Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp Is An Expressive Remake That Retains The Core Game

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A new preview for Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp has a promising message for the fans who have been waiting for this game for literally years.

Our preview comes from Video Games Chronicle, and they report that Wayforward Technologies have done a fine job in updating the Advance Wars games over from the Game Boy Advance to the Nintendo Switch.

Wayforward essentially left the core of the games untouched, and their update focused on aspects of the presentation, including the graphics, art style, and animation.

Now, it’s worth taking a few minutes to think about what Video Games Chronicle’s Andy Robinson is talking about here. Released in 2001 on the Game Boy Advance, the original Advance Wars released in a time when the console game industry had largely adjusted to the shift to 3D graphics, and subsequently were making games that were longer and deeper, that were only possible in home systems instead of arcades.

The Game Boy Advance was technologically behind its console contemporaries, but it benefited from a nostalgia cycle for 8-bit and 16-bit gaming. Nintendo encouraged this line of thinking by making their first releases on the console rereleases of their classic games, like Super Mario Advance: Super Mario Brothers 2.

Later Game Boy Advance games, even new original games, would evoke that nostalgia for games with sprite graphics. This included the likes of WarioWare Mega Microgames, the Mega Man Battle Network series, and the Sonic Advance games.

In that context, Advance Wars, which has been a long running series for Nintendo but is being introduced to the West for the first time, needs to appeal to that fanbase. Developer Intelligent Systems decides to use an original anime aesthetic, that somewhat evokes the SD