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• gamedeal user

  Feb 1, 2019

  I played Advance Wars religiously for many many years and have been waiting for something to scratch that itch for so very long now. Wargroove delivers everything I wanted so well, along with so many extras like functional online play and the awesome campaign creator. (really looking forward to what the community can make) If you ever liked Fire Emblem, Advance wars or anything they inspired you need this game. Here's hoping to religiously playing Wargroove for just as long!
• gamedeal user

  Feb 2, 2019

  11/10 Dogs don't die in combat, they just run away.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 7, 2020

  As someone who had never played the Advanced War games, Wargroove was very hard to get into. While I found each battle fun and sufficiently difficult, I couldn't find the motivation to keep on playing. A good early lot of my time playing was spent trying to get A-rank or above in the starting missions. However, once you really start to understand how the mechanics work, the game really starts to open up. Overall, it's a charming little game with a not-so-serious story and kickass music. The animations and graphics are really adorable too. It is also pretty difficult at times so if you are looking for a challenge, this game has it as well.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 3, 2019

  Excellent spiritual successor to advance wars Also incredible map/campaign editor, you can do so much with it. I recreated Chapter 22 of Fire Emblem Thracia 776, cutscenes and all.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 29, 2021

  I really, really keep trying to like this game. But I can't do it. It has such a good basis to build on, but wow there's so much stupid stuff that just completely blocks you from enjoying it. I wanted to write up a list of all my complaints, but Steam reviews restrict characters. So the main thing I'll focus on is the "difficulty" of the game. It's bad. It's really, really, really bad. First of all, all the missions in the game are pre-generated. There’s no randomness to the challenges you’ll face. They’re all predetermined, and that’s fine. That’s how Advance Wars was, too. Except most of the maps in Advance Wars felt semi-fair from the start. This is where the game starts to move away from Advance Wars and into “what the hell is this” territory. The game didn't invest in a strong AI, so the way it offsets this problem is by throwing 10 enemies for every 1 that you have. That's not an exaggeration; that's an accurate ratio. The problem with this is now your enemy doesn’t really have to play by a strategic rule set. They can just throw enemies at you nonstop with no worries about consequences. So it’s not really like playing against a chess opponent as much as it is fighting off a horde of zombies. But this gets even worse. The enemy isn’t just starting out with more units on the map, they’re starting out with more cities and barracks as well. So now they start the game producing 2-4 times as many units as you are. This problem is now huge. If you don't start the game by making ultra-precise moves, you'll immediately be swarmed by a never-ending horde of enemies and you'll have no hope of ever recovering. So you end up making 5 moves, seeing if it’s viable, and then restarting until you find the “correct” solution. The problem becomes so unbearable that Wargroove stops feeling like a strategy game and more like a puzzle solving game. So you’ll start to wonder if there’s a way to fix this problem so maybe you can enjoy the strategy aspects of the game. Well, let’s review our options. The first way to get out of this problem is to just not play the story. Just play against online opponents, for example. Well even after completing 6 missions in the story, I still only had one character I could play as. So that’s super lame. But it doesn’t matter, because I couldn’t find anybody to play with online. The second way is going to be custom modes. But I couldn’t find any custom modes in the game. My assumption is that they’re all locked behind the story mode content. Okay fine, so we’re back on the story. Is there a difficulty setting? The answer is yes! Unfortunately, it’s also the nail in the freaking coffin for this game. The way it creates difficulty settings in the game is by scaling how much damage you take, how much income you make, and how quickly your character's ultimate ability charges. So let’s recap. The game on its default settings doesn’t really feel like a strategy game with the freedom to choose how I approach problems. It feels like a puzzle game with very forced paths to victory. The way to offset this problem is by changing the rules of the game entirely to benefit me. That’s like if you started playing chess, but found it was too hard for a beginner. So to solve this problem, you disabled your enemy’s ability to capture your pieces. It’s the dumbest idea ever. You’re not even playing chess anymore. I don’t know what you’re playing, but it’s probably not fun for anybody. That’s what Wargroove did. The only way to offset the difficulty of the broken pre-generated missions is to literally break the game rules. The resulting game is not a strategy game. It is EITHER a puzzle game or a sandbox game. I found neither of these to be fun. It’s such a shame, because Advance Wars clearly inspired this. Advance Wars was an absolute blast to play. I beat every single Advance Wars 2 mission on both the normal and hard campaigns with an S-Rank. Even when the game gave your opponent a significant advantage, it felt like there were several ways to approach the challenge. For a moment, I thought it might actually just be a difficult strategy game, but when I’m retrying the game after my first five moves over and over and over again, I just don’t feel like I’m playing a strategy game. It feels like the game is just waiting for me to play the moves that it planned for me to play. And I just can’t enjoy that.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 31, 2023

