Posted on 01/29/2023 at 07:44 AM
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One other thing about the real life Goemon myth is that he was known to throw coins to distract enemies. They kept that idea in some of the games, too.
I rented Legend of the Mystical NInja once. It's too bad we didn't get the SNES sequels. Those were really good. They added first person mech battles, even though this was feudal Japan!
I wish I could've played the N64 titles. The first one came out when I was a poor college student and couldn't afford to get it. And when the second one came out, I tried to find it in stores and could never find it. I heard it was really rare.
I have the DVD set of the Goemon anime. It's pretty silly and goofy. I love it. Did you know around that time they also did a Twinbee anime? I don't think that was released in the US though.
That's interesting that the main Goemon creator went on to Good Feel. They've made a lot of really good 2D platformers. They should do another, it's been a while.
Yeah Konami kind of sucks right now, so I wouldn't trust them to make anything cool with Goemon for a long time, if ever. Too bad.