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5281837 No.5281837 [Reply] [Original]

What went wrong?

>> No.5281852

>>5281837
Nothing. Making Goemon a fuckable looking animu was the best thing to happen to that series.

>> No.5281968

The 2000s happened.
Funny how in the last Goemon game for Nintendo DS, the "new gen" Goemon appears on jail for "stealing other person's identity"

>> No.5282116

>>5281837
>Ebisumaru

>> No.5282223

>>5281837
No English release.

>> No.5282224

>>5281837
Too much sфy consumption.

>> No.5282276

>>5282224
Whatever that letter is, it looks like paizuri. What language uses that?

>> No.5282284

>>5282276
It's the cyrillic F character.

>> No.5282637

How's the GBA port?

>> No.5282929

>>5282637
Not bad, but generic and not very interesting.

>> No.5283354

As gay as Shin Goemon looks, at least it's not as bad of a game as PS2 Goemon.

>> No.5283386

I must be the only CANCER who likes lolibisumaru

>> No.5283854
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5283854

>>5281837
Shin Goemon's designs had the same problem as Sonic Adventure's, they scream late 90s / early 2000s, while Goemon (from his early 90s redesign onwards) and japanese Classic Sonic are pretty much timeless designs. Unfortunately, we're still stuck with Modern Sonic.

>> No.5284041

>>5283354
It's shameful since while nu-Goemon looks awful, it's just a pretty average game, while I always thought the PS2 game looked game despite being the shittiest in the series

>> No.5284046

>>5283854
At least Sega cares enough about Sonic to whore him out.
Konami knew how much Shin Goemon bombed and went back to his classic look, but just quietly snuffed him whole bringing him out for pachinko machines

>> No.5284139

>>5284046
Konami snuffed everything because of pachinko.

>> No.5284556

>>5284041
Funny, because the reason that the PS2 game didn't get localized was because Sony thought the game had shit graphics.

>> No.5284647

>>5284139
Pachinko is the only thing keeping Konami alive

>> No.5285294
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5285294

Konami hasn't completely forgotten. :')

>> No.5286175
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5286175

>>5285294
that lil nigga cute

>> No.5287193

>>5286175
Legend of the Mystical Nigga

>> No.5288250

>>5281837
The bosses were unironically too hard even for a goemon game while the rest of the game was piss easy. I still really enjoyed it.

>> No.5289665 [DELETED] 

Hm.

>> No.5291298

>>5281837
If they had actually localized any Goemon games besides the N64 ones they would have succeeded instead of fizzling out. Relying on Japan for your games to sell is dumb.

>> No.5291302

>>5287193
Perfect

>> No.5291306
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5291306

>>5291298
>Relying on Japan for your games to sell is dumb.
Many a series live with Japanese sales only. Goemon was actually quite successful in Japan, which is why there's 4 or more games on Super Famicom (but only the first one was released in USA).
There's also another N64 Goemon game (a board game-like with RPGish elements) that wasn't released outside of Japan.

>> No.5291393

I really wish the candle item in the 8-bit home Goemons was permanent.

>> No.5293142

>>5282637
So uninteresting it's awful. Avoid at all costs.

>>5284046
>>5291298
A talent exodus happened around the time Konami Kobe was shuttered, including Etsunobu Ebisu. Much of that talent is now at Good Feel, developing Yoshi's Island sequels (the yarn ones, not the 3DS New Yoshi's Island) and still haven't lost their magical touch.
Nintendo second party studios have quite a lot of ex-Konami talent and the influences are at times very blatant. Kirby Wii rips off Gradius and some stuff from the Bonk series iirc.

No game localization doesn't have much to do with it. In the time the series was out, game reviewers and their localization team were hostile over how "oriental", weird, Japanese it feels. First snes game had a 1994 release in Europe years after the US version, almost feels like a hail mary so Konami Europe can justify localizing the others on their own if it sells well, but sadly it wasn't meant to be.

The plot for later SNES games are as localization unfriendly as they can get.
>2: evil american colonizer fetishizes Japanese culture while trying to "adjust" it
>3: evil tranny catholic nun kidnaps sexual harasser old man to help guy with nazi kanji fetish to commit inter-generational incest
>4: someone called mr suicide chucks unlicensed death stars at planets, among many other things like a bsdm dungeon, slutty omitsu etc
>Uchuu Kaizoku Akokingu: bare ass visible within one minute of the game

>> No.5293235
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5293235

When did he stop looking so fucking stupid?

>> No.5293312

>>5293142
>The plot for later SNES games are as localization unfriendly as they can get.
That's personally why I love them so much. They're so unapologetically Japanese that I can't believe Goemon doesn't stop and start ranting about Korea to the player.
Even the last DS game was about western captain trying to take over Japan and being depicted as an oni, a literal demon. Fan translations were probably the best we're gonna get from these at this point.

>> No.5293339

>>5293312
It's as if they made them that way on purpose. I like it when Japanese developers rebel like that (D on DreamCast, Breath of Fire IV official manga which made a point of including every single scene censored from the NA version prominently)

Can't blame 'em when Konami USA asked them to scrub every single background graphic clean from japanese graphics (which is a LOT of assets), replace rice balls with pizzas, and impose their retarded name changes. I wouldn't want to do anything with them again were I in their shoes.

>> No.5293428

>>5293235
>SMT Featuring Goemon from the Ganbare Goemon Series

>> No.5293430
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5293430

>>5293142
Don't forget that the villains in Goemon 5 (MNSG) are trying to turn Japan aesthetics into european.

>> No.5293457

>>5293430
It's ironic that they try to defend their "national culture" when it's all stolen from china.

>> No.5293464

>>5293457
It's not ironic, you're just trying to see some china-japan conflict when there's non (at least culturally). Japanese people respect the ancient chinese culture and credit it where it's due.
Goemon games are all tongue-in-cheek, cartoonish respresentation of Edo era Japan.

>> No.5293491

>>5293457
China is garbage-tier and abandoned its culture with the culture revolution. Japan = nationalistic, history conscious, god tier
Zerglings can't compete.

I'm also getting naturalized as a citizen this May.

>> No.5295710
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5295710

Goemon is love
Goemon is life

>> No.5295732
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5295732

Comfiest town

>> No.5296180

>>5293457
It literally isn't. Starting from the Heian era Japan had virtually no contact with China. They had at least quite literally a thousand years to develop their individual culture. Fucking educate yourself.

>> No.5296218

....Oh god, FINE. I'm putting Legend of the Mystical Ninja on my SNES Classic.