just imagine 5 a air guns blocking the entrance to the hq and your excuse is "I managed to lose all of the keys" Sturm's gonna lose his shit when he sees that this happened
@@theod4660 "Hey, Colin, those your car keys there?" "Sir! They aren't my car keys, sir!" "Hmm. Then I reckon someone done left their keys here. Any clue who that may be, junior?" "Uh... No clue, sir."
tfw I hate pre-deployed units maps because it means it forces me to play a certain way and making it repetitive instead of being creative on what I want to do and respond to the enemy actions
I can't think of a nice way to say this, but your post bugs me enough that I still have to say it. Your viewpoint makes no sense at all to me. Having pre-deployed units does not in any way "force you to play a certain way." It's still up to you how to use your units and having them on the map at the start drastically cuts back the monotony of the beginning of a battle. It doesn't make sense to believe that pre-deployeds restrict strategies, either
@@sammer1097 It forces you to use a specific army composition, which in turn can heavily influence playstyle. For example, if the game gives you a bunch of air units it's basically telling you "Go fast, hit hard", while if it hands you a bunch of indirects you're basically being told to play the map defensively. Being given multiple battleships and zero air support tells you that you're going to have to fight near the coast until you can establish a beachhead, while being given an MD Tank and an Artillery and facing down multiple enemy MD tanks, with a single bridge between you and the enemy, means you're GOING to be fighting over a choke point. That being said, while it is restrictive, I don't necessarily believe that's a bad thing for the campaign, and here's why - in the campaign, you're given a specific scenario and you have to win within the constraints of that scenario, it's like you're fighting a specific battle in a larger conflict. Whereas the War Room and VS Mode it's more freeform and can be equated to fighting a larger, continuous conflict from start to finish.
Adder: Flak...why is there a laser here? We haven't finished developing it. Flak: Huh? I dunno. I found it and just put it there? It's kinda cool! Adder: You just FOUND A WEAPON WE HAVEN'T FINISHED MAKING YET!? AND YOU STILL HAVEN'T TOLD ME HOW YOU GOT THAT BATTLESHIP INTO A LAKE!!
Advance wars 1 has a lot of unique challenges with fighting almost all the cos and advance wars 2 has you playing around your cos strength so both are repetitive in some form aw2 because the opponent co is one of 3 (not including strum because he is only in the last 2 missions) while aw1 repetitiveness is only being able to play 3 cos so your strategy never really changed on how your cos work.
@@nameplease8811 the thing I didn't like about AW 1 was it was massively unbalanced. I really do hope the reboot has some QoL changes to make the game a little more fun and balanced. Nothing major. Some AI improvements. CO balancing. Unit balancing. Map balancing. I think they can keep the game's spirit alive while making these changes
@@GreyWind1988 I mean in the spirit of unit balancing the only things that need balanced are neotanks sea units prices and maybe increase bomber prices maybe not Co balancing is uh yeah that need balanced because Andy max eagle kanibe Olaf are all needs nerfs or buffs (strum isn’t on that list because that’s kinda the point of him) and for AI if it does not work correctly there just going with fe mentality on this game then huh
@@nameplease8811 I disagree about unit balancing in 1. Certain units were way too strong with little counterplay. They fixed it a bit in 2 by making the values a bit more reasonable. And the CO'S were also horribly unbalanced which they also fixed in 2 by tweaking the values a bit. Of the AW1 CO's, Sonja was absolutely worthless. Even in fog, her specialty, she was garbage due to her low fighting power and bad luck. AI has come far since the old GBA days so they can definitely make it play more like a human player.
My personal hope is that Re-Boot Camp gives us the best balanced versions of each CO and gives us stuff like the DoR Fog of War (where the AI actually DOESN'T cheat), while also smoothing over some of the more problematic Hard Campaign missions like Kanbei's Error relying on an AI oversight (one which could be fixed) to win, or Rivals! where it was literally IMPOSSIBLE to win on certain unchanging RNG seeds. i will be so sad if they give us dual strike max again
Honestly, thank you for making all of your Advance Wars videos. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have known anything about this series, and I wouldn't have been _nearly_ as excited as I was when I saw the remake announced. It's thanks to you that I love this series, so.... thank you.
also, colin winning two week test by doing absolutely nothing is perfrctly in line with his abilities - he's a tycoon so it makes sense to build up the cash instead of wasting it doing unnecessary things!
Funny enough, I've grown to enjoy war room content, due to how other strategy games tend to play out in similar matters. Really, they're all exercises in learning how to take the middle area of the map and keeping it that way. The good news is the ai doesn't understand what middle ground is/won't try proper tactics to take it, and you can capitalize on that
I had fun whit war room maps mostly because some of them are pretty silly. Like the ring which is a 1v3 but your base is surronded by silos and pipes and the AI doesn't know to destroy them. So you just park a tank to stop Jess, a few AA guns for Eagle and you kill Drake before he starts annoying you
I hope they're going to let us replay campaign missions we've already cleared in a single save file, for going for those rank-based unlocks. It'd make life sooo much easier than having to savescum or restart full campaigns because of one bad grade.
