WHAT HAPPENED TO ADVANCE WARS? + Will We See Advance Wars On The Nintendo Switch? (Retrospective) 

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When I saw the E3 stream, it unlocked a memory that is very faint.

"...but since it's harder to create relationships between its characters" Nobody was playing Advance Wars for the damn plot Hitoshi!

Fire Emblem: _“I thought you were dead!”_ Advance Wars: *“My Death was greatly exaggerated.”*

"Will we see Advance Wars on the Nintendo Switch?" Yes, yes we will.

"What's an airport again?" "What units do we use to capture with again?" Andy 2001

"Will we see advance wars on the switch?" Boy, do i have news for you

The major issue with Advance Wars is that Japanese gamers love grinding and games that are styled like JRPGs. Advance Wars doesn't have units for you to get attached to and level up like Fire Emblem does, so Fire Emblem won out. They never even got Days of Ruin in Japan. I think Codename STEAM also could have been a test run for Advance Wars on the 3DS, but Codename STEAM really tanked hard, so that threw any chances of an Advance Wars game out the window. Its a real shame too, cause this was one of the best strategy games I've ever played.

The answer is yes. Yes we will have Advance Wars on Switch.

Part of that last clip about the interview just worries me that even the devs of the original games are somewhat out of touch with what the games core appeal was. Don't get me wrong, giving new aspects to the series is why Days of Ruin jumped back sales after Dual Strike. But I'm getting this nagging vibe that people equate Advance Wars as a dumbed down Fire Emblem when it, to anyone who has actually played through some of the games completely, is actually the opposite. These games are about strategy. There is little to no rng in how it plays. You either make smart, effective moves using everything or you fail. It's the ruthless calculus of what a war looks like to a commanding officer rather than what a romanticized heroic interpretation is in Fire Emblem. It's like if you only had green npc units, you had to pay for the expenses to deploy them, and tons of them would inevitably die just to secure more resources to aid the war effort. There is nothing that pisses me off more than the billions of times I have to explain this to someone who is in love with Fire Emblem and sees Advance Wars for the first time brushing it aside as if it is "less challenging".

Amazing video man! I NEEED a new Advance Wars game. I got 823 hours in Dual Strike... xD That game was my childhood 😭😭

god I remember just leaving my gba on just to listen to Nell's theme song. AW always had great music.

playing the games on an emulator right now, the games are still friggering better then the crappy mobile games these days:3

I'd walk on coals for Switch Wars. Those possibilities... I was also a HUGE fan of Battalion Wars. The gameplay was excellent, and I absolutely loved the characters, and historical in-jokes. Unfortunately, I have spoken with someone who worked in those games. He gave me a lot f behind the scenes stuff, but confirmed Battalion is definitely dead.

Am i the only one here that actually Adore 'Days of Ruin' 's mechanic more than 'Dual Strike' because 'Dual Strike' tends to break the game a lot while 'Days of Ruin' actually maintain it's strategic unit element stronger rather than relying on CO's power

Do the Japanese just think we're stupid or something? "Oh, we can't give them the Wars series; they'll never understand it." "Oh, we can't ship the real version of Final Fantasy 4 in the US, they'll never be able to figure it out." Etc, etc.

"Wargroove set for release in 2017" *Released February 1, 2019* Boy do i feel bad for the folks waiting on that game

I'm still so mad there hasn't been an Advance Wars game for a while. But they keep milking out Waifu Emblem... One of my favorite series. It would look phenomenal on the Switch. I guess WarGroove will have to do.

Who else really loved Battalion Wars 2? I think that game had so many cool unit designs that really shined and made the online modes especially fun to play. Shelling an enemy's control point with a sea-based Dreadnought was so, so awesome. R.I.P. Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection :(

I wonder what happened... Hmm , I wish there was an E3 direct on June 15th 2021 that would bring back Advance Wars 1 and 2 as remakes- WE GOT IT!

