History YMMV / NintendoWars

** The ending has [[spoiler:Caulder's VillainousBreakdown. After watching him spend the ''entire game'' smugly preaching about the meaningless of human life, treating survivors as test subjects in his experiments, and enjoying every second of putting people into {{sadistic choice}}s purely to see what they'd do when faced with death, he completely breaks down and ''begins screaming about how he's different and unique, and literally begging for someone, anyone, to save his life'' is utterly ''wonderful'']].

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: It's pretty obvious that the [[HintSystem War Room scenes]] in ''Days of Ruin'' (at least in the US translation) are [[GameplayAndStorySegregation there for the player's benefit and have nothing to do with the game's canon.]] It's the only explanation for things like Isabella doing a television show routine with [[NotSoAboveItAll Lin]] in Chapter 10 when the former [[spoiler:is supposed to be bedridden and dying of the Creeper]], or enemy CO's like General Forsythe and Tabitha stopping by to give you extensive tactical advice on how to defeat... [[FriendlyEnemy their own armies]].

*** Over which of the American ''Days of Ruin'' or European ''Dark Conflict'' translation is better. Some people prefer the {{Woolseyism}}[=-=]filled script of ''Days of Ruin'', while others prefer the more straight translation of ''Dark Conflict''.

* PolishedPort: Advance Wars 1 + 2: Re-Boot Camp, aside from having excellent 3D graphics and higher quality sound and music, and the inclusion of voice acting, is made even better with the removal of a good number of [[ScrappyMechanic Scrappy Mechanics]] that plagued the originals and the inclusion of some quality-of-life changes and, best of all, adding in online and offline multiplayer modes for up to 4 players to enjoy and even a user-friendly LevelEditor mode where players can create their own custom maps and share them with other players. Aside from a few nitpicks that weren't present in the original versions of Advance Wars 1 or 2, Creator/WayforwardTechnologies deserves to be commended for their efforts in making two excellent remakes that are faithful to the spirits of the originals.

** Generally speaking, a lot of characters had this issue in the first game due to a combination of their eagerness to throw troops at their opponents for fun, without any indication that they’re not using live ammo. Later games tone this down with Black Hole being more relevant in maps, though there’s still shades of it there.

** The ending has [[spoiler:Caulder's VillainousBreakdown. After watching him spend the ''entire game'' smugly preaching about the meaningless of human life, treating survivors as test subjects in his experiments, and enjoying every second of putting people into {{sadistic choice}}s purely to see what they'd do when faced with death, his DeathRattle where he completely breaks down and ''begins screaming about how he's different and unique, and literally begging for someone, anyone, to save his life'' is utterly ''wonderful'']].

* StressRelievingGameplay: Any particularly good turn where you pop your Super CO power, can now one-shot a variety of units that you'd normally do around 75-95% damage to, and you get to just run around for that entire turn [[OneHitKO eating half of your opponent's army]]. Mmmm... delicious.

** Having less defense is asking for a CO to freely give the opposition a massive attack increase by default. If Grimm players wonder where their units went, they are quickly gone.

*** [[BigBad Caulder]], head of [[PrivateMilitaryContractors IDS]], is the MadScientist responsible for almost all the misery in the game. Beginning his life as a clone who murdered his own creator and every other version of himself, Caulder has spent every waking moment of his life since the apocalypse making life even more wretched for the remaining survivors. Caulder endorses monsters like the Beast and Admiral Greyfield, and is responsible for the creation of a horrifying virus called the Creeper Derangea, which [[BodyHorror causes plant life to burst through the infected's skin]]. Unsatisfied with how the Creeper only effected the young, Caulder improved the virus to infect anyone and spread undetected, deeming the resulting mass panic and deaths as "fascinating". Caulder is also [[AbusiveParents hideously abusive to his own cloned children]]: he attempted to bodyjack Cyrus in an attempt to gain immortality, then poisons Cyrus with something meant to kill him as slowly as possible once he betrays him; drove Penny insane with his experiments and tries to have her to die on the Great Owl; intends to dissect his "haywire" daughter, Isabella; and ultimately rules all of them "abject failures".

** First game & ''Black Hole Rising'': [[AliensAreBastards Sturm]], first [[BigBad commander]] of Black Hole, [[TheChessmaster engineers a massive war]] to weaken the nations of Wars World so he can sweep in and crush them without any resistance. Driven back at first, Sturm returns shortly thereafter with another massive war. Uncaring what he crushes in the process, Sturm decides to unleash an apocalypse upon the world with a [[DoomsdayDevice doomsday weapon]] before attempting to destroy his base to [[TakingYouWithMe take everyone present with him in defeat]].