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>>4415219
Pretty sharp, Antonio.

The Goemon series also had different teams, even though there was one main team led by Etsunobu Ebisu, but I think the teams were formed by region, like Osaka, Nagoya, Kobe.

I think it's a parody to both visual kei and takarazuka revue.

Takarazuka Revue is a famous broadway-like theatre company that does very flamboyant theatre musicals, all of them are girls and they also play male roles (often dressed as princes and what not). It's very very influenced by european aesthetics (think Rose of Versailles).
Takarazuka is very popular with girls, although there are male fans too (for example, Hideki Kamiya, creator of Bayonetta, Okami, etc is a fan).
On the other hand there's visual kei, a music movement that started in the early 80s and reached its climax in popularity in the mid 90s, especially in 1997 (the year Mystical Ninja starring Goemon was released in Japan) there was the so-called "visual boom", visual kei bands were all across the country on TV, playing lots of Budokan concerts and what not.
In difference to Takarazuka, visual kei is mostly males, but they also play female roles (most famous case is Mana from Malice Mizer). Visual bands are also often inspired by european 18th/19th century aesthetics. Bands like Lareine look like Takarazuka revue stuff, even.

Takarazuka:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zByfsZ_fxs
Visual kei:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkm81LaJUuM

>>3765579
It's a pretty nice game, maybe look up a video gameplay before buying, but I think $30 for it is a good deal.
Have in mind, as already stated, that this game needs a memory card("controller pak") in order to save game data. And it's a long-ish game so you will need one.