Goemon: Bōken Jidai Katsugeki

Moby ID: 27596
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Description

The first PS2 title in the Ganbare Goemon series, Goemon: Bōken Jidai Katsugeki aims to re-invent the Goemon series once again by giving the title a stylistic and gameplay makeover. Goemon has been redesigned to resemble a more realistically proportioned (and behaved) teenage warrior, and the game-world and NPCs had most of the wackiness removed to accommodate a more straightforward gaming experience.

The game uses a fully polygonal engine and plays like your average 3D action/RPG title in which you control your character from a 3rd person perspective as you explore the game world, fight monsters and talk with NPCs in order to get quests, buy upgradeable items and weapons, etc. The game also incorporates numerical stats and abilities, and while you get to meet the rest of Goemon's buddies along your adventures, you only get to control Goemon and his pet tiger cub who often aids you with his special abilities.

Spellings

  • 冒険時代活劇 ゴエモン - Japanese spelling

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Credits (PlayStation 2 version)

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Goemon (ゴエモン)
Yae (ヤエ)
Sasuke (サスケ)
Ebisumaru (エビス丸)
Tora-no-Ō (トラノオウ)
Byakko (白虎)
Knowledgable Old Man (物知り爺さん)
Foreman (親方)
Okami-san (おかみさん)
Genbu (玄武)
Boss Thief (盗賊親分)
Earth Dragon (地の竜)
Shishi-no-Ō (シシノオウ)
Inobu-no-Takeru (イノブノタケル)
Orochi, Emperor of the South Seas (オロチ (南海大帝))
Kawatarō & Others (河太郎 他)
Seiryō (青龍)
Benimashi (紅猿)
Suzaki, Kujakura (朱雀 (クジャクラ))
Okuni (オクニ)
High Priest (和尚)
Kira (キラ)
Hakuran (ハクラン)
Dogujin (怒愚人)
Tenma (天馬)
[ full credits ]

Trivia

Working Designs translation

Working Designs was set to localize the game as "Mystical Ninja Goemon Zero", but failed to release the game before the company's closure in 2005. A prototype translation was leaked in late 2021.

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Game added by Zovni.

Additional contributors: Freeman, Vincent Kinian.

Game added April 17, 2007. Last modified February 22, 2023.