I doubt it, but it would be nice. Though more than that, I think multiple save files are in order. Especially with the different routes and such. Maybe the War Room could just add any cleared Campaign Maps, available to be played with any COs you've cleared it with(because some missions are entirely different depending on if you pick Andy, Max, or Sami, namely Green Earth.).
Whoa, this makes the fifth time an Advances Wars game has appeared in the Worst Levels Ever episodes. It just might the series that has appeared the most on Worst Levels Ever so far.
This opens up the possibility that Lash let herself lose because either 1) she was trying to develop a way to capture the HQ without infantry 2) she has a massive ego and thought she could mess with her opponent or 3) she let the anti-air sit there because she thought it was hilarious. Lash is smart, but she ain't a stable genius.
Well, i hate maps with pre- deployed units so this is not really a issue in AW2, but a opinion. I really like these videos, didn't know about the trick in Colin's map, make more when the remake get released
7:34 Yeah, you hit the nail on the head. If anything made the games less fun, it was having a bunch of these kind of missions. Where you knew what to do and were confident you could do it but would still have to go through the motions, taking forever. And this mission in particular... yeah, it's awful and painful. oof
I was playing AW2 back then and looking for some videos about tier list i found "Worst Levels Ever #7" and discovered one of my favorites channels on UA-cam. Really happy for the video!
Pre-deployed leads to better game design, I think. Also, the fundamental difference I see between AW1 and AW2 campaigns is that AW1 levels are long series of micro-puzzles (unit positioning, planning turns, counting tiles, etc.), whereas AW2 levels involve solving one major puzzle (e.g., in the Max level, join-capping the base and building a battleship). Personally, I feel that makes AW1 much more challenging and rewarding, while AW2 is more amenable to pick-up-and-play. Both are great in their own right.
To me, remakes of first games of different series serve 2 purposes: 1: See if people are still interested it the franchise. 2: Give people who never got to own the console the original was on the ability to play it on a console they'll likely own now. Sure, a new game is fine and all, but a remake is there to set the new groundwork. After all, there's a pretty big gap between the last game and the remake, so people might not remember it enough to make the new game profitable. I see them more as building blocks to the future for dormant game franchises.
I JUST finished watching your video about Kanbei's Error. And, wow, that was 7 years ago! Edit: and in both, there's an Anti-Aircraft getting in the way of ground troops and thus making the AI unable to win. Lmao
That edited Super Castlevania IV intro was pure gold! It’s been 3,000 Years! Advance Wars has risen back from it’s grave! Hopefully it will get it’s true Awakening with Advance Wars Resurrection!
I was about to type down in the comments that I just watched your older Advance Wars videos and thought it was a fun coincidence... But my mind completely skimmed over the fact that Advance Wars is coming back.
Kid Icarus: *comes back after Pit's inclution in Brawl* Advance Wars, some years later: Fine, my turn Honestly, I got to know the saga thanks to this channel, and I'm willing to play the remasters when they get released
It has been like 12 years since i'm waiting for a new advance wars game, I am so glad that they decided to bring back the series. Even though I wished like you that it was a new game rather than a remake, I'm still glad that the series is getting back !
1:08 I couldn't agree more. Too bad the Advance Wars subreddit will never understand. Orange Dawn HC is disconnected to say the least. It's practically a map that favors indirects and it happens to give the player Max. I think it's supposed to encourage the player to use navy, but that has the problem of how _AWFUL_ navy is in the Advance Wars games in general because of how ineffective it is for its cost. Yeah, OOPS. Also, WHY doesn't Two Week Test check for Rout condition? You'd think at that point the game would recognize the player to be convincingly defeated. Of course, I recall Game Boy Wars 1/2/Turbo declared a player who didn't have anything built on Day 2 to be defeated; where is THAT for the NC version of TWT NC? I do think Show Stopper is still worse. Fog of War idiocy where you don't have predeployed units and Adder happens to have predeployed Bombers in obnoxious locations to spite the player. At least with A Mirror Darkly, you get predeployed forces scattered along the map to make it easy to get Vision. But whatever the case, I personally am not too bothered by AW2's levels aside from Final Front NC being stupidly big for a timed map with its share of inane decisions that at least got toned down in HC. You do bring more insight to what is going on. Competitive makes maps start off with both sides having little to work with, wanting to work with the sandbox nature of the games' unit deployment. AW2 is simply appealing to this stance with what you're talking about. Still, the stance does have the issue that infantry flood becomes very much a real problem on these sorts of maps particularly with Anti-Air Tanks not being to 1HKO them on significant terrain unless they have an attack boost. Uh, yeah, Advance Wars, fix your unit imbalances first. Please.
Colin wins by doing absolutely nothing Luigi will be proud of you Also I kinda preferred AW2's campaigns. AW1's seemed a bit frustrating in comparison, where some of the levels even forced you to play as Sami if you wanted to get Eagle.
