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Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon

The story follows Goemon's struggles to prevent the Peach Mountain Shoguns gang from turning Japan into a Westernized fine arts theater. The plot calls for three cinematic musical features and battles between…

7 August 1997

Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon is an adventure developed by Konami, released 7 August 1997 on Nintendo 64.

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What Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon is

Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon is an adventure game developed by Konami and released in 1997. It was published by Gradiente. It is available on Nintendo 64 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The story follows Goemon's struggles to prevent the Peach Mountain Shoguns gang from turning Japan into a Westernized fine arts theater. The plot calls for three cinematic musical features and battles between giant robots; like other Ganbare Goemon games, it is peppered with surrealist humor and anachronisms. The protagonist of Mystical Ninja is Goemon, a hot-blooded, kiseru-wielding ninja with blue, bushy hair based loosely on the legendary thief Ishikawa Goemon. The lord of Oedo asks him to find those who maimed Oedo Castle. Goemon lives in Oedo Town and is friends with Ebisumaru, a strange, gluttonous fat man who wears a blue bandana. Ebisumaru is defined as lazy and perverted. Their…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Mystical Ninja series

Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon is the 16th of 37 entries we hold in the Mystical Ninja series. It arrived a year after Ganbare Goemon: Uchuu Kaizoku Akogingu. The next entry was Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon in 1997.

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When did Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon come out?
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon was released on 7 August 1997 for Nintendo 64.

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