  This review is right on the edge between positive and negative. Wargroove does a lot of things very well, but the last two missions in the campaign were very bad, and soured my opinion of the game as a whole.

  What is it?

  Wargroove is a turn-based, tactical strategy game, heavily inspired by the Advance Wars series on the GBA and Nintendo DS. Battles typically involve one or more armies, each with a headquarters, a powerful commander unit, troops, and buildings like barracks where you can spend gold to produce troops. On a player's turn, each unit can move and take an action (usually attacking an enemy unit or building). On offense, a unit attacks first, then takes counterattack damage from the enemy unit. Damage dealt is proportional to the health of the attacking unit (a unit at 100% health deals much more than a unit at 10% health), which means that a lot of the strategy involves getting the first strike, in order to cripple your enemy's ability to counterattack. A team wins by either defeating their opponent's commander or destroying their headquarters.

  The Good:

  Wargroove does an excellent job of capturing the spirit of 2000s handheld turn based tactical games like Advance Wars. The spritework and visuals are excellent. While the writing and voice acting doesn't really work for me as an adult, It feels like an intentional attempt to faithfully capture the tone and maturity level of GBA Advance Wars / Fire Emblem / etc. The game also has a considerable amount of content, between a fairly lengthy campaign, a long list of (surprisingly complicated) puzzles, and an arcade mode. Ultimately if you have nostalgia for Advance Wars, you'll probably like this game, which is why I give it a positive review.

  The Mediocre:

  These type of games can often feel quite slow, which is not a problem for everyone, but can be annoying to some players, and can be really annoying if missions are designed poorly. Basically because getting the first strike is so valuable (and getting hit by the first strike is so disastrous) it is fairly hard to push forward aggressively. Often the best strategy vs the AI in the campaign is to move your units right up to the edge of the opponent's attack range, so that they can't attack you, but if they try to move forward you can attack them. As a result, lots of missions involve a very slow and methodical push. Most missions are won by slowly developing control over the map and developing total unit superiority (e.g., you have 20 units, your enemy only has 5) before pushing in to win. The end result is that you can "win" many missions by turn 6 or so (in that, if you continue to play adequately you will almost certainly win), but you can't actually end the mission until turn 16-20, so it often feels like you are just "going through the motions" until the level ends. Another strange decision was introducing the water units so late into the game. Some of the best missions were the ones where I had access to land, sea, and air units, because that's when the strategy of the game is at its best. It was interesting to, e.g., play a more guerrilla style land game against my opponent's superior land forces while I developed ocean superiority, knowing that I could eventually win the land game with the aid of long range warships. When the game is just ground units (or even ground and air), many of those strategic decisions don't exist. But because they introduce ships so late into the game, there are only like 3 or 4 missions where it really feels I was getting the whole experience.

  The Bad:

  Far too many of the campaign missions involve no production buildings (barracks, sea ports, air unit producers), and just involve the player pushing a clump of units against an enemy with horrible AI but a much much larger set of units. These missions are extremely tedious, because the gameplay devolves into checking your opponent's movement and attack ranges and slowly pushing right to the edge of those ranges, trying to minimize the damage your army takes because you have no way to reinforce and have limited healing. They generally play out like a much worse version of Fire Emblem. There is maybe one or two of these that were legitimately interesting, but most of them were just slogs. I think it would be OK if they were side missions, but several of them are mandatory missions. Even worse, for whatever reason, the final mission and the epilogue mission are both the most egregious examples of this type of gameplay. I met the conditions for unlocking the epilogue mission, saw the starting unit positions, then quit the game without even attempting it. It's maybe the least interesting final stretch in any game I've ever played. If any developer reads this, please don't put these kind of levels in the sequel, or at the very least, keep them as shorter side missions.

