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I...have no words

A bit of an (over) analysis in the Pokemon/Historical person pairings:

In the game, the player will be able to choose a female or male protagonist whose goal is to take over seventeen castles. Although the castles may seem like the gym battles from the Pokémon series, based on the information provided on the official website it seems that the characters are limited to one pokémon. As there is little information released about the battle system, perhaps it will be the battles where we will see the influence of Nobunaga's Ambition in this game.

The pokémon the characters are paired with on the official site may be seen as strategic to the game play. The female and male protagonists are both given an Eevee as their pokémon partners. In the Pokémon series, the Eevee is known to be a flexible pokémon as it can evolve to almost any element the trainer exposes it to.

If you are familiar with the listed Nobunaga's Ambition characters that are on the official site, it is not surprising that they are strategically paired with those particular pokémon. For instance, Oda Nobunaga's pokémon is Zekrom and Akechi Mitsuhide's pokémon is a Articuno. Based on their type of pokémon, Zekrom being a dragon and electric pokémon and Articuno being a ice and flying pokémon, they both have a double damage weakness towards each other. Additionally, Zekrom receives half damage for all flying attacks. Perhaps this is the game's reference to an event during the Sengoku Period of Japan where Mitsuhide revolted and defeated Nobunaga in what is called the Incident at Honnouji. Shortly after the incident, Mitsuhide is later subdued by Toyotomi Hideyoshi at the Battle of Yamazaki. These events are also referenced in Pokémon Plus Nobunaga's Ambition through their partnered pokémon. Hideyoshi's pokémon is an Infernape which is a fire and fighting pokémon. The Infernape can cause double fire damage against Mitsuhide's Articuno. However it receives a double damage weakness against Articuno's flying attacks.

Another example would include Takeda Shingen's Groudon and Uesugi Kenshin's Mewtwo. The Groudon is ground based and Mewtwo is psychic based. Additionally, neither pokémon has a weakness against the other. One of the reasons why Kenshin was assigned Mewtwo may be because he was believed to be Bishamonten, a Japanese god of war. Also, Kenshin had several bouts of psychological warfare with Shingen. As both pokémon stand on equal ground, this may be a suggestion of the five Battles of Kawanakajima which neither Kenshin nor Shingen won.

Something to note is that the Nobunaga's Ambition character cameos are based on designs from Tecmo Koei's Samurai Warriors 3, a Sengoku Period based hack-and-slash game. In other words, future character announcements may be limited to the characters available on the Samurai Warriors 3 roster.

If you thought that Nintendo teaming up with Tecmo Koei was an odd match for the next Pokémon game. It could have been much stranger. Had Nintendo collaborated with Capcom's Sengoku BASARA series, a Sengoku Period based hack-and-slash game, we might have had a chance of seeing cannon toting Jesuits in Pokémon.

So we now have a hi-res picture of the box art courtesy of Amazon:


Also, the game is "DSi Enhanced." All games come with a specific product code which dictates the game and the system it runs off of. Normal DS games have NTR, 3DS games have CTR but DSi enhanced games, including Black & White, have the code TWL. Pokémon + Nobunaga's Ambition's code features TWL. It is currently unknown whether or not this means the game is region locked, as many DSi Enhanced games are or if the game utilised the special DSi features including more RAM, WPA online compatibility and the camera.

So far here are the generals and their pokemon partners:

Oda Nobunaga/Zekrom
Akechi Mitsuhide/Articuno and Lapras
Toyotomi Hideyoshi/Infernape
Takeda Shingen/Groudon
Uesugi Kenshin/Mewtwo
Imagawa Yoshimoto/Pineco
Sanada Yukimura/Tepig
Tachibana Ginchiyo/Luxio
Tachibana Muneshige/Staravia
Oichi (Oda's younger sister)/Jigglypuff
Mori Motonari/Servine
Chosokabe Motochika/Dewott
Maeda Keiji/??? (He comes up in a special downloadable Wi-Fi Event).
Ishida Mitsunari/Pawniard
Kato Kiyomasa/Fraxure
Fukushima Masonori/Krokorok
Aya-Gozen (Kenshin's older half-sister)/Cubchoo
Yoshihiro Akiyama/Gurdurr
Kanetsugu Naoe/Gardevoir
Hosokawa Gracia (Mitsuhide's daughter)/Munna

So with the game coming out in roughly a month, GameStop's revealed some preorder bonuses to get up to 10 different pokemon.

Preorder the game by June 17th and you'll be given codes to unlock Scyther, Emolga, Lapras, Pikachu, and Riolu.
On June 18th, anyone with a GameStop PowerUp Rewards card can get a code to unlock Darmanitan, Sneasel, Beldum, Larvitar, and Axew for 1,000 Rewards points.

Edit: Apparently the codes will be universal so as soon as someone decides to spend 1k of Rewards points (not all that much, really). I'll post all the codes here when they're revealed.