[Pokemon x Nobunaga's Ambition] A wild IMAGAWA appeared!

Gigazombie Cybermage · December 2011

No, really.

http://www.rpgfan.com/news/2011/2545.html

It was mentioned recently that a new Pokémon game would be revealed at this weekend's Jump Festa, but no one warned us that this would be Pokémon... with a twist. Revealed at the event was Pokémon x Nobunaga's Ambition, a Nintendo DS title that's also playable on the 3DS. The game is in joint development between Tecmo Koei and The Pokémon Company, and will be published by the latter in Japan in the spring of 2012.
Below is the debut trailer. Other than this being a strategy title, no other details were actually provided.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u34bzH5Eo04&feature=player_embedded

I... I must have this game.

WotanAnubis · December 2011

I'm still wondering why Kenshin, self-styled God of War, gets Mewtwo.

I'd think a fighting type would have been more appropriate.

Or, considering Shingen apparently gets the Legendary from Ruby, perhaps Kenshin should get the Legendary from Sapphire.

Zephiran · December 2011

It seems like they went with what fit the primary character colour scheme the best when they selected companion pokemon more than anything else. While it might've made more sense to shuffle around the pokeymans a bit and select different ones that would have suited the characters of the humans a bit more, you can't disagree with their matching colours.

They got those colours on lockdown man.

vagrant_winds · December 2011

If this doesn't get localized I will be very very sad.

Rami · December 2011

Is this like Fire Emblem: Pokémon

where do I pre-order?

Maddoc · December 2011

I was excited just by the concept

And then I saw the actual gameplay footage and wet myself

I need this game so bad

Mojo_Jojo · December 2011

The in game footage is pretty Spartan looking. Could just be due to it being a super early build though.

UncleSporky · December 2011

Mojo_Jojo wrote:

The in game footage is pretty Spartan looking. Could just be due to it being a super early build though.

Well it is only a DS game and not a 3DS game.

Cantido · December 2011

50 years is a Trainer's life
A wink in the eye of the cosmos

Okay, seriously, why does Nobunaga get all the fantastical conspiracies?! I want to fight Thomas Jefferson with a Starmie!

WotanAnubis · December 2011

Cantido wrote:

Okay, seriously, why does Nobunaga get all the fantastical conspiracies?! I want to fight Thomas Jefferson with a Starmie!

Because, back then, Nobunaga's ruthlessness (eventually) started rumours of him being a demon or having made a deal with demons or whatever. So it makes to have them surrounded by strange, supernatural creatures.

The Founding Fathers, being a product of Enlightenment thinking, did not have an air of badass superstition and mysticism surrounding them. So embroiling them in a fantastical conspiracy is just silly.

Cantido · December 2011

WotanAnubis wrote:

Cantido wrote:

Okay, seriously, why does Nobunaga get all the fantastical conspiracies?! I want to fight Thomas Jefferson with a Starmie!

Because, back then, Nobunaga's ruthlessness (eventually) started rumours of him being a demon or having made a deal with demons or whatever. So it makes to have them surrounded by strange, supernatural creatures.

The Founding Fathers, being a product of Enlightenment thinking, did not have an air of badass superstition and mysticism surrounding them. So embroiling them in a fantastical conspiracy is just silly.

Whatever. We recently got a game about Walter Raleigh fighting aliens :P

PolloDiablo · December 2011

I am 100% behind this. I want pokemon crossovers with every goddamn thing.

Gigazombie Cybermage · December 2011

You think Yoshimoto will make an appearance?

Olivaw · December 2011

It's always weird to me when Nintendo crosses over with other companies

Their shit always seems too sacred to them to risk letting anyone else touch it

Gigazombie Cybermage · December 2011

We need a Mario x Silent Hill crossover. DISMEMBERED GOOMBAS EVERWHERE!

chiasaur11 · December 2011

Gigazombie Cybermage wrote:

We need a Mario x Silent Hill crossover. DISMEMBERED GOOMBAS EVERWHERE!

No. Luigi in Silent Hill.

More issues means more fun.

Zxerol · December 2011

So this is basically a Pokemon strategy RPG that's wound back to feudal Japan, then?

So where the fuck do I sign up?

blaze_zero · January 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=guF1L7sPEks

Synthesis · January 2012

WotanAnubis wrote:

Cantido wrote:

Okay, seriously, why does Nobunaga get all the fantastical conspiracies?! I want to fight Thomas Jefferson with a Starmie!

Because, back then, Nobunaga's ruthlessness (eventually) started rumours of him being a demon or having made a deal with demons or whatever. So it makes to have them surrounded by strange, supernatural creatures.

The Founding Fathers, being a product of Enlightenment thinking, did not have an air of badass superstition and mysticism surrounding them. So embroiling them in a fantastical conspiracy is just silly.

Also, and this is just a guess, but I suspect Japanese consumers do not give a shit about Thomas Jefferson.

The way most Americans would hear Oda Nobunaga and go "...who?" And you couldn't hardly fault them for that. I mean, you could pick someone from some sort of hugely violent event like the Trail of Tears, and maybe it'd be a bit more intriguing, but that probably wouldn't cut it sitll.

I think I've said it earlier, but I think this actually does something I've wanted Pokemon to do for a decade, if not longer: explain pre-modern history in a world where there are no animals besides humans, and pokemon every goddamn place.

