given the interview at the end "if we're given the chance" and now they releasing the "Remake" of advancewars 1-2..... and while the 3D graphics made it look worst than the sprite base 2D graphics... This is probably our only "chance" or "ticket" to yell at intelligent system that yes, we really want a new followup to the game.... gotta need to get that remake game and hope the sales of it shows that its worth to make the next installment.... Being an AW fan is suffering lol...
Yeah, even if the 3D graphics doesn’t look nearly as good as the charming sprites, I’ll still buy it day 1 to show support and hope for a completely new entry to the franchise. Love your animations btw!
I dont mean to be so offtopic but does any of you know of a method to get back into an instagram account? I was dumb lost my password. I would appreciate any help you can offer me.
Same as well. The only reason I even knew about Fire Emblem was due to Melee being out with Marth and Roy. I really wish they would continue this series. No matter if they continued the series from the GBA , from Days of Ruin or just whole new, this was a very fun series and I love it still today.
Very good review! I felt the same exact way about everything. Never even purchased the Days of Ruin game. I felt dual strike was near perfect. I nearly had gotten all 300 achievements and I love how much content was in it. Really loving wargroove now :)
Just heard about Wargroove a couple days ago. I have to ask, does it capture that feeling again of Advance Wars? My gosh I've missed that series. Dual Strike was so good! I prefer thinking Days of Ruin never happened and all the CO's I grew to love are alive and well.
@@hiyoritokisada594 It's campaign is way too easy because of how over powered duel strike co powers is Not to mention it's really unbalanced It's why I prefer aw1, 2 and days of ruin
I actually started on Days of Ruin and went back to play Dual Strike later. Dual Strike was fun, but I appreciated the changes they made with Days of Ruin. Dual Strike was over the top, had swingy gameplay, and didn't take itself seriously enough. Perhaps DoR swung back too hard in the other direction on that, but it had better gameplay balance and they really nailed the CO system (plus I actually really enjoyed the soundtrack). I think if they ever get back to this series again, they should definitely keep the gameplay aspects of DoR, but the setting could be a bit lighter than "post-apocalyptic world and also a deadly disease."
Days of ruin was my favorite above all the AW series. Maybe because its the first AW series I've ever played. Even the characters in DoR were more memorable for me
Commenting as I begin my watch here, but my favorite part of the series was the audio-visual aesthetic as well! Every C.O had an appealing look, and the fact that they had a different soundtrack for each one made playing as different characters extremely fun. I played a recent title called Tiny Metal and had a pretty good time, but found it lacking because there was only one C.O. you could play as, and it got stale pretty quick.
Regarding Days of Ruin, I agree that the characters are mostly forgetable relative to the previous titles, but then there's Waylon, who is THE Wars series' iconic douchbag, and Tabitha, who has spawned so many jokes about her being Sturm's daughter rather than a Calder clone because she has Sturm's powers. And as for the support system from FE, of course the developer is unsure how to implement it - because it can't be implemented. The support system relies on two things: 1. leveling up characters who 2. have a developed relationship with each other. The closest Advance Wars has to anything to unit leveling is unit ranks from Days of Ruin, and units in Advance Wars usually don't last more than one battle anyway and are just faceless mooks.
I think it's a weakness of Intelligent Systems that they use that as an excuse. It only confirms how much Fire Emblem is just waifu simulator. "Advance Wars doesnt have waifus, how do we make it?" -Intelligent Systems
I disagree on the part where you said that Days of Ruin's character weren't that interesting. I loved them. I enjoyed the game as a whole a lot and the story was great too, but maybe that is because it reminds me of one of my all time favourite books.
I actually preferred the Days of Ruin style. The old style on the gba was cute, sure, but by dual-strike it literally became Tokyo Pop the war game, rather then cartoon parodies of real world nations. So when Days of Ruin came along, I was like: About damn time! I needed the game to grow up a little to get me more invested.
You forgot to mention how each CO along with passive powers also had things to help with balnce and how each CO tended to have stronger units in one instance, they also had weaker ones to balance the gameplay. I also wonder why you spent a third of your video on Days of Ruin and then brought up negatives but, left out negatives for the first 3 games, seems odd.
That being said there are some CO’s that have abilities or day to days that just completely outclass other CO’s. Hachi, Grit, and Strum to a lesser extent are good examples
@@DennisJosephin Grit is at the bottom of broken tier, but yeah if you can rush him with Kanabei or ignore terrain bonuses with strum, he can’t put up a fight
I remember calling my local toys r us the morning of sept 11th 2001. Advance Wars was due out that day and the situation in new york was concerning me that it wouldn't come out on time. I called them and the person on the phone was really nice to me and assured me it would indeed be out. The MOMENT I got off work at my blockbuster job I drove fast as hell to my local toys r us and bought it. I went home and played the hell out of it while watching the news. One of the most surreal days of my young life.
