So, the upcoming remaster has been all but cancelled, and with good reason. I don't think Nintendo wants to give the wrong impression. Let's face facts. The Advance Wars games are pretty... casual and playful about all these soldiers murdering each other. More so than any strategy game I've ever played, in fact. It's almost like they're a bunch of toys.
Anyway, that said because it was cancelled I went and completed my collection of the GBA games myself. So, I now have Advance Wars 2 and "Advance" Wars Duel Strike (technically, it should have been called DS Wars to match how the rest of the games in the series are named. I already had the other two. I'll go ahead and enjoy them at some point, but not right now...
This is rather stunning, but she's very rusty I might imagine. I have no idea what "The Secret" is going to be like, but I'm keeping an eye on it.
Incidentally, someone finally completed a project to convert KQ4 to point and click interface: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/si...la-retold/
It's a much lighter upgrade than the full on VGA remakes KQ1-3 got. No upgraded graphics and no voice, but it's very well done. The soundtrack is recordings of the original's MT32 music, and the sound effects are taken from the Amiga version. The designer added item descriptions taken from the AGI version. All in all, very solid enhancement.
Their bombing campaign has begun. The only thing left now is for the ground invasion to follow.
Vladimir Putin has a very great amount to answer for here. This act of entirely unprovoked mass murder is one of the worst acts of this century so far. The only question is, how high on that list will it go... and can anyone stop Putin before his growing madness for the return of the Russian Empire leads to even more calamities? We here in the US can't fight, nuclear annihilation prevents it. So a starting point needs to be extremely harsh sanctions. It's just so awful, and utterly unnecessary... :(
These are FAR larger stores with far less of a "shovelware to actual games you'd want to play" ratio. This is going to be a major impact, and worse yet with how aggressive Nintendo is about shutting down ROM sites, preserving all that content will prove difficult.
So, recently I checked the Switch eshop, as I do regularly. And, as of a day or two ago, 1,234 games are on sale on the Switch. The Switch has a truly insanely large library of digital software, so much that just about any past console's library looks tiny, but here is the question: are there too many games? There certainly are too many games for any one person to play all of the interesting ones. That did not used to be nearly as true as it is now; in the past there were fewer games, but games are easier to develop and easier to distribute than ever. And clearly, enough of them sell well for people to keep flooding out indie games, particularly on Steam and the Switch. The PS4 and Xbox don't have the same volume of indie software as Switch or PC.
That's all fine, really, it's just a bit overwhelming, you know? I like trying to find the good games that are on the Switch, but it's a bit hard when you have a constant flood of new titles releasing, and over a thousand games on sale on a random non-holiday week. I doubt that any one person actually can follow all of the good, or bad, releases. The democratization of videogame releases is certainly an overall good thing but the cost is that a lot of games are simply going to be overlooked and forgotten, including some good ones. Remember when IGN reviewed every Game Boy Color game, even the random licensed stuff? No one source does that anymore for Switch game releases, there are too many. And that's mostly good, I just liked having a better sense of what was actually releasing than we have now.
Of course, the decline of the videogame journalism business doesn't help here at all. A lot of titles are only covered by random people on Youtube, not anything professional, but considering everything, from the decline in game journalism revenues to the growth in releases, I get it. It's just kind of unfortunate... there are more games than ever now, but fewer reliable, trustworthy ways than ever to judge their quality.