G0D · January 2012

Synthesis wrote:

WotanAnubis wrote:

Cantido wrote:

Okay, seriously, why does Nobunaga get all the fantastical conspiracies?! I want to fight Thomas Jefferson with a Starmie!

Because, back then, Nobunaga's ruthlessness (eventually) started rumours of him being a demon or having made a deal with demons or whatever. So it makes to have them surrounded by strange, supernatural creatures.

The Founding Fathers, being a product of Enlightenment thinking, did not have an air of badass superstition and mysticism surrounding them. So embroiling them in a fantastical conspiracy is just silly.

Also, and this is just a guess, but I suspect Japanese consumers do not give a shit about Thomas Jefferson.

The way most Americans would hear Oda Nobunaga and go "...who?" And you couldn't hardly fault them for that. I mean, you could pick someone from some sort of hugely violent event like the Trail of Tears, and maybe it'd be a bit more intriguing, but that probably wouldn't cut it sitll.

I think I've said it earlier, but I think this actually does something I've wanted Pokemon to do for a decade, if not longer: explain pre-modern history in a world where there are no animals besides humans, and pokemon every goddamn place.

It really raises enough modern day queries worth investigating. Do we drink, eat cereal and cook with only Miltank milk? Are all of our steaks and burgers from Tauros?

Cantido · January 2012

Synthesis wrote:

WotanAnubis wrote:

Cantido wrote:

Okay, seriously, why does Nobunaga get all the fantastical conspiracies?! I want to fight Thomas Jefferson with a Starmie!

Because, back then, Nobunaga's ruthlessness (eventually) started rumours of him being a demon or having made a deal with demons or whatever. So it makes to have them surrounded by strange, supernatural creatures.

The Founding Fathers, being a product of Enlightenment thinking, did not have an air of badass superstition and mysticism surrounding them. So embroiling them in a fantastical conspiracy is just silly.

Also, and this is just a guess, but I suspect Japanese consumers do not give a shit about Thomas Jefferson.

The way most Americans would hear Oda Nobunaga and go "...who?" And you couldn't hardly fault them for that. I mean, you could pick someone from some sort of hugely violent event like the Trail of Tears, and maybe it'd be a bit more intriguing, but that probably wouldn't cut it sitll.

I think I've said it earlier, but I think this actually does something I've wanted Pokemon to do for a decade, if not longer: explain pre-modern history in a world where there are no animals besides humans, and pokemon every goddamn place.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1_MBoqG9JU

Synthesis · January 2012

G0D wrote:

Synthesis wrote:

WotanAnubis wrote:

Cantido wrote:

Okay, seriously, why does Nobunaga get all the fantastical conspiracies?! I want to fight Thomas Jefferson with a Starmie!

Because, back then, Nobunaga's ruthlessness (eventually) started rumours of him being a demon or having made a deal with demons or whatever. So it makes to have them surrounded by strange, supernatural creatures.

The Founding Fathers, being a product of Enlightenment thinking, did not have an air of badass superstition and mysticism surrounding them. So embroiling them in a fantastical conspiracy is just silly.

Also, and this is just a guess, but I suspect Japanese consumers do not give a shit about Thomas Jefferson.

The way most Americans would hear Oda Nobunaga and go "...who?" And you couldn't hardly fault them for that. I mean, you could pick someone from some sort of hugely violent event like the Trail of Tears, and maybe it'd be a bit more intriguing, but that probably wouldn't cut it sitll.

I think I've said it earlier, but I think this actually does something I've wanted Pokemon to do for a decade, if not longer: explain pre-modern history in a world where there are no animals besides humans, and pokemon every goddamn place.

It really raises enough modern day queries worth investigating. Do we drink, eat cereal and cook with only Miltank milk? Are all of our steaks and burgers from Tauros?

I think the unspoken rule of Pokemon is that you can't address farming Pokemon for their flesh. Even though it seems pretty obvious that it's happening. Though I could have sworn there's an episode of Pokemon wherein you see them catch normal fish and cook them over a fire.

blaze_zero · January 2012

G0D wrote:

Synthesis wrote:

WotanAnubis wrote:

Cantido wrote:

Okay, seriously, why does Nobunaga get all the fantastical conspiracies?! I want to fight Thomas Jefferson with a Starmie!

Because, back then, Nobunaga's ruthlessness (eventually) started rumours of him being a demon or having made a deal with demons or whatever. So it makes to have them surrounded by strange, supernatural creatures.

The Founding Fathers, being a product of Enlightenment thinking, did not have an air of badass superstition and mysticism surrounding them. So embroiling them in a fantastical conspiracy is just silly.

Also, and this is just a guess, but I suspect Japanese consumers do not give a shit about Thomas Jefferson.

The way most Americans would hear Oda Nobunaga and go "...who?" And you couldn't hardly fault them for that. I mean, you could pick someone from some sort of hugely violent event like the Trail of Tears, and maybe it'd be a bit more intriguing, but that probably wouldn't cut it sitll.

I think I've said it earlier, but I think this actually does something I've wanted Pokemon to do for a decade, if not longer: explain pre-modern history in a world where there are no animals besides humans, and pokemon every goddamn place.

It really raises enough modern day queries worth investigating. Do we drink, eat cereal and cook with only Miltank milk? Are all of our steaks and burgers from Tauros?