/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3272358
>What are the saga phone games like, anyway?
I never played Emperor so I can't tell you much about it besides it being a card game with some SaGa mechanics slapped in.

Imperial is a web browser game, though you can play it on tablets as well so it's kind of a mobile game as well.

>most of the mechanics like sparking, stat gains and battle rank wouldn't work in a traditional phone game.

Actually, Imperial has those mechanics, you do spark but the difference is that sparking is now simplified, at certain difficulty ranks you get the chance of sparking a set tier of waza, that's it, no using other stuff to learn stronger waza and if you only take hard missions you only spark waza for that rank, anything lower or higher is automatically excluded.

Stat gains work similarly to the GB trilogy but you only have three main stats and items that can be used to gain stats in a subtable of stats which are very similar to Minstrel Song, HP grows as well but the game's AP is fixed to 50, you can train characters to make waza less costly though, or make them more powerful but more costly.

Also, character have a growth limit depending on rarity numbers, so once you reach a limit they won't get stats anymore, doing harder missions give you more level ups chances as well.

Battle Rank is now simply mission rank, since you select missions from our hub, which are all basically a gauntlet of battles in maze-like routes, so you have to manage splitting your party members around.

It's not a stellar game by all means, though it made HUGE progress since launch, it was almost literally unplayable compared to now, but it's great for the crossovers and fanservice, like having Gerard and Gustave becoming sworn friends, Robin and Alkaiser fighting together in the name of justice,Fuse dicking around with people like Boston and various shenanigans, the Knights finally being a fucking huge family so Ginny can finally be with Rich and see what her dad was like and so on.