Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com Joystiq http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2013 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[The insatiable need to dominate in Pokemon Conquest]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2012/05/02/the-insatiable-need-to-dominate-in-pokemon-conquest/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/05/02/the-insatiable-need-to-dominate-in-pokemon-conquest/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/05/02/the-insatiable-need-to-dominate-in-pokemon-conquest/#comments I was more than a little excited when I was tasked with tackling a preview for Tecmo Koei and Nintendo's crossover DS title Pokemon Conquest last week.

Conquest crosses the worlds of cute indentured monster servants from Pokemon with Nobunaga's Ambition, a series of Koei strategy games revolving around the bloody unification of feudal Japan by Oda Nobunaga. But Pokemon Conquest, which released in Japan last month as Pokemon + Nobunaga's Ambition, takes itself so seriously as a strategy role-playing game that it isn't the irreverent experience I made it out to be in my mind.

Gallery: Pokemon Conquest (5/2/2012)

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How would you like to be Oda Nobunaga right now? First, you're turned into a cartoon character who plays second fiddle to imaginary forest critters in a video game for children, and then your name is bumped out of the title of said video game in North America.

And on top of that annoyance, you've been dead for 430 years.

For the rest of us who aren't 16th-century warlords, Nintendo released two trailers for Pokémon Conquest, and some new screens.

Gallery: Pokemon Conquest (DS)

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>dsnintendopokemon-conquestpokemon-plus-nobunagas-ambitiontecmo-koeiWed, 04 Apr 2012 23:00:00 EST<![CDATA['Pokemon Conquest' brings Nobunaga's Ambition stateside on June 18]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2012/04/04/pokemon-conquest-brings-nobunagas-ambition-stateside-on-june/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/04/04/pokemon-conquest-brings-nobunagas-ambition-stateside-on-june/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/04/04/pokemon-conquest-brings-nobunagas-ambition-stateside-on-june/#comments ImageYes, that's a factual headline above: Nintendo is publishing the bizarre crossover of Pokemon Plus Nobunaga's Ambition in the US as "Pokemon Conquest" for the Nintendo DS. And yes, you also read that right -- Pokemon Conquest marks the second Pokemon game heading to the DS in 2012 rather than the 3DS (Pokemon Black/White Version 2 being the other).

Unlike main series Pokemon games, Tecmo Koei handled development rather than Game Freak. Conquest is also a 2D adventure set in the world of Ransei, where players inhabit "a young warlord who is linked with a Pokemon." Pokemon Conquest arrives on June 18.

Gallery: Pokémon Conquest

Pokémon Conquest

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>dskoeinintendopokemon-conquestpokemon-plus-nobunagas-ambitionq3-2012release-datetecmotecmo-koeithe-pokemon-companyWed, 04 Apr 2012 09:00:00 EST<![CDATA[New Pokemon Plus Nobunaga's Ambition trailer rewrites history]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2012/02/18/new-pokemon-plus-nobunagas-ambition-trailer-rewrites-history/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/02/18/new-pokemon-plus-nobunagas-ambition-trailer-rewrites-history/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/02/18/new-pokemon-plus-nobunagas-ambition-trailer-rewrites-history/#comments
We don't remember Oda Nobunaga's blood-soaked conquest of Japan being quite so cute and fluffy, or having so much to do with scantily clad ninja women and so little to do with murder, but what do we know? It's not like we double majored in History and Applied Pokeology. Oh wait, we totally did.

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>dsnintendonobunagas-ambitionpokemonpokemon-plus-nobunagas-ambitionTecmo-KoeiThe-Pokemon-CompanySat, 18 Feb 2012 10:30:00 EST<![CDATA[Pokemon Plus Nobunaga's Ambition could have been Dynasty Warriors: Pokemon]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2012/01/20/pokemon-plus-nobunagas-ambition-could-have-been-dynasty-warrior/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/01/20/pokemon-plus-nobunagas-ambition-could-have-been-dynasty-warrior/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/01/20/pokemon-plus-nobunagas-ambition-could-have-been-dynasty-warrior/#comments The newest Pokemon title will combine Nintendo's popular catch-em-all creatures with the Japanese historical setting of Nobunaga's Ambition, but it turns out that wasn't the first choice of historical periods. Originally, according to the latest Famitsu, the spinoff was going to combine Pokemon with the very popular Tecmo Koei Dynasty Warriors series and its historical setting, which is instead based on the Three Kingdoms period in Chinese history.

Nintendo felt the Dynasty Warriors series was a little too violent to be matched up with its cute little creatures, however, and so Tecmo Koei pitched the series known more for strategy than action, which Nintendo eventually agreed with. Famitsu also says that though both companies are working on the game, Tecmo Koei is heading up day-to-day development during production.

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>3dsdynasty-warriorsfamitsunintendonoabunagas-ambitionpokemonpokemon-plus-nobunagas-ambitionrumortecmo-koeiFri, 20 Jan 2012 06:00:00 EST<![CDATA[Stare at Pokemon Plus Nobunaga's Ambition for two minutes]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2012/01/19/stare-at-pokemon-plus-nobunagas-ambition-for-two-minutes/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/01/19/stare-at-pokemon-plus-nobunagas-ambition-for-two-minutes/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/01/19/stare-at-pokemon-plus-nobunagas-ambition-for-two-minutes/#comments
So ... Pokemon Plus Nobunaga's Ambition is still happening. That's pretty weird.

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