A Challenging game that will probably kill you in flash many times.
The story starts when five Peddan soldier are trap and embushed on a routine mission. with the only help of your fellow friends heroes and your ship. Your ship also enables you to summon troops (who are actually different kind of monsters from the Mana serie). and while traveling the world you will meet new allies and new rivals.
Graphic- the graphics uses 2D sprites on a 3D rotating background. the graphics are comparable to the ones seen in Final Fantasy Tactic and the cutscene are animes. Tha cutscene are quite frequent for a RTS and the picture is beautiful.
Sound- As any other RTS you only have a couple of theme songs, it is pretty standard. as for the cutscene the sound as a high quality witch is really good for the DS.
Gameplay- The gameplay is pretty ruff to get a hang of it but once you are done with the tutorials it actually is pretty easy to get around. the stylus can select troups by freezing the time frame and circled around the troops. you can also select your trops as a quick command by classes or by individual using icons in the bottom of the screen.
in conclusion, This game is well worth it for any Mana fan or any RTS fan but on the bad note, unless you like a really good challenge you will get frustrated because of the difficulty level. you could rent this game but because of the long starting tutorials youll have to start over everytime...it took me an average of 40hrs to complete the game.