Pokemon Conquest: The Forgotten Pokemon DS Game

Welcome to the Ransei region, you are a Pokemon warlord. Nobunaga is invading, grab an Eevee and form an army
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[@RTGame]

If we could get a mystery Dungeon remake after all this time, there's hope yet for Conquest

[@jackbudi]

I really hope so, I would give Nintendo so much money for just even a port

[@RoostBR]

Dont do that. Dont give me hope…

[@theogravity866]

Prayer circle rn 🙏

[@ArceusBowser212]

I always hope for it to happen, I WILL NEVER GIVE UP!!!

[@mr_fog1149]

This game is one of my favorites, the only reason I have emulators in my phone and pc, all the different ways you can play and conquer really take the free time when I'm in the mood for rts

[@yin9008]

What RT doesnt include here is that Conquest is LONG. Like. Extremely long. There's over a dozen different campaigns and the main story is unironically the tutorial, long.

[@pokemastericon]

Not to mention, unlocking the REAL main campaign requires beating all the side campaigns first. There's one side campaign per major character and assistant, so like 50. I absolutely loved this game

[@feefington]

So you're telling me when i thought i had beaten the game all the way back then i only actually cleared 1/12 of it

[@pokemastericon]

@@feefington Game has like 60-80 hrs of content to fully beat ;)

[@dualdestry2856]

@@pokemastericon Actually, Serebii's a little bit wrong on that one. In order to unlock "Two Heroes of Ransei," the only requirements is to complete all other senior warlord's stories first. I guess whoever first wrote that did Yoshimoto's story last (understandably).

[@vinny9256]

I got the game in 2012 and still haven’t 100%ed it lmao

[@Flygoniaks]

Unironically, Pokémon Conquest has arguably one of the most in-depth postgames of any Pokémon spinoff. In fact, it's so insane that the main story might as well be the tutorial. After you beat the main story, you basically unlock "scenarios" where you play at the various warlords and other characters. Literally EVERY single character with a unique sprite has a scenario where you play as them, and there's even characters who don't appear in the main story at all. Each scenario has a different objective (such as conquering Ransei _under a time limit,_ or accumulating a certain number of allies), and many scenarios restrict you to only certain regions of the overall map. In addition, the postgame scenarios have much greater depth mechanically - you can upgrade various facilities in the kingdoms, and the enemy's AI is dynamic and can straight-up attack you and try to steal your kingdoms, or if there are multiple AI factions, they can even attack _each other._ Finally, the Pokémon each warrior is linked to, and the status of the warriors themselves, is carried between scenarios - for example, if you find a warrior's "Perfect Link" (basically the species of Pokémon they are most compatible with), or meet the difficult conditions to "transform" a warrior (upgrading their skills) in one scenario, this will carry over if you recruit the same warrior in another scenario. You can even straight-up recruit _the protagonist_ when playing as other characters, depending on the scenario. Keep in mind that almost everything I'm mentioning here is _postgame exclusive_ - the main story lacks many of these features, and mainly serves to let you learn the basics and battlefields.

[@owlsthirdeye6174]

And then at the end if you complete all the scenarios you unlock the true campaign, which is the first one with no hand holding, all mechanics unlocked and every warlord retaining the upgrades you gave them. It's crazy.

[@Zant582]

I need this in fire emblem :(

[@thaneofstuff7340]

I recently learned there's even some DLC (free, nothing to pay for) that includes 3 more campaigns for Okuni, Keiji, and Ranmaru (The bug girl from the Ghost palace, the Rhyhorn guy who teaches you stuff, and the Dragonair Boy from the Dragon palace) that you can input codes for to unlock! As well as a Reshiram quest which was something I didn't even know was a thing 12 years ago when the game came out. There's so much to do in this game and I love it.

[@wolf2403]

Interesting... though would you say Dan is doing well or suffering from a severe skill issue?

[@Flygoniaks]

@@wolf2403 From what I can tell in the highlights, I think Dan's main issue is that he's simply rushing into things too quickly, with teams that are notably weaker than you're supposed to have at this point. He should probably do just a little bit of grinding until his team's strength is on par with the kingdoms he's trying to invade. I do recall Yoshihiro (the guy with the Gurdurr) being a bit of a roadblock for newer players, since it's a Fighting-type kingdom when the protag and Oichi's Perfect Links are Normal-Type.

[@overforest1195]

To be fair, i think this game was forgotten because, as far as i am aware, it was barely adveritsed. The only time I saw anything about it around its release was at the very back of a gaming magazine as "coming soon", and i never saw it in the DS game isles at the shops I went to, so I just assumed the games production had been cancelled or something. I would've loved to actually play this as a kid.