I can see that, if i make that connection. However, i always thought that Into the Breach was more or less more similar to the X-Com games. And also, funnily, the aesthetic of ITB reminds me of Rebelstar Tactics a lot, which also came out on the GBa, a few years after AW
I enjoyed the review quite a bit, but I have a few suggestions to you for the future. 1. Polish up your pacing. Sometimes, there are long breaks where there should really be none, while at other times there are no breaks when they would help the script to sound considerably better. For example, from 3:54 to 4:10, you have several longer pauses that interrupt the flow of the speech and make it more difficult to tell what you're trying to convey. Between the words, "viable," and, "giving," there is a long pause which denotes a new sentence, when in actuality it continues on for significantly more time. The same happens between the words, "down," and, "without." Cleaning up the pacing would make messages more clear and make the video sound much nicer. 2. Clean up the script a bit. At a few different points in the video, you abruptly stop a sentence, play a short clip, and then sometimes even pick right back up with the same sentence. This feels very choppy. One notable example is early in the video, at 0:33, you take a significant break to show a unit firing in Into the Breach. This feels very out of place, as nothing insinuates that you would show this short intermission. After all, the other three listed games had nothing of the sort. This breaks the flow quite a bit and would be better left out in my opinion. Other script mishaps are just grammar issues, but they are almost never noticeable enough to significantly detract from the viewing experience. 3. Be more black and white with your sentence structure. some moments, with the most egregious example being at 1:14. You state that, "First, I'll be focusing on the mainline Advance Wars games." This can mean two things. One possibility is that it means you are clearing one thing up, in that you would solely focus on the first three games, and the "first" would be denoting when in the video you say the fact: early on. The other possibility is that the "first" would mean that you would focus on those three games at first, but transition later on. The script heavily leans towards the former example, but the latter ends up being true. Combine that with the title and you would expect to see praises towards the first three games only, but instead half the review is taken up by criticism of Days of Ruin and the series' future. While this information is somewhat interesting, it has little to do with the title of the video and the first half. This leads me into my fourth point: 4. Stick with your original intent. The first half of the video is very strong, going from relevant topic to relevant topic in a clean and logical manner. However, once Days of Ruin is brought to the table, it more or less abandons this idea entirely and, from then on, only criticizes DoR and compares it to earlier games. This has little to do with anything established in the first half of the video and even the title. This video reeks heavily of a timed school essay where the first half was on-point, but then the writer runs out of ideas and has to quickly fudge in more ideas that connect with the main topic enough to get a passing grade. If you were always intending to incorporate DoR so heavily, then the first half of the video should have led up to it a lot more, as well as the video should not have been split into two halves. As it stands, the video is clearly split at just past the halfway point. Most of these more lacking aspects will simply be ironed out with time. You'll write better scripts and speak more clearly. However, it's important to consciously take these points into account during writing, allowing a more natural writing process. Most important, however, is planning ahead. Point four discusses this in detail, but the messier writing could have been avoided with more planning. Making an outline of the points you want to cover on paper and then starting scripting would allow for a much more focused review, as tossing out ideas that don't work is much easier earlier on. All in all, however, the video is still a good time to watch, especially for the first part.
I would like a new advance wars. One with dual strikes art style. And days of ruins balance. Yeah you heard me. Well. More balanced. I'd like the CO's to work how they did in days of ruin where their co bonus only effect the immediate units next to them with the co powers of the dual strike series. But one thing I don't want back from dual strike is dual strikes... Or the double CO's as it is. That is broken as hell and should not come back at all.
I'd love to see the old cast return in a new game with some balancing tweaks. I love the series but the 1st 3 games were about as balanced as a table with 2 right legs... the only problem with days of ruins co system is it makes everyone feel the same (especially on large maps) cause CO bonuses effect such a small area. The best middle ground in my opinion is to keep passive map wide bonuses but on a smaller scale with the CO unit system granting a much better buff. So for example Grit's passive would give a small boost to indirect units but only the units in his CO zone get the extra attack range. That seems like a nice middle ground between the 2
This has been my dream ever since Days of Ruin. I loved the unit balance, especially the anti-tank gun unit, which singlehandedly revolutionized defensive counterplay. but damned if i just can't STAND Days of Ruin's artstyle, bringing that unit balance back, but with the artstyle and music of the first three (AW2 especially) would be the absolute pinnacle of Advance wars.
Days of Ruin had the best story. I'd love to see a return to the darker, grittier world that pays respect to the horrors of war instead of the flippant attitude of previous titles. Plus, the hopelessnes of facing superweapons made overcoming them so gratifying. It may have felt like a darker game, but the darker aspects made the bright parts stand out more.
I loved these kind of games when I was younger, I even made some videos about strategy, rpg and other genres on GBA, and sometimes I play them on my pc and mobile, using VBA
In developing a game, you have to prioritize what you can and can't do... and given that Days of Ruin was a radical departure for the series, I'm not surprised that they didn't include all the modes from previous titles. However, the reason that the Nintendo Wars (that's the overarching IP that Advanced Wars and Battalion Wars are a part of) hasn't had another entry yet is Nintendo's policy when it comes to entries into a franchise they own, more specifically adding new gameplay to each franchise's basic mechanics and fix problems in previous entries of the series. The entire Advance Wars series is actually a showcase of this within a small span of time: Advance Wars 1 built the mechanics and systems and put them into a handheld (which were derived from the previous entries of the Nintendo Wars IP and stripped down to basics and balanced), Advance Wars 2 improved on the systems, and Dual Strike (which would be considered the LEAST balanced game in the franchise) decided to mix things up a lot while Days of Ruin went 'back to basics' due to balancing problems of the previous two entries. Usually, Nintendo only puts out two games per console generation per IP unless the IP was selling like hotcakes (i.e. the Mario IP) but with the caveat that each game in an IP has both basic mechanics and systems while adding new ones to keep the gameplay able to be picked up yet still fresh. Basically, Nintendo has been doing what is called 'IP Health Management'... which is a fancy word of not running a franchise to the ground or leaving it to obscurity, a balancing act that is incredibly difficult to begin with.
@@Anon-gy2hz here's the thing, in the gaming industry having fewer sales than two or more of their predecessors IS not selling well. That's the sad nature of the industry. :(
I've had black hole rising since the year it came out and I haven't been able to finish it. I've read guides, FAQS, I've watched many playthroughs, I've tried saving the game and if the A.I. didn't behave like in he video I would re-load but as many of you already know that's not a viable plan How did you guys beat it? how did you get good? please HEEEEELP!!! I need closure!
After playing the game for a while you start to understand how it works and how far you can stretch it. To take out Sturm's missile silo take COs like Andy, Max, Grit, Colin, and use bombers to destroy it. The trick to winning an Advance Wars map is capturing key properties like bases and airports as quickly as possible.
