thanks for all of your comments i have a better idea of what the game is about.
do you buy wapons for each class or can you upgrade them?? or is just the character that lvls up?

You get money and XP from completing missions, amounts depend on how well you do. XP is spent on levelling classes, and money is spend on upgrading armor and weapons (you can buy small extra missions, they're quite neat)

Videogirl said:   @OP Because everybody says so. A little update on Amazon's current ratings : 71 Reviews 5 star:  (68) 4 star:  (2) 3 star:  (1) 2 star:    (0) 1 star:    (0)         (The poor guy who gave it 3 stars got trashed by the other reviewers).

This in a nutshell.

You also get new weapons sometimes when you earn medals or rewards.

According to VGChartz (shown below) Valkyria Chronicles is 4x more popular in Japan than Advance Wars (which only Dual Strike was released in Japan). If we look in the US (only other place with sales information for Advance Wars) Advance Wars is 3-4x more popular than VC. Since we don't have others data, we can't compare over there, but overall VC will probably end up selling similar amounts to the two advance wars games once you factor in Others.

Valkyria Chronicles

Region	Japan	America	Others	Total
Total Sales	0.16m	0.09m	0.08m	0.33m

Advance Wars: Dual Strike

Region	Japan	America	Others	Total
Total Sales	0.04m	0.30m	0.00m	0.34m

Advance Wars: Days of Ruin

Region	Japan	America	Others	Total
Total Sales	0.00m	0.38m	0.00m	0.38m

@nordlead

It's a shame we don't have Others numbers for the Advance Wars series, but I think they've sold rather good over here (as far as I know very popular in Germany) and I doubt VC could reach similar sales in Others.

nordlead said: Barozi said: Actually Advance Wars (all of them) had recieved better reviews and sold better than Valkyria Chronicles, so your arguments are meaningless According to VGChartz (shown below) Valkyria Chronicles is 4x more popular in Japan than Advance Wars (which only Dual Strike was released in Japan). If we look in the US (only other place with sales information for Advance Wars) Advance Wars is 3-4x more popular than VC. Since we don't have others data, we can't compare over there, but overall VC will probably end up selling similar amounts to the two advance wars games once you factor in Others. Valkyria Chronicles Region Japan America Others Total Total Sales 0.16m 0.09m 0.08m 0.33m Advance Wars: Dual Strike Region Japan America Others Total Total Sales 0.04m 0.30m 0.00m 0.34m Advance Wars: Days of Ruin Region Japan America Others Total Total Sales 0.00m 0.38m 0.00m 0.38m

Your picking cherries. V_V unless I'm missing something, one speaks of reviews the other speaks of sales; in the end your talking about acceptance, but your speaking specifically for Japan? I'm pretty sure Barozi is speaking some form of English... and I'm pretty sure Japan isn't an English speaking country despite who owned them before 2000 was it?

In the end up to your post, Barozi wasn't incorrect, your spinning me around though; nothing personal.

@bolded:

Untrue

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/cube/advancewarsunderfire?q=%22advance%20wars%22

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/ds/advancewarsdaysofruin?q=%22advance%20wars%22

Actually I think that this is a great positive point of VC, for it's totally unrealistic the enemy would do nothing but wait for you to attack while you are moving and I think it makes the battles in VC far more intense and immersive.

Holy shit !

I heard of Battalion Wars, but I never thought that it could be in the same series as Advance Wars.

I looked it up on Wikipedia and realized that the series is far bigger than I thought at first. ( I only know the GBA and DS games)

and yeah I forgot Days of Ruin sry