In the main menu, you can choose to start a new game, load your saved game, change some settings, and go to ea related stuff.
After selecting new game, you'll be at the campaign menu. Here, there are 2 campaigns, which is fellowship(the good side) and mordor(the evil side). The default option is fellowship, so just press the x button to select it.
After selecting a campaign, you will be presented with 3 options. This is the difficulty setting, so choose with the up or down arrow and press x. The cursor by default starts at medium, so if you want to play easy, press up and press x.
When the opening movie is finished, you are at a menu again, to buy items and upgrading your character. I don't know if we can upgrade the characters or not, so just press x to skip this screen. Then, you'll be presented with menus to select your mission, so just press x twice to play. Everytime you complete a mission, the cursor automatically placed at the next mission, which is a good thing.
Now, for the gameplay. The game play consists of 2 fazes, the movement faze and attack faze. In movement faze, you'll be able to move your character. The good thing is, the movement is very limited to grids, so if you reach a place that you can't move, you'll hear a sound for it.
To move a character, press x, you'll hear a sound indicating that you are in move mode. To move, press the direction that you want to move and press x to confirm the move. After confirming the move, it will automatically switch to the next character so you can move them.
To end the faze press the circle button and press x to confirm. When you ebd your turn, sometime you'll hear a sound indicating that you or the enemy is at a melee range. When the music changes, you are nowcat the attack faze.
To attack, press x and select the target and press x again to confirm. To use an item or skill, press x to hightlight the current character, then press square to open a menu. If you want to use an item, press x and select the item that you want to use, then select a target to use that item.
To use skill, in the items and skills menu, press down and press x to open the skills menu. When that menu opens, select your skill, confirm it with x, then select a target. To end the turn, press circle, then press x to confirm. You'll hear you and the enemy is attacking, and after that's done, you'll be back at the movement faze.
going in to the wilds, collecting pokedex, and capturing them are my kind of thing,
training them, making them evolve, and generally making them stronger is my ultimate goal,
fighting other manamon tamers, winning the tournament, and fighting octoros are what these manamons like to do,
and ultimately, I become the master of mana!