The Mysterious Murasame Castle, Nintendo's FDS Classic - Region Locked feat. Greg
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To celebrate the Nintendo Switch being revealed, we take a look at one of the company's earlier and more obscure titles. This time around we look at the gameplay of The Mysterious Murasame Castle (謎の村雨城 Nazo no Murasame Jō). Built on the Zelda engine, it's a much more action orientated title. Our analysis led us to some interesting conclusions.
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This could have easily just been published as a Did You Know Gaming episode.
That's my way of saying i really enjoyed this video
Shesez Ey, it's Shesez! DYKG should do a video like this on Startropics.
Gah I would love to see a startropics vid
Ay, what are you doing here? Well, I guess you never did respect boundaries much.. ayylmao
lol good one Sato.
"Fan outcry caused Nintendo to release Fatal Frame 2 internationally". Meanwhile, they still don't give us Mother 3!
This was back when Nintendo actually listened to their fans.
Swiggity Swooty Fatal Frame 2 came out after Mother 3, though. Mother 3 and Sm4sh DLC were some of the worst times Nintendo never listened to their fans.
...Mother 3 has been out for far longer, and the fan outcry has been far louder since the very beginning.
Of course, it'd also be much more difficult and time-consuming to localize, and probably fits a more niche audience, but the point still stands.
hip indeed Mother 3 is already translated. By fans. I can see why Nintendo doesn't want to localize it anymore, and if they did, they'd probably censor a whole lot of shit (lika father becoming insane after he found out his wife was killed by a dinosaur), so people would probably want to switch to the fan translation.
Not that many people in the United States even new what earthbound was especially in 2006. Most people like myself didn't know ness until smash bros and even then interest wasn't immense. I've played roms of earthbound but the price tag and the over hype train kept me from purchasing the cart. Its not like fan made English translations of the game doesn't exist. Then you get to games like half life 3 that have been in development hell for years and there is no product out their.
Takamaru's game is so much damn fun, I'm really happy he's getting so much recognition now.
I really wish it got a sequel using the LttP engine, diagonal movement would have done WONDERS for it.
We need a sequel to this game starring Young Cricket from WarioWare.
Just get Platinum to make a Murasame Castle hack n slash game for the Switch, Nintendo it's not that hard, people love ninjas and samurais and japanese stuff these days!
given their president's interest in making a Takamaru game if given the chance, it would be neat.
even if it was just a remake of the original Famicom game.
Hideki Kaymia of PG actually said in a twitter post that he'd like to make a Murasame Castle remake.
twitter.com/pg_kamiya/status/247276749350645760
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dude, people like them again. its been 20 years. fads can come back.
Steve Black Cause hack n slash games in a japanese setting are cool as fuck man, it's not complicated.
Id be down with that :D we know the head of Platinum games would like to make a remake of the game, though personally id rather see Platinum stick to what they do best, spectacle fighters like Bayonetta and Transformers
Absolutely amazing that the US in the 80's didn't buy overly Japanese games considering how much that era loved ninjas.
Ninja were really the *only* thing that the Eighties loved about Japan, though. From what I can recall, they didn't give a damn about samurai and various aspects of Japanese mythology until at least the late Nineties, when anime started getting more exposure in the West. And as good as Takamaru's game is, he himself isn't a ninja, but is only fighting them, which would make him a degree less cooler than someone like Ryu Hayabusa (from _Ninja Gaiden_) in comparison.
Aztyph To be honest, that's what I was thinking as well. Though I can't help but wonder how much of that disinterest was due to decisions like the one to not export this game.
Germany actually had a weird phase in the late 80s/early 90s where the word "Ninja" was about as bad a word you can say as "violent video game" in the mid to late 2000s everywhere or "Social Justice Warrior" in todays internet culture. I am not sure about europe as a whole but japanese stuff was seen as bad around that time in germany.
The Ninja Turtles Cartoon in the 90s had it's name changed to Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles because of that (it actually took me over 5 years to realise they are actually called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...and it still feels weird to me not calling them Hero Turtles)
So I am not sure how well Murasame castle would have worked in europe or at least in germany because...NINJAS ARE EVIL!
There wasn't much knowledge about Japan at the time since anime was more obscure and there wasn't an internet. We learned about ninjas from comics and movies, and kind of went with it haha. Lots of adults in this period were getting into learning about Sun Tzu's Art of War and Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings around that period too, though...
