{"id":415,"date":"2008-01-31T11:37:47","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T17:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/2008-01-31\/advance-wars-days-of-ruin\/"},"modified":"2008-01-31T11:37:47","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T17:37:47","slug":"advance-wars-days-of-ruin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/31\/advance-wars-days-of-ruin\/","title":{"rendered":"Advance Wars &#8211; Days of Ruin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/advanceds.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"advanceds.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>Advance Wars is a series I should enjoy more than I do. There&#8217;s something about the happy, happy take on warfare I always found vaguely off-putting and the series is marred, in my opinion, by way too much writing. Still, they&#8217;re great for kids &#8211; they&#8217;re easy to learn, hard to master, and the tactical challenge is brain-teasingly fun and second to none. WhatTheyPlay has published my takes on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whattheyplay.com\/products\/advance-wars-2-black-hole-rising-for-game-boy-advance\/\">Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising for GBA<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whattheyplay.com\/products\/advance-wars-dual-strike-for-nintendo-ds\/\">Advance Wars: Dual Strike<\/a>, and now they&#8217;ve put up my take on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whattheyplay.com\/products\/advance-wars-days-of-ruin-for-nintendo-ds\/\">Advance Wars: Days of Ruin<\/a>. An excellent new direction for the series where the story gets darker, the warfare is still happy, and the gameplay is still unparalleled and perfectly safe for kids as young as 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advance Wars is a series I should enjoy more than I do. There&#8217;s something about the happy, happy take on warfare I always found vaguely off-putting and the series is marred, in my opinion, by way too much writing. Still, they&#8217;re great for kids &#8211; they&#8217;re easy to learn, hard to master, and the tactical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}