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Advance Wars 1 + 2: Re-Boot Camp is a game in the Advance Wars series for the Nintendo Switch, and the first to be released since Advance Wars: Days of Ruin for the Nintendo DS in 2008. The game is a remake of Advance Wars and Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising, both for the Game Boy Advance.
Gameplay[]
The objective in each mission is to defeat the enemy army. There are two ways to defeat an opponent: destroy every one of the opponent's units on the map, known as routing the enemy, or capture the opponent's headquarters. However, some maps have specific objectives, such as capturing a certain number of cities to claim victory or survive a set number of days. The available modes of play include "Field Training" which offers tutorial missions, a campaign mode which carries the game's storyline, the "War Room" which is a collection of maps on which the player strives for high scores, as well as multiplayer modes and a map design mode. The "Campaign" and "War Room" modes both help to rank the player up (from Rank #100 to Rank #1) and to earn coins to unlock COs and maps in the "Battle Maps" shop. The modes also gives the player an additional rank for effort after winning a battle on that map, which assesses the player's speed, power, and technique in that battle; speed being the number of days spent trying to win the battle, power being how many enemy units were defeated, and technique is the number of the player's units that survived (in percentage).
Plot[]
The story of the Advance Wars begins in the "Field Training" tutorial mode, with the nation of Orange Star in a war against the neighboring nation of Blue Moon, with Olaf as the Blue Moon Army commanding officer (CO). Olaf suddenly ordered an invasion of the Orange Star nation and is in battle with the Orange Star Army. The campaign continues the story that started in the tutorial. Nell, the de facto leader of the Orange Star COs, gives the player the duty of a tactical advisor for the Orange Star Army.
The player follows the war effort through all four countries, with its own COs, over the course of the game. Starting with having only one choice of a CO to advise, Andy, the player will have a choice of two more Orange Star COs, Max and Sami, to advise as the story progresses, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. Depending on which CO is chosen by the player to advise, there are times when a mission is split into a choice of two or three, where the maps and dialog could be different. After completing that mission, the story paths could split up, depending on which CO was chosen in that previous mission, with the story differing from the other path, eventually leading back to the main path.
After winning a battle against Green Earth, Andy gets mysteriously accused by Green Earth's CO, Eagle, of committing a treacherous act of aggression against Green Earth. After defeating the Blue Moon troops that invaded the Orange Star country, the Orange Star Army then invade the Blue Moon country, defeating their troops. The Blue Moon COs, Olaf and Grit, are revealed to be COs whom both used to work for the Orange Star Army, but switched to Blue Moon. When the Orange Star Army's intention was to just pass through the other two countries, Green Earth and Yellow Comet, the countries' COs like Kanbei of Yellow Comet assume a threat of an invasion and declare battles against the Orange Star Army in their land.
Later on, Green Earth CO Drake tells Eagle that the Orange Star Army didn't attack Green Earth, saying that "This entire conflict has been orchestrated from the beginning." Meanwhile, Yellow Comet CO Sonja and Grit try to discover the person who is really behind the attacks. When Eagle meets Andy again, Eagle again accuses Andy of attacking Green Earth, to which the Orange Star COs eventually convince Eagle that it wasn't Andy who attacked Green Earth. This explains why the three nations have been declaring battles against Orange Star, as they thought Andy attacked them first.
When Eagle meets Sonja, Sonja also tells Eagle that Andy wasn't behind the attacks, saying it was someone else, and goes with her to see what she discovered. It is revealed that the enigmatic Black Hole Army, under the command of Sturm, is the true enemy. Using a CO doppelganger clone of Andy, Sturm stirred up war among the four countries in order to confuse, weaken, and eventually conquer them. Once this is revealed, the four countries unite to drive Black Hole out of their land, the Cosmo Land, with COs automatically chosen depending on the paths the player took during the game.
Development[]
The game was announced during E3 2021 presentation. The game is developed by WayForward with supervision by Intelligent Systems.
Release[]
The game was originally set to be released on December 3, 2021. On October 21, 2021, the game was delayed to April 8, 2022. On March 9, 2022, Nintendo announced that the game would be delayed further due to recent world events, most likely due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[1][2] In April 2022, it was reported that a user has gained early access to the full game. It was later removed and Nintendo issued refunds to the user.[3]
The game was officially released on April 21, 2023.
Reception[]
Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp received "generally favorable reviews" according to review aggregator, Metacritic.
A common criticism of this release is directed towards its multiplayer. Ozzie Mejia of Shacknews, despite giving a positive review to the game overall, states that the multiplayer experience was "definitely disappointing" and "subpar".
Trivia[]
- Due to being delayed after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Re-Boot Camp is the second Advance Wars game to be delayed because of real-world events. The original Advance Wars was delayed in Japan and Europe after the September 11 attacks.
References[]
External links[]
- Advance Wars 1 + 2: Re-Boot Camp at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Advance Wars 1 + 2: Re-Boot Camp at GameFAQs
| Nintendo Wars series | |
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| Main series | Famicom Wars • Super Famicom Wars • Game Boy Wars • Game Boy Wars 2 • Game Boy Wars 3 Advance Wars (1+2 • Re-Boot Camp) • Black Hole Rising (1+2 • Re-Boot Camp) • Dual Strike • Days of Ruin |
| Related | Battalion Wars • Battalion Wars 2 • Fire Emblem • Intelligent Systems • Hudson Soft • 64 Wars Knight Wars • Tiny Metal • Tiny Metal: Full Metal Rumble • WarGroove • WarGroove 2 • Warside |
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