Enemy HQ:"AA 2, where is the mega tank?" AA:"A mangled wreck in a cliff." Enemy HQ:"Not again, I thought I told you, multiple times, To not mess with the other vehicles. You parked a AA gun right in front of the enemy HQ, an infantry had said move this thing out of the way when you said you lost your keys under a tire! And then you place the laser when it was not finished! And you also put a battleship in a lake! And you also, wrecked your AA gun. God I don't want to have to live this life anymore."
Strange,i had the opposite feeling. I liked the story of 2 much more than 1,because it pitted each faction against the Black Hole generals in sequence. It also helped that i played 2 before 1,so i was put off but the graphic style of 1,and knowing all of them as friends i tought it was stupid for them to have that infighting while there was a bigger enemy to deal with together
I fully believe Advance Wars came back because Nintendo saw Wargroove was a success, and remembered they had a game like that. And since Fire Emblem has been reduced to a sandbox dating sim with some actual game here and there, he need Advance Wars now more than ever.
Well, even if i'm glad about that remake, the 3d models are weird but it's alright But about AW2, the thing that I found really sad compare to the first one...they removed these little animations with the characters reactions ! Which is quite sad and make the game less entertaining, not by a lot, but it's still something a bit sad that, we'll actually never see back until the remake ! Which is great
this reminds me of an old game i have called "metal fatigue". it's a "starcraft" style game where you can build large "Combot" units. there are also ancient ruins you can capture with special Drill units. BUT the AI doesn't understand HOW to do that, so if you capture one, the AI will try to ATTACK the building instead of using a drill unit. it's both annoying and hilarious to see a DOZEN enemy Combots uselessly slashing at one of those buildings!
I hope that the AI would be affected by the Fog, nerfs to some characters (AW1 Max, AW2 Kanbei) and buffs to weakest generals (Flak wouldn't mind a small ATK boost to all units while keeping his luck modifiers, Sonja getting a boost for attacking from forests, etc.)
I actually bought advance wars (the first one) about two weeks ago and now I’m surprised that it’s making a comeback. I’m currently on the final battle with grit and eagle as my supporting co’s. Is the final battle supposed to be annoyingly long or am I just bad? Also, hopefully they balance fog of war in the reboot.
TIL of that flaw in two-week test. I also figured since you had pre-deployed units that you couldn't cheese it by doing nothing, but apparently not. Oddly enough even though I played HC in AW2 that initial Max mission largely eluded my memory, moreso just the general slog and difficulty of a lot of the levels. That pre-deployed one that Max got with the fog of war and the plot centered around POWs was pretty neat though.
I think the reason why you don't lose when all of your units die, Is it that way when all your units die you have you can plan out something and it doesn't go bad. I think the developer didn't think someone was going to literally delete all your units and have a AA park right in front of A FREAKING DOOR.
I just Recently got into advance wars an the first thing that came to mind was gits AW videos an now he's making more, SWEET, Also My Fav Mission is The one where you play as grit sneaking through the woods avoiding cannons.
Colin Wins By Doing Absolutely Nothing! This definitely does feel like the kind of remake that 'tests the waters' to see if anyone still cares about the series any more, so I'll certainly be getting it. Bonus, I've never actually played the original two. The series could definitely use the addition of some new mechanic where the game recognizes when you've got an unstoppable production advantage. Maybe like a 'bribe' score where if you're able to reach a certain ridiculously high amount of money you can claim an instant-win if you want. Or just have the AI surrender when it's absolutely hopeless for them.
Funnily enough, Game Boy Wars 3 DOES have the computer try to surrender under given conditions. Mind you, I'd have to dig them up again, but it does happen and you actually get a Medal for declining enough Surrenders in Campaign.
I saw advance wars in the thumbnail, had to click! I never played the originals tbh but I knew of then, they seemed fun. I will definitely be getting the remakes to support the series since my favorite series metroid, is finally getting a new game!
Of all things to get a remake out of nowhere, Advance Wars was the one I least expected. Maybe if I believe hard enough I could see both the Legend of Starfy and Mega Man World quintologies getting remade as well. Of course, each quintology would be sold on one complete N.Sane Trilogy/Reignited Trilogy set, and the Starfy one might be exclusive to Japan, but still!
Heh, it was the other way around for me. I remember taking a few embarrassing losses in Fire Emblem, as I was used to Advance Wars's mechanic of "HP=Strength". "Surely an almost dead swordsman wouldn't kill my healer..." x)
Finally, the Quartet is Complete 2 Worst Levels Episode on AW 1 1 Worst Level Episode on AW DS 1 Worst Level Episode on AW: DoR 1 Worst Level Episode on AW 2: BHR
Considering both games are in the remake and they both have different CO Powers, I wonder how they’ll balance the CO Powers and the maps that with around said powers... Edit: oh. Right. They could also just have two different games to select in this package. Derp.
I don´t think they will fix any issues from the originals, specially since the new game is handled by Wayforward and not the original developers, IS... Or maybe they do change things because they are not the origanal developers... ummmm, idk, I just want AW online!