I found Black hard too! Got stuck years ago, never finished and it frustrated me til this day.......Good Luck Commander if you're still on the front line
We all gotta give this series a chance. I’m picking it up because this game shows us that Nintendo is willing to bring back their older more forgotten series. If this fails they will just keep prioritizing mediocre Super Mario spinoffs.
One interesting feature in the second game was the hard campain. Not only was it a lot more difficult but there were a lot of new maps with new dialogue, new stories and new scenarios. Well worth the effort. I liked the new COs in Dual Strike apart from the Black Hole ones but the whole TAG battle thing broke all semblence of strategy. When the opponent activates a superpower, then another superpower and gets to move twice with EVERY unit. It gets broken very quickly. Still, Dual Strike added some much needed units. The megatank, the stealth, the carrier and the cruiser could finally attack other ships. Naval combat was suddenly functional and interesting. I really want newer games in this series, in the meantime. Check out Wargroove. Heavily inspired by this series as the creator was disappointed in the lack of sequels.
Just a fun fact, Advance Wars started in 1988 as Famicom Wars while Fire Emblem started back in 1990 both for Nintendo. Of course the first few were Japan Exclusives at the time before emulation though. I don't think I've met anyone who has played one and didn't know of the other though but I wouldn't doubt it if that was the case. Days of Ruin was definitely my favorite though since it was the most balanced of them all. I thought the soundtrack, story and dark tone was great let alone the characters. I did miss the charm the other titles had after awhile but was kind of hard to go back and play them due to each of them being super un-balanced one way or another. I recently started playing through them all again though and been having a blast, might get my 8 year old in on it. I kind of hope they make a new one eventually for the switch cause it's been 12 years now. Hell I wouldn't mind if they just re-released them all on switch instead, especially if they added online matchmaking.
I played Advance Wars so much back in the day, and have never once picked up Fire Emblem. Didn't even realise FE was that sorta game, always assumed it was a final fantasty type thing, haha. Really loved the old design of AW, with the character designs and bright colours. Been playing Wargroove recently, which was heavily influenced by AW but has a medieval setting, really enjoying it so far. Again, got a lot of good character designs and bright aesthetic. Plus there's doggos.
I liked days of ruin, it was super fun to play, plus I think it needed the dark turn to take that one game break and make everyone else realize how much they liked the happy go lucky feel of the previous games. Either way it will be one of those games I keep in my collection longer than the older advanced wars. That said if a new wars game is made, I hope its cartoony again, and also I hope they take one specific idea from days of ruin. The CO in the unit. I think that would be a great way to help balance them co powers. Let their effects be as wild as they use to be. But make the co have to be in a unit close to the front lines. Atleast that is my opinion.
lol I've only played days of ruin, but I love it ngl. Am almost through the whole campaign. Couldn't beat it as a kid but am like only 5 missions left until the end. Is it a hard game or was I just bad
Ngl I think that the days of ruin characters are cool. I think it's a good story. Kind of like a good anime type deal. I hope they make a sequel but they probably won't ever :(
People always talk about how "dark" and "gritty" DoR is. Honestly, I don't think so. It's just the setting that's like that; Brenner's Wolves are more often than not upbeat and trying to see the best out of a situation, even when backed into a corner, and the War Room is absolutely hilarious in every mission but the last. If you haven't gone back to DoR because "it's too different" give it another shot and enjoy the irony of Forsythe giving advice on how to kill his men "like it were a game".
Advance Wars is very similar to the PC game Panzer General, but it had a charm the latter game didn't. This was strange since combat is richer in Panzer General and more balanced. I always wondered why until now. I guess it is the cartoony style and the COs that gave Advance Wars its charm.
Combining a bond building component into the next Advance Wars game while retaining all if not most of its main core mechanics? That actually DOES sound interesting.
"Hmm, this game is far more popular in the West than at home." "Since we assume this game doesn't appeal to the West, let's change it completely so we can finally appeal to the people we don't believe already like it, so we we can appeal to what is accidentally already our primary market."
Companies too often don't understand what made a game series attract players. Taking the cartoon out of Advance Wars was trying to go for that "wider audience!" angle without understanding the reason it's attracting an audience was because it was unique in the market. Companies need to realize that going after the already occupied markets and leaving behind the one you established is not a good idea.
Perhaps, if they can make a new advance wars game right now, they don't have to think too much about the extra content. Add the same extra content that Dual Strike had and just expand it little by little. Give us a customizable nation in terms of looks, colors and COs, but gives us a limit so that we don't have as many as Black Hole as. Good and decent CO powers that we can deal with but no too overpowered that makes the already other memorable COs feel like pushovers.
What killed Dual Strike for me was the CO powers. They would give the AI so many more units than you and losing units would give them more CO powers so it was endless wave after wave of enemy CO powers being used against the underdog. It really made the campaign a horrible slog since it stacked the deck against the player. I liked Days of Ruin because they got rid of that nonsense and drastically scaled down CO powers and made COs a unit in the field that could actually be targeted and taken out.
Intelligent Systems, here’s how you implement character relationships in Advance Wars: You don’t. That’s not what the games have ever been about. That’s the appeal of Advance wars, you can send whoever you want to fight and die a horrible death, that’s it.
i love the Advance Wars series, except for the first game. it's decent but man do i have some issues with it. the problem with AW1 is the fog of war levels, they are terrible. not only are there too many but most of them are not well designed. if there's 1 thing i can praise the sequels for it's how they greatly improved on fog of war. not only do they have a more reasonable amount of fog of war levels but they're also all far better designed.
Der Deutsche mit dem Pinguin the missile launcher truck or the big missile tower ? Anyway seems like u good on the ground I’m good in the air that ll be an Interesting battle
Dual Strike was horribly unbalanced, and it really did need to be reigned in, and the gameplay of Days of Ruin was just the thing it needed. It just didn't need the complete change of tone.
