8th May 2023, 5:31 AM
(This post was last modified: 8th May 2023, 5:35 AM by Dark Jaguar.)
Maybe, DO dramatically change the games? As an aside, these are more than rereleases now. They completely redid the game in modern 3D polygon graphics and with much higher quality sound.
Funny thing is, Days of Ruin (The last of the DS Wars games) was a whole new timeline that treated war like war. Maybe instead of remakes, we should have gotten a new game entirely?
Keep in mind Japan as a whole are still struggling with facing their war crimes during WW2 head on. Of course the current generation are not the generation that did said war crimes, but not teaching that reality especially with such horrible things as abducted "comfort" women and so on which they still officially deny even happened is not going to help. Indeed, there's a growing sentiment that they should alter the constitution to allow them to declare war and keep an invading force instead of their purely defensive one. That constitution was one the allies forced them to sign in the closing of WW2 of course, but it's not a good sign that there's political pressure to undo that and ignore what led to it.
Glass houses mind you. The U.S. is going through it's own war crime denial phase right the heck now. It really goes to show that even a cute little strategy game like Advance Wars is inescapably political.
Funny thing is, Days of Ruin (The last of the DS Wars games) was a whole new timeline that treated war like war. Maybe instead of remakes, we should have gotten a new game entirely?
Keep in mind Japan as a whole are still struggling with facing their war crimes during WW2 head on. Of course the current generation are not the generation that did said war crimes, but not teaching that reality especially with such horrible things as abducted "comfort" women and so on which they still officially deny even happened is not going to help. Indeed, there's a growing sentiment that they should alter the constitution to allow them to declare war and keep an invading force instead of their purely defensive one. That constitution was one the allies forced them to sign in the closing of WW2 of course, but it's not a good sign that there's political pressure to undo that and ignore what led to it.
Glass houses mind you. The U.S. is going through it's own war crime denial phase right the heck now. It really goes to show that even a cute little strategy game like Advance Wars is inescapably political.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)