Hi Robin, welcome to the family!
From what I know, the game will have the same multiplayer aspects Awakening had, that means no PvP… yet… we might see that in the future, who knows!? That is actually one of the reasons I personally like Advance Wars, you get to play other players and even make your own maps. I’m sad they haven’t made a new one in so long… who knows what E3 holds!?
The main character will be the Avatar of this game and it will be a Dark Prince or Princess. I mentioned in my analysis that this character class has only been seen once before, in the case of Julius from Genealogy of the Holy War, so you might want to check that our for some extra details I talked about relating to this, that might suggest some things about the plot of the game.
I always end up playing these games in Normal and Casual modes nowadays since I don’t have the time to play them all at the same time and I like grinding my characters a little bit. I’m still in the middle of Awakening and I don’t even know if I will finish it, but I’m sure someday I will. This is one of the reasons I like the Blazing Sword (FE7), Hector’s story being the Hard mode gives you extra motivation to want to play it!
I’m curious about weapons not breaking in these games, since they are going to place more emphasis on which weapons you use against certain enemies instead. Should be interesting adjusting to this change!
I just hope they bring the Special Edition of the game with the three routes to the west too, that way I get to keep more memory for other things.
I will be posting some extra info on this interview later today.
Priam cosplay sounds fun! You can go fight for your friends, if you want to! ^_~’

Let’s say you are playing offensively, keeping your lord and healers to the rear, and the other player is playing defensively, keeping an iron wall around their lord. You may be able to eliminate the lord’s guards, but they will be able to resurrect the next turn, and trap your units in a pincer, one from the rear, two from the sides and the lord (which SHOULD be grinded like crazy) from the front. Let’s say they sent a paired unit after your lord. You’ve been screwed in a single turn. Your units are trapped and your lord is being pursued.

This could open a HUGE variety of new tactics, new plays. It could be game changing.

I, Personally, will wind up playing on casual for my first playthrough, then classic for the hell of it, followed by lunatic for the challenge, and then lunatic+ like the masochist I am.

Back to the multiplayer aspect I spoke of earlier, I loved awakening. Arguably one of the best 3ds games I’ve played. But it lacked that competitive PVP aspect I craved. Sure you had streetpass and double dual, which was fine, co-op’ s great, but I would have loved, and I mean LOVED to face off against a team NOT run by a stupid AI. Beat a computer? Ok. Beat a person, you’ve done something worth bragging about.

As for weapons not have limited uses… Yay!!!! I LOVED forging my own weapons in Awakening and naming them, and I’d get so upset when I’d have a sword twice as strong as the exalted falchion break after one battle, so this is a HUGE plus. Though I hope this isn’t the case in hard or classic mode.

All and all, this seems like it’s going to be one hell of a game. I’m unsurprised, what with the (well deserved) praise awakening had.

I’ll certainly keep this game(s) on my radar, and with what I’ve heard so far, I’ll be at the midnight release dressed as Priam.