Europe mistakenly labels him as a ninja from his SSB4 trophy lmao
Missed DID YOU KNOW fact: Kat and Ana's stage in WarioWare: Mega Microgame$ is based on this game (not just generic japanese culture)
At least put the name of the game in the title... the title now is just generic-ass clickbait :P
pokemonduck If you know a little bit of the game already then you should be able to recognize Takamaru on the box already. Otherwise it isn't clickbait. (IMO)
Well it isnt clickbait , cuz it is a classic game not many has played and the thumbnail shows the game.
it is clickbait.
People call anything clickbait nowadays..
So this video lacks quality or accuracy, relying on a sensationalist headline?
I was hoping his Assist Trophy appearance would increase his popularity enough to become playable in Ultimate.
I voted for Takamaru DLC for Smash during the write in.
so did i. even if there are a lot of sword fighters already in smash, i just wanted one with a katana....
And after all that, we still got more sword fighters.
He would've been cool, expectably since there's very few sword fighters with projectiles, and a large arsenal at that.
+Reshiramax
More than half of the sword characters have projectiles.
Link
Toon Link
Pit
Dark Pit
Robin
Mii Swordfighter
Cloud
Corrin
Marth
Lucina
Ike
Shulk
Meta Knight
Roy
+Sauzels I didn't really think Pit and Dark Pit were swordfighters, but I see why; but I figured they could make him a projectile based character, making that the reason why he's viable. Probably a weaker character, but his moves are quick
In my humble opinion, The Mysterious Murasame Castle could have been released in North America on the NES after some heavy localization and a significant lowering of the game's difficulty. They could have called it Samurai Adventure or something like that.
You put Japanese culture, and aliens. This sounds like the best game in history.
You would love Goemon.
I feel like I watched this video about a week ago on GameXplain...
Duke Spubber Same here.
Was thinking the same thing.
I was wondering why it seemed so familiar....
DYKG: Recycling other channels' content for a wider audience.
We had this video written and gameplay recorded for around a month, but myself and the editor of the video were both moving before we could finish it. In that time, it seems others have also covered the game - it's not the first time it's happened, and it probably won't be the last. We actually had this video planned before our Pokemon episode, we just felt Pokemon was a better introduction.
Jokes on you I have played it
Me too. I suck at the game, but it has a weird charm I kinda can't help but love.
Same. I love it.
Polar-Star did you beat it? :o
I've had this on my FDS for a while. I even made a single-screen iOS/Android version in a class project once.
Rodrigo Escobar HELL NO
Dammit, Takamaru would have been amazing in Super Smash Bros. An elemental swordsman. He could have faired well against Robin.
because more swordsmen is EXACTLY WHAT SMASH NEEDS
EBsessed I'm depressed that everybody forgets about Takamaru's elemental powers and ninja skills that would significantly differ him from other swordsmen. The game barely has any mage characters, let alone any mage swordsmen, so why not have the first mage swordsman join the fray?
Medachod Or they could just put in mage characters that don't have swords so there wouldn't be EVEN MORE swordsmen in the damn game
EBsessed Take Takamaru's sword away, then. He's fought without it before. One of his most prominent abilities was projectile obliteration. He could have a moveset that is just as good as a brawler as is a swordsman.
Though, nobody else wields a katana yet, so that would be a unique sword if I ever saw one.
#JusticeForTakamaru
We've decided to change the title of the video and all future Region Locked episodes will follow suit. We simply wanted to try something new with game names that most people won't have heard of. Thank you for your feedback :)
that title is some serious click bait garbage
Alex & Toast Only if you happened to live in Japan at the time it was sold (although considering the e-shop release I can totally understand what you mean)
Alex & Toast Not an inaccurate title though.
I got it off the eshop so yeah its pretty inaccurate.
Agreed.
They changed the title. It's not a clickbait anymore.
I have this game on 3DS, it deserves more recognition and a sequel or reboot in my opinion.
Make Takamaru for Super Smash Bros Ultimate a playable character! Please Sakurai make this happen! ALOT OF PEOPLE WILL PLAY HIM WHEN YOU MAKE HIM A PLAYABLE CHARACTER and also PEOPLE LOVE SAMURAIS!
too late , they picked a plant
Mysterious Murasame Castle was actually a highlighted game at the first Treehouse Live at E3 event. That presentation got me to buy it the day it launched on 3DS. It's a crazy fun game, and I'm glad to see it getting a little love on this channel.
I love how much fan attention the Murasame Castle series has been getting recently.
