Forgotten Video Game Characters.

[miyabi95_]

Now i will tell you guys about a other forgotten character, "goemon" he appears in a game called: The Legend of the Mystical Ninja. The story is about Goemon and his friend Ebisumaru  investigating  weird things happening in their town, they later find out a ghost woman took over their town.  (Weird right?) The game did not sell well in America because of the cultural differences from japan.

It's sad how nothing related to Japanese folklore made it across...It makes sense, but still sucks. I think the last thing Konami could have done before leaving the console gaming industry was port the four SNES platformers to Wii-U Virtual Console (the first one was what became localized The Legend of the Mystical Ninja).
I've seen some of the anime as well. I believe there is a complete boxset for DVD that exists somewhere. It's kidna like the old Nintendo cartoons in terms of the cheesy "video games meet real life" situation, but I thought it was pretty decent from what I saw.

To be honest, I'd love to see something involving Nakoruru/Rera from SNK's Samurai Shodown franchise. Yeah, she's appeared in every game as the female lead and even starred in the two animated movies (as well as an OVA series that was cancelled), but I still haven't learned enough about her. Maybe SNK should create an RPG revolving around their interesting characters, rather than shovel out more fighting and shooting/platforming games. Characters like Athena, Yuri, Mai and Nakoruru/Rera should have made larger impact on female leads in video games (not to get political, I'm just stating an opinion).