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Advance Wars: Dual Strike

I really want them to bring back the alternate co outfits from advance wars dual strike (2005).

Advance Wars: Dual Strike

In an attempt to repeat the success of Advance Wars, the early outings of the DS saw the addition of Advance Wars: Dual Strike. Seemingly trying to do things sufficiently different, Dual Strike takes place upon another continent in a different area of the Wars World geoscape called Omegaland. Recognizing Black Hole as an international threat, the four nations have formed the Allied Nations and have deployed various COs in an effort to curb the threat there. While the preceding game featured many of the same COs, and added some new ones on top of that, Dual Strike takes a bit of a different approach, introducing the player to new COs first and familiar ones later. Dropping the ball however is the villainous cast, with two of the new COs being borderline copy-pastes of ones introduced in Advance Wars 2. 

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Advance Wars: Dual Strike (2005)

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Get in loser we're gonna listen to Advance Wars Dual Strike OST Track 14 - Jess's theme

The nostalgia cycle got me again lads 😞

thinkin about how as the art style got more realistic in the Advance Wars sequels, they took what was originally just an overexaggerated looking-down-over-shoulder pose and canonically gave Grit scoliosis

That's a nice DS water!

Thank god our armed forces are in good hands i would die for this idiot

Why is Mistwalker’s Description Wrong in Advance Wars DS? (lostinlocalization.com)

This is neat. Have you ever played Dual Strike and wondered why equipping Mistwalker never made your units invisible during a Super CO Power? Well, it's a mistranslation! But the how and why of it came to be is pretty interesting. There's no clear answer why loc then made such a big whoopsie but you kiiinda see where they missed a step or three. Check it out.

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Advance Wars: Dual Strike

Longplay - Advance Wars: Dual Strike

Advance Wars: Dual Strike (2005)

UNCOMFORTABLE ADVANCE WARS RECAP

We got:

* Orange Star! Pew pew, ‘Murica! Just like in real life, they’re the main characters of everything. Our commanders include President Hot Aunt Vibes, Ash Ketchum with wrenches, Steroids Man, GI Jane, and a little old Japanese shop keeper for some reason.

* Blue Moon! Russia but without the unrelenting horror! So many vague communist aesthetics but without anything to show for it, you’d think it was the Democratic Socialists of America. Our commanders include Actual General Winter, Lazy Cowboy, and a rich nepotism baby who fights with human wave tactics (which might be the most Russian thing ever put in a game).

* Gold Comet! Imperial Japan but now with 100% fewer blood-curdling war crimes! Originally called ‘Yellow Comet,’ but someone at Nintendo finally realized that this was a REALLY questionable thing to call an Asian country. Our commanders include an emperor who proves that it’s possible to be both Japanese AND a weeb, the only intelligent person in the entire series, and Grandpa ‘Nam Veteran.

* Green Earth! Slutty Eurotrash with tanks! Very insistent that nothing whatsoever happened between 1933 and 1945, thank you very much. Our commanders include Blitzkrieg Bishonen, the lovechild of Stede Bonnett and Jimmy Buffett, and tank lesbian.

* Black Hole! They’re the Bad Guys! They appear to be aliens, Nazis, and/or Hot Topic mall goths- but their similarities to the people of New Hampshire end there. They’re here to conquer the planet, despoil the environment, and make angry YouTube videos complaining about ’forced diversity.’ Commanders include Literally Darth Hitler, the obligatory dumb brute that every bad guy squad is required to hire thanks to Affirmative Action, Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way, a sexier Marilyn Manson, and Scar Fullmetal Alchemist.

Dual Strike, which is (honestly thankfully) not included in the remake, also adds the following commanders: Nuclear Nepotism, a white boy trying to become a rapper, another rich communist, Kamikaze Wario, Don fucking Quixote, meme robot, hobbit ninja, Karen, and Somehow Palpatine Has Returned

Advance Wars: Dual Strike review.

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