Murabito Perhaps Nintendo will consider bringing back the series? That would be quite nice for the Nintendo Switch
I hope so. I would love for it to get the Kid Icarus Uprising treatment. Just lower the difficulty so it wouldn't be too much of a bullet hell and give it a new plot.
It would be cool to obtain power ups from several Yokai encountered throughout the journey, or obtain weapons from Japanese gods (Amaterasu's Mirror anybody?).
+Nathan Medina I would still love for Takamaru to be in Smash Switch with Ice Climbers first. He deserves at least one playable appearance in that game by this point, given his long history with Nintendo and appearing in so many of our games. He's earned a chance to kick Mario's ass like everyone else.
Medachod They could actually bring him into the next Smash as a possible means of promoting an upcoming Murasame game like they did with Roy and Corrin.
I really like this game. It was also released on game boy advance in Japan. An easier way to play it if you have a GBA and not a Famicom Disk System.
Eric Andre I love ur show
This is a little random, but for some reason when I saw the title and read "Greg" I was thinking Greg who used to be part of the completionist. I got really excited only to be met with disappointment.
Wasn't that yellow floppy disk a treasure in Pikmin 2?
Yes it was
it is even said in the video...
TherealWinston Good. Just making sure...
2:54 "Samurai"
And yet you showed Chinese warrior.
It's honestly a shame Nintendo didn't take it to the west and it didn't become a mainline series. I'm really hoping Kamiya of Platinum Games actually makes the reboot he was interested in
Retro Hero 276 Did he say he wanted to tackle this series? O:
Marlon Blanco On his Twitter years ago
man, this series is going to make me miss JewWario. Classic region locked Japanese games were his thing.
Creepy Productions Bless Jew Wario's soul. He was such an entertaining RUclipsr.
Now I'm sad. Curse you, Creepy Productions! Curse you, onion cutting ninjas!
JewWario :( RIP you beautiful man you where more loved than you knew.
Not after the seedy allegations about him came out, you’re not
JewWario?
The music is so good lol I can't stop bobbing my head to it
Damn I love Naze no Murasame Jo. Especially the music and the gameplay are so good.
I love my Famicom Disk System! I only wish games were easier to find.
I'm into gaming, not garbage (loot crate).
I'm early let me think of a joke...
Americans who pretend to want Takamaru in Smash Bros.
it would be cool though
CaptainTinTyrant pretend?
+sadwoman He's being cynical
I'm waiting for Platinum Games to revive the franchise.
Yeah, I'm not kidding. Look it up.
+sadwoman The vast majority of non-Japanese who ask for him have never played his game and are just desperate to get on board any sort of hype train.
Murasame Castle is what you get when you mix Legend of Kage with Legend of Zelda.
i would love to play a takamaru in smash
This game looks like a primordial version of Goeman Mystic Ninja.
Same 'x' hits to death.
Same 'hit and lose upgrades for weapons'
Same outer castle levels and then final level being a castle - though there wasn't a time limit.
Very cool.
1:35 Yeah I can definitely see the Zelda inspiration.
It was, we mentioned it right at the beginning of the video!
Greg Reviews Shoot. I think I zoned out at the start. My bad.
No problem, thanks for watching.
They also call The Mysterious Murasame Castle a sibling game version of The Legend of Zelda If I'm super wrong.
Is it just me or if you just added a triangle and a line to the cartridge in the thumbnail you'd have bill cypher
Haha~ the samurai guy at 2:55 is from the movie Guan Yun Chang, he's 1 of the 6 middle management officials that was tasked to slow down the main character with their life. he's not even a sword man.
Fatal Frame 5 or Project Zero 5 was also released in PAL regions physically for Wii U...
Damn, I'd love to see a sequel. Imagine this game concept with modern hardware
I've never seen this show before, but I find it hilarious that your theme song is the kirby superstar intro with just the last brass hit. I love it lol
PLEASE DO REGION LOCKED SAKURA TAISEN/SAKURA WARS BY SEGA!
It's on the US 3DS eshop. I've totally played this.
Takamaru was like Genji before Genji was a thing.
Wow this actually looks pretty interesting! I think I'll see just how much the virtual console copy costs :)
And as for localization, I feel like if they REALLY wanted to, all they would have had to do is switch the Japanese aesthetic with a Medieval Europe one, having knights and monsters instead of samurai and demons. (but keeping the alien overlord)
So pretty much this IP lives on through Easter Eggs for being obscure, rather interesting if you ask me.