  TL;DR:

  Overall a good, lovingly-crafted AdvanceWars-esque game with some horribly unsatisfying campaign levels, particularly at the end of the game.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 11, 2022

  "Advance Wars, refined." 313 hours on file, that's probably accurate, there's a lot of afk time (great type of game to play before bed) on this steam version and I've played on the Switch as well. I just can't find many games with a battle system like this (Fire Emblem comes close but it's not close enough!!!) Beautiful art and animations, a lovely story too, and the intro cinematic is incredible. Units are balanced very well, you have so many great choices for unit composition because of how useful they can all be in their own way. The commander units have really fun skills (it's their "Groove.") They don't grant any passive buffs/debuffs to the army (if you're here because of Advance Wars) but there are a TON of commanders to play with and they will certainly change your playstyle anyhow. The campaign is huge and filled with side quests... and some time after release they released a co-op campaign (you can play it solo, you basically control two commanders and their armies one after another) so... yeah... there is a ton of content for this game. Oh yeah, and that co-op update added more commanders too, super cool! There's fun to be had in arcade mode as well, and they make it this little mini-story so it's worth completing with each commander! They get a special ending... a weird reference here but... if you know how the Twisted Metal endings went... it's something like that! Very fun!!! And as if there wasn't enough fun to have in this truly sprawling game, there are some pretty decent custom maps that the community has made, thanks to all of the dev support it's very easy/comfy to browse and download custom content. I don't think any of it compares to the main campaign but some come very close! And that's not to say the custom content is weak, rather the mainline stuff is just so well done it's hard for anyone to compete. An old friend who was obsessed with Advance Wars and it's sequel suggested this game to me, I had never played AW before so this was new to me and I absolutely love it. I went and played AW (currently still playing it) not only to experience the "original" but because it's so hard to find a tactics game of this specific format. Sooooo... having played AW now (I love it as well) I actually think Wargroove is BETTER than it's predecessors on the GBA. --------------------- VERY worth your time, it's an absolute STEAL at the current price point, if this game interests you you should NOT feel bad about picking it up at full price. --------------------- Extra note - the controls are really comfy, controller, kb/m, they're both super duper comfy.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 2, 2021

  Get your Advance Wars fix right here! Wargroove is to Advance Wars as Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is to Final Fantasy Tactics: a loving homage that makes you briefly question what does and doesn't constitute copyright infringement. But, when you've had the same itch for a decade, you're grateful to whomever finally scratches it.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 6, 2020

  TLDR: good game that unfortunately is a bit too lacking in depth and complexity to really recommend. A lot of recommendations for Wargroove hinges on how it fills a void left by the absence of the Advance Wars franchise, sadly I feel Wargroove falls short. To me Wargroove is nearly perfect except for one issue, and it is a particularly big issue. Each army and each commander is identical in all but two aspects: the sprites and the groove (or character ultimate in general terms). Gone are the strengths and weaknesses that made finding a particular strategy for each CO so interesting, gone is having to adjust your strategy to counter a bad matchup resulting in an interesting up hill battle. When I played AW all those years back I was excited to try different COs switching between Andy/Max/Sami significantly effected my play style and I was hanging on and excited to see what new COs I will face next and what abilities they would bring to the table. I play Wargroove and the differences between commanders are so small that frankly speaking I'm not interested in trying our Greenfinger, Emeric or Ragna let alone trying out arcade or multiplayer mode at all. At the end of the day when I asked myself if I would still recommend Wargroove my decision came down to this. At the time of writing I am just over 5 hours in and although the art, characters and music are excellent, I'm not interested in playing this game anymore. Sorry Chucklefish but here's to hoping for Wargroove 2 and any improvements that might come with it.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 3, 2019

  One of the protagonists is a dog.