I don't get it! One minute, I'm watching Desperate Housewives, the next I'm in a relatively pathetic fight over some red dirt. Oh wait, I was playing Advance Wars: Days of Ruin this whole time. At the start of each mission I just keep telling myself, "Wait, there's going to be something in this text that will be relevant to the next mission, and you don't want to miss it. There HAS TO BE!!!" But, no, wait, there isn't. UGH! Why even play a game if the story is not only pointless but has nothing to do with what you're doing? Last mission I played, the dialogue plateau'd throughout the entire cutscene to the point where, when it did drop off, I wasn't even expecting it to. I was just there, at a mission, ready to fight. But wait, wasn't I just back at the tent, picking flowers? Now, all of a sudden there's enemy planes (199% defenseless planes) in front of me and I kill them so I can go back to a comic book. Anyone else think this game was the Day of Ruin for this series, or haven't I been able to stomach enough to get to the good stuff?
This is obviously your first AW game. The writings always been corny. But who cares? It's fun. No one plays any advance wars games for the story.AnOffday
Agreed. The writing has always been like that of an 80's action movie. Corny, over the top one liners and such. And it doesnt effect my view of the series in any way. I enjoy the fantastic turn based strategy, not the story. But, i personally didnt find the story all that bad anyways...
Though, I will say that I am also a little disappointed in the story for Days of Ruin. It is because they made such a big deal before the game was released that DOR was going to have an all new type of story, darker and better, etc. The story definitely didn't not live up to its hype. It's really just the same old story and dialogue that all the other games had. It just has a different color scheme and different people than usual. But as others pointed out, this is not really a game that you play for its story. I'm enjoying the gameplay, though I miss the old COs.
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