[@CeHee123]

Black and White 2 were releasing around the time and the 3ds was Upcoming with XY, so that probably didn't help.

[@hayleeh18]

I remember seeing commercials for it as a kid, I was so hyped.

[@Eighth-Eye]

yeah, I haven't heard of this game until now and I think i would have loved this as a kid.

[@shanefisk5505]

Funny you say that because the only reason I got it as a kid was because of a commercial I saw. 200+ hours later and I think I’d say I’m satisfied.

[@omegacolossus]

It was sandwiched between the original release of BW and B2W2 released 3 months later. So it didn’t have enough time to sell before it got overshadowed by one of the best games in the franchise

[@pikamel]

pokemon conquest is made long by two ways: the intense post-game, and the way the game hits you with "skill issue" over and over again as you fail to defeat the same army at least three times

[@llamaboioflusatia]

I love my Pokémon warlordism, really adds to the element of cockfighting where the chickens are now raiding and pillaging

[@leolion3323]

oh... i always thought cockfighting was about. something else than chickens.

[@weirdidiot4616]

​@@leolion3323 I believe that's called cockfencing or something like that, cockfighting is about very literal roosters trying to murk each other, what's the prideflag in your pfp btw?

[@Krumpins]

As someone who's actually played this game rather recently, it makes me happy seeing Dan play it. It's such an underrated gem.

[@shadowmana]

As someone who has only heard of this game just now. Looks neat, imma go play it

[@astartes6645]

I still have it on my DS and I'm amazed that he's playing it honestly

[@dqblizzard722]

Time to play it again lmao

[@metronicmagician1816]

I remember playing this game when it came out, and I loved it, but felt like it was unbelievably short, and had very little content. Apparently I had only played campaign one. With Dan playing it again I feel like I want to try and find my old copy and actually go through all of it this time.

[@bonessav2711]

This is one of my favorite games of all time, and definitely my favorite pokémon game, and it’s crazy to see RT play a game I still have and play somewhat occasionally. I have a lot of hours in this game and i don’t regret it. Actually i kinda like conquest as like a very underground and not talked about game, because it feels more personal.

[@AFXffs772]

I think the funniest thing is that Yoshimoto is actually the easiest fight in the game because if you just push his Gurrdurr off the edge it takes like 4 turns to get back on the arena because it’s so slow (source: I used Yoshimoto’s Gurrdurr and it can only move like 3 spaces per turn)

[@GoldenOwlYT]

I'm pretty sure that's the intended method to beat that fight. Gurdurr does colossal damage at that point in the game and you have no way to really hit it supereffectively, so you need to win via the map's tactic gimmick

[@hayleeh18]

Conquest came out when I was pretty young, and I remember setting up a lemonade stand so I could get money to buy the game. I remember tracking how much I got and being so excited when I finally got enough. The music is spectacular, the gameplay is the perfect mix of “yeah, a kid could play and be fine” and “but have you seen how in-depth these mechanics go?” I absolutely adore Conquest and would love to see it ported or remade or even receive a sequel someday. The game sets itself up for a sequel so well and then we just….. didn’t get one. Currently I’m working toward 100% completion, perfect linking everyone and evolving them.

[@StickMaster500]

I honestly don’t blame RT giving up on Yoshihiro and his Gurdurr since that’s also the exact point that 15 year old me decided to give up as well with how much of a difficulty curve they throw at you! Would love to see a remake of this game someday with its Arceus shaped region if Mystery Dungeon got the same treatment.

[@Sayyble]

I learned that you can cheese it with a ghost type and just shoved it in the way of walkway, then waited 5 turns hehe

[@alcole-holic8779]

I never thought Gurdurr was too much of a problem iirc, mostly because I would keep recruiting unique warriors who would be strong enough to take them head on.

[@VA_Nightshade]

@@alcole-holic8779 IO didn't know the requirement ro recruit unique warriors until well into the late game.

[@alcole-holic8779]

@@VA_Nightshade I never learned the specifics until years later I just got lucky. I just remember having Motochika I think

[@aokyoutsuki7744]

​@@alcole-holic8779Can you recruit them on the territorial fights? The only time i managed was when they showed up randomly on fields

[@MertGert]

Hearing Dan get so excited when he realized he could recruit Oshawott made my day, he's really grown since the Oshawott Genocide of 2022 Aaaand he killed it, literally unredeemable

[@n0dash18]

Technically, it wasn’t his fault there. You literally cannot recruit Motochika in that fight.

