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Advance Wars Returns

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July 17, 2021
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TL;DR Verdict

Advance Wars Returns earns a 0/10 woke score by delivering pure military strategy gameplay and a new campaign focused only on tactics and story, with zero identity politics or progressive messaging.

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Detailed Analysis

Advance Wars Returns is a 2021 fan-made ROM hack of Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising by developer Vivi The Blossom.

It features a brand-new story across 42 campaign missions, a reworked War Room, and modified CO powers and mechanics, all within the original GBA pixel-art style and turn-based military strategy framework. The provided screenshots show standard unit command gameplay, cartoonish CO portraits, and dialogue focused on battlefield tactics and experiments, consistent with the series' lighthearted war premise and lacking any modern identity framing.

As a fan ROM hack, the project includes no developer statements on DEI, representation, or activism. The new story and missions preserve the traditional military strategy premise without identity politics or social commentary. There is no character customization, romance systems, pronoun options, or altered established characters for diversity. This approach keeps the focus squarely on core gameplay and tactics, delivering an experience free of progressive messaging or forced thematic insertions.

Key Factors

  • Fan ROM hack with no developer statements on DEI, representation, or activism
  • New story and missions preserve traditional military strategy premise without identity politics or social commentary
  • No character customization, romance systems, pronoun options, or altered established characters for diversity

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We've run a full content analysis on Advance Wars Returns and scored it 0/10 on the woke scale. Read our detailed breakdown above to see exactly what we found.

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What kind of woke content is in Advance Wars Returns?

Our analysis checks for themes like identity politics, race-swapping, gender ideology, environmental activism, anti-religious messaging, and other progressive agenda elements. The score breakdown above shows which specific categories were flagged and how heavily they factor into Advance Wars Returns's overall score.

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We evaluate media across multiple ideological categories on a 0–10 scale. Scores of 0–3 mean story-first, 4–6 have moderate elements, and 7–10 flag heavily agenda-driven content. Learn more about our methodology →

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