In Aedis Eclipse, there are three worlds; the island of Aedis, the lower world; Greckland, and the Devine world; Galadia. Players start in Aedis, where Quinn, a young student, is studying to become a soldier. When his town comes under attack by unknown forces, Quinn, and his two friends Gon and Keri decide to go check it out instead of going to the shelter. Once they find the enemy squads, the friends are swept up in a battle for the town.

When a battle is joined, players move captains around the map like any other strategy RPG. One big difference on maps is that panels have different properties, some have an affinity to a certain element, earth, wind, fire, water, etc. and characters cannot cross them unless their affinity matches. Some other panels include one way streets, uneven terrain, and buildable terrain. Most are pretty self explanatory, with uneven terrain players must control both sides of the panel in order to cross. Buildable terrain can have hospitals, recruitment stations, and other buildings that can power up characters who are near them. Money is earned by completing maps and the occasional random event where the local townsfolk donate to your war fund.

Movement is completely turn based. At the beginning of the turn, the computer decides who goes first, you or the enemy. Once selected, movement is made, if someone is moved onto the same panel an enemy is occupying, a battle begins. Battles are very different than a normal SRPG. When a battle starts, the attacking player has to battle each defending squad individually. Once the order is determined, the battlefield is displayed. Both sides with all their units appear on opposite sides of the map, up to 30 per side. You are then given the option to give orders to your units. Different battle formations give you different bonuses. For example, the aggressive formation gives bonus to attack and penalty to defense. After this is chosen, different orders can be given to the troops like move, attack, or wait. Captains receive skills and can equip weapons, armor and items. Skills use up skill points, or SP. At the beginning of the game, all captains require almost their entire SP in order to use a skill. Once the selections are complete, an automated battle begins in which units attack and move on their own. This can be frustrating since you have no direct control over who attacks who and once the captain is defeated on one side, the battle ends.

The game looks fantastic for a PSP game, and to top it off, there is almost no load time during game play. The maps are wall drawn out and look very good. The characters are all 2D sprites, and also drawn very well. The animation for skills are nicely done, unfortunately this is where the falls short a little bit. Even though the animation looks good, there is tons of slowdown when some skills are used. The more explosions and the prettier it looks, the more slowdown there is. This however, is the only major complaint of the game. The rest is quite fun and entertaining.

The audio in Aedis Eclipse: Generation of Chaos is also very good with the the music and voices fitting in very nicely. Gamers have the option of using the English or Japanese dialog tracks and both are acted out well, except when a skill is used. When this occurs, a voice actor describes what the skill does. The English track works well, except the actor tries to sound too dramatic. The Japanese track doesn’t work at all since the description is in Japanese, so unless you know the language, you won’t understand the description. Not to worry though as players can choose not to have the skill described at all.

If you are a strategy gamer and are looking for something for your PSP, Aedis Eclipse: Generation of Chaos is a good choice. The downfalls of the game are not enough to really distract from the fun of this title. Overall, if you are a strategy gamer, I would recommend picking this one up.