Princess General:Gameplay

The game begins as Riui is preparing to attack the village, and follows his campaigns.

Map view
The game is advanced by selecting a location on the map. A red flag mark’s Riui’s base, and a blue flag marks the location of the next required battle. Visiting a location on the map costs a certain number of days: 3 for locations that require you to battle to advance the story, and 1 for other locations. You can choose where you want to visit, but after a certain number of days pass, you will be automatically made to visit the blue flag location and thus advance the main storyline.

To fill up time, before visiting the blue flag location, you usually want to visit Riui’s base. Other locations sometimes contain events too. At the start of the game, you will have 3 events in your queue. Once you view them (it will be day 4) there are no more events in your queue, so you can either watch random events of no consequence, or you can head to the pioneer village before the deadline.

The map can be switched between two views: a bird's eye view and the labyrinth view. The Bureado labyrinth runs underground through the entire kingdom; battles may take place above ground or below it.

Battles
Battles have a set number of rounds and 50 frames within each round. You can control each unit and make it attack, search, move, etc. Different actions require you to wait a different number of frames before you can perform another action with that unit. Riui is the only unit that can summon other units, and also recall any of them one at a time. The game can be saved after each round. When a unit dies, it's permanently lost.

Units
The player starts with 5 units, Riui and 4 subordinates: Raja, Risuti, Peterene, and an earthman mazoku. Their stats can be viewed from the menu, and items can be assigned to different units.

Units have an alignment associated with them, and units of a certain alignment have an advantage over units of another alignment. Obtainable units are of the 4 elemental alignments and the dark alignment. Periodically, battle maps will contain pillars that only Riui is able to unseal and which allow him to recruit elemental mazoku.

Units can receive class upgrades with special items. Some items, crests for each alignment, can be used when the unit reaches a specified level, while others have an undisclosed level requirement and require you to visit Riui's base and experience an H scene to upgrade.