Topic: Advance Wars 1+2

I don't hear much chatter about the game unfortunately. I'll be picking it up on day 1, but I don't think many people will do the same.

I care more about this than the Zelda game, so I'll be playing it. Actually been playing Dual Strike again while waiting. lol

Still hoping for Dual Strike content at some point, I'd pay for it if it was DLC or an expansion.

I'm actually quite surprised Amazon hasn't shipped orders early at this point. I'd imagine they've been wanting to get rid of copies for a while now

Does anybody know when this game will unlock in the US?
I’ve waited 3 years so you’d think I would be able to wait a little while longer.

@WaffleBoat Usually big games like this always unlock at midnight your time.

@Joeynator3000
Oof… I saw some people in the UK playing it already. Guess I’ll have to wait a little while longer. (I’ve had it on preorder 3 times)

@WaffleBoat I mean, sometimes if people got it physically they'll end up with it a day before. lol

Anyways I bought the game digitally, too, so I'm ready. (I always stay up super late anyways, lol)

I am absolutely feeling the hype for this game. Got my physical preorder secured and should hopefully get it around noon my time tomorrow. Really looking forward to playing this over the weekend!

...So sharing maps, friends only? That sucks. :c

@Joeynator3000
Profanity and genitals are the most likely explanations.

@WaffleBoat ...Yet other games allow custom made stuff in their games, Animal Crossing, Mario Maker, etc...

@Joeynator3000
Yes but Nintendo CARES about those games and likely puts people in charge of censorship. Advance wars is a series Nintendo (and intelligent systems) like to take a crap on regularly. It just probably isn’t worth the long term cost.

enjoying it a lot so far.

didn't buy the game for the online play,
but does seem a strange decision to limit it.

Yeah, I mean, I never created anything that special in DS...but it would've still been nice since I can recreate my favorite here. I had another favorite but involved DS units so, yeah, oh well, lol (Oozium)

Wow! The curse is finally broken...for now. Glad this finally released, sadly the next game in the series will probably be indefinitely delayed as well since that seems to happen to every Advance Wars game lol. 🤣

Digital version can be played now.

Played for about an hour - will play more over the weekend, I am off to work now. This was enough to finish the tutorial and the opening mission. Kind of mixed emotions, to be honest, based on that first hour. I don't like that I can only have the English dub. I also liked the visuals in trailers, but in person I feel like I am playing one of those fake mobile games you see in those fake trailers. Difficulty is kinda all over the place too, I played the opening mission on classic and the medium tank boss thing steamrolled me single handily, switched to casual and I steamrolled instead. Maybe that balance will get better when I have access to a full range of units/better abilities, I dunno. You are intentionally limited to start with.

The moment to moment gameplay is fun though all the same, it has a nice balance of being simple to play but with a lot of depth/theory crafting potential right out of the gate, even with limited units and I'm looking forward to being able to spend more time with it to see what I can do/to see what scenarios it throws at me.

...Are the original Power themes still in this game? I kinda like them, it seems like you only get slightly different changes to the CO's theme when they activate. :c I dunno, it just makes the Powers feel less epic...

How easy or hard is this game?

As expected of WayForward, the character animations are beautiful, and the remixed tracks sound great so far.

Hopefully the online isn't DOA, though.

@Pizzamorg The medium tank is there to test your aptitude with positioning. You want to lure it out with one of your weak units (preferably infantry), and then slam it with artillery, mechs, and tanks. The thing to keep in mind is that this isn't necessarily a game where you're trying to keep all of your units alive. Once the game gets going properly, you'll have access to facilities to produce more units, and you'll frequently find that sacrificing units to gain a strategic advantage is the right call.

Even in this opening chapter, feeding a couple of infantry to the medium tank in order to secure a swift victory over it is probably a good approach.

Classic mode IS the balanced difficulty setting the maps were designed to accomodate.