January 24, 2008
Still Burned Out On The Most Advanced Wars…
Great Batman Story or The Greatest Batman Story? You decide.
So I find that, even given that it’s been a couple years (okay, apparently a little less than 2) since I played an Advance Wars title, I am still burned out on it. I played the first two on GBA SO DAMN MUCH. So much. I can’t focus on more than maybe one or two battles in a go, and then I just have to put Days of Ruin down. Don’t get me wrong, it’s an amazing, well made game… but I’ve just played it so much that even the new and welcome tweaks to the formula aren’t enough to get me over my… boredom, I guess, with the core gameplay. Not bored… I don’t know. I just look at the next mission and in my head I KNOW how many turns it will take me to beat, and I just don’t want to go through that. So I turn off the DS until later. I don’t know. Don’t let these comments keep you from buying it, because, as I said, it is a very nice re-envisioning of some of the more ridiculous aspects of the previous game (Dual Strikes were just… obscene and ridiculous and there was no way they were ever going to balance them… or most of the crazy-ass CO powers, really…) into a more balanced, interesting experience. It’s good. I just can’t play it for long periods of time. Just like I couldn’t when Mario Golf: Advanced Tour came out… I’ve played so much Mario Golf SO MUCH. I love it dearly, but oh so much of it have I played…
I should do a Review Extravaganza Xday on Undertow perhaps. I dunno. Whatever. I’m going to try to beat another mission in Advance Wars: Days of Ruin before I get sick of it again.