tried them- as a kid, i found Legend of the Mystical Ninja very diffucult... maybe it's time.
Too bad there isn't a translation patch available. I love Goemon games, and this looks like a fun one. Sadly I just don't have the patience to learn this with a guide. Maybe someday there will be a fan translation, but I'm not gonna hold my breath.
yeah i wouldn't have thought this would be on a list for someone to translate due to the work involved, there are better Japanese exclusives which would be more welcomed first :)
At least Mystical Ninja got a U.S. release. And I am not familiar with the other one cause I thought that was Japan only like the majority of the games in the franchise.
Huh never knew this existed. This is an instant buy because you can never have enough Goemon if you ask me. Well maybe somebody will translate this one day. I would much rather play this than mario party to be honest.
The intro will actually play if you wait on the title screen. Also the game looks like it would be easy to play if you know Hiragana, Katakana, and a decent amount of vocabulary, unfortunately I only have 2/3 of that down. I played nearly all the way through the game last year because I was such a big fan of the Goemon series and I really liked the gameplay, I figured out how things worked just by seeing what did what.
I think there was a reason we never got this. While I rarely bust a games balls for treating into new territory and abandoning its root (I applaud Resident Evil 4-5-6 for doing just that), this gameplay style doesn't really speak to me. I prefer Goemon as a platformer, 2D or 3D.
This does look to be an interesting game but as far as my Goemon fandom goes I think I'll stick with the two N64 titles that were released here in the West. I can get used to scrolling through Japanese text but even then this game looks a bit daunting.
i was watching your MN1 play though too keep em coming :) you also showed me the first boss secret tip which i never knew about! always used to take me ages to kill that guy but now its like minutes hah
"Two goemon games released outside of japan" 1.Legend of the mystical ninja SNES 2.Mystical ninja starring goemon N64 3.Goemon's great adventure N64 And there was even a GBC goemon game that was localized.
yes of course...this is a purely an n64 channel so i forget that sometimes there are others who aren't aware of that :) i was referring to the 2 n64 goemon games released here in the west :)
mystical ninja was my all time fave n64 game :P
DeViiaTe thats a great title :)
DeViiaTe Oh really now? I'm a little late on this but I'll love trying it.
Never knew about this game! I miss the Goemon series so much. :( Thank you for posting this!
Same!!!!!!!
Love this series, Glenn. Its great to get a taste of some games that we missed over he in the west. Love the opening where you show the box and manual also. As for the game, I've never actually played any of the N64 Goemon titles...criminal I know, I should really give one a go. All the best mate.
dude get mystical ninja starring goemon first its awesome! the sequel is amazing too but one of the toughest n64 games around and its 2d too with some cool multiplayer where you help each other. huge game too!
I have play this game for some time now, I say more than 10 years and at first can be frustrated, not understanding the mechanic, the monsters, effects, ect. Took me time to know what card do, even into this day, it still does, but the most of it, I know how it works and I enjoy. TBH, I love the game, and I wish there could be a patch to understand some cards that I haven't used or try. Great review.
Great video, the Ganbare Goemon series might be favorite, it’s definitely at the top. This is absolutely a game that any Goemon fan should check out, it took me an hour or two just playing with no guide to really get it. Once I understood it though, I was hooked. I completed it with every character and even beat the hidden boss. It’s at least worth a try.
I am huge fan of the series and I hate the fact we get the shaft with not getting some great titles. I played a few games on my ED and picked up some of how the game played. The music is great. Having seen the box art of yours now it has to go in my collection. Great review
thats the problem with this show...the box etc is half the fun for me i love the stylings and weird choices they make sometimes! wait till you see whats on the way!
with that cover art just it makes me wish a stopmotion goemon short movie ... like an ova or something...
I really recommend this game for Goemon fans, I finished this game a couple of years ago without knowing any Japanese, it's kind of slow, but it's totally worthy.
I've watched an entire walkthrough of the game you're talking about and if you listen closely, some of the music has remixes of some of Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon in its soundtrack. I didn't realize it at first but I thought that was something worth mentioning.
