Nintendo is lastly releasing Advance Wars: 1+2: Re-Boot Camp after shelving the Change remakes for a whole 12 months within the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Information of this got here throughout in the present day’s Nintendo Direct, the place the corporate reintroduced the technique recreation remake assortment with a brand new trailer and new launch date. The Change video games will launch on April 21.
Oddly sufficient, the presentation made no point out of the corporate’s reasoning for the unique delay, although the battle that put the sport on ice within the first place is nonetheless very a lot ongoing. As a substitute, the brand new trailer was a part of a montage that passed off halfway by the Direct presentation. Which appears one of the best ways to bury one thing like this so that you don’t even have to speak in regards to the specifics of why it’s acceptable to launch the sport now, versus a 12 months in the past. The Advance Wars sequence has a faction known as Blue Moon that’s based mostly off of Russia, so it is smart that the corporate would need to get a ways from present occasions earlier than launch. However these present occasions are nonetheless present.
The preliminary delay occurred again in March of final 12 months, with Nintendo saying it made the choice to place the sport on ice “in gentle of latest world occasions.” This occurred about two weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, and a few month earlier than the sport was initially scheduled to launch on Nintendo’s handheld/console hybrid.
Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp features a remake of each the unique Advance Wars and its sequel Advance Wars 2: Black Gap Rising. Each video games initially launched on the Sport Boy Advance in 2001 and 2003 respectively and had been developed by Clever Methods. The remakes are being developed by WayForward.