Valkyria Chronicles™

I liked most of the story, aside from a few things that didn't make that much sense. I liked the characters of your squad and I like the way you play on the map. It did take some getting used to, as I have not played any game like this before. To me however, the game would be hella annoying, if it didn't let you save during a mission. I basically had to save after every turn, because you sometimes just can't tell how things would play out, the mechanic decides to repair a barricade behind you instead of disarming the mine in front of you, or suddenly a characters aim is way off and misses a shot he should hit 99% of the time and missing it screws your entire turn over. So it has its quirks, but because you can save, you can save yourself a lot of headaches by just slamming save as much as you can. Are you supposed to play a game this way? Maybe not, but if I feel like a game is playing against the player randomly, its the only saving grace. Most of the time it functions fine though, if you weren't able to save whenever you want however, I wouldn't have finished this game. Since you can, I quite enjoyed the story and liked figuring out how everything is supposed to play out. Though sometimes you face enemy tank positions that feel like are "impossible" to clear without tanking some damage willingly. They have their weakpoints on their back, so the game often wants you to hit that to clear them. Not always, but if you try to take it out from the front, it takes several moves. It also ranks how well you did and the lower number of turns you needed, the better your rank... which means, it wants you to figure out the fastest, not the safest solution. This contradicts itself imo. None the less, I enjoyed it enough that I am looking forward to playing Valkyria Chronicles 4! Btw. you can put a ton more hours into this game if you want. You unlock a lot of stuff after finishing and there are more difficulty settings added for every mission and you gain the ability to replay story missions to get better ranks aswell. If I had this game in my youth, I probably would have grinded the hell out of it to complete it all.