[@LilChuunosuke]

I don't even remember how I got my hands on this game as a kid, but I was absolutely ADDICTED to it and played it RELIGIOUSLY until I lost the cartridge. I spent multiple months looking for it, but it was never found. It makes me so happy seeing this game actually getting attention all these years later.

[@BJGvideos]

Hope you find it someday

[@maiam388]

Yoooo fellow Great Ace Attorney fan spotted! I really hope RT plays those games someday, he would have an absolute field day with Herlock and Van Zieks

[@mranderson9553]

i loved this game so much as a kid, one really cool thing is as you conquer zones more and more of the map, and at the end (of the first campaign) it reveals the entirety of the ransei region is in the shape of arceus

[@RFD1996]

Fun Fact:Though this game is based with the Nobunaga's Ambition Series,most of the character designs for the warlords are the designs they have with Samurai Warriors/Sengoku Musou,more so the 3rd game's release. So this is RT's First Warriors game he has played.

[@erronstone942]

RT I need to applaud you. You pick some of the most random games to play but you make them so fun to watch. On top of that there are times like this where you pick an obscure game that not a lot of people know about that happen to be favorites of a lot of people. I loved this game and I wish I still had a copy on me. Thanks for being you and for everything you do.

[@mranderson9553]

there's emulators and even mods if you care

[@CeHee123]

Never played this one but I really want to. The DS era was peak Pokemon. Gen 4 and 5, Mystery Dungeons, Ranger, they were going all out here.

[@Last_Person]

Dude this game was my childhood, I just want a remake for switch

[@jackbudi]

SAME

[@Shitshow1]

Mod your switch bro

[@thatbro6555]

Saaaaame

[@JeskidoYT]

I don't think The Pokemon Company wants a competitor to Fire emblem on switch

[@bru4773]

I played a ton of this game back in the day. I remember that once you beat it, there was a bunch of campaigns for all the different warlords, and you could eventually recruit Arceus. Wild

[@SunsetCompass]

This game is a hidden masterpiece, the game mechanics are so interesting, the characters (even tho they’re taken from another game series) are so interesting and designs so well done. I love this game, hope with RT playing it, it gets the popularity it deserves!

[@SheepyFields]

Holy shit ishmael limbus

[@solairefan5420]

ishmael limbus!!!!!

[@ShatteredSaline]

oh yea ishmael limbus in the wild. also i did not know the designs were from another game. very interesting info!!

[@pokemastericon]

The Warlords' names are actually also all names of historical figures from the Sengoku (Warring States) Period of Japan.

[@epicponedge1177]

In addition to the 4 turns, you can also recruit other Warlords if they don't deal any damage to you or you defeat them with a Super Effective attack. Also, special Warlords, the ones with gold backgrounds, can only be recruited if anther special Warlord defeated them and it's not story relevant that they flee (the Chimchar guy, for example, can't be recruited in the main story).

[@dimensionalclones5018]

I didn't realize that this game was so under the radar. I still remember the day when I saw it on the back of a magazine all those years ago. Bought it on day one when it came out and I was obsessed with trying to beat it. It is a pretty fun game the combat is different, the art style is fantastic, and you get to see which Warlord Pokemon they have is always a treat. Especially when you take over their Kingdom and curb-stomp them into the ground.

[@solarcupid2583]

I played this recently and I was so shook when I heard the name of the game's main antagonist. If you're not aware, it's Oda Nobunaga. Aka the first "great uniter" of Japan. He was known for his use of fire to destroy the territory of his enemies and also sometimes the enemies themselves. He also massacred an entire mountainside in a pre-emptive attack. They hadn't even done anything yet

[@scrunkore]

this game is a crossover with an entire series of games titled nobunaga's ambition so there are actually a lot of tactics games featuring him lol

[@solarcupid2583]

@@scrunkore true, but as someone oblivious to that fact, it was a shock

[@Xanek]

Honestly wouldn't mind a FF Tactics/Disgaea type of pokemon game like Conquest if they ever brought it back. Having these kinds of games really diversify the IP and not just be only about catching/trading/battling.

[@BJGvideos]

Though this game is probably most about battling. More than the main series.

[@everest8542]

Game directly led me down a pipeline to Fire Emblem and other strategy games. Conquest's hours of content was INSANE, being able to play every warlord in a scenario. Still go back and do it all again from time to time... though nowadays I also install difficulty spike hacks :D

[@lassoroot]

It's so funny to have your companion being like "Warlord-chan! I've always wanted to die in battle for you!!" 😂

[@jackbudi]

Yooo, my favorite Pokémon spinoff. I could never forget it!

