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Pokemon Conquest (DS)

Don't have a ton of great things to say about this one either, sadly, and I'm surprised at the praise it receive from critics. I'm not familiar with the Nobunaga's Ambition series proper, so I don't know how much Conquest resembles it or doesn't, but it certainly feels like they decided to make a Pokemon SRPG and didn't go very far beyond making it basically functional. Any sort of tactical gameplay is usually obfuscated by dumb time-wasting stage gimmicks, the story barely exists even by normal Pokemon standards, grinding takes waaaay too long but is basically necessary if you want to use most of the available Mons because there's a big time problem with scaling... I don't know, I just didn't feel like I was having a lot of fun for most of the game.

I think Conquest does an okay-ish job of including a lot of playable Pokemon and making them feel fairly distinct in some form or fashion and there's a good idea or two tucked in there, but for such an easy game it felt oddly frustrating to play. Granted I have a strong preference for SRPGs that uses low numbers and precise calculations, but that's not a hard-and-fast rule or anything.

Didn't hate it, but I kind of expected more here. Seems like a mashup that would work better on paper than it did.