Advance Wars is so good GIVE US ANOTHER, NINTENDO

WARS It's great to see that there are still people that fondly remember the Advance Wars games and dream of a new one being made some day. It would be awesome if you had a few more videos on this series, perhaps something along the lines of "Top X most powerful Dual Strike combinations", "Best & Worst multiplayer maps", "Tips for setting up the most balanced & competitive multiplayer match" [if those kind of videos are your style, that is. Post whatever videos you want lol]. I played Advance Wars Dual Strike so much that I did everything that there is to do in that game; my favorite features were: - The Hard Campaign which was definitely a step up from the normal one - The Survival mode where you had to play through a series of challenge maps until you either clear them all or you lose on one of the maps. Some of those later challenges got REALLY difficult from what I recall - The feature of adding bonuses/skills (or whatever they were called) to COs to give them passive bonuses like stronger units, cheaper units, faster base captures, etc. This is in my opinion a very underrated feature because it allowed you to make the game more difficult for yourself in multiplayer vs. the computer because you could load up the computer with these bonuses, while giving yourself no bonuses at all, and this helped to overcome some of the computer's poor tactical decision making. Days of Ruin is my favorite though due to what I feel is an overall more balanced gameplay experience. I just wish it was loaded with as much content as Dual Strike. Without a doubt my favorite feature in Days of Ruin is the map editor, which I feel is SO much better than the previous games' map editors. I have spent more time in the map editor on that game than anything else. The fact that you have 50 custom map slots is so awesome, and gives you so much versatility. I used to make my own custom campaigns, featuring original stories for different armies in a sort of fantasy world I made up. The COs could be used as a stand-in to represent certain commanders, or you could just use the generic "no-commander" which worked out just as well. I also made maps that were loosely based on WWII campaigns, such as Normandy, North Africa, Stalingrad, Solomon Islands, Battle of Midway, etc. I never completed my magnum opus though, which was to be a full 50 map custom campaign. I did save some of the map designs in spreadsheets at least though. I know this is a ridiculously long comment, but I just enjoyed these games so much and the nostalgia is just so awesome. Keep up the great work with your videos.

The real question is why did Days of Ruin never even release in Japan? Japan never saw the game until 2013 and it was only released as a Club Nintendo reward. If it hadn't gotten a botched release in Japan, it'd probably still be around today.

They are bringing it back!!!

If the Switch has Virtual Console, they better put Advance Wars on there!!

Advanced wars will always have a special place in my heart. I originally got Advanced wars as a possible on the go Command and Conquer type title.. What I got was something different... something Unexpected... something... Equally as good! I have been a big fan of turn based RPG games ever since Mario RPG, and also been a fan of strategy games due to C&C, and this blended both of these aspects together in a holly marriage of amazingness! Fantastic Music, Fantastic Sprite art work (some of the best i have seen in a game), Fantastic story lines, Fantastic characters, Fantastic Solid Game play, and just over all Fantastic experience. in my opinion there was not one bad or weak entry in the series, every single one built upon the prior installment, and in all honesty, Not many series can stay fantastic across the board like Advanced Wars did. Sure, Days of Ruin was far gone and removed from almost everything i had grown to know and love, but regardless, it on it's own accomplished remaining just as Fantastic as it's predecessors, and I can't praise them enough for being able to do that!

Oh my god I was literally just having a conversation with a coworker about Advance Wars and Golden Sun and why they have stopped making them. There googled Advance Wars and saw these two vids. You are a GD psychic!!!

DoR was my favorite of the series, I played the GBA games first, but I loved the change in tone and the new character designs and gameplay that DoR had. Pretty much everything was improved and a breath of fresh air. Maybe it was just when I played the games as well. I just hit my mid 20s when DoR came out so the darker story was more up my alley.

Guys we gotta make war groove successful maybe that will help further development or interest for a new advance wars games

What happened to Advance Wars? Nintendo did not forget, IT IS BACK! DECEMBER 3. ORANGE STARS. BLUE MOONS. GREEN EARTH. YELLOW COMET. BLACK HOLE ONE CAN ONLY REIGN SUPREME WE ARE BACK! SEE YOU ON THE BATTLEFIELD!