[@jackbudi]

I loved the little events, like when I could just get Reshiram for no reason

[@akinako4064]

For anyone wondering: Recruiting is simple in this game (but not always easy): You either have to defeat your opponent quick (I think it's within 5 turns) or you have to defeat them with an effective attack! BUT For the "golden generals", as the game calls them, you also need a golden general to deal the finishing blow. That's how RT got the bird, but not the otter. thx~

[@theschwabmob8363]

Well the game calls the golden generals Warlords, but yeah.

[@akinako4064]

@@theschwabmob8363 You're right ... dang

[@wolftamerwolfcorp7465]

Slight correction: it’s 4 turns not 5. There’s also a third basic condition which is not having taken damage but I find this one the most confusing because I never really figured out if it’s in general or from the specific unit

[@DivineDragonstone]

@@wolftamerwolfcorp7465 It’s "the unit you want to recruit can't have dealt damage to anyone on your team." (Had to edit that for clarity after I misread your comment, which I guess proves your point somewhat…) Also, the turn counter is far more confusing, because the game words its tutorial incorrectly: it _says_ “within 4 turns,” but the word "within" is supposed to mean "before the end of Turn 4." But what the game _means_ is "before the _start_ of Turn 4;" you actually only have 3 turns.

[@VA_Nightshade]

Ok, so for anyone who wants to paly this game, recruiting special units, characters with gold name boxes like Hideyoshi, in the game has two requirements. First, if you playing your firstrun, you can only recruit the special units if they aren't locked to the story. Hideyoshi is locked to the story. Second, the special units not locked to story can only be recruited if you defeat them with another special unit, like your character. The cut and paste npcs like who helped Hideyoshi can be recruited fairly easily.

[@DarkWizardFoxo]

this is one of my favorite pokémon games that I ever played it was one of the first things that got me into like turn-based games like fire emblem it's so good it deserves more love

[@dualdestry2856]

Just for your information, RT, the requirements for capturing a warrior are as follows: 1) Beat them within 4 turns. 2) Finish them with a super-effective attack. *Or* 3) You defeat them without letting that warrior attack you. Additionally, warlords (indicated by the gold background and by being unique) *must* be defeated by other warlords to be recruited. Finally, no warriors can be recruited if that nation has other kingdoms under its control (as you will see later in the story). Additional notes: Hideyoshi, Motonari, and Motochika cannot be recruited during the main story. However, Motonari and Motochicka *can* be recruited if you connect to the Nintendo Wi- I mean, enter a special password that the devs cleverly put into the game two whole years before the DS was brought offline for good. It's also through these passwords that you can unlock three of the campaigns and a legendary Pokemon that aren't otherwise unlockable. You will notice that in order to permanently save a Pokemon to a warrior, you have to battle with that Pokemon at least once (indicated by the gold symbol next to the Pokemon during the results screen). This is important because if you evolve a Pokemon and then complete the campaign without battling with that newly evolved Pokemon, that evolved Pokemon will not carry over to the next campaign. It's also important because you do not want to register No into the gallery without her Drifloon. Drifloon is not an easy Pokemon to find, so having it on No is critical (and should be noted that in some campaigns of hers, she starts with a Misdreavus instead of her Drifloon)

[@Muun_JaiYT]

as someone who's favourite spin off's has been the ranger series for years - yes you're correct Conquest is truly the most forgotten of all

[@IgnitusPlays]

I spit out my drink seeing this in my recommended, this game was a pleasure to play and I really hope that it gets some form of additional media. Truly a gem.

[@stevenm3238]

I have played this game for years, through and through. I've beat every side story, used every code, levelled every warrior, and have never had anyone know what the game was. To get to see someone I watch near daily play it is genuinely a gift.

[@cableguy3098]

This game was apart of my childhood, It's genuinely so fun, wish we could see it come back!

[@TheDixieDerg]

I remember this, I actually broke out my DS recently and replayed it. Good times.

[@jirachi5588]

It’s amazing seeing this game again cause I played it as a kid and I don’t remember 90% of the stuff that is happening. I had no idea you could catch Pokémon, shop, or even change your team so I played the entire game with an umbreon, a jigglypuff, and a luxio I got from the electric warlord. Man I was dumb.

