Jutei Senki is a turn-based strategy game, never released outside of Japan. The game takes place in an alternate universe where centuries ago humanity and their tree soldiers called Junei fight against Letum, a race of robots powered by magic. The player commands the human army. The mission in each battle is to defeat the enemy army or take their headquarters in a limited amount of turns. In the human army's main building, the player can recruit new soldiers, but their number is limited. Each unit has its own statistics, including range, speed and attack power. Battles are carried out automatically, with animations on a separate screen. There are three mission modes which include Campaign, Tutorial, and Expert modes and there is also a two-player versus mode.
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Jutei Senki is a very simplistic strategy RPG, that doesn’t bother with any kind of between-battle kind of story at all, short of the battle’s title. Kind of refreshing, but the intro is just so cool! It really makes you wonder what the hell is going on, other than people just, you know, fighting each other. There’s no real rules as far as unit type goes either; apart from their stats (strength, defense, range, anti-air capability, etc.), a Toy is a Bobby is a Jaggy is a Rider, pretty much. So if you’re looking for some kind of amazing Tactics Ogre this-beats-that-but-not-this game, this is not the one to look forward to.
As soon as you click on a unit, its range lights up in a circle around it. You can move around anywhere in that circle, terrain and other units permitting. Which is cool. Once you attack an enemy, there’s a wicked little battle animation that shows your unit attacking. Honestly, this is the highlight of the game. Those just plain rock. The hizzouse, that is. As far as the rest of the graphics go, though… eh. They’re just a bunch of tiny little icons, so what do you expect.