Go for it! Mameda no Bakeru!
Okay so bad news is... this isn't a Goemon game. Good news? This is the god damn spiritual successor to it!
A tanuki boy named Bakeru, disguised as a human, uses taiko (drumming) actions to defeat a festival army wreaking havoc throughout a fantasy version of Japan!
Mameda no Bakeru is made by the company Good-Feel... The company of Etsunobu Ebisu, who directed and produced a ton of Goemon games when he was at Konami.
...and that's about all I know.
As far as comparisons to Goemon go? Obviously the look and design of the enemies and worlds. All the thick Japanese lore. As far as a cast goes, I think we might have 4 main characters? (but I'll admit I'm stretching)
Bakeru (Goemon) Small bowl head girl (Ebisumaru) the pink character with the fairy wings (Yae) wood robot looking into the sunset (Sasuke) Like I said... probably stretching.
It also looks like we have Impact style bosses! The tea kettle you fly around in transforms into a giant robot!
Although we're not in the cockpit this time around, we still get to have giant robot fights!
Goemon references aside, it appears that Mameda gets several powers!
The abilty to Shrink! Power Armor! Dumpling Popgun! and Grappling Fishing Rods!
Special mention to using REAL pixels...
Despite the screen static effect you can see they drew everything out in real pixels before implementing them into the game... I know I may sound crazy here to celebrate this, but it's pretty rare to see pixels properly used in modern games.
This game might never come out outside of Japan BUT it's okay! The switch doesn't have a region lock! Which means if you don't live in Japan, you can still buy this game and play it in your switch!
