Hey Nintendo, Can We Please Have Famicom Wars?

Still not even the first DKC game though? Not that this is a bad batch, I’m just surprised the first one isn’t even coming yet.

Nintendo Life is not a Electrical Idol. Only Davis and V-mon! You are not allowed in our group!

@ShadJV Maybe increases the possibility of a Rare Replay Nintendo Edition.

I still think Nintendo needs to localise the Famicom Wars games and call them "Nintendo Wars".

It would be nice but I don’t reckon it will happen. It’s not like Nintendo are really putting much thought into these updates.

@Patron Yeah, we get it.

@Patron

I don’t like this article. It’s way too whiney with all the ‘finally’, ‘for once’, etc.

Can you at least first be grateful for the first six games before complaining about what isn’t included yet?

Now where’s my Lufia II?

@Patron I love that game, 60 hours in now.

Journey to Silius! Yes, finally! Called it once I saw Vice: Project Doom. Rediculously memorable music though a very short game. C'mon Shatterhand and Powerblade 1 and 2. Crystalis needs no intro-- If you like adventure/Action RPGs then you must play this sublime classic. For myself since I didn't luck up with an SNES mini yet (if ever), I'm glad my hope for Star Fox 2 to come to the SNES Online came true. I can't wait to tear into that at last.

I don't quite understand why all of the Japanese releases aren't available internationally, even if they haven't been (or aren't planned to be) localised.

If it's a matter of having to pay more in licensing to cover a broader audience, then I suppose I understand, but it's silly that that would even be an issue.

@Patron Care to explain? I fell in love with Fire Emblem 7, and this one is quite different to that. While the overall story seems quite lacking and short, the core gameplay is still solid. And I liked the school aspects of the gameplay (exploration, lost items, fishing, etc.) Overall, I am a bit confused whether I love it that much, but it is still a solid entertainment package.

@Patron what was wrong with three houses? Am
Getting it for christmas not played it so generally curious.

@Patron within an hour of playing it i'd put it on eBay. The second I was running around the school my interest died.

I don't care for remakes, ports, and emulators, but would instantly buy Switch Wars.

I have the first Game Boy Wars and while it's cool to own it, playing it isn't as fun since it's very slow. AI takes its sweet time too. Haven't played the NES game so I'll give it a go.

...Have you guys played Famicom Wars? It's painfully slow, and is hardly enjoyable at all.

@Archius9 how come?

@quinnyboy58 I don't fully know. I know a lot of people enjoyed the school bit but I wanted fire emblem for the turn based tactical battling like on 3ds and GBA etc
A lot of JRPGs lose me when there's a lot of stuff like that. Just my personal preference really.

@Archius9 I know what you mean, I struggled with persona at times because it was so long before any action. That said I like the strategy element a bit more than normal turn based rpgs so hoping I can enjoy the fluff to buff my team!

@quinnyboy58 yeah sounds good. I was really looking forward to FE:3H but I know me and I know how I like games and I immediately knew that the school part would not be enjoyable for me. It did cause me to go out and pick up FE Awakening again and I enjoyed the heck out of that again!

@Patron I'm really interested in listening to your point of view, I'm not being ironic. I'm considering to get that game but if there are some negative opinions, I'd like to hear them.

You can literally just make a jp account and download it for free and play

If nintendo released this in the West it would guarrantee me to be a new subscriber to their online service.

@Archius9 i do have all the 3ds games and enjoy them but the screen is so small on my 2ds now and I don't want to buy an XL. I have Wargroove which I love so if I want some sped up action I can always switch to that. I'll probably take a chance with three houses as I can sell it on for pretty much same price as I buy it for if I don't like it (the glorious benefit of Nintendo games!)

@quinnyboy58 literally. I only lost £3 when it was all sold and sorted.
I have Wargroove but it's part of my backlog. I'll get there eventually.

I'm 140 hours into Three Houses so far. It has kept my attention much longer than Awakening did. I think it's the feet.

@Archius9 the custom content is worth finding the good stuff on too, really adds a lot of value to the game

@quinnyboy58 nice. I just need to time to properly dive in and with Luigis Mansion, Pokemon, and AC on the horizon I can't yet.
I got distracted midway through Golf Story and now i'm not fussed about going back in. It's why I don't want to start Stardew valley yet.

@Grumblevolcano I’d love that but I don’t think it’s very likely. Plus I would sorta like the online functionality for the trilogy to play with friends.

I would LOVE to see this happen! After living through the Wii and 3DS era I have no real desire to play the same old games again on the Switch, I would love to see some of these interesting old games that never got localized.

I played Super Famicom Wars on an emulator years ago (before it had a translation patch), but to be honest, the subsequent games improve the format too much for me to ever want to play these ones again. I do believe the SNES one has an interesting unit type that is absent from the GBA ones, and the presentation was cute, so I'll say that much.

Unfortunately, I believe the NES version, like the SNES version has a character modelled on Hitler (Hetler), and with the game being so niche, I doubt Nintendo would make the effort to edit the sprite.

I won't mind seeing remakes of Famicom Wars, Super Famicom Wars and the Game Boy Wars Trilogy under the Advance Wars title.

I played this, it's literally the same game as another done that is in English officially. It's pretty crazy hard in terms of the ai too. Can't really say it's much fun, just a massive time sink.

I'd normally say it should come as no surprise it's excluded, as it has untranslated Japanese text... and as a general rule, the only originally Japan-exclusive titles we get brought over are the ones that were already in English. That always made perfect sense to me since the local versions are specifically meant for the general audience of the region. And anyone willing to deal with the foreign text can always download the Japanese version. But THEN they broke that logic when Super Puyo Puyo 2 was included worldwide in the SNES lineup. Now that that precedent has been set, there's no good reason I see not to release Famicom Wars to the West as well. But with Nintendo being Nintendo who knows what they're thinking.

@Archius9 loved golf story and stardew defo ones to keep on the back burner

Would love this.

And Switch Wars.

Kirby Super Star makes me happy, but I wish we got Famicom Wars too. I played the Japanese version for a bit, you can kinda get by if you go by icons (the units didn’t really change between FW and AW), but it would be great if they actually localized some of those games.
There was also a Gameboy version, but the black and white interface was hard to read.