I still play them to this day, I intentionally bought a tablet to play All Advance Wars games thougn GBA emulator and Drastic Emulator. Grit is my favorite out of them all and his cool theme

At long last, the question "Will we see AW on the Switch?" finds its answer!

They put poison in its mutton.

I remember getting this game for Christmas in 2001, and being disappointed that it wasn't an RTS (like C&C), but it grew on me. Especially, when I saw Sami and heard her theme song. ^.^

everything about Days of Ruin was great.. the balance, CO power mechanics, the unit level ups, the upgraded map maker.. just take all those mechanics and combine it with the “classic” art style.. In addition add a “create an army” option.. let us choose/pick what the units look like. the sprites of the wars series were great

I loved days of ruin's new approach. It was fresh to see some changes from cartoony to more serious. And that soundtrack! Oh man...

Favorite line was Jake saying "Now we can drop some science on those fools."

When I was deployed to Iraq in 2004, my buddy had a gameboy advance and he would let me borrow it from time to time and I fell in love with this game. I may pick up an advanced just to play it again!

I feel like Fire emblem just absorbed so much popularity that it made Advance wars obsolete

Watching the video made me want to play advance wars again. Wish they make a new one.

Aged like fine wine

I, personally, never could get into the Advanced War games except one. Days of Ruin was honestly, I think, the direction that they should have taken with the series from the start, but I understand why they did this cartoony, colorful style of choice. But the gritty, dark, and edgy tone that Days of Ruin brings was honestly one of the best experiences I had in strategy RPGs to this day. The older games lacked, for me, a reason for trying to win. It was always "they're the bad guys snarf snarf, beat them to submission." But Days of Ruin actually gave me a reason to fight, for the sake of humanity. Personally for me, I think the older games kind of lacked motivation for me trying to win other than getting a high score, but Days of Ruin gave me a reason TO fight story telling wise. Maybe I was too young to understand the older Advanced Wars story telling, that could be a big reason why. Also, have you heard Days of Ruins OST? It's actually Kreygasm. But now that IS seems to be focusing all their attention on Fire Emblem, it's hard to say if we'll see another advanced wars in the inevitable future. But if the series does return, I hope to see the story telling that Days of Ruin brought on board, dark or cheerful in setting.

I would like to see IS create another Warioware title. Its one of there best IP's aside from Fire Emblem. Seriously IS dominated mobile games in the GBA - DS era. Multiple fire emblem, advance wars, and warioware titles, more of which are highly praised.

My favourite is Duel Strike. Just the amount of content and variety is great.

Something that's not fire emblem?! SHOCKED BUT KEEP UP THE GREAT CONTENT!

For everyone who sees this and wants another advance wars: Try Wargroove.

This video hits different after the recent direct.

People whining about DoR gritty art style and difficulty spike were a big turnoff for many longtime fans in my opinion, which I think ultimately lead to a disinterest in the series. I personally want to see a 3DS Advanced Wars before the system burns out. I honestly think a new game in the AW 1&2 series of games would sell like gangbusters, especially now that way more North American, European, and Japanese eyes are on Intelligent Systems due to the 3DS Fire Emblem games and FE:Hero's. Make this happen!! I wanna spend hours fighting wars, customizing maps, and playing singe console multiplayer with friends like I did when I was younger.Forget the next Zelda, Assassins Creed, Elder Scrolls, or Final Fantasy, give me a goofy looking kid duel wielding wrenches!

Don't forget that it may also fall into the 3ds, depending on if they felt like it or not. The same has to be said for golden sun. #GoldenSunGameNow

This is so mad, as an euphoric Advance Wars 2 player (did play against friends either on actual hardware ot on emulator) seeing the FamiconWars Gameplay i said to myself out loud: "I played on this exact map in AdvanceWars2." I am not sure if i like the DarkerStyle of "Days of Ruin" but the gameplay is good right now. I just miss my Andy, Max and -Tammy- i mean Sami (names different in other languages) It feels like it has been over two decades that a new game came out and we really are in need of a new one. This video here? It is a brilliant summary.

