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Post by ReyVGM on Oct 17, 2009 20:53:59 GMT -5
Ebisumaru is actually a girl. If the ending to the NES Goemon 2 is to be believed.
Apparently Ebisumaru is a girl that got turned into that fat bastard by the last boss. He turns back into a girl in the ending.
Goemon Addition #2 In the Goemon article you said that the Famicom Mini version of the first NES Goemon was ported without anything new. This is incorrect. The Famicom Mini version has an option menu (by pressing L+R).
Goemon Addition #2 The first NES Goemon has 8 (!) endings!
When you beat the game, it seems as if you just restarted, but in reality you go to a new district/province of Japan (the levels are still the same though). There are 8 districts (Higo nokuni, Izumo nokuni, Bizen nokuni, Settsu nokuni, Oumi nokuni, Owari nokuni, Shinano nokuni, Edo) and each district has its own ending.
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Post by Discoalucard on Oct 17, 2009 21:33:36 GMT -5
Replying to this thread to remind myself to stick an entry on that weird Cowboy Kid ripoff game next time I look at this article!!
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Post by Sketcz-1000 on Oct 18, 2009 4:31:53 GMT -5
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Post by derboo on Oct 18, 2009 9:33:07 GMT -5
Ebisumaru is actually a girl. If the ending to the NES Goemon 2 is to be believed. Apparently Ebisumaru is a girl that got turned into that fat bastard by the last boss. He turns back into a girl in the ending. I'd say this can be considered retconned or even a hoax to begin with. (If and) when you update, don't forget the board game...
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Post by ReyVGM on Oct 18, 2009 11:18:34 GMT -5
Board game?
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Post by Ryu the Grappler on Oct 18, 2009 12:57:43 GMT -5
Ebisumaru is actually a girl. If the ending to the NES Goemon 2 is to be believed. Apparently Ebisumaru is a girl that got turned into that fat bastard by the last boss. He turns back into a girl in the ending. I'd say this can be considered retconned or even a hoax to begin with. Or maybe the Goemon series has a non-continuity.
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Post by ReyVGM on Oct 18, 2009 16:36:43 GMT -5
Maybe this is why ebisumaru is "gay"? If he's actually a girl, then he's not gay, he's just being what he is.
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Post by Ryu the Grappler on Oct 18, 2009 23:35:08 GMT -5
It would explain why he was a girl in the two New Age games.
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Post by ReyVGM on Oct 18, 2009 23:52:06 GMT -5
Well, I guess it isn't retconned like derboo said then.
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Post by derboo on Oct 19, 2009 3:20:47 GMT -5
It would explain why he was a girl in the two New Age games. But he isn't in the new age games, is he? The people there are supposed to be descendants, if I remember right.
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Post by ReyVGM on Oct 19, 2009 3:48:28 GMT -5
Well, it's too much of a coincidence that on the first game Ebisumaru appears, turns out he's actually a girl transformed into a guy. Then on the sequels, he keeps acting gay and on the new age ones, descendants or not, Ebisu is a girl. If all the other "descendants" kept their genre, why does Ebisu need to be a girl?
Obviously Ebisumaru has some sort of weird backstory that Konami doesn't want to explain. Sort of like Poison & Capcom and Birdo & Nintendo.
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Post by derboo on Oct 19, 2009 4:25:46 GMT -5
What's with Birdo?
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Post by mfgreth on Nov 4, 2009 11:12:52 GMT -5
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Post by derboo on Nov 4, 2009 12:47:35 GMT -5
Hmm, I always thought of Birdo as a species rather than an individual character. After all, you fight quite a few of them in SMB2.
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Post by brianc on Nov 4, 2009 16:33:12 GMT -5
I have the GBA Goemon 1 and 2. One thing not mentioned in the article is that it's a bit glitchy. I had some garbage come up at rare moments and one of Goemon 2's bonus rounds is bugged. Sometimes, it will keep going on without exiting out. This makes it harder to reach the hidden level than it should be.
The option menu for the Famicom Mini Goemon is pretty much the same one for all Famicom minis/Classic NES Series. Aside from saving (which allows for saving high scores and continue from the last level with the continue option), the other options are just resetting and deleting saved data (I think).
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