Pokémon Conquest: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''"Unleash Your Pokémon Ambition!"''|'''[[Tagline]]''', used on the official ''Pokémon'' website.}}

 

 

The game is set in the fictional region of Ransei, where warlords fight alongside Pokémon. You play as a young person who befriends an Eevee. Not much is known about the plot at all [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|but many fans reacted positively with its announcement,]] [[Darker and Edgier|likely due to its potential.]]

 

* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Mori Motonari was given green hair, fitting to the Grass theme he was also given.

* [[Anachronism Stew]]: Mewtwo's a genetic experiment. What's he doing in feudal Japan?

** The clothing style of some of the Warlords counts as well. Sun visors probably weren't a standard in Japanese fashion back than. Ditto Masanori with his Kamina glasses, and Gracia's ''top hat''.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Yoshimoto. For one, [[And You Thought It Was a Game|he doesn't realize losing a battle means losing his castle until one of his retainers informs him.]] He also seems to think he's playing a ball game called "Pokémari" rather than actually battling. He's also quite the [[Adult Child]].

* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: Non-Fire-type Pokémon, and humans for that matter, are certainly pretty fine with battling in the middle of a volcano. In fact the Fire Nation in its entirety is practically a volcano, it's a wonder how people even live there...

* [[Cute Shotaro Boy]]: Hanbei.

* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Either Kenshin or Shingen. (whichever you choose to attack) You challenge them on their home turf, only for them to ''refuse'', you go back to your previous base, disappointed... {{spoiler|and ''they'' attack ''you'' there!}}

** Another example is choosing to evolve your Eevee into Glaceon. To do so, you need to use it in the Blizzard Nation... the ''last'' nation before the final battle. As a trade off, you'll be super-effective against all of Nobunaga's Pokémon.

* [[Empathy Pet]]: Pokémon owned by important characters tend to mimic their Warlord's animations in cutscenes.

* [[Excuse Plot]]: A rare ''in-universe'' example! There's an old legend in Ransei that the [[Olympus Mons|Phantom Pokémon]] will appear to whoever owns all 17 castles. Thus, all the nations have an excuse to invade eachother.

* [[Expressive Hair]]: Kaihime's hair almost literally ''explodes'' when she gets angry.

** It's averted to varying degrees with the Pokémon, however. All 211 (''more'' than advertised, curiously) Pokémon have at least one unique portrait, and those associated with special Warlords tend to have more.

** [[Reused Character Design]]: All the human NPC character designs originated in ''[[Samurai Warriors]] 3''.

* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: {{spoiler|Nobunaga is Oichi's brother.}} [[Foregone Conclusion|But if you know your history, this shouldn't come as much of a surprise.]]

* [[Magikarp Power]]: The [[Trope Namer]] itself is in the game, but your starter shines almost as notoriously as it. With only one attack, the Eevee you begin with is pretty useless past the first few maps until you evolve it. You're going to have to be very patient if you wanted any of the Eeveelutions other than the first three, though....

* [[My Master, Right or Wrong]]: Mitsuhide struggles with this during the main story. He eventually decides to go full-blown [[The Starscream|Starscream]] in the post-game.

* [[Nice Hat]]: The male hero's second helmet, Mouhime's Mismagius-inspired witch hat, Ieyasu's ''sword-like'' helmet.... They're all over the place.

* [[Non Standard Character Design]]: Masanori's 'emotion' sprites are much more exaggerated and cartoony compared to everyone else's.

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Hanbei seems lazy and uninterested, but is just as brilliant a strategist as his partner Kanbei.

* [[Recurring Traveler]]: Keiji, and the trio of Mitsunari, Kiyomasa and Masanori.

* [[Seventh-Episode Twist]]: Well, excluding the Hajime Nation, the 7th castle you capture will be either the Earth or Phantasm Nation, and afterwards {{spoiler|not only do you meet Nobunaga in person for the first time, you find out he's Oichi's brother.}}

* [[The Starscream]]: Mitsuhide to Nobunaga in his post game scenario, in reference to real world Mitsuhide's ambush of Nobunaga.

* [[Starter Villain]]: Hideyoshi, though "villain" is a bit of a stretch.

* [[Tomboy Princess]]: Kaihime. It's even one of her powers!

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: As in Pokémon, the monsters can evolve to more powerful forms. Unlike either home series, the Warlords can also "evolve"... more impressive looking armor (though mechanically and even visibly it's no different from a Pokémon's evolution).

* [[Verbal Tic]]: Yoshimoto tends to end his sentances with の.

* [[Wake Up Call Boss]]: Shingen and Kenshin. Their armies are ''much'' stronger than you're used to, and they're the first opponents to use fully-evolved Pokémon. Oh, and they add a variety of different type users to avert [[Poor Predictable Rock]].

 

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