[@Anidence]

I absolutely adore this game and I'd go so far as to say it is still my favorite piece of Pokemon media ever, which makes it super damn cool to see you play it for the channel. All of the mechanics and unique ideas it had, along with the fact that you have about a million different campaigns to play make it such an enthralling experience. For me I always loved the Perfect Sync and Player Evolution stuff cause it was super cool to me to see the characters getting a change as well, especially in a time before character customization in Pokemon. I only wish there was some kind of harder difficulty, but to be fair I'm older now and have plenty of experience in strategy games so it makes sense that the Pokemon strategy game isn't terribly difficult haha. Anyways, I continue to hope and pray for a remake.

[@randomperson677]

Really happy you're playing this, I absolutely loved this game in the brief period of time I borrowed it from my local library when I was little. It also made me realize how much I love tile grid turn by turn strategy games

[@kerroseir4764]

RT there are three tips that can help you 1. In the fighting dudes Arena the enemy focuses on the flags more than destroying your soul, so let them have it then kick them off of it 2. The layout of castles is harder than the actual enemies (or your own Pokemons strength) 3. Have fun and enjoy the game....might wanna keep Mareep from evolving fully though it's not worth it (or maybe it is idk)

[@info9032]

Holy, I never thought I'd see this game again, thank you RT!

[@anexplosion5436]

Not forgotten by me! This is what I gave my cousin as a wedding gift.

[@BJGvideos]

I miss when we had a ton of spinoffs. Also, Conquest is amazing and we need more of it. Either a new Conquest, maybe a Pokémon Dynasty in warring states China, idk maybe the ancient war from XY would be neat. Also there's a theory that the events of Conquest take place in modern day and Ransei is just REALLY closed off. It has mechanized factories, wind farms, a connected computer system, air travel, and MEWTWO.

[@theschwabmob8363]

As a kid I swear to god I recall an NPC mentioning something about a theory or something about another Pokemon World where they capture them in balls, and I swear it was the Grass Kingdom's Warlord, or one of the old man events. I can't recall if I just misunderstood or not, but I am of the belief Ransei is in an alternate universe, since they explicitly don't use any form of pokeballs, and instead form bonds.

[@BJGvideos]

@@theschwabmob8363 Yes that is very much said in the game! But it's not about another world. He says that it's what they do in other regions.

[@theschwabmob8363]

@@BJGvideos Oooh. Okay.

[@TungstenArm]

@@theschwabmob8363it’s the bug kingdom warlord who says that reference

[@theschwabmob8363]

@@TungstenArm Thank you for letting me know who it was!

[@audi354]

God I love this game That final battle is hilarious from knowing the mechanics of the games I knew what was going to happen and it did.

[@snowykaze]

FINALLY SOMEONE REMEMBERS THIS GAME EXISTS!!!

[@GuildmasterMuri]

As someone who is literally in the middle of editing a video containing a joke about this forgotten game, thank you RT

[@aaronmacwilliamhughes3229]

Ransei these nuts

[@notwrthy9538]

Seeing rt going from being iffy on oshawott to loving him and getting excited to get one has made my day

[@Simon_Q]

Fun fact: koei tecmo also did some fire emblem games. I wish they do a crossover in the future.

[@-memoria-2136]

This is the closest we'll ever get to RT playing a Fire Emblem game.

[@Simon_Q]

@@-memoria-2136 I have hopes that he will play three houses

[@josueayala1249]

Not a crossover per se, but if you like hack n' slash gameplay, KT also made the excellent Fire Emblem: Three Hopes and the less excellent but still underrated FE: Warriors. In fact, I bet Kou Shibusawa's involvement in Three Houses contributed to Hopes looking basically identical

[@sethaquauis]

Holy shit, my only memory of this game is playing it in a cracker barrel before getting food poisoning that was so bad I never touched the game again

[@sweetcherries2238]

I loved this game as a kid. I even still have my original ds cartridge for it. I still play it sometimes but ive never finished it.

[@RayQnon]

Im always so glad to see pokemon conquest anythings these days. It was one of my favorite games as a child, I invested ~200 hours on my original copy of it. I used the cartridge for preservation to use on my modded 3ds and decided to try and go crazy and finish what I always wanted to do as a child in conquest and evolve all my warlords, made it about halfway through before getting very bored of it lmao.

[@LycanMOON]

This game is my absolutely favorite Pokémon game,so happy to see it get some love Here’s hoping to a remake/sequel Fun fact I always like to tell people,Hanbei is the only Pokémon character (or well Pokémon adjacent character) to have tuberculosis.hes my favorite character from this game and more people should learn about the history behind his real life counterpart

[@daevious_]

My favourite detail about this game is that Nobunaga's big reason for invading Ransei is because he's a Poke-Atheist.