In so many Goemon games i played, this one didn't gave me so much attention, but gave a good spirit of Japan tho. For this reason it never came out to Europe and US.
Speaking of Goemon very soon i will review on Arcades since i'm working on it on youtube and goemon will appear on my next ones.
whoa theres a goemon arcade game? look forward to seeing your channel i will be your first sub!
I remember Working Designs was working on translating some Goemon titles for the PS2 but the company went under before they saw the light of day.
yeah that sucks :( the ps1 goemon games sucked too
I'd have to disagree, the first and 3rd PS1 Goemon games are amazing, it's the middle PS1 game that isn't too good. I do own the first one on PS1, with hopes of eventually getting the 3rd one for a fair price, and I played both through emulation first, both are awesome, and play like the SNES/Super Famicom games. I like them better than the open world Goemon game on N64 (seriously, the second N64 Goemon game IMO is much better than the first N64 Goemon game, it plays exactly like I like my Goemon titles to play, 2D). Seriously, have you even played the PS1 games to make such a statement?
Ryan Airzonk, WD was working on translating the New Age Goemon title, which I don't care for as I prefer the traditional Goemon/Ebisumaru/Sasuke/Yae team.
I hope this N64 Goemon game gets translated since all the SNES Goemon games recently got an English translation (with a retranslation of the first SNES Goemon game).
I love the Goemon games. It's just a shame that we don't get all of them released in the west. I must admit I wasn't even aware of this one but it looks like it could be a lot of fun.
yeah i don't even remember this being in the magazines we got here in the west either so it was quite new to me a few years ago!
Never heard of this , despite loving the Goemon games. Looks great, and even though I enjoy games of this style (really like Boom Street in the Wii for example), as you say, the language barrier is an issue - pity that.
Keep this great work up Glenn - it's the only way I have of identifying new games for my import N64.
loving the reviews, quite fair and honest, i cannot say every reviewer i have seen actually have such a claim, they either take complete biased fond memories into it, or they go and dis-regard it and poke at the game until it has its coding bleeding out from its cartridge (Or disk, Or server now...)
thanks stacey! some people think I'm bias as this is solely an n64 channel but if they watch the 2 or 3 videos i tend to upload a week they'll see that i am happy to trash bad games, praise the good ones and the ones which fall in-between generally get pros and cons discussed! I'm a collector so id love every game to be a gem but sadly they cant all be that way! cool avatar by the way! :D
***** i completely agree, whilst some games like, sonic R, not that brilliant of a racing game, but its quite open with paths, has some balancing issues between the characters whilst the music is top quality, it is the sort of thing my mom would be listening to,
and i might have accidentally got a friend of mine to play it in multiplayer with me haha! since then we regard the game as being the known cause of insanity!
to be honest, im not really a collector, im a retro gamer more than anything, whenever i buy a game from the 90s (mostly n64 or mega-drive, and from some charity shops, which are more like PS and PS2 titles) i usually go for cartridge only for the n64, megadrive i try and get everything, and the PS / PS2 i try and get everything, i have never bought a game without the case (which i think is kind of silly)
i bet my college friends are loving this, since the google update to youtube, you can only change your name so many times, they changed my name to Stacy, and i cannot change it back for 2 years! lol
haha thats crazy! I'm a complete in box collector so like total OCD when it comes to having the full package, I've slown down on purchases recently a little as prices of n64 are nuts now but focussing more on japanese import for this series as i like making these episodes as a lot of the time its something new for me too
its a bit of a shame pal region cannot play NTSC or the Japanese imports, it kind of drives me nuts, but i will say this, dispite being someone who goes for just the cart for the n64 games (because i buy to play not to collect, my friend does though) i once bought off ebay a game that costed 80 quid for the PS during high-school,
everyone went crazy and was like Dude you could have bought a used xbox (ugh... its 360 you nit-wits!) the game was blood omen, and they went and apparently looked it up how "cheap" you can get it, i can say 80 quid, i LOVED it and i outright find it fantastic, i hold no regrets, (Dispite how you can get it for 30 quid) and no i didnt get it brand new,
most expensive n64 title... Starcraft 64... 70 quid, my friend is completely jealous of that, but then i keep looking on ebay just to see how many are on there, and theres only 2 at most on ebay in pal format and apparently, one of the most rare n64 titles in this region... not gonna brag in the slightest haha haha!
