A nice action adventure game and Goemon's first trip stateside. The visuals are nicely detailed, colorful, and evoke a classical Japanese aesthetic which is shared by the pleasant soundtrack. The gameplay is relatively simple, but controls well, and the story is serviceable with bits of goofy humors here and there.

When I was a kid my brother, sister, and I would start a new game only to run to a nearby house to find this NPC lady in a towel. We dubbed this the "nakey lady game," much to my mothers contempt, and that's the main reason we played it.

The only other memory I have of this game was that it was extremely challenging and we could never actually beat it.

I always come back to this legendary game... Yet I STILL can't get passed the first stage cause I don't allocate enough time to play it. Maybe someday I'll look at this masterpiece of a series... Just tell me which games to play other than this one and the n64 one, and I'll be good to go. (if the SNES Japanese exclusive versions have translations lmk)