Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon

This article is about the Nintendo 64 game. For the Game Boy game, see Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon (Game Boy).
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon
North American cover art
Developer(s)Konami Computer Entertainment Osaka
Publisher(s)Konami
Director(s)Etsunobu Ebisu
Producer(s)Shigeharu Umezaki
Designer(s)Keita Kawaminami
Madoka Yamauchi
Programmer(s)Etsunobu Ebisu
Writer(s)Keita Kawaminami
Composer(s)Shigeru Araki
Yusuke Kato
Saiko Miki
Yasumasa Kitagawa
SeriesGanbare Goemon
Platform(s)Nintendo 64
Release
  • JP: August 7, 1997[2]
  • NA: April 16, 1998[1]
  • EU: April 18, 1998
Genre(s)Action-adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon[a] is a platform action-adventure video game released by Konami for the Nintendo 64 on August 7, 1997 in Japan, April 16, 1998 in North America, and April 18, 1998 in Europe. The second Goemon game released in North America and Europe, it follows The Legend of the Mystical Ninja and features hybrid elements of platform games and action-adventure games.

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.

Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon sold nearly 200,000 units worldwide.[3] Reviewers praised its graphics, gameplay, and humorous plot, while criticizing its virtual camera and questioning how accessible its references and jokes would be to Western audiences.

  1. ^ "MYSTICAL NINJA LEAPS INTO THE N64 MARKET". Konami. 1998-04-16. Archived from the original on 1999-05-08. Retrieved 2023-09-14.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference ign7 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Nintendo 64 Best Selling Ranking". Shrine of Data Sales Database. Archived from the original on 2005-04-17. Retrieved 2023-09-14.


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