Mamatoto:Game mechanics

Game Play
For each "chapter", except for the first one (intro chapter), you get to choose whether to move on with the story or attack monsters. This makes the game really easy, since you don't need to fight monsters, however fighting against monsters is useful as it gives you experience, and "cards.

The story involves conquering other nations. After you finish fighting monsters, you go back to the choice of whether to go on with story, or attack monsters again.

Battle System
There are three types of battles:

1. Dungeon - in dungeons, you can send in a few generals, the number depending on the specific dungeon. They go in, kill all the monsters, and win. If one "dies", you can send in a replacement.The "dead" one's come back to you after the chapter ends, so it's not really dead. Just ran out of HP.

2. Invade - you get to send in more generals, and again, wipe out enemy.

3. Defend - use it when enemy attack your fortress ("Mamatoto"). In defend, there are two stages

a) First Stage - Fight at the entrance of the fortress. You pick one general, who can commend magical soldiers who are made out of cards. The number of solders you can place on the field depends on the general's "command" ability.

The object of First stage, is to prevent as many enemy troops from getting into the "heart" room of mamatoto as possible. Enemy appear in waves, and will do their best to rush behind your lines (to the left of the screen), First stage ends when all the enemies are either dead, or made it to the heart room, or if your general died. If your general died, then all the rest of the enemy will make it to the heart room.

b) Second Stage - Fight in the heart room. In the second stage, you are in the heart room, and you send out all your generals to defend.The enemy will try to run to the heart, and you want to prevent that.

The heart has a certain HP. if it reaches 0, then mamatoto gets busted, and you lose. So you send out all your generals hoping to kill them. The heart does have an automatic defense system. so any enemy that makes it to the heart will die, but they will also damage the heart depending on their own remaining HP.

I would advise to let as many enemies into the second tage as you can level up your five generals (that are taking part in second stage) level up way faster.

Status Screen
On status screen you can see three colums:

Left Column (going down): 1) Current Exp, 2) Exp Needed, 3) Current HP, 4) Max HP

Middle Column (going down): 1) Attack, 2) Magic, 3) Hit, 4) Movement

Right Column (going dow): 1) Defense, 2) Resistance 3) Evade, 4) Range

Under the portrait of the character:

1. Number of subordinates (card soldiers) you can lead on the field

2. Command power (affects movement range of fighters, and maybe other card soldiers too

3. Special move. Special move is done by +  For every one extra command power, your fighters get one extra movement range.

On the top left, you see two percentage numbers:

1. Chance to deal critical

2. Chance to counter