Created 4/18/98 Last updated 4/18/98
Made by Konami
1 Player
12 Megabytes?
Graphics 9 (Huge environments,
detailed main characters varied textures,
but lots of glitching)
Sound 7 (Lots of yelling by main characters in
Japanese.)
Music 9 (Main game music is like Mario 64's
but more japanese. the 3 musical numbers have full
voice with subtitles! Awsome!)
Gameplay 8 (Like Mario 64 meets Zelda 1, but
lacks Mario 64's jump combos.)
Overall 9 (Fun. It took me 10 hours and
15 minutes to beat.)
I remember playing Legend of the Mystical Ninja on the
SNES a couple (OK, maby like 6) years ago. I liked its
stearotypical japanese graphics, music, sound, dialogue
and cinamtics. Another great part was the mini-game,
such as horse racing, and even the full first level of
Gradius. Sadly, this sequal of sorts lacks mini-games,
but it contains the other good parts of the first title.
You just have to see the excellent real-time
intermissions, complete with japanese singing and
english subtitles. I watched them over and over
and over. The environments are huge and wide open,
just like Mario 64's. You can see forever in some of
them. There is fog, but it is only for look, as
there is no pop-up. Occasionally, the frame rate will
stutter, but never to the point were gameplay is
affected. I was surprised by the great variety in
textures, so that every dungeon looks different.
The animations for the 4 main characters is very good,
and Goemons friend skips when he walks and flails
his arms when he runs, so he looks gay. Its funny
because he gets made fun of. The sounds are decent,
but not that special. The music, as mentioned
before, rules. Too bad the chacters don't have
combo attacks and combo jumps, like Mario.
The game would have been so much more
fun. All in all, this game gives great hope
to those waiting for a graeat RPG to come to
the N64. I kept picturing how good a 3-D Secret of
Mana could look using an engine simular to this one.
Too bad Square has given up on Nintendo. Anyways,
this is a good game. Oh, yeah, the Giant Robot
parts rule, and the storyline is funny in a Tick
sort of way.