Nobunaga Ambition Meets Pokémon

Did you ever conceive a new Pokémon game with your favourite critters teaming up with Japanese samurai? Now you can on DS.

Series protagonist Ash Ketchum has been updated for 2012. He now bears a sword and rugged good looks - if only - this chap is actually called Nobunaga, a warlord armed with a Zekrom on his side.

Instead of Ash, Red and the conventional world you'd be used to, the new crossover blends much-loved Pokémon with character styles and gameplay from Koei's classic Nobunaga's Ambition series - dubbed Pokémon + Nobunaga's Ambition.

For those who don't know, Nobunaga's Ambition is a long-running series of turn-based strategy games first released back in 1983 for the MSX and since seen numerous sequels and remakes on the NES, Game Boy, SNES and most recently on the Wii Virtual Console.

Players take on the regular role of a male or female, starting out with an Eevee - venturing out into the world, doing battle in a more strategic framework. Not much else is known apart from a handful of characters to encounter and promise of more information in the New Year.

Pokémon + Nobunaga's Ambition is out in Japan in Spring 2012.

Via Serebii.net.