Graham Russell: "Generally, when you’re looking to play a game with friends, it’s much easier to do it on a home console. With portables, each player usually needs a system, and most need a copy of the game (and maybe some funky cables, if you go back enough). Generally, people haven’t bothered to take advantage of the technology. Of course, if you’re a crazy person like me, that’s more of an incentive than a barrier."
Looking for games like Advance Wars? Here‘s a list of alternatives you can find on Steam and play on Steam Deck.
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords required a GameCube and Game Boy Advances to play multiplayer, but releasing it on the Switch can fix that.
They should do a new one with the assets from A Link Between Worlds. Enough with the re-releases, remakes, and remasters. Least they could do is get their shit together and provide a new version of the Virtual Console or add all that stuff to the Online sub.
So all the below games already released, are ports?
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Arms
Astral Chain
Kirby and the Forgotten Land
Kirby Star Allies
Kirby's Dream Buffet
Pokémon Sword and Shield
Pokemon Arceus
Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!
Ring Fit Adventure
Little Friends: Dogs & Cats
Luigi's Mansion 3
Zelda Breath of the Wild
Shin Megami Tensei V
Snipperclips
Splatoon 2
Splatoon 3
Super Mario Maker 2
Super Mario Odyssey
Super Mario Party
Triangle Strategy
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
Mario Golf: Super Rush
Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit
Mario Strikers: Battle League
Mario Tennis Aces
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order
Metroid Dread
Chocobo GP
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Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Paper Mario: The Origami King
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity
Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Yoshi's Crafted World
Xenoblade Chronicles 3
Monster Hunter Rise
Advance Wars is a strange series with a history of massive critical acclaim, only for it to disappear for over a decade.
I love both, but I was unaware that AW failed. 10 years of a game doesn't seem like it faltered to me.
whether it failed or not, I still play dual strike, and my original cart will never leave my 3ds! while I'm excited for the reboot, I wish DS was included in some way, and ngl but if any game series is worthy of the HD2D graphical style that octopath, star renegades, and othe games are doing these days, it's def AW
Waifu's & husbandos saved Fire Emblem. Its why FE Heroes generates more money than any other of Nintendo's 1st party mobile entries and why the sales of the 3DS and Switch entries performed so well. People gotta have those bikini clad variants of Rhea, Dorothea or Byleth after all. lmao I would like to say it was because of gameplay updates like casual mode or being able to be more hands on with how each character develops over time but I know the aforementioned waifu's is the biggest reason. I hear enough about it from my friends and when I venture online. lol
I myself started playing Advance Wars and Fire Emblem around the same time on the GBA. I ended up preferring Fire Emblem as I grew up playing RPG's with that similar medieval theme. When it comes to Advance Wars I liked Days of Ruin on the DS the best as I liked its darker tone and setting but that performed so poorly that it caused the IP to go dormant for 12+ years. Something that would of happened to Fire Emblem if not for Awakening taking off. Awakening was an aptly named title as it certainly got people to wake up and buy a FE game. The one before FE Awakening titled Shadow Dragon sold about as well as Days of Ruin leading Nintendo to issue a warning about future of FE entries should Awakening fail. I'm glad it didn't come to that. I just hope people buy the remake of Advance War 1 & 2 because it will probably be another lost decade if they don't. Just saying. Nintendo is clearly not afraid to drop support for its IP's if sales are not up to snuff. Being critically acclaimed is great and all but in the end Nintendo is more worried about sales.
