Goemon DS update: looks great

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 4:36 am

I just read a preview on IGN for Goemon DS and it sounds like it is shaping up nicely. Peer says it is an old school 2D platformer, no older "hipper" Goemon, just the old school characters the way they should be. Check out the videos, the game has beautiful water color inspired graphics. Might be time to import:

Impressions:

http://ds.ign.com/articles/632/632449p1.html

Videos:

http://media.ds.ign.com/media/707/707496/vids_1.html

fpbrush · Post by **fpbrush** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 2:03 am

This looks like it is going to be a very entertaining and solid game. Not to mention beautiful!

A friend sent me a Goemon DS video a few weeks ago and we both decided it was a must buy when we saw the clip of the dual screen features-- the main one was pulling down a bungee bridge with the stylus to launch Goemon up to the next area of the level. Ah, I am easily influenced by pretty moving pictures.

Is this planned for a North American release?

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 2:22 am

From what I heard, a US release seems unlikely.

I hope it does get one, though.

Cthulhu · Post by **Cthulhu** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 2:59 am

I have the JP version, it's awesome. It's just a well done game, period - a nice revisiting of the SNES games, complete with some sidescrolling sections. Add that to the incredibly cool bush-painting like graphics and non-obnoxious use of the touch screen and you've got a winner. It's not too import friendly (you have to follow directions fairly often), however, so think carefully before buying it.

I hope they give it a US release, as it sold pretty badly in Japan (as is everything these days

), and it deserves better.

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 3:24 am

fpbrush wrote:This looks like it is going to be a very entertaining and solid game. Not to mention beautiful!

A friend sent me a Goemon DS video a few weeks ago and we both decided it was a must buy when we saw the clip of the dual screen features-- the main one was pulling down a bungee bridge with the stylus to launch Goemon up to the next area of the level. Ah, I am easily influenced by pretty moving pictures.

Is this planned for a North American release?

Nice!

It's not too import friendly (you have to follow directions fairly often), however, so think carefully before buying it.

No walkthrough yet 'tho on Gamefaqs. Bummer it has a lot of Jap text to follow but not a surprise.

Zach Keene · Post by **Zach Keene** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 3:34 am

Cthulhu wrote:I have the JP version, it's awesome.

Did that Space Manbow rumor turn out to be true?

EDIT: word at the GameFAQs forum is that it's just one level.

Cthulhu · Post by **Cthulhu** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 3:50 am

Yes, the Space Manbow extra is only one level.

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 4:38 am

Is DS Goemon as text heavy as Goemon 3 SFC? Goemon 4 SFC has a lot of text and some very tricky parts, but I managed to get through it with trial and error. I can't read Japanese, but I am willing to try and "stick through it" if the game is still playable without knowledge of Japanese.

It's too bad about Space Manbow being only one level. I was hoping that there would be another version that would be easier to get a hold of legally than the MSX version.

TGK · Post by **TGK** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 4:47 am

I don't understand a word of Jpnese

but I enjoy the first 2 Goemons on the SNES thoroughly. I thought there were only 3 of them on the SNES. There really were 4?

The first two Goemons on the SNES is awesome, especially the second (first appearance of Goemon Impact).

The DS Goemon looks good and sounds good. I'm really glad they kept some of the old tunes. I hope the new music will be as good as the old ones too.

Cthulhu · Post by **Cthulhu** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 6:16 am

Goemon is a -huge- series. Yes, there are four SFC games. The fourth one was released quite late into the system's lifespan and isn't too common.

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 3:30 pm

Wow, that is so neat they are at least still putting in shooter/old school Konami mini games into the games.

Strychnine · Post by **Strychnine** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:00 am

Cthulhu wrote:I have the JP version, it's awesome. It's just a well done game, period - a nice revisiting of the SNES games, complete with some sidescrolling sections. Add that to the incredibly cool bush-painting like graphics and non-obnoxious use of the touch screen and you've got a winner. It's not too import friendly (you have to follow directions fairly often), however, so think carefully before buying it.

I hope they give it a US release, as it sold pretty badly in Japan (as is everything these days ), and it deserves better.

How's the language barrier?

Cthulhu · Post by **Cthulhu** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 4:33 am

Strychnine wrote: How's the language barrier?

You have to go to specific places and perform specific tasks fairly often, so if you can't read Japanese I don't advise it. If a FAQ is made, then you could play it with the aid of one, of course.

jp · Post by jp » Wed Jul 13, 2005 5:29 pm

I don't understand why they can't bring this to the US... its not like the DS's US library is over flowing with games and can't stands no more.

TGK · Post by **TGK** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:09 pm

jp wrote:I don't understand why they can't bring this to the US... its not like the DS's US library is over flowing with games and can't stands no more.

that is, if the average US consumer-gamer didn't get a PSP first so that they can watch movies...

Ah the heck, I realize that I shouldn't post today, sound too negative.

fpbrush · Post by **fpbrush** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:58 pm

TGK wrote: that is, if the average US consumer-gamer didn't get a PSP first so that they can watch movies...

Ah the heck, I realize that I shouldn't post today, sound too negative.

are you the one that started that riot over at the Retrogaming forums?

Back to Goemon though, it makes me a bit sad that NOA hasn't deemed it necessary to bring over many games from the series. Looks like a solid adventure/action game appealing to a wide audience. Maybe it's the marketability... he does look like a blue pineapple.

Cthulhu · Post by **Cthulhu** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 12:54 am

fpbrush wrote: Back to Goemon though, it makes me a bit sad that NOA hasn't deemed it necessary to bring over many games from the series.

That would be Konami deciding not bring them over, not Nintendo... This isn't a Sony-like situation where someone is blocking games from being released.

Post by **undamned** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:36 am

Not to derail, but hows the PS side-scroller?
-ud

Cthulhu · Post by **Cthulhu** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:31 am

undamned wrote:Not to derail, but hows the PS side-scroller?
-ud

The "futuristic" Goemon side-scroller for the PS1 is quite good. So is the "space pirates" Goemon game (2D, but not all side-scrolling). The fully 3D Goemon for the PS1 is absolute crap. I've never played the PS2 Goemon game, but most people who have seem to dislike it - I have seen a couple of glowing reviews for it, but those are the exception, not the rule.

The space pirates PS1 game is close to the way the SNES games feel, and thus is also pretty close to how the DS game feels too.

TGK · Post by **TGK** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:37 am

fpbrush wrote:
TGK wrote: that is, if the average US consumer-gamer didn't get a PSP first so that they can watch movies...

Ah the heck, I realize that I shouldn't post today, sound too negative.
are you the one that started that riot over at the Retrogaming forums?

I can't be at Connecticut and Vancouver at the same time, unfortunately

Back to Goemon, I would be optimistic and guess that there is just so much text to translate

and to undamned, what are you referring to by PS side-scroller? EDIT: Cthulhu answered it. The Elder does know all.