I think the biggest problem with AW2 difficulty in general are those cannons and lasers. They are a handicap and aren't as hard to go around so they just drag the fight for longer. The worst part, again in general, is that a lot of maps in hard campaign don't really change. They are the same with more cannons or the same map basically but bigger.
As I side note I find it way more interesting when they are prototype since they shoot every other turn. Sure it's easier but gives more room for strategy than just pretty much removing an area from being used.
I always thought the máx level would be fixed if both beaches on the hq Islands were connected, and with flak starting with an infrantry close to the factory Island, sorta like a time limit, where if you don't arrive early enough to prevent the capture youll get overwhelmed At least then you also have the option to break through the chokepoint to win before that happens. Hard either way, but At least it would add some variety to a map that is otherwise boring af
Worst Levels Ever #40: the remake's newly added versions of Rivals for every CO in the first AND second games, all of which are harder than the original GBA, including Eagle Worst Levels Ever #41: the remake's extra final battle with another Andy in your subconscious, since the greatest rival was yourself all along
“What’s taking so long? Why haven’t we won yet?”
“Uh, someone parked the AA gun in front of the enemy HQ and we lost the keys.”
"BUT WE DESTROYED ALL THEIR UNITS!"
just imagine 5 a air guns blocking the entrance to the hq and your excuse is "I managed to lose all of the keys"
Sturm's gonna lose his shit when he sees that this happened
@@iambread2914 I mean, they lose the keys in front of the guy that make money, it isn’t hard to know where the keys went
@@theod4660 "Hey, Colin, those your car keys there?"
"Sir! They aren't my car keys, sir!"
"Hmm. Then I reckon someone done left their keys here. Any clue who that may be, junior?"
"Uh... No clue, sir."
Lash be like "DOOR STUCK! DOOR STUCK!"
The upcoming port means we get to play advance Kanbei's error in new graphics and I'm already in fear...
Port? It’s a full on remake
Yay, we get to suffer hard mode Kanbei's Error & hard mode Rivals again with its Fog Of War again...
Andy: What's an airport, again?
It’s a remake
@Order & Chaos FFVIIR isn’t a real remake though as the end showed
Grit: Hey! You ok, son?
Colin: *looks at the writhing mass of neotanks and bombers*
Definitely, sir!
Grit: "You been hangin' out with Nell lately? Cause your luck just seems a bit.. absurd."
Suddenly, they both get jumped by Flex Seal and turn into furries.
#Changed
Grit : Are you winning son?
Colin : well no, but actually yes
Olaf: You are already becoming a splendid commander, my dear boy! Perhaps one day you can replace that disgrace as my subordinate.
Grit: ....
@@MountainMemelord And then a Neotank captures them for Lash to study lmfaooo
tfw I hate pre-deployed units maps because it means it forces me to play a certain way and making it repetitive instead of being creative on what I want to do and respond to the enemy actions
Exactly this. It's much more of a chess opener without pre deployed units. A lot of strategies are open to you.
The Only thing that I hate from pre deployed map is that there is no place to heal Air Unit and Naval Unit
I can't think of a nice way to say this, but your post bugs me enough that I still have to say it. Your viewpoint makes no sense at all to me. Having pre-deployed units does not in any way "force you to play a certain way." It's still up to you how to use your units and having them on the map at the start drastically cuts back the monotony of the beginning of a battle. It doesn't make sense to believe that pre-deployeds restrict strategies, either
@@sammer1097
It forces you to use a specific army composition, which in turn can heavily influence playstyle. For example, if the game gives you a bunch of air units it's basically telling you "Go fast, hit hard", while if it hands you a bunch of indirects you're basically being told to play the map defensively. Being given multiple battleships and zero air support tells you that you're going to have to fight near the coast until you can establish a beachhead, while being given an MD Tank and an Artillery and facing down multiple enemy MD tanks, with a single bridge between you and the enemy, means you're GOING to be fighting over a choke point.
That being said, while it is restrictive, I don't necessarily believe that's a bad thing for the campaign, and here's why - in the campaign, you're given a specific scenario and you have to win within the constraints of that scenario, it's like you're fighting a specific battle in a larger conflict. Whereas the War Room and VS Mode it's more freeform and can be equated to fighting a larger, continuous conflict from start to finish.
Okay but do you know what this means?
*More people get to play the hard versions of Kanbei's Error? and Rivals.*
They should have to suffer like we did!
I hope those missions are nerfed.
@@butteredsalmonella if they still have fog of war, at least it would be the more fair version that hinders the AI as much as the player.
fog of war can go fuck it self should not be in AW games and FE games also.
I’m already somewhere between crying and laughing at having to replay those maps.
Adder: Flak...why is there a laser here? We haven't finished developing it.
Flak: Huh? I dunno. I found it and just put it there? It's kinda cool!
Adder: You just FOUND A WEAPON WE HAVEN'T FINISHED MAKING YET!? AND YOU STILL HAVEN'T TOLD ME HOW YOU GOT THAT BATTLESHIP INTO A LAKE!!