I 100% agree with you. I hate that they removed the cartoony look from the game and made it dark and 100% serious made all the cos weaker like what the fuck smh the last game did soo bad we never got another one they messed a great game up trying to please new players if we get another game I hope we get Andy and everyone back and I hope we get the broken co powers again because that’s part of what makes the game fun ❤️
If I remember, there's spiritual succesor (other than War Groove) which is called Tiny Metal. Me: "This isn't stealth marketing. This is shameless viewer marketing."
I actually REALLY like days of ruin.. don't get me wrong the originals had the most charm imo, but dor was an awesome new coat of paint, and the super tropey predictable story was the right amount of cheesy for me. It still had awesome moments, the the first time I heard Waylon's full theme I had chills.. also when wills theme debuts I thought that was pretty hype.. agree they cut out way too much features..no idea why, maybe pushed the graphics too much? Campaign wasn't the greatest length either..
Really? I feel dual strike is way more tropey like with the bad guys joining the good guys and how that went down. I find myself way more invested in the characters of days of ruin. Not just because of the more serious writing but also the presentation is far better. They have a lot more expressions, there is way more music to set the tone and they have far more backgrounds. Sigismundo is indeed pretty goofy but I do think it touches on real theme's of war and unlike previous games it does do them justice. The campaign of Days of Ruin is longer than any previous one and also is paced way better. It's much larger with multiple twists and turns. Also unlike some other games where they put a teenage boy in charge of an army I really felt it was earned in days of Ruin. He had been with the army a long time and they had already proven the other leaders were unsuited.
@@MrMarinus18 idk I could forsee the entire dor story ahead of time somehow..seen this type of story in other games or shows.. it had good buildup moments for sure... ds is like comic book nonsensical random..maybe like pokemon. Both bay better than the new reboot look tho...
@@YouJustAmazeMe Me as well but it didn't bother me too much. I do think the biggest improvement of days of ruin is still the presentation. To have so much great music and all those detailed backgrounds really enhances the story. I also love those pre-battle tips. They really have a lot of funny moments.
@@MrMarinus18 I like the art style too. Especially how fast and impactful everything feels. Music is rly good too, every theme is great and fun to play to..maybe not allied co power theme tho
@@YouJustAmazeMe I also feel it has the maturity needed. I don't mind if a game is 'edgy' if it handles those serious and dark topics with maturity and days of ruin does. I think the allied CO power is great. It's very hard on the ears when played online but when coming out of a DS like it's designed it's really great and energizing.
given the interview at the end "if we're given the chance"
and now they releasing the "Remake" of advancewars 1-2.....
and while the 3D graphics made it look worst than the sprite base 2D graphics...
This is probably our only "chance" or "ticket" to yell at intelligent system that yes, we really want a new followup to the game....
gotta need to get that remake game and hope the sales of it shows that its worth to make the next installment....
Being an AW fan is suffering lol...
Yeah, even if the 3D graphics doesn’t look nearly as good as the charming sprites, I’ll still buy it day 1 to show support and hope for a completely new entry to the franchise.
Love your animations btw!
I hope Nintendo brings Battalion Wars back up off the ground as well.
@@treseancann1261 A new Battalion Wars is what I need in life right now
I dont mean to be so offtopic but does any of you know of a method to get back into an instagram account?
I was dumb lost my password. I would appreciate any help you can offer me.
@Malakai Ariel instablaster ;)
*played advance wars before ever knowing what fire emblem was*
advance wars was the first video game ive ever played when my big brother gave me his GBA and ADW and ADW2 were the only 2 games he had.
Lol that's me
Same as well. The only reason I even knew about Fire Emblem was due to Melee being out with Marth and Roy.
I really wish they would continue this series. No matter if they continued the series from the GBA , from Days of Ruin or just whole new, this was a very fun series and I love it still today.
Same
Same
i liked the military theme and the lack of RPG
Same
That soundtrack brings me back to the days of sitting in the back seat playing on long road trips.
Me too! Ah, long road trips with Advance Wars.
@@fullanalysis93 Ohhhh. These words strike me so hard. Those were the days!
"The characters are not as memorable"
*shows brenner and waylon*
Very good review! I felt the same exact way about everything. Never even purchased the Days of Ruin game. I felt dual strike was near perfect. I nearly had gotten all 300 achievements and I love how much content was in it. Really loving wargroove now :)
Just heard about Wargroove a couple days ago. I have to ask, does it capture that feeling again of Advance Wars? My gosh I've missed that series. Dual Strike was so good! I prefer thinking Days of Ruin never happened and all the CO's I grew to love are alive and well.
I argue duel strike is the worst of the advance wars games
Its way too broken
Near perfect... Except PvP balance
@@ImmaLittlePip I wouldn't say that. PvP is not the only basis for a good game.
@@hiyoritokisada594
It's campaign is way too easy because of how over powered duel strike co powers is
Not to mention it's really unbalanced
It's why I prefer aw1, 2 and days of ruin
I actually started on Days of Ruin and went back to play Dual Strike later. Dual Strike was fun, but I appreciated the changes they made with Days of Ruin. Dual Strike was over the top, had swingy gameplay, and didn't take itself seriously enough. Perhaps DoR swung back too hard in the other direction on that, but it had better gameplay balance and they really nailed the CO system (plus I actually really enjoyed the soundtrack). I think if they ever get back to this series again, they should definitely keep the gameplay aspects of DoR, but the setting could be a bit lighter than "post-apocalyptic world and also a deadly disease."
No perma death? Well, tell that to the families of the infantry units I used as a shield for my artillery!
If the map doesn’t have factories or any other production buildings it’s basically permadeath
@@johnjohnson6142 Hachi says hi.
Days of ruin was my favorite above all the AW series. Maybe because its the first AW series I've ever played.
