Neo Juste Belmont

Nov 13 2007, 10:33 AM

It's also Koei's tradition to include female characters as officer though not everyone gets into battles. I wonder if they will do the same here.

ZhouTai50

Nov 13 2007, 08:46 PM

Gah, so it wasn't just a typo in the news report. Oh well, nothing we haven't seen in countless other North American Sengoku games.

I would assume that the Satomi are playable, given that that area has more fiefs in the game than any other area.

The Nagao Kagetora thing is most likely just for the earliest scenario.

Neo Juste Belmont

Nov 13 2007, 10:33 AM

It's also Koei's tradition to include female characters as officer though not everyone gets into battles. I wonder if they will do the same here.

Sengoku Robo Samuraioh

Nov 13 2007, 06:08 AM

Nobunaga is the key, central daimyo of the era, and the games revolve around his ambition to claim the land(this was quite evident in the older NAs, like how they had options to play only in central Japan where Nobunaga carved out his territory.) There is NO "three clans" foolishness, at least not in the way you're trying to suggest.

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By the way guys, the battles themselves are in real-time strategy, so you may get something similar to Kessen out of it.

Sengoku Robo Samuraioh

Nov 16 2007, 12:55 PM

A few things I've found:

Yes, the Satomi are playable.  Pretty much if someone was a daimyo at some time, they're in this(even Takigawa Kazumasu gets his tiny fief on the edge of the Oda domain in 1582)

Everyone with name changes has them according to scenario(so 1551 has Nagao Kagetora, Takeda Harunobu, Kinoshita Hideyoshi[not Tokichiro here, actually])

Females are in, yet are not in.  How's this?  The Maiden(Hime) system.  Female characters show up as marry-able princesses used to cement alliances and such.  Nobunaga starts off with Kicho as his Hime, affecting his alliance with Saito Dosan.

Holy crap does Nobunaga start off in a bad position in 1551 AD!  Not only is he sandwiched among several forces, some hostile, but he starts with only 7 officers: his brother Nobuyuki, his uncle Nobumitsu(?), Shibata Katsuie, Hayashi Hidesada, Ikeda Tsuneoki, Sakuma Nobumori, and Hirate Masahide.  Good thing he's got a lot of free officers nearby to hire up.

Gameplay is kinda like ROTK 11, only you build in city screens similar to old ROTK games like ROTK IV: Wall of Fire, only in 3D, and with ROTK 11's ability to build structures in the city limits where you like.  Furthermore, you have various diplomatic options, including the ability to arrange with an ally to attack an enemy fief together.  You can also make visits to other daimyo, or visit the Imperial Court to strengthen relationships.  Movement-wise, you don't move on a full map like in ROTK 11, it's a sectioned map more like the older ROTK games, again like Wall of Fire.

Kenshin/Kagetora has the highest Warfare(I think it's Warfare, anyway) stat in the game at 101 circa 1551 AD.

Mouri Motonari is this game's Cao Cao, stat-wise(95/88/97/82), with Saito Dosan(93/83/95/77) and Hojo Ujiyasu(93/89/88/76) right behind him.

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In the Hime/maiden system, how many hime can you have as a daimyo? Can you create some Hime (like maybe your daughters), to use in alliances? Also, how useful are they in an alliance? Will they practically prevent an invasion or will they be the equivalent of 15 points of goodwill or something?

Rigochu

Nov 16 2007, 06:38 PM

Very nice finds, i commend you and thank you very much! How is it that you are finding all this information? Iv'e never played a NA game, but i always wanted to.. so the stats are the same as most ROTK war/int/pol/charm? I also have a few more questions for you...

So if i start in 1551, and try to stick to history, will the game have cutscenes and historical events like ROTK?

In the Hime/maiden system, how many hime can you have as a daimyo? Can you create some Hime (like maybe your daughters), to use in alliances? Also, how useful are they in an alliance? Will they practically prevent an invasion or will they be the equivalent of 15 points of goodwill or something?

This game has been described as a real-time strategy? Is it really like Warcraft and Age of Empires type real time strategy? Can you describe the combat system a little bit?

Any other interesting little tidbits you can throw are way? I'll take any little scraps i can get my hands on!!

Thank You so much!!!!! :)  (BTW, Shogun created another info topic right below this one)!

Sengoku Robo Samuraioh

Nov 16 2007, 05:30 PM

You can make female warriors, yes.  I told you that over AIM, evil tentacle monster-type person!

In character creation, you can not only pick your character's closest friend, but also a nemesis for them as well.  Furthermore, you can pick up to three Special Abilities as opposed to ROTK 11's one, and you can even pick their religious affiliation(Shinto, Ikko-Shu, and Christian.)

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Hey, does that pretty much confirms that what Koei will translate is the PUK version?

Man, I really can't wait for this game then.