Beat on loan from my coworker using her DS. As much as I like tactical and strategy rpgs, this was not a good game at all. The combat system is retarded with each character being able to attack every target that they move through without any kind of counterattacks. Making a battle line is useless because the enemy can attack the entire line and end their move behind the line. The only sensible way I found to play was to cram my units into alcoves without any accessible empty spaces for the enemy to end their turn, or at least only a few they could use. This meant most enemies could not attack and I used ranged units to kill them while my melee units mostly just stood there until I got the upper hand. I missed some recruitable characters, which made the game far more difficult. It was not any better given that characters that fall in battle are massively gimped for the next battle, and how my units never seemed to have the useful skills the enemies had.

It is like Fire Emblem, but dumb. 5.5/10.