Even the characters in DoR were more memorable for me
Commenting as I begin my watch here, but my favorite part of the series was the audio-visual aesthetic as well! Every C.O had an appealing look, and the fact that they had a different soundtrack for each one made playing as different characters extremely fun. I played a recent title called Tiny Metal and had a pretty good time, but found it lacking because there was only one C.O. you could play as, and it got stale pretty quick.
Regarding Days of Ruin, I agree that the characters are mostly forgetable relative to the previous titles, but then there's Waylon, who is THE Wars series' iconic douchbag, and Tabitha, who has spawned so many jokes about her being Sturm's daughter rather than a Calder clone because she has Sturm's powers.
And as for the support system from FE, of course the developer is unsure how to implement it - because it can't be implemented. The support system relies on two things: 1. leveling up characters who 2. have a developed relationship with each other. The closest Advance Wars has to anything to unit leveling is unit ranks from Days of Ruin, and units in Advance Wars usually don't last more than one battle anyway and are just faceless mooks.
It could work if you could put multiple COs in multiple units.
I think it's a weakness of Intelligent Systems that they use that as an excuse. It only confirms how much Fire Emblem is just waifu simulator. "Advance Wars doesnt have waifus, how do we make it?" -Intelligent Systems
"Waylon, who is THE Wars series' iconic douchebag"
Don't forget, Super Famicom Wars literally had Hetler.
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The COs in Super Famicom Wars weren't really characterized, though.
I disagree on the part where you said that Days of Ruin's character weren't that interesting. I loved them. I enjoyed the game as a whole a lot and the story was great too, but maybe that is because it reminds me of one of my all time favourite books.
Listen here bitch, it doesnt have Sami so we don't talk about it.
@@portablerefrigerator4902 Listen here bitch, it has Brenner. We talk about it. ruclips.net/video/vH5-H3_5ISY/видео.html
@@portablerefrigerator4902 Certified Lin moment
I actually preferred the Days of Ruin style. The old style on the gba was cute, sure, but by dual-strike it literally became Tokyo Pop the war game, rather then cartoon parodies of real world nations. So when Days of Ruin came along, I was like: About damn time! I needed the game to grow up a little to get me more invested.
All I care about is balanced multiplayer. Somebody just release Days of Ruin for the Switch please!
Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp is our only option. We all have to buy to show our support.
They really need to bring this game series back!!
Great video, I had no idea i had been missing out on these games. Keep it up, I’m excited for more content from you!
My man. Good work!
Wow, very good video! Your timing with the music and the art you do (section titles, etc) is really good. Keep it up!
"Odds are you haven't" i feel old.
You forgot to mention how each CO along with passive powers also had things to help with balnce and how each CO tended to have stronger units in one instance, they also had weaker ones to balance the gameplay. I also wonder why you spent a third of your video on Days of Ruin and then brought up negatives but, left out negatives for the first 3 games, seems odd.
That being said there are some CO’s that have abilities or day to days that just completely outclass other CO’s. Hachi, Grit, and Strum to a lesser extent are good examples
@@johnjohnson6142 Grit is strong but does not outclass other CO. Colin, Strum, hachi and Kanbei in AW2 is definitely op and super unbalanced
@@DennisJosephin Grit is at the bottom of broken tier, but yeah if you can rush him with Kanabei or ignore terrain bonuses with strum, he can’t put up a fight
Glad we're getting Re-Boot Camp coming. Hoorah!
I remember calling my local toys r us the morning of sept 11th 2001. Advance Wars was due out that day and the situation in new york was concerning me that it wouldn't come out on time. I called them and the person on the phone was really nice to me and assured me it would indeed be out. The MOMENT I got off work at my blockbuster job I drove fast as hell to my local toys r us and bought it. I went home and played the hell out of it while watching the news. One of the most surreal days of my young life.
i love days of ruin, i like the artstyle and the mood, and the music is fantastic
6:09
In Dual Strike you can move three times per turn taking advantage of that CO Power and the Dual Strike...
Sami + Eagle = HQ ninja caps from like half way across the map with an APC drop
Excited for Wargroove to release Feb. 1!
already preordered it for my switch
What's an airport, again?
Andy, when will you learn? :v
A miserable pile of secrets.
Enough talk-- have at thee!
I forgot how similiar into the breach is to this series
I can see that, if i make that connection.
However, i always thought that Into the Breach was more or less more similar to the X-Com games. And also, funnily, the aesthetic of ITB reminds me of Rebelstar Tactics a lot, which also came out on the GBa, a few years after AW
"No extremely powerful CO powers"
Haha Deep Strike and Firestorm go brrrr
I liked this so much that I made a some pixel animation about it, Im excited about the remake but not too much since its a 3d remake...
I enjoyed the review quite a bit, but I have a few suggestions to you for the future.
1. Polish up your pacing. Sometimes, there are long breaks where there should really be none, while at other times there are no breaks when they would help the script to sound considerably better. For example, from 3:54 to 4:10, you have several longer pauses that interrupt the flow of the speech and make it more difficult to tell what you're trying to convey. Between the words, "viable," and, "giving," there is a long pause which denotes a new sentence, when in actuality it continues on for significantly more time. The same happens between the words, "down," and, "without." Cleaning up the pacing would make messages more clear and make the video sound much nicer.
2. Clean up the script a bit. At a few different points in the video, you abruptly stop a sentence, play a short clip, and then sometimes even pick right back up with the same sentence. This feels very choppy. One notable example is early in the video, at 0:33, you take a significant break to show a unit firing in Into the Breach. This feels very out of place, as nothing insinuates that you would show this short intermission. After all, the other three listed games had nothing of the sort. This breaks the flow quite a bit and would be better left out in my opinion. Other script mishaps are just grammar issues, but they are almost never noticeable enough to significantly detract from the viewing experience.