Lash just gave Adder crappy lasers because she doesn't like him.
Ah, god that LP was a trip.
Dude... indirect bombers. Points if you get that reference.
@@ShadowBaofu don’t forget battleships in lakes😂😂😂
@@ShadowBaofu that hack was dumb, but the fun kind of dumb
Advance wars 2 allows you to play as almost every CO in the campaign, so I liked ot better.
Advance wars 1 has a lot of unique challenges with fighting almost all the cos and advance wars 2 has you playing around your cos strength so both are repetitive in some form aw2 because the opponent co is one of 3 (not including strum because he is only in the last 2 missions) while aw1 repetitiveness is only being able to play 3 cos so your strategy never really changed on how your cos work.
@@nameplease8811
AW1 has more enemy variety but AW2 has more playable characters variety.
@@nameplease8811 the thing I didn't like about AW 1 was it was massively unbalanced. I really do hope the reboot has some QoL changes to make the game a little more fun and balanced. Nothing major. Some AI improvements. CO balancing. Unit balancing. Map balancing. I think they can keep the game's spirit alive while making these changes
@@GreyWind1988 I mean in the spirit of unit balancing the only things that need balanced are neotanks sea units prices and maybe increase bomber prices maybe not
Co balancing is uh yeah that need balanced because Andy max eagle kanibe Olaf are all needs nerfs or buffs (strum isn’t on that list because that’s kinda the point of him) and for AI if it does not work correctly there just going with fe mentality on this game then huh
@@nameplease8811 I disagree about unit balancing in 1. Certain units were way too strong with little counterplay. They fixed it a bit in 2 by making the values a bit more reasonable. And the CO'S were also horribly unbalanced which they also fixed in 2 by tweaking the values a bit. Of the AW1 CO's, Sonja was absolutely worthless. Even in fog, her specialty, she was garbage due to her low fighting power and bad luck. AI has come far since the old GBA days so they can definitely make it play more like a human player.
My personal hope is that Re-Boot Camp gives us the best balanced versions of each CO and gives us stuff like the DoR Fog of War (where the AI actually DOESN'T cheat), while also smoothing over some of the more problematic Hard Campaign missions like Kanbei's Error relying on an AI oversight (one which could be fixed) to win, or Rivals! where it was literally IMPOSSIBLE to win on certain unchanging RNG seeds.
i will be so sad if they give us dual strike max again
Honestly, thank you for making all of your Advance Wars videos. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have known anything about this series, and I wouldn't have been _nearly_ as excited as I was when I saw the remake announced. It's thanks to you that I love this series, so.... thank you.
That intro was perfection.
Long live Advance Wars!
also, colin winning two week test by doing absolutely nothing is perfrctly in line with his abilities - he's a tycoon so it makes sense to build up the cash instead of wasting it doing unnecessary things!
Oh hell yes, more advance wars!!
Colin having that Luigi energy, eh?
Colin is an anagram for Lonci, which sounds like a ripoff Luigi.
He has merely mastered the masterful military strategy that Luigi pioneered:
Win by doing absolutely nothing.
Cool pfp! Where is it from? :0
Funny enough, I've grown to enjoy war room content, due to how other strategy games tend to play out in similar matters. Really, they're all exercises in learning how to take the middle area of the map and keeping it that way. The good news is the ai doesn't understand what middle ground is/won't try proper tactics to take it, and you can capitalize on that
idk war room map design seems pretty bad when's there awbw
I had fun whit war room maps mostly because some of them are pretty silly.
Like the ring which is a 1v3 but your base is surronded by silos and pipes and the AI doesn't know to destroy them. So you just park a tank to stop Jess, a few AA guns for Eagle and you kill Drake before he starts annoying you
I hope they're going to let us replay campaign missions we've already cleared in a single save file, for going for those rank-based unlocks. It'd make life sooo much easier than having to savescum or restart full campaigns because of one bad grade.
I doubt it, but it would be nice. Though more than that, I think multiple save files are in order. Especially with the different routes and such.
Maybe the War Room could just add any cleared Campaign Maps, available to be played with any COs you've cleared it with(because some missions are entirely different depending on if you pick Andy, Max, or Sami, namely Green Earth.).
Doesn't Advance Wars Days of Ruin do that?
@@MagicalVixen Yeah it was possible, so it would be really scummy to not be able to do that in the remakes
Good news!
Whoa, this makes the fifth time an Advances Wars game has appeared in the Worst Levels Ever episodes. It just might the series that has appeared the most on Worst Levels Ever so far.
And the award for the most "how did the devs not see this coming" cheese I've ever seen goes to
What makes the 14 days map even funnier is that Lash is supposed to be the big brain CO on the Black Hole Army.
This opens up the possibility that Lash let herself lose because either 1) she was trying to develop a way to capture the HQ without infantry 2) she has a massive ego and thought she could mess with her opponent or 3) she let the anti-air sit there because she thought it was hilarious.
Lash is smart, but she ain't a stable genius.