yeah starcraft was a PAL AUS exclusive game so it was pal region but didn't get released in europe only australia...hence the price of it being insane, like a PAL snowboard kids 2 also
Hi Glenn, Do you have a Mystical Ninja review?
I had a feeling this Game is Like Mario Party + Pokémon + Monopoly + Paper Mario Sticker Star or Color Splash
Now you mention it that’s quite correct!
Immensely enjoyed Goemon 5 and 6 (friend had the JP import of Mystical Ninja and I immediately pre-ordered it for the US and is one of my favorite N64 titles to this day). I could not go for this one not only because of the heavy language barrier but also the card-based theme that didn't sit with me -- I was hoping for another Goemon platform. It's worth adding that Konami billed live instrumentals and solos for the jazzy brass intro theme that reprises throughout. Konami always knew how to maximize the underwhelming cartridge sound capabilities (see: Hybrid Heaven!) and it shows with one of their last titles.
N. DiMaio yeah i too would have loved another platform game, i would love a true follow up to mystical ninja but goemons great adventure was fun especially in the secret 4 player mode
how does one do the 4plyer mode...i have never figured that out!
Man, very impressive review I've no idea this kind of game was released in the console, however I've played the other 2 games that were out here in America. Pretty glad you're doing this reviews by the way are you going to cover Gamecube/Wii an Wii U? just wondering
nah this channel will always be just n64, i do reviews, the n64 beta project, n64 japanese eye and n64 magazine time capsule episodes so I've tons of different shows i work on. plus i didn't like the wii and hated the wii u even more so cant see me wanting to cover them ever :)
Alright nice to read it !!
I am familiar with thr goeman series on the n64 I played goeman`s great adventure on the n64 It was really good but I had no idead that there was a third one in japan great video gleen
thank you, i love goemon and impact is amazing too !
***** looking forward to the next video gleen PLASMA!!!!!! Just kidding my friend ^_^
great review as always glenn i do love me the goemon series which mystical ninja staring goemon was my first goemon game i ever played which i rented the game from blockbuster back in 1998 when i was i think 12 years old maybe 13 years old now im 28 years old i first heard about about this game from a goemon fansite called geomon international back in the early 2000s if i recall and the graphics sure looked beautiful for a n64 game ^_^ it almost remind me of nintendo's/square soft's super mario rpg graphical style and the soundtrack does sound awesome ^_^ im going to give this game a shot by playing it on my project 64 emulator which im going to do a trial and error on this game just like i did with the super famicom goemon sequels on the zsnes emulator although this is embearssing to say that i havent beat the super famicom goemon games its not that i dont have the patience to beat them because its in japanese nessecery its just i was busy playing other games im what you call a multitasker i usully have a habbit of playing and beating games all at once rather then play and beat a game one at a time if you know what i mean so whenever i have the time im going to eventully beat the super famicom goemon sequels on my zsnes and give goemon mononoke sugoroku a shot on my project 64 emulator im quite the otaku if i do say so myself so all in all great review glenn keep up the good work ^_^
This isn't a Mario Party game, it's a Culcept game. If you like the gameplay, there are a few English Culcept games on other consoles :)
It’s quirky, not a genre I’d seek out personally
Lol the last time i saw you ya dressed up like Goldust.
you look so different lol
im glad your a fellow Ganbare Goemon fan!