3. Be more black and white with your sentence structure. some moments, with the most egregious example being at 1:14. You state that, "First, I'll be focusing on the mainline Advance Wars games." This can mean two things. One possibility is that it means you are clearing one thing up, in that you would solely focus on the first three games, and the "first" would be denoting when in the video you say the fact: early on. The other possibility is that the "first" would mean that you would focus on those three games at first, but transition later on. The script heavily leans towards the former example, but the latter ends up being true. Combine that with the title and you would expect to see praises towards the first three games only, but instead half the review is taken up by criticism of Days of Ruin and the series' future. While this information is somewhat interesting, it has little to do with the title of the video and the first half. This leads me into my fourth point:
4. Stick with your original intent. The first half of the video is very strong, going from relevant topic to relevant topic in a clean and logical manner. However, once Days of Ruin is brought to the table, it more or less abandons this idea entirely and, from then on, only criticizes DoR and compares it to earlier games. This has little to do with anything established in the first half of the video and even the title. This video reeks heavily of a timed school essay where the first half was on-point, but then the writer runs out of ideas and has to quickly fudge in more ideas that connect with the main topic enough to get a passing grade. If you were always intending to incorporate DoR so heavily, then the first half of the video should have led up to it a lot more, as well as the video should not have been split into two halves. As it stands, the video is clearly split at just past the halfway point.
Most of these more lacking aspects will simply be ironed out with time. You'll write better scripts and speak more clearly. However, it's important to consciously take these points into account during writing, allowing a more natural writing process. Most important, however, is planning ahead. Point four discusses this in detail, but the messier writing could have been avoided with more planning. Making an outline of the points you want to cover on paper and then starting scripting would allow for a much more focused review, as tossing out ideas that don't work is much easier earlier on. All in all, however, the video is still a good time to watch, especially for the first part.
Wyatt James Thanks a lot for the input, I’ll take that to heart!
Say what you want about Days of Ruin, it still has a killer soundtrack
Yup.
Even if you could call it Days of Brown. XD
The CO themes REALLY get my juices flowing.
All 7 Liters of gatorade, and all night big brain moments, and all that
I would like a new advance wars. One with dual strikes art style. And days of ruins balance. Yeah you heard me. Well. More balanced. I'd like the CO's to work how they did in days of ruin where their co bonus only effect the immediate units next to them with the co powers of the dual strike series. But one thing I don't want back from dual strike is dual strikes... Or the double CO's as it is. That is broken as hell and should not come back at all.
100% agreement on the last part. Damn it was broken.
I'd love to see the old cast return in a new game with some balancing tweaks. I love the series but the 1st 3 games were about as balanced as a table with 2 right legs... the only problem with days of ruins co system is it makes everyone feel the same (especially on large maps) cause CO bonuses effect such a small area. The best middle ground in my opinion is to keep passive map wide bonuses but on a smaller scale with the CO unit system granting a much better buff. So for example Grit's passive would give a small boost to indirect units but only the units in his CO zone get the extra attack range. That seems like a nice middle ground between the 2
This has been my dream ever since Days of Ruin. I loved the unit balance, especially the anti-tank gun unit, which singlehandedly revolutionized defensive counterplay.
but damned if i just can't STAND Days of Ruin's artstyle, bringing that unit balance back, but with the artstyle and music of the first three (AW2 especially) would be the absolute pinnacle of Advance wars.
wargroove
I played advance wars before ever hearing about fire emblem
Hope Never Dies seems to be a remix of Jake's theme in Dual Strike.
Advance Wars is back! And RUclips knows it with this in my recommendation now XD. Looking forward to the classics on the Switch now :D
Days of Ruin had the best story. I'd love to see a return to the darker, grittier world that pays respect to the horrors of war instead of the flippant attitude of previous titles.
Plus, the hopelessnes of facing superweapons made overcoming them so gratifying. It may have felt like a darker game, but the darker aspects made the bright parts stand out more.
I agree. I really loved dais of ruin (although it was the only one I really played)
It's definitely one of the best games I've ever played.
DoR is easily the best. Its far more well balanced than the previous games. With dual strikes completely breaking the games.
It’s the graphics. I like watching the little cinematic of your tanks shooting at planes
I loved these kind of games when I was younger, I even made some videos about strategy, rpg and other genres on GBA, and sometimes I play them on my pc and mobile, using VBA
days of ruin was a better game than dual strike, but I missed some of the unlockables and hard mode.
In developing a game, you have to prioritize what you can and can't do... and given that Days of Ruin was a radical departure for the series, I'm not surprised that they didn't include all the modes from previous titles.
However, the reason that the Nintendo Wars (that's the overarching IP that Advanced Wars and Battalion Wars are a part of) hasn't had another entry yet is Nintendo's policy when it comes to entries into a franchise they own, more specifically adding new gameplay to each franchise's basic mechanics and fix problems in previous entries of the series. The entire Advance Wars series is actually a showcase of this within a small span of time: Advance Wars 1 built the mechanics and systems and put them into a handheld (which were derived from the previous entries of the Nintendo Wars IP and stripped down to basics and balanced), Advance Wars 2 improved on the systems, and Dual Strike (which would be considered the LEAST balanced game in the franchise) decided to mix things up a lot while Days of Ruin went 'back to basics' due to balancing problems of the previous two entries.
Usually, Nintendo only puts out two games per console generation per IP unless the IP was selling like hotcakes (i.e. the Mario IP) but with the caveat that each game in an IP has both basic mechanics and systems while adding new ones to keep the gameplay able to be picked up yet still fresh. Basically, Nintendo has been doing what is called 'IP Health Management'... which is a fancy word of not running a franchise to the ground or leaving it to obscurity, a balancing act that is incredibly difficult to begin with.
@@TheTrueAdept yet the 3DS got no advance wars game...