The answer is yes it will

"Personally, I'd love to do Advance Wars, but since it's harder to create relationships between characters compared to Fire Emblem, I don't have a clear idea of what kind of setting it could have." Valkyria Chronicles says hi.

Let's talk about that Days of Ruin soundtrack though!!

I enjoyed the cartoony artstyle in the first 3 but MAAAAN when those rockin' themes came on in Days of Ruin. WOOOWEE. STILL listen to em today!

Roses are red, I'm here cuss of E3. =D (To exited to finish the whole rhyme)

Man this continues to be one of my favourite videos you've done!!

Who's here after advance wars was announced on switch?

If they do make a new Advance Wars game, a feature i'd like to see in the map editor is: Available units. In AW 1 or 2, there is a campaign mission where you are only allowed to build certain units, while the enemy has an MD tank, some other units, and can capture a base. In the editor, I think it would be a good feature if they made it so you could chose what teams can build what units. Also, it would be cool for COs talking (like in beginning of campaign missions)

I don’t think we will get an advanced wars for Nintendo switch we might as well forget about it. We will be lucky if we got advanced wars 1 remaster let alone 2

What happened to Advance Wars? Intelligent Systems started waning. Dual Strike was good but with Days of Ruin too they would both become very tough acts to follow. The decision was made to develop Fire Emblem Awakening consequently as the last Fire Emblem game hurrah before the studio folded. With declining sales from every angle and a lost development team as other divisions wrestled on developing other games with the Wii U or 3DS hardware; it was miracle that the Fire Emblem franchise survived thanks to Awakening. Smash helped too.

ADVANCE WARS IS BACK BOIS! LETS FUCKEN GO!

I came upon your video by listening to some Advance wars music because I was feeling nostalgic and you made me feel even more so for this series. I started with Dual Strike and I was simply hooked after the third mission. Discovering new characters, their CO powers, units and villains was just awesome. Then I went on to play the rest of the series. And if you asked me which one is my favourite I'd say it's DS, followed closely by Days of Ruins (I really liked the change of mood and the OST in that one). And like you, I would like to see a new game in this series, maybe on the Switch or on the 3DS. But all we can do for now is hope for a new game and see how Wargroove and Tiny Metal will turn out. I am excited for these two. Also you just earned a subscriber my good sir. Keep up the good work !

Speaking of Isaac, what ever happened to Golden Sun?

Days of Ruin was amazing. I remember dual strike being the only thing I did when I went on a 2 day camping trip.

2021 "I'm about to end this mans whole career."

Advance Wars has a special place in my heart. Low key passing around a GBA in high school math class playing 2v2 with some buddies :D

We did it, boys.

I know Days of Ruin is one of the less popular games in the series, but damn, Caulder is a top-tier villain and Creeping Derengea is downright terrifying

Now can someone give a prize to this man?

This is my favorite game series ever. Without it, I would't I wouldn't love video games

I really want a new Advance Wars starring Orange Star. We never learned about Sturm's fellow aliens or how he managed to recruit human COs. Shame Fire Emblem took all the attention. I mean, a new Nintendo Wars game would just need Dual Strike's/Black Hole Rising's charm and ease of access with Days of Ruin's mechanics.

