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Composer(s) Kazuyoshi Yamane Developer Another Ltd. Genre Strategy video game | 4.3/5 Emuparadise Initial release date 21 August 1989 Publisher Hot B Mode Single-player video game | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Designer(s) Osa Dandadan
Mamire Kikuchi Platform Nintendo Entertainment System Similar Hot B games, Role-playing games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Shingen the Ruler (武田信玄2) is a turn-based strategy game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), produced by HOT・B in 1989, and released in North America in 1990. The original Takeda Shingen video game was never released in North America. This game was called Takeda Shingen 2 in Japan.
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Summary
The game is set during the Sengoku period of Japan. The player is Takeda Shingen, who is based in the holding of Kai and Shinano. The goal of the game is to conquer central Japan, roughly spanning from Kyoto to Kamakura. Play starts in January 1545, and the player may make one action per province (up to four) per month.
The player must build and train an army, cultivate provinces, make (and break) alliances with neighboring daimyōs. The game featured both random disasters (such as floods) and predefined events (such as the death of Shingen's father). One could also train Shingen's heir, Takeda Katsuyori.
Combat consists of a field skirmish, followed by a battle at the castle itself. Each holding's field and castle varies in layout. An automatic battle system is also provided, which calculates damage done by each army.
List of characters and regions
With the exception of "General Li" and "General Su" in the holding of Noto, the remaining warlords depicted in the game are actual historical figures. Most families in the game have one heir. The Ikko Sect remains the same throughout, while the Ashikaga family is the only one to have a second heir (Ashikaga Yoshiaki, who historically was the younger brother of Ashikaga Yoshiteru).
Due to technical limitations in the English version of the game, names longer than sixteen letters had to be shortened, usually by dropping one of the components of the given name; in those cases, the full historical name is listed in italics.