Valkyria Chronicles™

[h1] Valkyria, Valkyria May the bloodline live forever Valkyria, Valkyria Bless and protect our fertile land [/h1] Valkyria Chronicles is a game that has a special place in my heart. Even with the stiffly acted and oddly paced cutscenes the delivery of the actors still manages to pull you're heart strings. The world and story is lovingly crafted, and it helps that the artstyle helps holding up the game a decade later. (Like the cute detail of letters appearing from shooting weapons like it's a comic book! seeing the Mags M30R go "RATTA! RATTA! RATTA!" is just awesome! the watercolor painting style of the CANVAS engine is just delightful, with the artstyle alone making valkyria chronicles easily one of the most unique IPs out there. But the artstyle is only second place to the game's world crafting itself. Set during a fictional anime version of WWII is where you will really see the highs of this game, with your main characters of squad 7, it being extra heartbreaking when you read the character bios, the game always reminding you that your soldiers are made up from normal everyday people (Farmers. teachers, bakers, and even children). the game/story doing a excellent job of showing us the cost of war, with even one cutscene showing us that the enemy we are fighting are just as human as us. The fantastical elements of the narrative will always be broken up by heartbreak, as any good war story should. (And i won't lie, this game makes me cry all these years later). And now we come to the gameplay and yeah not much to say it's pretty good. Not perfect mind you! the game can sometimes be really bad at explaining mission objectives. (And good God did i wish for a way to speed up the enemy turns or skip dialogue you've already heard). And the ranking system is a bit too idiotic in my personal opinion, with it being based on how many turns it took you to beat a mission and not you're kills or if you took all enemy camps. So never feel ashamed for cheesing the game and scout rushing. (Become one with the cheese, let yourself be molded by it. Also the reason Maximilian lost was because he relied too much on the valkyrian powers, we won because we relied on O R D E R S). So yeah in my biased opinion this game get's a perfect 10/10!

最高に面白いゲームです！

A decent game overall, but calling this one a strategy is crossing the line. Why? Because for some weird reason the only thing that matters in terms of scoring the mission is the number of turns you took to finish. Missions are incredibly linear, with a single "correct" approach and solution, that incetivises bum-rushing the objective while utilising maybe a third of your actual deployed troops. Feels like you're depriving yourself of content.

Game crashed and that's how I found it there's no autosave.

Least fun I ever had in a game like this. It feels more like a puzzle game with loads of trial and error than a tactical rpg that rewards experimentation. Not fun. At least for me.

Une direction artistique inspirée, unie à un trope atypique (WW2 / anime-manga), font de Valkyria Chronicles un jeu à part. L'uchronie autour de la 2e guerre mondiale donne lieu à un contexte saisissant, tandis que les personnages, leurs relations et dialogues se montrent poignants. De plus, l'ensemble est "dessiné" car relié aux souvenirs que le protagoniste ébauche dans son carnet de voyage. Le gameplay, tour par tour, se joint à ces éléments pour une cohérence totale entre fond et forme. Malgré un aspect assez pâle (le jeu date et le parti-pris crayonné peut paraître délavé), l'ensemble reste captivant. C'est aussi dû à la partie narrative très soignée. Ceci dit, le gameplay implique du tour par tour avec déplacements longs, ce qui me rassasie très vite : contrairement aux rpg turn-based en arènes/tableaux, on a ici une longue phase de déploiement dans un vaste terrain, et chaque bataille prend un temps fou, qu'il faudra recommencer x fois en cas d'échec. Pas ma tasse de thé, mais le jeu est tout de même intéressant, et mérite d'être découvert.

Настоящий солдат «Valkyria Chronicles» должен быть смелым и тупым. Смелым, что бы он мог бежать на врага, даже в одиночку. А тупым, что бы не думать - на фига ему это делать?

Valkyria Chronicles starts by making a promise of a dark and rough story about war. Then it bails into a cheesy anime plot. It also goes on longer than it should, after chapter 14, it felt like a slog. I have to say, it’s okay. I like the game. I recommend it. But it is, sadly, an anime game, and as such it feels lazy in certain ways: too much unnecessary grinding, and gameplay that’s drowned by stats and number menus. That’s something I’ve seen across anime games in general, like the Shingeki no Kyojin games, which have extremely fun gameplay buried under boring systems that add nothing. If you look at Valkyria Chronicles through the lens of anime, though, it’s pretty good and complete. The characters fill a lot of tropes and archetypes. There’s even a beach episode. They even made an anime from the game later. Gameplay-wise, the only thing I have to compare it to is XCOM. “Anime World War II XCOM” is a great description. As an anime it’s great. As a game it’s good. As a WW2 story it is just decent.