Its like chess, but not as many pieces and when u move one of your characters close to the enemy and engage in fighting, your character and the enemies character gets placed in an arena where you use the nunchuck to control your char, press A to do a primary attack with whatever weapon you are wielding or press B to do a secondary attack that is alittle more powerfull but takes a few seconds to recharge.

So if you expect Heroes of might and magic-style combat you wont get it, but i still sort of like the way the battles are played out, and again to compare it to HOMM its quite abit slower,

I have not played it for long, and it wasnt really hard to understand the controlls (they are always displayed at the bottom of the screen), but i missed some kind of tutorial to show of the usefullness of chains, and making sure your chars are standning close to eachother on the "board".

Didnt get to switch around chars in the "teams" and also still got to try the versus-mode. so i cant really put a score on the game.