Hello, long time fan of Advance Wars here. Thank you for making this retrospective video! Here are a few comment crossing my mind at different times of the video: 5:48 I played Battalion Wars but I could never finish it. The gameplay never clicked with me, and the clunky controls didn't help. 8:10 Days of ruin was a shock when I first played it. The radical change of setting was of-putting at first, but I grew to like it, tough not quite as much as the cartoony aesthetic of the early titles. The gameplay however was top notch, and as you say, the best balance so far in the series. 14:20 I played Fire Emblem Awakening, the relationship system was a nice touch, I think it's an interesting mechanic that made the characters more developed and relatable. However, if the excuse of the devs at Intelligent Systems for not getting on with a new AW title is "We don't know how to put a relationship system in it", I am sorry but this is idiotic. Fire Emblem and Advance Wars are two different franchise with different gameplay. What works in one doesn't necessarily work in the other. What makes them think adding a part of dating sim to AW is a good idea? I know, dating sim are very popular in Japan, but if they lack so much confidence in the established qualities of their franchise as well as presenting a deph hear to all the fan crying in unison for a new title in a franchise they hold dear, then Intelligent System should reflect on themselves, cut the fat and just release Visual Novels, since it's all Japan cares for, isn't int? I mean, the relationship thing works in Fire Emblem because it's an RPG where you fight with unique characters, but advance wars characters are Generals commanding nameless grunts on the ground to fight war on a grand scale. Are you secretly craving for Tank on APC action, IS? As an AW player, I like this precise combination of things in my game: A very simple but deep grid based combat system, a multitude of units with their own strength, weakness, that I can produce as many as I want and are EXPENDABLE, a colorful world that makes the action very easy to read and allow you to play war without constantly being reminded of it's horror, and generals with superpowers that turn entire battles around!

It took us 13 years. It took us 3 years after a video saying we'll probably never get it. BUT WE FUCKIN GOT IT BOYS. OH HOW EVERYONE WHOSE IN THIS COMMENT SECTION MUST FEEL.

While people complain on Advance Wars DS and 2 being very unbalanced, I kind of found it fun. It being unbalanced makes you change your tactics a lot.

I miss advance war where there was andy sami and max the original thing i like the campaign when andy first met eagle XD and the hard part where i battle strum i think where i use andy grit and sami at the battle at the same time i still play the advance wars since i liked its story and gameplay :)

Battalion Wars is one of my favorite games of the GameCube and this is my idea of how they could have made a sequel for the WiiU: -Add new units (like bikes and Anti-Tanks) -Add a "Retreat" command -But most importantly: the gameplay. Imagine you have 2 screens like in the WiiU, in the big screen you have the 3rd person perspective, and in the little screen you have the map. Now, in the map screen you can actually command the troops, pretty much like in Advance Wars: you can tell them which unit they should attack, who will attack (let's say: you choose all the bazookas to attack a tank), and also from where (you can command them to go around so they can attack from behind); once you have commanded your troops, you can take control of a unit normally in the big screen (let's say in this case: a tank), and then you can coordinate your attack with the troops you sent earlier! So with this you can mix the 3rd person shooter with a Real Time Strategy mechanics. -Also, you could unlock special characters: For example, let's say that in a certain mission you get a S rank, then you unlock Andy. Now, you have the option to put Andy as a troop in any coming or previously played mission. You can either play a mission with or without Andy; in case you do choose Andy, a regular infantry unit will be replaced with Andy. Now, Andy as a unit cannot attack, but he can repair your tanks and recons and any other mechanical unit; however, if Andy dies, you fail the mission immediately (so it's a high risk + nice reward situation). I really hope they bring Advance Wars back, it'd even be perfect for a Mobile game!

Only got to play Days of Ruin and loved it, hope it comes back soon

I didn't know advance wars, but I loved battalion wars as a kid!

Well they said they can't replicate FEs popular support relationship system feature into it as one of the reasons that series isn't continuing www.google.com/amp/www.eurogamer.net/amp/2017-05-30-whats-keeping-nintendo-from-making-a-new-advance-wars but I doubt it will resurface anyway its next to Golden Sun in the graveyard.

