What should have been a best seller is a buggy mess
The game is virtually unplayable. The layout looks good, but whoever did the coding never bothered to polish it or even finish it. Some of the mingames, such as the ship game, simply don't work. The tactical combats are uncontrollable and tactically shallow - the game mainly devolved to having your blob of guys randomly collide with the enemy's random blob of guys. Sometimes the troops get stuck on the borders, and sometimes the game simply hangs.
The developers could have simply ported Koei's turn-based NES title, Nobunaga's Ambition, and they would have had a hit. A touch screen version of this game would have flown off game store shelves. Instead they opted for a RTS approach, got frustrated with trying to make it work, and finally gave up and released it unfinished.
All in all a very poor effort, for something that could and certainly should have been made to work, especially before releasing the game to the retail public. I'll certainly be more leery of other Namco titles in future.