Good-Feel's Goemon-Inspired Switch Game 'Bakeru' Is Getting Localised

OMG FINALLY!!
Day one buy for me!

Honestly this is the best possible news for me. Only other big heavy hitter news would be Castlevania 64 releasing on NSO.

Now THIS is great news! Have very fond memories of Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon and was hoping this one would come to the west.

Day 1 buy for me!

(I hope the 2 N64 Goemon games come to NSO one day as well, I never saw the 2nd one in the local stores as a kid so never got a chance to play that one)

(Western release called simply Bakeru)
I'll continue to call it Mameda no Bakeru, thank you very much.

In all seriousness, I'm glad it's getting a western release.

I wonder if this will get a physical release. It’s a very odd inclusion to add new attacks and a new enemy type to the western release. I just don’t think I’ve ever seen that as a region exclusive alone. I actually imported this game and it’s playable in Japanese but it would have been nice to had some English to know what the heck the little golden poops I found are talking about! It’s a fun little game.

I will double dip for support (and to see if good feel fixes the frame rate) but I don’t expect a 1:1 translation so I will stick with playing the original. Happy for those that couldn’t play before.

Edit: after playing the demo I suspect this will end up converting my Japanese copy to a Multilingual copy. As you can play in Japanese on the demo. And this has happened on other Japanese only games I own (to my dismay). If that is the case I won’t double dip. I just hope the original icon stays the same.

About damn time!

Good news. Releasing games in only one region should be a thing of the past.

Gosh, day one for me. This is such a good news.

@YourDaddy it’s far far beyond princess peach imo.

This news is /was direct-worthy.

I was watching its physical version on Amazon Japan, it didn't seem that it would be localised after such a long time, but now I'll wait for the announcement of a physical Western release.

@Ade117 The games are technically available to a worldwide audience as soon as they’re released on the eShop (with the caveat that you might need to make an account for that region). The barriers to accessing games from around the world have arguably never been lower.

The sticking point is language. Localising a game takes time and money; the exact amount depending on the quantity of text and the quality of translation.

Capcom has a sizeable in-house team who produce extremely high-quality localisations which no doubt pay for themselves thanks to the increased global audience the games are afforded.

In contrast, Genius Sonority has only 22 staff in total and I’d be surprised if any of them worked on localisation full time. I don’t know exactly how the latest Denpa Men game came to be localised, but my guess is that not a lot of money was spent, and… well, the results speak for themselves. It’s on another level when compared to something like The Great Ace Attorney.

I’m sure Konami could localise the Momotaro Dentetsu series, but they didn’t seem to consider it financially viable given the potentially niche appeal of the game to an overseas audience. And to be honest, I can’t really blame them.

In an ideal world every game would be localised into every language — and I hope more games get localised in general — but ultimately it’s a financial decision and there will always be always games that deemed ‘too niche’ to warrant the expenditure (even they’re popular in their home country).

@Maxz Thanks. You make an excellent point about language localization being the bottleneck for modern games being more readily accessible to audiences. I think at the very least first party games from the Big 3 should be playable in English with how big the English speaking audience is, but I know that having French, Spanish, and arguably German helps to reach more players in Europe, Canada, and Mexico.

Yes please! Sure, I would prefer it to be Goemon. However, in the absence of a Goemon collection or a new game, which I still believe will happen someday, I have to at least try the demo. If it evokes enough of the Goemon essence without making me feel as though I'd rather be playing Goemon itself, then that will suffice for me.

Hooray! I was hoping it would, the game looks ace. Fills the need for a new Goemon game nicely.

Yeaaaaaah !!
Finally, the 3rd game from Good Feel on Switch is here !
Even if it's not localized in French language, I'll take it !

@Krisi Yes, I was thinking of Switch exclusives, apologies.

Awesome news! A physical version (or at least the Japanese version getting updated to support the localization) would be even more incredible.

@Elbarbo It's the 4th by my count. Monkey Barrels is probably the one you weren't thinking of. That one's pretty cool as well.

Wow, it looks great!! Didn't know about this one. Possibly day one!

This looks cool! Definitely will keep an eye on this.

It's been said already but the 2 N64 goemon games are much needed on NSO.

Excellent news! Can't wait to try it out and I hope it's up to snuff!

I'm currently playing Spike Chunsofts most recent release, Natsu-Mon and this will compliment it nicely! As a huge fan of Goemon growing up I've been looking forward to a western release of this and Good-Feel always delivers!

That's great news!

Well if we aren't getting any new Goemon, I'll gladly take the next best thing! This looks great!

The bad news is, this quick turn around means it's most likely going to be punted to LRG by Kadokawa instead of a full retail release, though at that price I don't see anyone getting it digital only. Most people who get games that expensive digital only are the type to play only EA, Take-Two and Microsoft games. You know; crap

I’m genuinely shocked. I’ve already played through it in Japanese and learned quite a bit about some Japanese prefectures, but this game is such a love letter to Japan and each of its prefectures (and that it also didn’t sell that great [nor outside of the trivia was the most engaging game]), I would have bet money it wouldn’t get localized.

I’m curious to see what the reception to the game will be like in the West.

So excited to play this! It looked amazing when it launched! I was tempted to import it and just wing it as far as the language barrier goes, so I'm glad it's getting localized! I hope there's a physical release too, I love that artwork!

Wow!!! at first i was like... Oh another inspired by game. Lol.
I am glad that i clicked!!!! Wow this looks amazing. Day one for me. 👏👏👏👏

@Zeebor15 I think you might need to adjust your thinking. Looking at sales data in the last 3-5 years has show a major swing towards the purchasing of full size titles digitally, to the point where it's about 50/50 on average.

As someone who has never played a Goemon game I’ll gladly give this a try. Now I’m wondering what other game will get Localised?

@Zeebor15 You should probably listen to them then.

The demo is now out on the US shop and the game. Just giving a small update. I just downloaded it this morning and so far I'm having a blast.

This looks so awesome. I don't even remember hearing about this before so a nice surprise.

It's too bad that there's apparently not a physical in the West. I'll check the demo out on Switch, but I might pick the actual game up on PC.

GOEMON WAS LITERALLY MY CHILDHOOD!!
Very strange game for my mother to purchase before we were born, alongside super mario world and star fox, but it nevertheless became a formative series for my sister and I as we would play together every few weeks to try and beat it. Never did.

They still have all the goodwill in the world from me because of Yoshis Woolly World, one of my all time favorite games. Excited to buy it

I'm downloading that demo. This looks to be as close as I'll get to a new Goemon as I'll get. Ebisu helming it too? I gotta give it a look. I'll check out NL's review too.

Not heard of this looks cool.

This is rad. Now we just need that ramen game and accessory brought over... 🍜

I downloaded the demo, does anyone else think the frame rate is janky? It ‘s not terrible, but man we need a Switch 2 right about now.

I was very excited to hear about this. I just played the demo. Very fun game. I'll get it eventually.

I plan on checking out the demo, but the overall pitch is great. Goeman games were just so goofy and fun, I may end up buying this one!

I trust both Chunsoft and Good feel when it comes to games, and it looks amazing.... Seems like we'll have a really fun game om out hands with this!! 🤎🥰

(I can’t believe they crunched the title that much)

This looks AWESOME I loved Goemon and it's a shame it hasn't made a comeback

A pity that there isn't a physical version though, so I'll just wait for a huge discount.