The Jump Festa trade show has just released the new Pokemon crossover game: Pokemon + Nobunaga’s Ambition. It is a DS game that is to be released on the Nintendo DS system in Spring 2012 as a collaborative work between The Pokemon Company and Koei, the makers of Nobunaga's Ambition.
Nobunaga's Ambition is a turn-based strategy role-playing game which was released in Japan.

It appears that the game takes place in the ancient past with Pokemon Trainers, both the female and male players will start out with an Eevee. There are also military soldiers, Oichi with her Jigglypuff, Mitsuhide and his Articuno, Shingen and Groudon, and Kenshin with Mewtwo as well as Nobunaga with Zekrom.

My personal opinion of this is veryyyy high, it reminds me of something like Dynasty Warriors and Fire Emblem combined with Pokemon, an odd idea I thought was only a fantasy but I'm quickly being proven wrong it seems! I am going to surely hope to see this make it's way outside of Japan, only time will tell though, I'm thrilled it's going to the DS as well since I'd be very sad if it were on the 3DS. This is something very uniqe, and quite frankly I personally love it, changes things up from the typical spin-offs they make, though I do like most of the spin-offs, don't get me wrong on that! x3

It looks pretty cool. If it turns out the way I imagine then I might enjoy it more than the main Pokemon games.

For a crossover, it seems to fit just great. Humans from another series essentially swapping out the humans in Pokemon sounds legit.

Mother of Matt Furniss!
Nobunaga’s Ambition had a Sega Genesis/Megadrive release,
a Super Nintendo release, and a Amiga release!?
That's it - I'm so getting this video game.

http://youtu.be/XxlsoBLgfEU

http://youtu.be/dp818_x-Zfk

Pokemon and 16 - bit gaming unite!

It'll be interesting to see what else they reveal about it in the future. Definitely will be an interesting game for the Poke fans!

A fascinating idea! I never imagined that such a game would be created. It sounds really unique and refreshing.

The official website is live! Link to website

Woah. That game looks awesome! I can't wait for it's USA release date! Also, it's a game for the DSi. Yay

Looks cool but I wonder if gray will be revealed in corocoro
because they said he game they were revealing next month won't
be revealed at jump festa

It's funny because Mewtwo was cloned from Mew using futuristic technology...

Logic vs Mewtwo. We can have one but not the other. Mewtwo obviously wins.

Hmm...I honestly don't know what to make of the new game. I guess it's too early for me to establish a position on this game. I've never even heard of Nobunaga's Ambition or whatever it's called. It's different, though, and that's a good thing. Keeping the franchise fresh with new sorts of stuff!

Looking at the trailer, it seems very similar to Mystery Dungeon, except without the human-turning-into-a-Pokemon concept, and with humans in it. Is also seems similar to Ranger in that respect. I dunno, really. It looks interesting.

Also, I'm not the only one who thinks the 17 castles in the game are based on the 17 elemental types, right?

inb4 All of the sudden everybody knows what Nobunaga's Ambition is due to this game

Crossovers!?
IN MY POKÉMON!?

Actually, this doesn't sound like a bad idea. Can't wait to see what they do with it!

Feudalistic Japan plus Pokemon, about you conquering real-world locations in Japan?

It sounds cool. I just don't know about the gameplay, I've never played Nobunaga's Ambition (but I know who he is) so I have no idea how that'll work.

Hm, I remember the last crossover, which was the Mystery Dungeon series. This game looks like it'll be very impressive. I'm not going to comment until I get a chance to play it, though.

@Cat That was a crossover?

Yeah, the Mystery Dungeon games had no Pokémon in them originally. Dragon Quest and Shiren the Wanderer were the first two series, and Final Fantasy's Chocobo was the first significant cross-over. Pokémon came almost a decade later.

I can't wait for this thing to come out in America! ^^ It looks pretty cool from what I've seen in the trailers, and conquering Japan with pokemon...What more could anyone want?! >:3

If you care, that is the boxart.

It is set to be released on March 17.

Another trailer was released for this. It didn't reveal much new, but it did reveal a new Bushou Leader. Her name is Kunoichi and is teamed up with a Scraggy. The following trailer also shows some new footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsiVz...layer_embedded