RPG Maker strikes again!
Valkyrie Nemesis is one of hundreds of low effort retro-pixel RPG Maker asset/construction kit flips spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." Like all RPG Maker "games", this is essentially a bunch of low quality/canned assets from RPG Maker coupled with a cringeworthy high school anime club fan fiction.
This one is only notable for a couple of reasons... the sheer laziness of the developer exceeds almost every other RPG Maker asset flipper to ever disgrace the gaming industry, apart from just ripping off Norse mythology, badly (and this is the second of these RPG Maker crapfests I've had the displeasure of reviewing from this "developer). Too lazy to come up with your own fantasy stuff? Just rip off a religion, they're in the public domain! So you can see just what kind of trash we're dealing with here.
Equally lazy, the game seems to mostly be just one map and a bunch of really badly laid out encounters. Character abilities aren't fleshed out properly, everything is a cooldown... at least most RPG Maker asset flippers spend a little time filling out stuff with the tool to create some kind of generic crap Final Fantasy ripoff. Not here, that's too much work apparently.
As with all RPG Maker games, the poor quality engine displays badly in fullscreen and doesn't have full HD support or any graphics tweaking options, making this unacceptable for any dedicated modern PC gamer. The point can be made that the intention of RPG Maker is to make demos and small games to pass around friends, and shouldn't be used for "professional" game development.
Like most RPG Maker shovelware and asset flips, the game features extremely low quality copy + pasted 2D retro pixel art, looks awful, and has even worse gameplay. RPG Maker is an absolutely terrible construction kit, and never results in games of any reasonable quality or value to gamers.
The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 3 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.
Valkyrie Nemesis has the insane price of around $4 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam. Gamers who want a good retro JRPG experience would be better off playing the originals, like Final Fantasy, Star Ocean or Chrono Trigger.
