Board 8 > The original Advance Wars is the most impressive Nintendo game

(+) Yeah! (+)

For a Western audience that game came out of nowhere and there was nothing like it. It was super fresh, had a fully realized campaign, a ridiculous amount of content, gameplay mechanics that were incredibly fine tuned, tons of COs, rules and settings such as cap limit and fog of war that can drastically alter gameplay, etc. That game is fucking incredible.
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Agreed

It's a shame that they never made it a "marquee" series via Smash Bros like they did with Fire Emblem and Mother.
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More impressive than SMB1? I'm skeptical. Now that's a game that came out of nowhere and there was nothing like it.
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These are some serious truths in this topic.

The topic title is a bit of a stretch, though.
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I should have clarified with some sort of date cutoff. Naturally it isn't more impressive than SMB1 was but it's heavily overlooked.
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The facts that they haven't 1) released a new installment in like a decade and 2) made Andy a smash character are both travesties

*advanced wars
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Anyone ever play the Japanese games? How do they stack up?
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NFUN posted...

*advanced wars

no
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NFUN we've been over this
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

Anyone ever play the Japanese games? How do they stack up?

I have played Famicom Wars and Super Famicom Wars. There are several Game Boy Wars games too, which I havent played, but from what Ive seen, they play significantly different. FW and SFW are pretty close to what youre familiar with.

They dont have campaign modes, and between the 4 games that we did get, I think all of their maps are included in War Room or Versus modes so you can play them.

As far as game mechanics go, theyre pretty similar but feel slightly outdated in some ways. For example, if you load a transport unit, they cant move on the same turn. Or with airports/ports, you can only build new units on ones you owned at the start of the game, any others you capture are purely for healing/refueling. The units are mostly the same, with slight differences in effectiveness or movement here and there. APCs have machine guns. Famicom Wars doesnt have COs, but Super does. They have passive stat changes, but no CO Power to activate.
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No campaign modes is pretty lame.

But yeah still pretty weird that they didn't at least get VC releases here.
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never cared much for the advance wars games

I thought Battalion Wars was rad though
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I want a new Advance Wars more than any other Nintendo series

Too bad Fire Emblem got too popular so IS only does those now
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You know the crazy thing is this game almost didnt come out

It released one day before 9/11. The JP release was scheduled a couple days later and was in fact canceled to avoid sensitive subject matter. If it had been scheduled to come out just one or two days later, our release might have been pulled too. It didnt get released there until much later, in a combo pack with the second game. This delayed release may have contributed to the smaller fanbase these games got in Japan, which may be why we havent seen any new games in a while.

tldr the terrorists killed Advance Wars
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