With this remake, more people will even know the series exists, therefore increasing the chances of getting actual sequels
Days of ruin wasn’t that bad, but I would love to see more from Omega / Macro land
@@wolfetteplays8894 I want a sequel to dual strike with hawke back as a prominent character even if he isn't the main antagonist.
Well, i hate maps with pre- deployed units so this is not really a issue in AW2, but a opinion. I really like these videos, didn't know about the trick in Colin's map, make more when the remake get released
7:34 Yeah, you hit the nail on the head. If anything made the games less fun, it was having a bunch of these kind of missions. Where you knew what to do and were confident you could do it but would still have to go through the motions, taking forever.
And this mission in particular... yeah, it's awful and painful. oof
I literally just started playing AW for the first time so the thumbnail is scaring me
Worry not. This is a Hard Mode map in the second game. Hard mode maps tend to be ridiculous.
This map is in the hard mode of the game.
@@GameAlicornLuna The levels I genially hate in the hard campaign is Great Sea Battle, Show Stopper, and Two-Week Test.
I was playing AW2 back then and looking for some videos about tier list i found "Worst Levels Ever #7" and discovered one of my favorites channels on UA-cam. Really happy for the video!
Dang. The gravestone scene is a true masterpiece of cinematic art, no sarcasm intended.
Pre-deployed leads to better game design, I think. Also, the fundamental difference I see between AW1 and AW2 campaigns is that AW1 levels are long series of micro-puzzles (unit positioning, planning turns, counting tiles, etc.), whereas AW2 levels involve solving one major puzzle (e.g., in the Max level, join-capping the base and building a battleship). Personally, I feel that makes AW1 much more challenging and rewarding, while AW2 is more amenable to pick-up-and-play. Both are great in their own right.
12:09 Ugh, the guitar solo in Max's theme counts as a Leave My Ears Alone moment for me. It sounds more like a painfully shrill singing voice to me.
Okay that lightning strike gag got me
Since Advance Wars is actually part of the Famicom Wars series... if they did make a new game would it be called "Switch Wars?"
Yeah the Two-Week Test is DEFINITELY fixed
AI can actually move any non-infantry units in your HQ for the infantry/mech units to capture them
To me, remakes of first games of different series serve 2 purposes:
1: See if people are still interested it the franchise.
2: Give people who never got to own the console the original was on the ability to play it on a console they'll likely own now.
Sure, a new game is fine and all, but a remake is there to set the new groundwork. After all, there's a pretty big gap between the last game and the remake, so people might not remember it enough to make the new game profitable. I see them more as building blocks to the future for dormant game franchises.
As a awesome man once said...
*HELL... IT'S ABOUT TIME!*
I JUST finished watching your video about Kanbei's Error. And, wow, that was 7 years ago!
Edit: and in both, there's an Anti-Aircraft getting in the way of ground troops and thus making the AI unable to win. Lmao
I love your vids, man! You had got me wanting to try Advance Wars, and now I can!
That edited Super Castlevania IV intro was pure gold! It’s been 3,000 Years! Advance Wars has risen back from it’s grave! Hopefully it will get it’s true Awakening with Advance Wars Resurrection!
"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?"
I see a little silhouetto of a man that thought on sneakily slipping that line in
Love this series, can’t wait to get the remakes
YES! I was wondering what your AW2 campaign thoughts were!
I was about to type down in the comments that I just watched your older Advance Wars videos and thought it was a fun coincidence... But my mind completely skimmed over the fact that Advance Wars is coming back.
Maybe with this remake the levels will be fixed the sequels get remade and maybe if they do well we could get another game!
Kid Icarus: *comes back after Pit's inclution in Brawl*
Advance Wars, some years later: Fine, my turn
Honestly, I got to know the saga thanks to this channel, and I'm willing to play the remasters when they get released
Unfortunately, they didn't change the level in reboot camp which means you still have to slog your way through the map!
Perfect timing. I was just watching your other Advance Wars videos a few hours ago
The intro was pure genius.
this dude keeps challenging me on how early can I upvote a video
Ah yes, the 30 turn mission that still gives you an S in speed.
Actually the S rank requirement is 34 turns lol
The grading scheme in AW2 is FAR more lenient than AW1's.
advance wars remake looks really good like honestly I can't wait to watch you talk about its worst levels
A new upload at half past midnight.
NO SLEEPIN TONIGHT BOIS
Yes, we're getting an Advance Wars remake! That means we can suffer the wrath & horror of Kanbei's Error & Rivals with Fog Of War again...YAY 😆
Colin learned well from Luigi.
I look forward to an HD portrait of Sturm.
I want to see him blow a joint while having a rave party in HD whenever he destroys one of your units.
It has been like 12 years since i'm waiting for a new advance wars game, I am so glad that they decided to bring back the series.
Even though I wished like you that it was a new game rather than a remake, I'm still glad that the series is getting back !
Always happy to see your videos
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I couldn't agree more. Too bad the Advance Wars subreddit will never understand.