@@robertharris6092 because Days of Ruin didn't sell well alongside old fan backlash...
@@Anon-gy2hz here's the thing, in the gaming industry having fewer sales than two or more of their predecessors IS not selling well. That's the sad nature of the industry. :(
@@Anon-gy2hz you've also got to remember that Nintendo is still not quite grasping the international thing... so if it doesn't sell in Japan well...
I've had black hole rising since the year it came out and I haven't been able to finish it. I've read guides, FAQS, I've watched many playthroughs, I've tried saving the game and if the A.I. didn't behave like in he video I would re-load but as many of you already know that's not a viable plan
How did you guys beat it? how did you get good? please HEEEEELP!!! I need closure!
After playing the game for a while you start to understand how it works and how far you can stretch it. To take out Sturm's missile silo take COs like Andy, Max, Grit, Colin, and use bombers to destroy it. The trick to winning an Advance Wars map is capturing key properties like bases and airports as quickly as possible.
I found Black hard too! Got stuck years ago, never finished and it frustrated me til this day.......Good Luck Commander if you're still on the front line
We all gotta give this series a chance. I’m picking it up because this game shows us that Nintendo is willing to bring back their older more forgotten series. If this fails they will just keep prioritizing mediocre Super Mario spinoffs.
One interesting feature in the second game was the hard campain. Not only was it a lot more difficult but there were a lot of new maps with new dialogue, new stories and new scenarios. Well worth the effort. I liked the new COs in Dual Strike apart from the Black Hole ones but the whole TAG battle thing broke all semblence of strategy. When the opponent activates a superpower, then another superpower and gets to move twice with EVERY unit. It gets broken very quickly.
Still, Dual Strike added some much needed units. The megatank, the stealth, the carrier and the cruiser could finally attack other ships. Naval combat was suddenly functional and interesting.
I really want newer games in this series, in the meantime. Check out Wargroove. Heavily inspired by this series as the creator was disappointed in the lack of sequels.
Just a fun fact, Advance Wars started in 1988 as Famicom Wars while Fire Emblem started back in 1990 both for Nintendo. Of course the first few were Japan Exclusives at the time before emulation though. I don't think I've met anyone who has played one and didn't know of the other though but I wouldn't doubt it if that was the case.
Days of Ruin was definitely my favorite though since it was the most balanced of them all. I thought the soundtrack, story and dark tone was great let alone the characters. I did miss the charm the other titles had after awhile but was kind of hard to go back and play them due to each of them being super un-balanced one way or another.
I recently started playing through them all again though and been having a blast, might get my 8 year old in on it. I kind of hope they make a new one eventually for the switch cause it's been 12 years now. Hell I wouldn't mind if they just re-released them all on switch instead, especially if they added online matchmaking.
1:42 MP5! So cool!
Advance wars by web exists. Its a browser version of Awars. It is amazing.
This game teach me how play with mordern units
Nobody ever heard of War2410 for SNES? It is like this an a very underrated game and series.
I played Advance Wars so much back in the day, and have never once picked up Fire Emblem. Didn't even realise FE was that sorta game, always assumed it was a final fantasty type thing, haha. Really loved the old design of AW, with the character designs and bright colours. Been playing Wargroove recently, which was heavily influenced by AW but has a medieval setting, really enjoying it so far. Again, got a lot of good character designs and bright aesthetic. Plus there's doggos.
Remaster is coming wooohooo
Nice video, man. Keep it up!
music of days of ruin was the best
I liked days of ruin, it was super fun to play, plus I think it needed the dark turn to take that one game break and make everyone else realize how much they liked the happy go lucky feel of the previous games. Either way it will be one of those games I keep in my collection longer than the older advanced wars. That said if a new wars game is made, I hope its cartoony again, and also I hope they take one specific idea from days of ruin. The CO in the unit. I think that would be a great way to help balance them co powers. Let their effects be as wild as they use to be. But make the co have to be in a unit close to the front lines. Atleast that is my opinion.
Hope to hear your thoughts on wargroove which is coming out soon.
15:20.
That’s easy. Make it a “rivalry” system between opposing COs
lol I've only played days of ruin, but I love it ngl. Am almost through the whole campaign. Couldn't beat it as a kid but am like only 5 missions left until the end. Is it a hard game or was I just bad
Ngl I think that the days of ruin characters are cool. I think it's a good story. Kind of like a good anime type deal. I hope they make a sequel but they probably won't ever :(
@@michaelvandevusse3728 One year later. Now, there'll be new advance wars coming soon!
This is great! Keep it up
People always talk about how "dark" and "gritty" DoR is. Honestly, I don't think so. It's just the setting that's like that; Brenner's Wolves are more often than not upbeat and trying to see the best out of a situation, even when backed into a corner, and the War Room is absolutely hilarious in every mission but the last. If you haven't gone back to DoR because "it's too different" give it another shot and enjoy the irony of Forsythe giving advice on how to kill his men "like it were a game".
Anyone know that he is wrong about eagle co power?
Advance Wars is very similar to the PC game Panzer General, but it had a charm the latter game didn't. This was strange since combat is richer in Panzer General and more balanced. I always wondered why until now. I guess it is the cartoony style and the COs that gave Advance Wars its charm.
Combining a bond building component into the next Advance Wars game while retaining all if not most of its main core mechanics? That actually DOES sound interesting.
"Hmm, this game is far more popular in the West than at home."
"Since we assume this game doesn't appeal to the West, let's change it completely so we can finally appeal to the people we don't believe already like it, so we we can appeal to what is accidentally already our primary market."
If I made a list of video game series that deserve a fighter in Super Smash Bros., Advance Wars would be at the top of the list.
I really enjoyed advance wars. I've never actually seen a fire emblem game though.
I want a new Wars game and a Wars fighter in Smash Bros. These games are so good.
