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Pokémon Conquest (2012)

Koei Tecmo Games

Nintendo DS

3.67 from 428 ratings

1156 members have it in their collection · 27 playing now · 396 backlogged · 308 wish listed

How long? Main story 24h · with extras 15h (from 3 logged playthroughs)

Pokémon Conquest is a strategy game set in the Ransei region. You play as a Warlord of the Primus Kingdom, one of the 17 Kingdoms in the Ransei region. You are charged with the task of battling against a wide variety of powerful opponents, including the mighty Nobunaga, whose goal is to destroy the Ransei region!The 17 Kingdoms of the … Read more
Pokémon Conquest is a strategy game set in the Ransei region. You play as a Warlord of the Primus Kingdom, one of the 17 Kingdoms in the Ransei region. You are charged with the task of battling against a wide variety of powerful opponents, including the mighty Nobunaga, whose goal is to destroy the Ransei region!The 17 Kingdoms of the Ransei region possess a variety of Armies competing for control. The 17 Kingdoms are also deeply linked to a specific Pokémon type. Primus Kingdom, for example, has a strong connection with Normal-type Pokémon! Read less

Details

Developers
Koei Tecmo Games
Publishers
Nintendo, The Pokémon Company
Genres
Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Themes
Fantasy, Historical, Kids
Franchises
Pokémon
Series
Nobunaga's Ambition, Pokémon
Event
Nintendo Direct 6.21.2012

Release dates

  • Mar 17, 2012 (Full Release) (Japan) Nintendo DS
  • Jun 18, 2012 (Full Release) (North_America) Nintendo DS
  • Jul 27, 2012 (Full Release) (Europe) Nintendo DS

Rating distribution

5 stars
81
4 stars
171
3 stars
134
2 stars
39
1 star
3

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fluffite

Review fluffite 4/5 · Mar 22, 2023

Great Spin-off, wish there were more spin-offs like it

Already played through the entire game once, but decided to revisit it and it's still a super enjoyable game. The story is pretty simple and straightforward, you just have to capture all the other ''towns'' while trying to get the perfect pokemon for your warriors (The turn-based fighting mechanic is pretty fun, I like that you can take your time …

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Already played through the entire game once, but decided to revisit it and it's still a super enjoyable game. The story is pretty simple and straightforward, you just have to capture all the other ''towns'' while trying to get the perfect pokemon for your warriors (The turn-based fighting mechanic is pretty fun, I like that you can take your time planning out the best route for all of your pokemons. Definitely worth playing if you haven't yet, it's not easy to get into but hard to master!) Also, the post game stories that unlock after beating the main story are super cool to play out and actually difficult.

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grok

Review grok 4/5 · Oct 19, 2022

Solid Turn Based Tactics Meets Pokemon

I have long heard this is the best Pokemon Spin Off game, I disagree, that spot belongs to Pokemon Snap, but this is a close second.

Pokemon Conquest feels like if you wanted to play Fire Emblem, but with Pokemon, and it works way better then it should. Typing with Pokemon creates a natural similarity to the counter play between …

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I have long heard this is the best Pokemon Spin Off game, I disagree, that spot belongs to Pokemon Snap, but this is a close second.

Pokemon Conquest feels like if you wanted to play Fire Emblem, but with Pokemon, and it works way better then it should. Typing with Pokemon creates a natural similarity to the counter play between weapon types most fire emblem games have. Evolution, gaining attacks, etc. all add some great progression to your team.

The tactics as a whole are pretty solid, with terrain coming into play, and a varied team of users being very important. I found certain Pokemon's attack patterns less useful then others, but it meant I really loved finding new ones to try out.

The story feels deeper then most Pokemon games, but still has the "chasing the legendary pokemon" flair. Starting out you have a basic campaign that serves mostly like a tutorial, but still takes like 14-18 hours, with some legitimately challenging encounters. However, once you beat this initial campaign, it opens up 6 different scenarios that you can then try which are mini campaigns, this gives the game a LOT of play time.

There are some frustrating parts to this game though. Its not very clear when or how Pokemon evolve, they just sort of do after a certain point, which makes progression feel harder to plan.

The game encourages you to swap around Pokemon partners, to find ones your warrior bonds with best, but because only a handful of Pokemon spawn in an area at a time, this process can be more then a little frustrating. Overall, this meant that progressing my team of warriors isn't very clear, but I am guessing there are some decent tutorials online.

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