Also, they could easily do relationships. You can have your main CO give you your powers and boost and still be able to make as many units as you want, but there would be a new twist. Similar to Yggdra Union, you could have each CO attached to a squad, getting there own battle sprite and such. The main CO would gain relationship points with all the units they are able to. The COs out on the field as units could get relationship points by being within a couple spaces of one another. CO units could be handled two ways, either giving them level ups and stats or giving them level ups, but those go towards getting them points to unlock better units or boosts to them for them to use. Like say Andy starts with mechs but as you level up you can give him tanks, rockets, whatever you want and the personal skills of the cos could effect there unit and maybe two spaces away from them. COs would also be deployed like regular squads of units, but would vary in cost depending on what unit they have and what powers are attached to them. They could also add skills to these units like in Fire Emblem. It would be a lot of work and be more complexed then before, but I believe it can work and would be really fun

Lin is bae though, and also it was nice that CO powers weren't OP asf and everything seemed balance

All of a sudden I want them to have a sort of crossover between Advance Wars and Fire Emblem and see what they could come up with.

Finally we are getting a new one

We used to play this game on our way to every hockey game in our huge van growing up. It was absolutely epic!!

advance war reboot coming!!!!

It would be so easy for them to make an Advance Wars game for the 3DS. They could reuse Dual Strike's system of having two CO's tagging in and out, and pairing up CO's can earn support points, which could reward the player with support conversations and increased bonuses for using the two CO's together. There, you have your character relationships problem easily solved. And this could work perfectly in either the old classic cartoony setting, the gritty post-apocalyptic setting, or an entirely new one. I feel that if they made a new Advance Wars game, it would be best on the 3DS, but I'd be glad to see the game on the Switch too.

0 interest in Wargroove because it's a medieval setting. That's one reason I can't get into or like Fire Emblem.

Well put together Advance Wars videos like this are always a treat and amazing nostalgia trip. Cheers!

It's back! Definitely on the switch now!

When Sonja's theme starts playing at 10:46, nostalgic feelings hit me so hard ...

Personally i absolutely enjoyed the dark, gritty atmosphere of Days of Ruin / Dark Conflict. I was surprised how deep the game went into the topic about the worth of human life, when one of the main characters discovers she is a clone. I also enjoyed it for the more balanced gameplay and toned down CO powers. In previous titels the CO power bar fills double the speed when taking damage compared to dealing damage, so in a way you would be rewarded for playing bad by faster CO power charge up. In Days of Ruin / Dark Conflict the CO had to be assigned to a unit, providing a radius, where he would improve your units. If you dealt damage to enemy units while in that radius the CO power bar would rise. CO power bar would not rise by getting your units beaten up and the CO can also be forced to retreat from combat when the unit he is commanding is destroyed. In case of unit destruction, the CO can be reassigned to another unit, but the CO power bar would be reset to zero and for the time being your army would not get any buffs from your CO at all. There was definitly a higher level of tactical depth. The old system in previous titles had its peak of sillyness in Advance Wars Dual Strike when playing good would lead to the AI regularly releasing their TAG CO powers getting 2 turns for free, making any plan or strategy obsolete.

Would love to see a return to Andy & Crew but with the new units and terrain types from DoR carried over and maybe some more units and terrains too!

Glad to see that it’s on the switch now

I loved DoR so much man...can’t wait for War Groove!!

Wargroove looks hype and I can't wait until it comes out for the Switch

This is my Childhood right here... When Advance Wars 2 Came out I got the game and Never Ever played another one. Until Dual Strike came out and Battalion Wars. Omg... So much fun. I always wanted a new Sequel.

I love the generic american city stock footage you used when discussing US sales, lol

WARS! God I miss these games. Battalion Wars never interested me but I played the hell out of all of the others. I have a lot of nostalgia for this series as I had to save up chore money as a kid to buy Advance Wars 1 and 2. Overall, I think that Days of Ruin is my favorite because it has the most balanced and strategic gameplay but Dual Strike's sheer amount of content and replayability is still astounding to this day. These games are timeless and I still play them from time to time but I have been dreaming of the day where they bring the series back. Wargroove will hold me over but I am longing to see Andy and Company in HD, on the Switch, with a brand new adventure. Please Intelligent Systems, take a risk and don't get burnt out on so much Fire Emblem.

guess what happened

I was surprised at how badly Dual Strike did; it was by far my favorite of the series.