[Treasure-Thursday] Advance Wars Game Guide and a [RePlay] Episode - AllinOne

It's Thursday, that means it's Treasure-Thursday.

Today we picked the game guide of the strategy game for GBA - Advance Wars.
It was released in 2001 in NA, 2002 in EU and later in Japan, when Part 2 was released in 2004.

 

It's also the first game I've ever played on GBA if I remember correctly.

In this strategy game you're a CO and you have to command your troops to victory, as in almost every strategy war game, but the Advance Wars series is much more... let's say friendly, it's not that cruel, though it's still war and 2 armies fighting against each other, but the style and the setting is different to most games of this genre.

A huge Pro for this game is the way of acting with your characters, everything is done step by step, so you can take your time to think about every unit and their actions before you start the struggle.

I guess this game was the reason that I got so much into the Fire Emblem series, many fighting mechanics of those 2 series are the same, though Fire Emblem has a special feature, the Perma-Death, if a character dies, he really dies and is gone for the rest of the game, but by this way you start to get in touch with your chars, not wasting them as cannon fodder.

In advance Wars in some situations you either have to sacrifice a unit or it dies because of standing no chance vs. a stronger one.

Enough talking - Watch the video of the Game Guide and as a small BONUS: the first [RePlay] Episode of Advance Wars, too.

Enjoy and see you soon.