Not only is this one of the best “Eastern”-based compositions I’ve ever heard on the DS, but I can’t think of a better way to hype the player up for the very final battle. The constant melody is like your army marching towards the very last area, with full confidence.
Just when you think it’s going to end, it keeps going for about 26 more seconds with another emotional section that loops so well back into the beginning so well that it’s mind-blowing! Even if you don’t like this crossover, the music was well worth it, just listing 1 track from it isn’t enough for me to express that, let me tell ya!
Even though I don’t play Nobunaga’s Ambition, I do still pay attention to the releases sometimes, because I enjoy looking at the cutscenes and character videos and such.
I’m a little curious, because in this trailer there was a brief snippet of what looks like a scene depicting the Battle of Komaki-Nagakute, and a Nobukatsu that looks... unusual:
I tried looking for in-game footage from the Japanese version, and so far I could not find a version of Nobukatsu that looks like the above image. This was how he looked, in the scenes I saw:
That was how Nobukatsu has always looked like in the previous Nobunaga’s Ambition games, so that’s why it’s baffling when it seemed that he was made to look different that one particular blip of a scene in the trailer.
Of course, I could have just been mistaken, and that fellow isn’t Nobukatsu after all. However, the armour he was wearing was certainly the outfit identified as Nobukatsu’s, which was preserved in the Kaibara Museum of History and Folklore:
Besides, there’s the yellow Oda mokkou-mon war banners behind him, and Hideyoshi and Ieyasu looming over the scene, so it really just screams “Komaki-Nagakute” to me. However, I wasn’t able to find that scene in the existing gameplay footage of Komaki Nagakute of this game online. How mysterious. Surely they didn’t order their artists to draw a relatively-complex scene such as that, and then just throw it out?
If anyone among you who sees this post actually play the game and can tell me if I just missed something, I would be very grateful for the info.
oh i get it, it's called Nobunaga's Ambition: Sphere of Influence as a clever reference to the post ww2 division of Europe into spheres of influence between the soviet union and NATO, only 491 years later. very clever
Nobunaga’s Ambition: Awakening is a worthy entry in the forty-year-old franchise. The unintuitive user interface and vague explanation of game mechanics give it a steeper learning curve than it should have, but once the player has invested a few hours into it, the journey to unify Japan can be a rewarding one.
Here are two artbooks for the price of one! Indeed with the official release of Nobunaga’s ambition: awakening, I propose below the digital artbook deluxe + the commemorative book. I priced everything screener and offer you this only on the blog. If you use it or you repost the link elsewhere do not hesitate to credit me, because otherwise I would have to put big credits in the next artbook ….
Koei released a music video for their newest Nobunaga’s Ambition title. It looks like it's not the game’s actual Opening sequence, though. The video was posted with the label “Launch Promo video”. I hope they post the Opening sequence soon, in that case. I always love watching them.
I really like how the game’s painted illustrations are animated for this. They’re more dynamic than the 3D animations, even if they’re not quite so realistic or fluid compared to 3D.