[@mightythorn2347]

More specifically I believe it was to unite all the regions to prove the legend didn't exist, so everyone would stop fighting over it. Its been a while though so I'm unsure

[@kristophesiem5336]

And then by doing that he ends up proving it's actually true, causing like 48 more wars until the MC says "F it, we ball, I'll catch GOD myself"

[@fireydylan1043]

Its been a while since i did the main campaign but i think he knew it was real, he wanted to unite the land summon arceus and then tell it to fuck off so he could then in turn claim it was fake to end war or something

[@daevious_]

@@fireydylan1043 The very beginning of Nobunaga's campaign has him explicitly state that he doesn't believe Arceus is real, but everyone else believing in him causes Ransei's endless wars. So his wars were to disprove Arceus and thus bring peace to Ransei.

[@wolftamerwolfcorp7465]

He was basically like “let’s do this, we gonna prove god ain’t real… but on the off chance it is we gonna change that”

[@louisantonio2462]

I do like to subscribe to the idea that the Ransei region is the "main island" to Hisui's far north similar to how Japan is with Hokkaido. I do believe they pepper in such lore in Legends Arceus too, iirc. It's a cool thing to think about.

[@eduardorocha1585]

Ransei is based on japan during the waring stades and at that time hokaido wasnt part of japan

[@LycanMOON]

⁠@@eduardorocha1585just because they weren’t together doesn’t mean the island didn’t exist Thepokemon timeline is already weird,a few more changes wouldn’t break it

[@stanleygagner]

It's so hilarious how all these characters are supposed to be actual Japanese warlords from the Sengoku period, but they fight with Pokemon instead.

[@mitochondria6247]

HOLY MOTHER OF ARCEUS, I DID NOT EXPECT THIS. Rtgame playing the game i remember most fondly from my childhood.

[@tijlerboks4818]

No views? Man that rough how the algorithm screwed you, just keep it up. I believe in you!

[@Waiting888]

Please I beg of you don't make the "0 views in X seconds, you fell off" comments the top comment

[@aspendespain4606]

DUDE I saw this video and internally SCREAMED. I LOVE this game but like, practically no one knows about it. XD SO glad to see you giving this gem some love, thank you!

[@demenos6373]

I loved this game as a kid, even 100% the whole thing back in the day. Which man, as a little kid, was that one long journey. But getting Arceus to join me was totally worth it.

[@Meanlucario]

Pokemon Conquest. My favorite Pokemon spinoff. No, I'm not joking. I finished all the scenarios, promoted all the warlords, and got everyone their perfect link (including the minor warriors) a few years ago. You can recruit warriors by finishing them off with a super-effective move or taking no damage from them along with the 4 turn limit. Warlords have to be finished off by other warlords to be recruit along with the usual requirements, and can be found roaming like ordinary warriors of the story lets them (the grass and water warlords require the DLC for some reason). Most of the junior warlords (the ones who are working under the one in charge) tend to not start with their perfect link. You can tell it's their perfect link when it's emoting along with them when they're on screen (and warlords are picky. An examples is Muneshige, starts with a starly, but his perfect link is staravia, it's evolution. He also doesn't have a perfect like with staraptor until after he promotes). Oh, and some trivia: The male protagonist is base on a real person like the rest of the warlords. PS. Stock of evolution items and good equipment when you are ready to end the tutorial story. They carry over to each scenario, making item-base evolutions much easier.

[@FireStorm5713]

I still have my copy of this game from when it came out. I only got through like 75% of the "main" story, and never even got to the post game, and I haven't touched it in years. This might be the motivation I needed to go back and play through it again.

[@scottbecker4367]

Oichi appears to be Nemona's ancestor, and every generation has become more assertive about being your friend over time.

[@pocket7935]

Can't wait to see his reaction to the entirety of the first playthrough essentially being a tutorial

[@tallulah7243]

I got this game when a friend gave me their pokemon game collection - I hadn't heard of it before but it became one of my favourite pokemon spin-offs along with the pokemon ranger series. For anyone who finds this game and gets stuck on the fighting type, let him capture all the flags, then use pokemon with a high movement distance to quickly knock him off the platform (they fall if the pokemon are on the edge of the ring) then claim the flags and blockade the entrances to the ring, with the low movement distance of the fighting types it shouldn't be too difficult. Flying types and pokemon with levitate are particularly good for this challenge, so don't forget about recruitment! Even getting the player character to pick up a starly instead of the eevee can be very helpful!