I loved that song and brawl; although, I never knew what game it was till now.
It sounds like Murasame Castle is too obscure even for Japan, but is somehow popular with all references it was given.
It looks to me that it's a game that a lot of Nintendo staff, or at least the older ones, really like the game and so enjoy referencing it occasionally in the games they make but it's otherwise not that well known or well liked in popular culture, even in Japan.
7:18 - Aaaand this is where I stopped the video.
:20 Bill Cipher, God damn everywhere.
mysterious murasame castle is an amazing game, how dare you assume I've never played it. played it long before its release on US E shop
LET'S HAVE THE MYSTERIOUS MURASAME CASTLE HD!😁
i'm glad we got the game on the 3ds virtual console.
Walks over to RetroFreak, scrolls down (holding Y button for page scroll), selects Murasame Castle, enjoys playing game. The End.
I thought it was gonna be explosive fighter patton, cause you know... "insert it into the f*bleep*king Box"
Murasame's Mysterious Castle is in Pikmin 2 as a treasure, which is pretty cool.
GameXplain did this weeks ago
The Satoru Iwata episode was also a cheap copy of gaming historian... And let's not talk about Unseen64... I was just told by a RUclipsr who worked with him what a dick he is... And it doesn't surprise me at all...
+lady1kaka tell us more about that
+Player One DYKG promised to make some promo for his channel after he voiced one of their videos. But DYKG didn't do so. When he asked why DYKG became really angry and inpolite. And of course didn't do the promised promo... btw: that channel has ORIGINAL content and does NOT tell you that Mario Bros 2 was originally Doki Doki Panic... -.-
lady1kaka woah
we need scarce in this bitch
no comment...
This was posted less than a minute ago, and there's 4 likes and 2 dislikes already...
CaptainJackValdy's Crew you must be new to the internet if you're surprised by this
CaptainJackValdy's Crew RUclips is wrong
No, that's not what Feudal Ninjas look like, way to perpetuate that myth in your "Factual" video. Doubt anyone reads these comments for factual information, but Feudal Japan Ninjas looked like any other peasent in those days, as Nobles would ignore the lower class completely allowing a Ninja to kill someone and disappear back into the crowd without a bat of an eye. Where we THINK we know ninjas actually comes from the Kabuki Theathre, which started well after the Warring States/Feudal Era in 1603. In those plays, men dressed in all black worked as constant stage hands but never interfered with the players on stage. Unless, of course, they were acting as a ninja. Since Ninjas were "people who you ignore until they attack" the black hooded figures could "leap" into the play and kill someone while looking like any other stage hand who was moving props around.
Kaku Epsilon I like this comment unironically.
Also lets bring up how they showed a picture of a "samurai", but the warrior in question totally looks Korean.
While that is intriguing, I'm not at all surprised that DYKG made that mistake. Its quite a common one. But regardless, it would've been better to call them "stereotypical Feudal ninjas" or something.
Yes-yes, we're all very impressed that you know your history, but the presenter simply used the pop-culture image of a ninja as useful shorthand for what we all understand is an inherently inaccurate portrayal, as reference point to the basic concept of a ninja and the historical precedent rather than 1-1 fidelity. In other words, don't be that pedantic guy, no-one likes that pedantic guy.
Holy crap, those FDS diskettes look like Bill Cipher
Sakurai and Takamaru walking down the street hand in hand.
Walks past yet another Fire Emblem character.
Sakurai: 👀
Whoa, I didn't know a thing about this. Great video, keep making more Region Locked.
Yeah, I played it. Maybe tone down the title. It's one of the most well known japan only titles for Famicom. It's even on the e-shop, so you don't even have to emulate or buy it online. The only way it could be less obscure is if Takamaru was actually playable in Super Smash Bros.
Would love to play as this guy in Smash
Oh wow! That's one of those games I played on one of those old NES bootleglike, 52 in 1 carts. I loved that game.
*I think. Unless it was just a game that looks a lot like it. It's been around 25 years, you'll have to forgive me if it's not the same game.
5:26 More than that, I think a version was used (Or at least a track that takes heavy influence from it) in world 4 of Super Mario Land on Gameboy. Hence the inclusion on that stage I suppose
I'll be waiting for Takamaru's journey to begin on Nintendo Switch via the NES NSO app.
Could you do an episode on one of the first five Fire Emblem games?
I love this character. Sakurai needs to do an Uprising of this series.
