Very interesting location for the game on your shelf: Bakeru has a lot in common with games such as Tropical Freeze, Splatoon, Sonic Mania, Super Monkey Ball, etc., but there was something about Bakeru that somehow didn’t appeal to a wide audience.

Part of the reason why Bakeru failed to make a splash is probably why a lot of people might be interested in playing the game now: it’s a bouncy platform adventure with colorful graphics and great design. It’s not Goemon, but its own thing.
www.spike-chunsoft.com/bakeru/
mameda-bakeru.com

Maybe I exaggerated when I wrote that people disliked it, but commentary about Goemon 2 was not as positive as it was for Karakuri Dochu. Given how much it is featured in Famicom retrospectives and histories, though, I get the sense that a lot more people have fond memories of the first game.

That’s exactly how I felt when I played Goemon 2, too. IT took the series in an interesting direction, but there were people who didn’t like the tone and felt alienated. This reminds me of the discourse surrounding BOTW, with a lot of people saying it was like the true successor of the original LoZ.

Goemon 2 is also one of my favorite games in the series. However, one interesting discovery in this project was that a lot of people in 1989 did not think it was better. The game itself was technically an improvement on the whole, but many people missed the simple loop mechanics of the first game,

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C'est fun ! Le jeu à l'air de se finir en même pas 30mins MAIS faut le faire en UN crédit !

I’d be more than happy to help.

Ganbare Goemon! (Mystical Ninja)!