At Last, We're Getting A New 'Nobunaga's Ambition' In The West On Switch

No Yoko Kanno, no point.

Awesome by itself even despite me having to properly play any of the games (although I've tried Gemfire which blends some of the gameplay with turn-based tactics a la Fire Emblem - oh, to have THAT one on NSO someday😃), but it also gives me an extra excuse to hope that Koeimo might yet localize some other Switch stuff they're sitting on since Japanese release. coughnosurgecough

Getting of course. But still getting murdered in Taishi. (I am so bad at these but I keep buying them)

Hard to believe if Koei was really making Nobunaga's Ambition games in -1983-!

One of those games which I could only attempt to play on the NES and then immediately Nope out of, after having no idea what to do.

I'm guessing the last "Nobunaga" game in the west was Pokemon Conquest (by which I hear it was a Japanese and North American game only), but that really doesn't play at all like a Nobunaga game but closer to Fire Emblem, or the Super Robot Wars crossover that TPC should've ordered Banpresto to make DECADES ago (I've thought since seeing a terrible bootleg ROM hack of one of the GBC SRW games).

....Only time I've played this series was on the DS....via the Pokemon game. lol

@KingMike last western release was Taishi (the entry before awakening). It’s just the English releases are on PlayStation. Japan only releases up until awakening have been on switch.

I'd like to see the SNES game show up on the NSO

@KingMike I bought Pokemon Conquest here in the UK. It is a good game and I am still holding out for a sequel.

Isn’t Nobunaga’s ambition that one series that crossed over with Pokémon? If so I might give this a try since that game was pretty good.

If it plays anything like Age of Empires then I'm in, of course it'll had to be for PC instead of Switch.

Last years Nobunaga Oda have more bigger role in this kind of games.

@Greatluigi It was a Nobunaga game in title (in Japan) but I don't think I'd necessarily consider it representative of the series, at least of what little attempts I could make to play a proper Nobunaga game.
I think the real games have much more diplomacy involved, rather than just battles.

Not exactly the Nobunaga game I wanted since I keep hoping for another Pokémon Conquest, but I’m older now so maybe my palate has matured.

I rented the original NES game. My friends and I spent the weekend trying to figure it out...without an instruction booklet.

When we figured out you had to plant rice in Spring and harvest in Fall, it was very exciting! Oh the gold we had! And you could give that to peasants, or build an army or pay off ninjas to kill other damiyos. It was all very cool. Like we each had our own little digital economy.

Then we had to figure out battles. What do the icons mean? Which units are useful against which others? How do you win a battle exactly?

Aaaaand then Sunday night we had to return it. But those memories, snacking on junk food with my buddies, trying to decipher cryptic strategy games, stick with me vividly today.

Hopefully the new one doesn't suck.

I would try it if it's a decent price, I've always been curious about this series. Incidentally, if you want a perfectly acceptable comedy anime check out Oda Cinnamon Nobunaga, exploring Nobunaga's life after he is reincarnated as a shiba inu