Right after I got nintendogs I went out and got Advanced Wars DS. Now I had already had the GBA version of the game so I knew what the game play would be like, but from the moment I turned it on I knew what the biggest problem of the game would be. The game is way to close to the GBA vision, and when I say this I’m mostly talking about the graphics. I know that they changed the story, added new units, made stylus incorruption, made a RTS type mode, better multiplayer, more characters, and a tag team CO system, but that’s why I’m giving it a good rating on value and game play. I know this may sound shallow, but I bought a DS to play games with better graphics, not content enhanced GBA games. Another thing is that the sound can be cool sometimes, is no were close to as cool as Meteos. Even thought the story mode is great it starts out really great difficulty level wise, it really gets to difficult near the last 5 missions. I think a lot of people might even give up on the story mode just because it gets so difficult. Well my final word is if you liked the GBA ones you’ll want to check this one out. Otherwise you might want to look somewhere else for you turned based title.
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