{"id":119,"date":"2003-07-01T23:40:53","date_gmt":"2003-07-01T22:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2007-09-11T07:11:54","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T06:11:54","slug":"advance-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/07\/advance-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Advance Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"red\">GBA<\/font>,<font color=\"orange\">Turn-based strategy<\/font>,<font color=\"green\">9\/10<\/font> &#8211; <u>June 2003<\/u><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/GameReviewImages\/advanceWarsDualStrike.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\nNintendo does chess. This is a game of tactics and like chess things aren&#8217;t left to chance, you can get to know the exact outcome of a clash between 2 units. Unfortunately it seems to be geared towards kids but you wont be able to win by force-in-numbers rather than skill. The units all have strengths and weaknesses and a attack-range and the key-to-success comes in balancing your forces so they are strong together. Victory over the opponent is satisfying.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great game, very addictive and perfect for the handheld.<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=\"red\">Killer App Award! > A reason to own a GBA<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GBA,Turn-based strategy,9\/10 &#8211; June 2003 Nintendo does chess. This is a game of tactics and like chess things aren&#8217;t left to chance, you can get to know the exact outcome of a clash between 2 units. Unfortunately it seems to be geared towards kids but you wont be able to win by force-in-numbers rather than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}