1UP: Hammerin’ Hero Review

Although Japanese publisher Irem is best known for games like R-Type and Disaster Report, one of its longer-running series has barely appeared outside Japan. Daiku no Gen-san, a.k.a. Hammerin’ Harry, is a simple but satisfying platform action game, and now Atlus has officially brought the series to America with the new PSP game Hammerin’ Hero. The "Hero" is Gen, a young man whose carpentry business — along with his fellow citizens in Beranme Town — is being oppressed by the dastardly Hyosuke Kurumoku and his big-time construction company. With giant mallet in hand, Gen decides to get rid of Kurumoku and his henchmen, who are causing trouble all over town.