Orange Dawn HC is disconnected to say the least. It's practically a map that favors indirects and it happens to give the player Max. I think it's supposed to encourage the player to use navy, but that has the problem of how _AWFUL_ navy is in the Advance Wars games in general because of how ineffective it is for its cost. Yeah, OOPS.
Also, WHY doesn't Two Week Test check for Rout condition? You'd think at that point the game would recognize the player to be convincingly defeated. Of course, I recall Game Boy Wars 1/2/Turbo declared a player who didn't have anything built on Day 2 to be defeated; where is THAT for the NC version of TWT NC?
I do think Show Stopper is still worse. Fog of War idiocy where you don't have predeployed units and Adder happens to have predeployed Bombers in obnoxious locations to spite the player. At least with A Mirror Darkly, you get predeployed forces scattered along the map to make it easy to get Vision. But whatever the case, I personally am not too bothered by AW2's levels aside from Final Front NC being stupidly big for a timed map with its share of inane decisions that at least got toned down in HC.
You do bring more insight to what is going on. Competitive makes maps start off with both sides having little to work with, wanting to work with the sandbox nature of the games' unit deployment. AW2 is simply appealing to this stance with what you're talking about. Still, the stance does have the issue that infantry flood becomes very much a real problem on these sorts of maps particularly with Anti-Air Tanks not being to 1HKO them on significant terrain unless they have an attack boost. Uh, yeah, Advance Wars, fix your unit imbalances first. Please.
I'm glad to see Advance Wars getting recognition again. Such a good series.
Colin wins by doing absolutely nothing
Luigi will be proud of you
Also I kinda preferred AW2's campaigns. AW1's seemed a bit frustrating in comparison, where some of the levels even forced you to play as Sami if you wanted to get Eagle.
Enemy HQ:"AA 2, where is the mega tank?"
AA:"A mangled wreck in a cliff."
Enemy HQ:"Not again, I thought I told you, multiple times,
To not mess with the other vehicles. You parked a AA gun right in front of the enemy HQ, an infantry had said move this thing out of the way when you said you lost your keys under a tire! And then you place the laser when it was not finished! And you also put a battleship in a lake!
And you also, wrecked your AA gun. God I don't want to have to live this life anymore."
One thing I will say in regards to that Max mission, a Max battleship is still a battleship, even with the range reduction and -10% firepower.
I still love the face Drake makes when he’s on the losing side of a unit battle in the Switch remakes. XD
Behold, Colin: Luigi’s newest rival for being able to win by doing ABSOLUTELY nothing.
Colin is officially the Luigi of Advance Wars now because he can win while doing absolutely nothing.
I completely agree with this analysis, well done
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Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
Strange,i had the opposite feeling. I liked the story of 2 much more than 1,because it pitted each faction against the Black Hole generals in sequence. It also helped that i played 2 before 1,so i was put off but the graphic style of 1,and knowing all of them as friends i tought it was stupid for them to have that infighting while there was a bigger enemy to deal with together
As i understood, Git wasn't refering to the story itself, just the way the maps are set up.
@@mecor9191 yeah i know,i wanted to add my two cents
Hype for AW revival!
I fully believe Advance Wars came back because Nintendo saw Wargroove was a success, and remembered they had a game like that. And since Fire Emblem has been reduced to a sandbox dating sim with some actual game here and there, he need Advance Wars now more than ever.
Inb4 Advance Waifu Wars.
@@a-s-greig I mean, Nell is waifu material
You're the only reason why I know this series and the only reason why I want to play it
4:24 I hate that one just cause I thought I have to destroy the pipes and not capture the cities
I just finished watching your Kanbei's error and Rivals vids x)
Andy's theme slaps i bounce my head to the beat every time i hear it
Well, even if i'm glad about that remake, the 3d models are weird but it's alright
But about AW2, the thing that I found really sad compare to the first one...they removed these little animations with the characters reactions ! Which is quite sad and make the game less entertaining, not by a lot, but it's still something a bit sad that, we'll actually never see back until the remake ! Which is great
I am a simple man, I see Whoisthisgit upload, I clicks it.
this reminds me of an old game i have called "metal fatigue".
it's a "starcraft" style game where you can build large "Combot" units.
there are also ancient ruins you can capture with special Drill units.
BUT the AI doesn't understand HOW to do that, so if you capture one, the AI will try to ATTACK the building instead of using a drill unit.
it's both annoying and hilarious to see a DOZEN enemy Combots uselessly slashing at one of those buildings!
I hope that the AI would be affected by the Fog, nerfs to some characters (AW1 Max, AW2 Kanbei) and buffs to weakest generals (Flak wouldn't mind a small ATK boost to all units while keeping his luck modifiers, Sonja getting a boost for attacking from forests, etc.)
I was just watching some of your videos on Advance Wars’ worst levels just a few hours ago.
I actually bought advance wars (the first one) about two weeks ago and now I’m surprised that it’s making a comeback. I’m currently on the final battle with grit and eagle as my supporting co’s. Is the final battle supposed to be annoyingly long or am I just bad? Also, hopefully they balance fog of war in the reboot.