This game was on a pirate 115-in-one cart I had as a kid.
Got this on my 3DS, I'd like to think if this as a Japanese Zelda.
Interesting, never heard of this game until watching this.
I would actually like Takamaru in a Smash game, maybe for the Switch.
Games were never "too hard" for the western market, since renting games was so prevailent back then, but wasn't a thing in Japan. Tougher the game, more often it gets rented. Developers would somtimes make games harder for the western release.
You didn't mention how apparently after somehow getting through the Muramase Castle in Samurai Warriors 3, which is apparently hard as balls, it transforms and becomes even worse. Otherwise, good video.
*I love this video so much. This is why I watch gaming videos on RUclips all the time. I am constantly looking for videos like this. But I don't always find them.*
We're putting these videos out every couple of weeks at least from now on so keep your eyes peeled! (I'm Greg)
The game is actually called Riddle of Murasame Castle, NOT the Mysterious Murasame Castle, btw.
I use to play this with my friend when I was in elementary school, it was super hard and didn't help we couldn't read any thing because it was all in Japanese, I don't know how my friend was able to have a copy of the game, but he always was traveling to Japan every other summer.
And on that day, the Virtual Console release made multiple sales; Nintendo being completely confused why
It would be so awesome to get a modern remake of Murasame Castle for the Nintendo Switch. ^.^
they should make a remake of New game of Murasame castle, make it sort of tenchu esque with a mix of Zelda
Played this in my childhood. it's amazing.
I do hope he finally gets in for smash bros.
LootGaming is an idea that finally hit their ideal audience right on the head... the box is sold out, which I've never seen before :X
Considering the age, 650 thousand plus those 150 thousand rewrites are pretty decent numbers, which sorta justifies the game being referenced so much later on.
(At the time, any game that sold... what? 320 thousand? 400 thousand? Was already a success - and comparing it to Mario is just overkill lol)
"My name's greg and i sound exactly like danisnotonfire"
There's also a physical copy of fatal Frame/Project Zero Maiden Of Black water, but it was only available in Europe in a limited edition set that cost £50. Now it goes for over £100, mostly as it was only available via Nintendo Directly as well as GAME UK, with no NTSC physical copy. Coupled in with the Wii U being region locked the whole launch was a complete mess for a pretty damn good horror game.
Boy have I missed oot Crate!
I think it was very weird to name Fatal Frame V as an positive eShop exclusive example. The Game is over 15 Gigabyte in File Size am I right? Like Rhythm Heaven Megamix, the Game is released physical here in Europe and Australia (in Australia even as a Standard Version). It seems like, Nintendo of America still have problems with Games focusing on japanese culture. Reggie blamed the sales and what's best for business, but the minimum Level in trust in such Titles is another thing Nintendo of America isn't doing any risks. Even the Rainfall Games were only released because of such actions. And yes, I know the Regginator said those projects had zero influence on the US-Release of those Games.
Seems like this is my kind of game. A samurai-like protagonist, accurate portrayal to Japanese culture, basic formula of Legend of Zelda, and so on
this was releases on the 3DS
You Tubed He stated this in the video.
Matthew J. Boone
should retitle the video,
Why?
Lotus Prince
because people have played it
Yeah, but the point is that barely anyone has.
kind of reminds me of a game i found online a few years ago. Think it was on newgrounds. Samurai traveling through a castle killing enemies and saving damsels/princesses. Though finding a princess led to a sexy cut-scene or mini-game or something. Don't think I ever finished it. No idea what it was called.
I love Nazo No Murasamejo!
Takamaru, as well as Lip (Panal de Pan) Goku (Yúyúki) Hikari (Shin Onigashima) and Captain Rainbow deserve to be in the next Smash bros game
I am all in for both Takamaru and Lip.
I love the music, especially the smash 4 ver.
Great video! I look forward to the Captain Rainbow video!
this game looks badass
Already knew about this. All of this, oddly enough.
Wasn't in Smash because of "obscurity". I mean Roy and Marth made it in with 0 games in the West. Ness also had just ONE game in the West back on the SNES when we was included in every Smash game.
Played it, and yes...it is indeed damn difficult.
Murasame Castles inclusion in SW3 was nice to have be mentioned here, it's sad that so many people over look it especially since that was the first time Murasame Castle was ever playable here in the West.
and FYI Takamarus re-design in SW3 is the best ever its a concrete fact and anyone who says otherwise is wrong.