[@kiosoull6860]

Thank you so, so much for picking this game up. Conquest was the most memorable pokemon game of my childhood and hearing the music again, seeing the gameplay… It brought back a joy I thought I’d lost. I know I’m just one comment among the thousands, but I genuinely, genuinely could not be happier to see this game being played by one of my favorite content creators. Thank you, RT.

[@BaronB.BlazikenBaronOfBarons]

Conquest is one of my favorite games of all time. So glad it’s getting shown how good it is!

[@isaaccarder3369]

I genuinely loved this game back when I played it years ago. I 100% it back then. I love that even when you complete a campaign, you unlock things for campaigns you've already completed once, so theres so much content and replayability

[@cliffordhurricane4645]

I NEVER THOUGHT ID SEE THE DAY A BIG KZbinR PLAY THIS MASTERPIECE THANK YOU RT

[@sansupayvods9965]

You have unlocked a very secluded memory of mine. I remember playing this game on a modded DS cartridge that had like 300 games on it, and this was one of them. I played this game non-stop as a kid and I loved it so much. I completely forgot about this because at some point it got too hard/repetitive and I got tired of it and played something else. But my god, this brings back so many memories. Thank you for rekindling that forgotten piece of my life RT

[@ianmatthynssens3315]

This game was a huge part of my childhood. Shortly after it’s release me, my brother, and my mom went on a month long trip where we drove halfway across the country to visit relatives, then picked up one of said relatives and drove back On the first day of the trip she gave me and my brother each a copy of Conquest. That was probably my most fond memory of Pokémon

[@amberrose3468]

I have been waiting for this game - one of my absolute favorites in the Pokémon franchise

[@EruptingInferno]

This is my by far favourite game, I still have its cartridge in my 3DS, the amount of hours I've poured into well it surpasses 1000. I am so glad to see RT play it :D Replayability is so amazing!

[@germwarfares]

watching rt play pokemon > starting all the pokemon games i need to play

[@BlazeDoesSomething]

This is the Pokemon game I played the most while growing up. Glad to see it again.

[@frknspacewizardbrett6044]

Fun Fact about the Yoshihiro fight: The AI will always try and take a flag, to the detriment of all else (often even just to defend a flag they own already). If they can, they'll attack at the same time, but their team only has 1 range attacks. So, if you have a team full of 2 range attackers, like Wooper, then you can just let them take the flag, then knock them off the arena with a ranged attack. They'll get in each others way getting back, then single-file go back onto the flags. If you do it right, you can win without ever getting attacked, which guarantees recruitment on the normal (not yellow) units.

[@enhanced7105]

I absolutely ADORE Conquest, it's a game I played a ton growing up, and I had a great time with its PvP mode with a friend of mine as a kid. You can find a ton of different comments talking about the great things about Conquest, but the main thing that I want to focus on is the SOUNDS, which are just phenomenal. Music aside, all different sorts of things in Conquest have killer sound effects, from any selection process, to the sheer impact of any given attack, to the different effects of the floor tiles. Maybe it's just nostalgia talking, but I just love everything here.

[@smeatar]

So happy to see this getting some attention, it is probably my favourite Pokémon game of all time but nobody I talk to has even heard of it

[@konumbra]

pokémon conquest is one of my favourite pokémon games of all time! the characters and world are so fleshed out and the music fucking slaps!!! I'm obsessed with it I really hope that this introduces more people to the game, such a hidden gem

[@AppleIndianFTW]

One of their best games. The long road to obtaining shiny Rayquaza was more fulfilling for me than 100%ing Elden Ring, which I have 1700 hours in. Long live Conquest!

[@snowblossom4961]

I’m not going to lie this was my first Pokémon Game ever growing up. It is this games fault eevee is my absoulute favorite Pokémon. And also probably why I’m a weeb. My childhood cartridge ended up breaking and I was so sad and vented to my partner about it and they remembered seeing it at a GameStop in the year 2017/2018 and fuckin… rebought it for me. It was at this moment I knew I would marry them. We are in fact still together also.

[@cyrusmahir6986]

This game was my entire childhood. Pretty sure the first time I 100% a video game. Thank you for taking me back

[@GingerCycleNinja]

Ah gutted I missed this stream! I hunted high and low for a copy of Pokemon Conquest and managed to finally get one a couple of years ago, good to see it finally getting some attention!!!

[@saucefan1614]

I loved playing this game when I was younger. I was so close to beating it but then my cousin accidentally knocked it into an AC vent and we could never get it out.

[@BJGvideos]

Hope you can extract it from there eventually!

[@olimagmoli]

i LOVE conquest. it was my first tactics game, played it for the first time back in middle school, sometime in 2013-15. i hardly ever hear anything about it. i hadnt known you streamed this so seeing this pop up in my subs was an exceptionally pleasant surprise.

