Ganbare Goemon: Kuru Nara Koi! Ayashi Geikka no Kuroi Kage

Goemon returns to the Playstation in this 3D platformer that tries to shake
things up in the Ganbare Goemon series of platform/adventure games. Once again
you take the role of the heroic Goemon and his gang of buddies as he sets out
to save feudal Japan from the machinations of the Ayashi clan who attempt to
take out Goemon as their first step in order to control all of Edo.

The game is played from a semi-isometric, fixed 3rd person perspective, within
a fully polygonal engine. Levels are divided between platforming stages and
neutral zones in which you can talk to NPCs, buy items. etc. etc. As in other
Ganbare Goemon games you have to use each character’s individual skills to
complete specific objectives in order to advance the game’s plot, and each
character now also get their “impact” giant mecha, which they must use in
specific sequences. Combat has been revamped to include a fighting game-like
combo system and as par for the series, numerous mini-games are sprinkled in
the game between stages and in special locations.