Also its actually pronounced "Goy-Mon" just thought i'd help!
the art look to this game was really great and i do agree the music songs very japenese in a awesome way
totally rocks, some of the character battle cards are awesome too
=D have youplayed Hearthstone yet thats awesome?
not yet
NICE WORK Japanese is fun! XD I have always heard good things about N64 (goemon) games, but never tried them- as a kid, i found Legend of the Mystical Ninja very diffucult... maybe it's time.
they are all awesome i think and because they are all different genres they don't compete with one another
I'm hoping that maybe one day this will show up on Switch 🤞
Awesome video.
thank you so much :)
Your welcome buddy. :)
Would love to translate this.. Goemon is one of my alltime favs
I wish more Goemon games were transferred to English.
Yeah, well there’s actually quite a few that have been
Don’t worry, I’ve got them all.
Too bad there isn't a translation patch available. I love Goemon games, and this looks like a fun one. Sadly I just don't have the patience to learn this with a guide. Maybe someday there will be a fan translation, but I'm not gonna hold my breath.
yeah i wouldn't have thought this would be on a list for someone to translate due to the work involved, there are better Japanese exclusives which would be more welcomed first :)
mhhh....like culdcept? (monopoly+magic the gathering)
....i kinda like the art of those cards...
At least Mystical Ninja got a U.S. release. And I am not familiar with the other one cause I thought that was Japan only like the majority of the games in the franchise.
ah I was expecting the same rpg(esq) type game like the previous ones, it looks nice though!
friggin love mystical ninja, such a wacky game! but yeah i was hoping it would have been a hidden gem like that too
Huh never knew this existed. This is an instant buy because you can never have enough Goemon if you ask me. Well maybe somebody will translate this one day. I would much rather play this than mario party to be honest.
yeah its like a more in depth mari party without having mini games that destroy your console...oh and goemon is in it so thats always a big plus :)
I dont want to think about how many innocent controllers lost their lives to that evil game. R.I.P N64 controllers.
The intro will actually play if you wait on the title screen. Also the game looks like it would be easy to play if you know Hiragana, Katakana, and a decent amount of vocabulary, unfortunately I only have 2/3 of that down. I played nearly all the way through the game last year because I was such a big fan of the Goemon series and I really liked the gameplay, I figured out how things worked just by seeing what did what.
ah thanks for letting me know...goes off to watch it now :)
How do you always review these Japanese games? Do you happen to speak Japanese? How do you know all this stuff if you don't? XD
Research, limited Japanese and some manual translating 😬
Both great games fist one SNES is why I got the SNES
I think there was a reason we never got this. While I rarely bust a games balls for treating into new territory and abandoning its root (I applaud Resident Evil 4-5-6 for doing just that), this gameplay style doesn't really speak to me. I prefer Goemon as a platformer, 2D or 3D.
Someone should create an English patch for this game since it is so hard to understand as someone who only speaks English.
That would be col
This does look to be an interesting game but as far as my Goemon fandom goes I think I'll stick with the two N64 titles that were released here in the West. I can get used to scrolling through Japanese text but even then this game looks a bit daunting.
yeah its a big task! i really need to get around to doing the 2 goemon games as i love them they are just so damn big though!
*****
Mystical Ninja shouldn't take you too long at least in comparison to GGA which is just gigantic with all of the sidequests and post game stuff.
completed and own both, i was watching a speed run of gga just last night! :D
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Cool. May have to look one up for when I eventually get to it.
i was watching your MN1 play though too keep em coming :) you also showed me the first boss secret tip which i never knew about! always used to take me ages to kill that guy but now its like minutes hah
Come on Konami, make an English translation and take my money!
I really hope someone translates the rom of this someday.
Would be cool right
If only there was an English patch....
You da maaaan baby
ha thank you - i think!? :P
taka theme lmao!!!!
"Two goemon games released outside of japan"
1.Legend of the mystical ninja SNES
2.Mystical ninja starring goemon N64
3.Goemon's great adventure N64
And there was even a GBC goemon game that was localized.
yes of course...this is a purely an n64 channel so i forget that sometimes there are others who aren't aware of that :) i was referring to the 2 n64 goemon games released here in the west :)
Never heard of this game, shame no translation 4 it
It doesn't interest me at all.
The Zelda force cant win em all :)