[@xmascritter2383]

Grandma, granddad, dad and lad, we just need ma and we'll have the adventures of an entire branch of the family

[@Daniel-jk6ve]

1:47 “A perfect Bidoof! Oh, how I’ve [Weab]ed of this day!” - Grandma Ralphie

[@Lamebur]

It makes me so happy to see Dan play one of my favourite games

[@XeoKnight]

I'm so glad you're doing a Conquest video! I loved this game but it always felt like nobody knew it existed haha

[@ssoyeong8515]

bless i heart this game so much i remember once in a campaign i sat there for like....60+ ish years trying to get a specific pokemon to spawn in to find a perfect link for one of my warlords. it was so bad, i found like 10 eevees in the meantime (i already got all my eeveelutions by then) and the game was lagging and glitching out, so i just had to give up and end the campaign. this video is also reminding me to finally finish finding the perfect link of all my npcs again. i think i'm missing like 5 by now. god im just remembering some of the wildest shenanigans i have in this game...i would always sweep the map asap with a small band of warlords, but sometimes, enemy castles would notice the insane power level difference between their army and yours (even though you don't spend time to train, the constant slew of wins and conquers trains your team extremely quickly) and i've noticed 2 different results. sometimes, the nearest castles surrounding yours will increase a little bit to try take over your castle, but sometimes, they increase all the way to match yours, which actually makes a dangerous situation. the highest amount of link i've gotten at the end of a match was 7-9% with aya and her froslass after soloing a castle i remember beating nobunaga with a weakass team after playing extremely defensively in the ground castle map...i was fighting for my life i also remember i would leave a single like. level 2 drifloon to defend a castle singlehandedly and just run around the map since flying types get the most amount of range, and would float aorund for 25 turns. good memories.

[@wolftamerwolfcorp7465]

You bring up the strengthening events but fun fact: it’s possible to clear a full map campaign before that event can trigger. It requires you to have the majority of the kingdoms and a certain amount of months to have passed and you can totally sweep the game before then iirc. I could be combining 2 different events though. I think my highest link gain was nearly 20% if not more, don’t know for certain but I’ve spent way too much time scumming fights with guardian charms and do know there have been some big jumps. Duskull has literally been my savior in a run because I decided “I’m gonna take a fresh file, unlock the post game, and do a run of hideyoshi’s story where I can only retaliate” and boy did I feel that setback when the enemies finally started attacking me. At that point all I could do was keep flying up and down ledges to avoid losing while I gained lots of link from winning battles with strong opponents

[@hannahkimble6080]

I adore Pokemon Conquest! This was such a nostalgia trip for me. Please play more!

[@emlynselene1096]

I absolutely loved this game when I was little, I remember playing it on my 3DS as a small 5/6 year old girl. It was one of my first games, and my first ever Pokémon game. Can't explain the joy I felt when I got the notif for this video

[@Dr.Death8520]

*Punches a single Pokémon* PS2 Ron: "I'm exhausted!"

[@TheUltimateBlaziken]

As a history Major, some of the bosses are based on the 3 Great Uniters. Nobounaga, Hideyoshi and Tokugawa, the 3 Shougnates of Japan credited with keeping order within the archipelago for centuries

[@ryanwysocki7975]

I LOVED this game as a kid, so much so that my brother bought me a copy after I completed the game on his copy. We left my ds plugged into the wallin the basement for a few months so I could play without saving over his profile. On the copy he's gotten me I have gotten 100% of the pokedex and gotten every main (golden) character to 100% link with their perfect partners. My save file is over 300 hrs long and I've played at least 100 on my other brothers copy as well. I 100% recommend this game to anyone who likes pokemon or fire emblem in any aspect. The longest campaign I ever had was august of the year 327. I have 999 of almost every item from farming money for 50 years or so. I almost fell out of my chair when I saw that RT made a video on it. I love this game, and I'm so happy you played it!

[@matthewmapa8393]

This game was one of my favorite games growing up (along with Fossil Fighters) and I’m so happy that someone remembers it exists.

[@lazarusmekhane439]

Grandma is my favourite Fire Emblem Lord.

[@justanotherraven6707]

Nostalgia Oozing from that thumbnail, I did forget about this; thank you

[@martialgirl8301]

Holy shit this is like the best DS game ever. Thanks for bringing up attention to it Dan!

[@SirRipster]

this is one of my favorite pokemon games ever. I've played it on and off for over a decade, ever since I was in elementary school