GREE returns to mobile phones

The Japanese company GREE has announced a butler with a Fire Emblem action game, which will be released not only on smartphones, but also on feature phones.

GREE, one of the largest Japanese developers and publishers of mobile games, currently does not have a single project in the Japanese box office top of the iPhone App Store. It cannot be called an alarm bell, it is rather a ringing of a bell. Therefore, it is not surprising that a company that was growing wildly two years ago is now being thrown into experiments.

Lost Land Tactic, which GREE announced yesterday, can hardly be called anything else. Visually, starting from the first trailer, you might think that the game is a kind of Scrolls from Mojang with a traditional collectible card add–on.

Our first assumption was as follows: the key game mechanics is a proven turn-based battle on a small playing field, where the role of units is played by cards divided by profession (swordsman, magician, and so on). The player, as, for example, in Fire Emblem, constantly fights with opponents, pumps character cards, grows in levels and so on.

But, according to the press release, the main feature of the game is the Live Online Strategy Turn Battle system. That's how the developers called the opportunity to fight "wall to wall" for up to 10 players simultaneously in an online step-by-step mode. However, how this will happen is not entirely clear. 

The game will be released in Japan this summer on smartphones and feature phones (the latter once again hints at how bad things are for GREE, since she decided to release new projects on the dying platform that once gave her life).

Source: http://gamebiz .jp/?p=129556