Companies too often don't understand what made a game series attract players. Taking the cartoon out of Advance Wars was trying to go for that "wider audience!" angle without understanding the reason it's attracting an audience was because it was unique in the market. Companies need to realize that going after the already occupied markets and leaving behind the one you established is not a good idea.
Well, Wargroove in Q1 2019 anyway. :-)
Advance Wars IV will be a great title
Just imagine if they knock it out of the park and they release it for switch. It's the perfect platform for this game!
My fav CO is grit and sensei,
Perhaps, if they can make a new advance wars game right now, they don't have to think too much about the extra content. Add the same extra content that Dual Strike had and just expand it little by little. Give us a customizable nation in terms of looks, colors and COs, but gives us a limit so that we don't have as many as Black Hole as. Good and decent CO powers that we can deal with but no too overpowered that makes the already other memorable COs feel like pushovers.
This and Battalion Wars are great games
What killed Dual Strike for me was the CO powers. They would give the AI so many more units than you and losing units would give them more CO powers so it was endless wave after wave of enemy CO powers being used against the underdog. It really made the campaign a horrible slog since it stacked the deck against the player. I liked Days of Ruin because they got rid of that nonsense and drastically scaled down CO powers and made COs a unit in the field that could actually be targeted and taken out.
Its back
It is, and I’m unbelievably hyped! After so many years
My favourite is lost memories
3:27
that heli path
why
just why
Intelligent Systems, here’s how you implement character relationships in Advance Wars: You don’t. That’s not what the games have ever been about. That’s the appeal of Advance wars, you can send whoever you want to fight and die a horrible death, that’s it.
Great information! Are you Chinese?
Good video! I wish they'd bring it back :(
I'm not really convinced the combat mode or leveling up COs was a good thing Duel Strike added.
i love the Advance Wars series, except for the first game. it's decent but man do i have some issues with it. the problem with AW1 is the fog of war levels, they are terrible. not only are there too many but most of them are not well designed. if there's 1 thing i can praise the sequels for it's how they greatly improved on fog of war. not only do they have a more reasonable amount of fog of war levels but they're also all far better designed.
Nice video dude, +1 sub
Eagle Fog on...pick your character
@Mr Frieza chooses Sonja builds loads of missles and anti-air and you're dead
Der Deutsche mit dem Pinguin no missiles just fog on
@@25blacksnow no I mean the unit
Der Deutsche mit dem Pinguin the missile launcher truck or the big missile tower ? Anyway seems like u good on the ground I’m good in the air that ll be an Interesting battle
@@25blacksnow the truck. But yeah agreed sounds like a good battle
Finally someone who agrees
Dual Strike was horribly unbalanced, and it really did need to be reigned in, and the gameplay of Days of Ruin was just the thing it needed. It just didn't need the complete change of tone.
11:51 only 1 doesnt have a power...
is that a motherfucking advance wars video in my feed??
Other than the amazing pixel character art?
I 100% agree with you. I hate that they removed the cartoony look from the game and made it dark and 100% serious made all the cos weaker like what the fuck smh the last game did soo bad we never got another one they messed a great game up trying to please new players if we get another game I hope we get Andy and everyone back and I hope we get the broken co powers again because that’s part of what makes the game fun ❤️
If I remember, there's spiritual succesor (other than War Groove) which is called Tiny Metal.
Me: "This isn't stealth marketing. This is shameless viewer marketing."
Tiny Metal wasnt that good though
If you haven't heard of Advance Wars, you must belong in an age group I shouldn't be hanging with.
definitely not the relationships between characters.
Better than FE tbh
I love this game series. Hearing your saliva around 4:30 tho, not so much.
Good effort, GayAnalcyst.
Loved the days of ruin over the original 3
of course the big bad guy in a war game has a german name
I actually REALLY like days of ruin.. don't get me wrong the originals had the most charm imo, but dor was an awesome new coat of paint, and the super tropey predictable story was the right amount of cheesy for me. It still had awesome moments, the the first time I heard Waylon's full theme I had chills.. also when wills theme debuts I thought that was pretty hype.. agree they cut out way too much features..no idea why, maybe pushed the graphics too much? Campaign wasn't the greatest length either..
Really? I feel dual strike is way more tropey like with the bad guys joining the good guys and how that went down. I find myself way more invested in the characters of days of ruin. Not just because of the more serious writing but also the presentation is far better. They have a lot more expressions, there is way more music to set the tone and they have far more backgrounds. Sigismundo is indeed pretty goofy but I do think it touches on real theme's of war and unlike previous games it does do them justice.
The campaign of Days of Ruin is longer than any previous one and also is paced way better. It's much larger with multiple twists and turns. Also unlike some other games where they put a teenage boy in charge of an army I really felt it was earned in days of Ruin. He had been with the army a long time and they had already proven the other leaders were unsuited.
@@MrMarinus18 idk I could forsee the entire dor story ahead of time somehow..seen this type of story in other games or shows.. it had good buildup moments for sure... ds is like comic book nonsensical random..maybe like pokemon. Both bay better than the new reboot look tho...
@@YouJustAmazeMe Me as well but it didn't bother me too much. I do think the biggest improvement of days of ruin is still the presentation. To have so much great music and all those detailed backgrounds really enhances the story.
I also love those pre-battle tips. They really have a lot of funny moments.
@@MrMarinus18 I like the art style too. Especially how fast and impactful everything feels. Music is rly good too, every theme is great and fun to play to..maybe not allied co power theme tho
@@YouJustAmazeMe I also feel it has the maturity needed. I don't mind if a game is 'edgy' if it handles those serious and dark topics with maturity and days of ruin does.
I think the allied CO power is great. It's very hard on the ears when played online but when coming out of a DS like it's designed it's really great and energizing.
Sensei is best CO don't@me
I have played Advance Wars and its sequels, but not any of the Fire Emblem games. Lol.
You can always reset the chapter