Nobunaga’s Ambition: Awakening Review, Analysis And Impression

Today we bring you our analysis of Nobunaga’s Ambition: Awakening so that you can determine for yourself if the game is for you now that it arrives on Nintendo Switch globally.

Introduction to the battlefield

Nobunaga’s Ambition: Awakening is, first and foremost, a game built to celebrate the franchise’s 40th anniversary, which means that it respects all its bases, but greatly expands the attributes that make it shine: more official than ever (more than 2,000 in the game), more battles and more events than ever before to achieve what was the failed ambition of Nobunaga Oda: to unify Japan under his rule.

In this way, we will have to conquer different regions of the Japanese country, entrusting their territories to their respective daimyō. Throughout our conquest, we will have to take into account all kinds of feudal, political, and military aspects to achieve victory, managing both our units (manipulated with the help of the AI) and our different types of resources ( monetary, army and food reserves), all this facing different events in the history of Japan that here look somewhat exaggerated, but that will make the tables turn, affecting our strategy.

The playable cycle of Nobunaga’s Ambition: Awakening is extremely addictive once we know its bases and get into its game. Making use of the skills of our army while we face numerous rivals on different maps of Japan is funny, and the fact of having to manage so many factors in real-time at the same time is something that can please those who enjoy games where management has to be taken to the millimetre. If you want to learn more about the Dominion system in the game, we talked more about it in our impressions.

The dark side of war

As negative points of the game, we would say that its version for Nintendo Switch is somewhat inferior to that of computers due to some controls that become somewhat annoying when adapted to consoles. The same can be said of its graphic section. And it is that although its artistic section is more than acceptable, the graphics in the battles feel that they lag quite behind concerning what a game of the style can offer.

On the other hand, although this does not have to be a negative point, this is an absurdly complex game, with many layers of depth and strategic management to take into account. This may turn off some gamers, but fans of the series will love it. Another thing that you may not like too much is that the game is only available with texts in English, omitting the European localization.

Conclusion

Sure, Nobunaga’s Ambition: Awakening is a great celebration of the franchise, but it’s not a perfect game. While the sheer number of officers and the depth of the game’s mechanics are big draws, the control scheme on Nintendo Switch, its type of much-improvable graphics, and its demanding gameplay may not be to everyone’s taste.

Nobunaga’s Ambition: Awakening is now available for Nintendo Switch in digital format through the eShop, with texts in English, recommended for lovers of the most classic strategy!