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Advance Wars Remaster releases on 3 December
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Danjin44
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I personally have SMT5, so I have enough games this holiday.
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Fake
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Pokemon got delayed too?
Rentahamster
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TexMex
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Had no idea there was one.
Sleepwalker
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There's 2 actually. 3 if you count different versions. one game for november and one for january iirc
Fake
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Remake of Peal and Diamond.
Pokemon don't need to be such a great game. Nintendo already have their money maker this holiday.
Shifty1897
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This was my most anticipated game this year.
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graywolf323
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BlackTron
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I hope I'm wrong but I doubt this is about the art style. It's more likely just about finishing the thing.
mcjmetroid
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I'm in the camp that doesn't like this art style at all but am pretty sure the game will turn out alright.
Hopefully there is a lot of extra content and variations in the looks of the maps.
Hopefully there is a lot of extra content and variations in the looks of the maps.
Lunarorbit
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I think I must have read this thread yesterday cause someone was just wondering why we hadn't heard anything about this game since the beginning of the year.
Playing the apocalyptic Advanced Wars right now actually. I want to call it portrait of ruin but I think that's a gba castlevania
Playing the apocalyptic Advanced Wars right now actually. I want to call it portrait of ruin but I think that's a gba castlevania
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SpongebobSquaredance
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I don't understand the criticism of the graphics. It looks exactly as I remember it with my rose-colored glasses. I also think that apart from the lousy resolution and sound quality, which is common with the hardware of the GameBoy Advance (and can be fixed to a certain extent by emulation), the optics of the games have aged pretty well. The look of the remake underlines the style and vibe the originals perfectly though.
Kiddo Cabbusses
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Look, I know we don't want to give up on a new F-Zero, but it's competing with Kid Icarus for "longest timeframe between Nintendo sequels", man.
Anyway, my take: Nice to see Advance Wars back. Giving the characters more animations is all good but the style could dial down the "Live2D VTuber" aspect a bit.
I think the reason people find the "plasticy" artstyle jarring has several possible explanations:
1) Actual army figurines you may have gotten as children do not resemble these chibis. Of course, the "Army Men" games and "Small Soldiers" are way closer to actual army toys for kids people in America are familiar with. Perhaps "Knockoff G.I. Joe" may had been preferable if they wanted the plastic toy look, but it would be too drastic an art deviation to the classic Advance Wars.
I feel like Advance Wars' style update should have resembled western WWII propaganda cartoons - particular the infamous Private Snafu;
You can kinda tell in the way the soldiers animate that they might be TRYING to go for that, but the animations are not quite having the slapstick umph they should just yet .That's because...
2) The 3D animations look kind of unpolished as of the previous trailer. I'm remembering the scenes with the Mech infantry in particular; the way they fired their rocket launchers looked like flash tweening, which is silly in a 3D animation. It can definitely be improved upon. Maybe they should get the guys who worked on Batallion Wars to handle this, as I think for whatever flaws those might have had, they did the "western war cartoon in 3D" style a lot better.
3) The anime artstyle COs and their tall, lanky builds clash with the chibi soldiers in a more obvious way when they're portrayed in two completely different artstyles. You can no longer imagine Andy or Sami in the same screenspace as the infantry they command. This was not as obvious in the GBA versions, because there the artstyle was dictated by the hardware and screen space limitations, and COs rarely animated outside of face portraits.
4) Remember Days of Ruin? Even though that was a major tonal change from the previous Advance Wars games, the art style didn't deviate that far from the previous entries. I can't imagine them trying to do a DoR remake that looks like THIS, though. It'd be so wrong!
Bummer about the delay, but I hope that means the graphical issues are being ironed out.
Sleepwalker
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Its a full on remake with qol updates, not a reimagining like lets go were, so no motion throws or "mini game" to catch pokemon. Regular battles are back and theres no "gimmick" that wasnt in the original games.
The letsgo versions looked better graphically tho.
If you liked diamond and pearl back then or any of the ds games, then you probably will like this