I was rather surprised when they announced that the remake would be delayed because of the war in Ukraine but now that I've played the original for the first time I understand why they did so.

The fact they got away with making an actual war game so light-hearted and cheerful, where it's seen as a game even by the characters in-game really weirds me the fuck out. It's not like Fire Emblem where you control like one (1) singular knight and you fight a another singular soldier and they do a cool stylish strike, no, here you control whole regiments and troops firing at each other.

Beside that weird contrast, this game is rules. It's extremely engaging, you have a wide array of units to choose and control, the characters all have their pros and cons and are fun to experiment with, there's so many maps to choose from, the music slaps (that bass line literally does) and the pixel art looks topnotch. I also thought it was really balanced.

Though it can get a bit easy at time, with the AI sometime doing really dumb stuff, I still got a lot of fun.