TIL of that flaw in two-week test. I also figured since you had pre-deployed units that you couldn't cheese it by doing nothing, but apparently not.
Oddly enough even though I played HC in AW2 that initial Max mission largely eluded my memory, moreso just the general slog and difficulty of a lot of the levels. That pre-deployed one that Max got with the fog of war and the plot centered around POWs was pretty neat though.
I think the reason why you don't lose when all of your units die,
Is it that way when all your units die you have you can plan out something and it doesn't go
bad. I think the developer didn't think someone was going to literally delete all your units and have a AA park right in front of A FREAKING DOOR.
0:32 My equivalent would be a Ghost Trick port
16:00 I agree
I've been on a Ghost Trick kick lately.
It's even more charming than I remember. It's a terrible shame it's so underrated.
the literal lightning strike after eagle's lightning strike power is great
Your advance wars videos are the best
I just Recently got into advance wars an the first thing that came to mind was gits AW videos an now he's making more, SWEET, Also My Fav Mission is The one where you play as grit sneaking through the woods avoiding cannons.
Colin Wins By Doing Absolutely Nothing!
This definitely does feel like the kind of remake that 'tests the waters' to see if anyone still cares about the series any more, so I'll certainly be getting it. Bonus, I've never actually played the original two. The series could definitely use the addition of some new mechanic where the game recognizes when you've got an unstoppable production advantage. Maybe like a 'bribe' score where if you're able to reach a certain ridiculously high amount of money you can claim an instant-win if you want. Or just have the AI surrender when it's absolutely hopeless for them.
Funnily enough, Game Boy Wars 3 DOES have the computer try to surrender under given conditions. Mind you, I'd have to dig them up again, but it does happen and you actually get a Medal for declining enough Surrenders in Campaign.
I saw advance wars in the thumbnail, had to click! I never played the originals tbh but I knew of then, they seemed fun. I will definitely be getting the remakes to support the series since my favorite series metroid, is finally getting a new game!
Of all things to get a remake out of nowhere, Advance Wars was the one I least expected.
Maybe if I believe hard enough I could see both the Legend of Starfy and Mega Man World quintologies getting remade as well. Of course, each quintology would be sold on one complete N.Sane Trilogy/Reignited Trilogy set, and the Starfy one might be exclusive to Japan, but still!
That intro was gold
You got me into FE and I was always interested in Advance Wars so I will pick up the Remake.
Heh, it was the other way around for me. I remember taking a few embarrassing losses in Fire Emblem, as I was used to Advance Wars's mechanic of "HP=Strength".
"Surely an almost dead swordsman wouldn't kill my healer..." x)
It returns once more
Ugh i still remember that final mission of AW2
It was hard to keep up with Kanbei.
Finally, the Quartet is Complete
2 Worst Levels Episode on AW 1
1 Worst Level Episode on AW DS
1 Worst Level Episode on AW: DoR
1 Worst Level Episode on AW 2: BHR
Owww man! Brings back PTSD
Considering both games are in the remake and they both have different CO Powers, I wonder how they’ll balance the CO Powers and the maps that with around said powers...
Edit: oh. Right. They could also just have two different games to select in this package. Derp.
i see you are also hyped for the advance wars remakes!
Hell yeah, Advance War is back on its feet. And i'm proud to say it once again
Let's get our ass kicked by Sturm again, lol
Knew that'd be the level, it's definitely one of the designs of all time.
Man I adored playing Advanced Wars in DS, even though I just plain suck at tactical games
I don´t think they will fix any issues from the originals, specially since the new game is handled by Wayforward and not the original developers, IS... Or maybe they do change things because they are not the origanal developers... ummmm, idk, I just want AW online!
I think the biggest problem with AW2 difficulty in general are those cannons and lasers.
They are a handicap and aren't as hard to go around so they just drag the fight for longer.
The worst part, again in general, is that a lot of maps in hard campaign don't really change. They are the same with more cannons or the same map basically but bigger.
As I side note I find it way more interesting when they are prototype since they shoot every other turn.
Sure it's easier but gives more room for strategy than just pretty much removing an area from being used.
dude, how dare you hit me with Vandal Hearts OST? that is unfair! I miss it so much
I always thought the máx level would be fixed if both beaches on the hq Islands were connected, and with flak starting with an infrantry close to the factory Island, sorta like a time limit, where if you don't arrive early enough to prevent the capture youll get overwhelmed
At least then you also have the option to break through the chokepoint to win before that happens. Hard either way, but At least it would add some variety to a map that is otherwise boring af
Worst Levels Ever #40: the remake's newly added versions of Rivals for every CO in the first AND second games, all of which are harder than the original GBA, including Eagle
Worst Levels Ever #41: the remake's extra final battle with another Andy in your subconscious, since the greatest rival was yourself all along
How do you know that happens? Did the remake come out already and you've already beaten it in every single possible way you could beat it??
@@ilikecurry2345 I am a prophet of the inevitable, the inevitable being everything that makes Git's life worse