PS3

Ganbare Goemon: Uchuu Kaizoku Akogingu

Adventure

Overview

Ganbare Goemon: Uchū Kaizoku Akogingu is an action-adventure video game developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation, which was released in Japan in March 1996. The game is the eleventh mainline installment of the Ganbare Goemon series.

One night, Goemon awakens from his sleep to some huge noise, so he and Ebisumaru decide to go and investigate. The pair find out that it is an alien, and that Edo is being invaded.

Gameplay is rather similar to Ganbare Goemon 3, as there is a main map in a top-down perspective, which leads to various 2D side-scrolling levels. Being that it is the first Ganbare Goemon title released for the PlayStation, it experimented with graphics such as showing inward depth during the overhead map portions.

Dengeki PlayStation reviewed the game in 1996, with two reviewers giving it scores of 70 and 60 out of 100. The reviewers noted that the game retained the traditional atmosphere of earlier Ganbare Goemon titles while introducing some PlayStation-era elements such as polygonal boss battles. However, they also felt that the game did not fully take advantage of the console's capabilities and that its action gameplay was somewhat weak.