Sea Manky's post reminds me that I never did finish Ring of Red, I got about halfway through, but I didnt care for the charactersor story. I hate seeing kids as leaders in war, so kid pilot was really annoying. Its ok to see kids who have been forced to fight, as that happens, but to see a large group of adult soldiers around a kid leader is such an obnoxius anime convention that I got fed up with it.
Only the sheer gameplay let me get through Advance Wars' Andy, but that game did not try to have a serious story. To top it off, the cuts in the story made it very difficult to follow.
That said, it had some great ideas for a mech game and was quite fun at times.
Enough time on the forum. Now back to trying to hunt down the Wonder Chef in Asgard in Tales of Symphonia.