Buy Valkyria Chronicles™

A game were the main character has an animal fetish then was forced to lead a squad consisting of his sister that drives a tank and dreams of flying her brother one day, a super saiyan that loves baking bread, a farmer with an vegetable fetish, a racist singer, a pig with wings that can't fly, a gay anti-tank man who is in love with the farmer, a tank repair man who doesn't repair ♥♥♥♥ when you're one hit away from death, a girl who's only thought is to murder any IMP that stands in her way, a sniper who only cares about herself and her wolf pet, and a nosey reporter who stalks your squad all the time because she has nothing better to do then write about your every move. And that's only the tip of the ice burg.

12/10 would save a country the size Switzerland from Russia with just my squad and no one else and take my tank and my squad to the beach on our day off again.

Duration: 40 hours (main game without extras)

Playing Valkyria Chronicles is like watching a Studio Ghibli TV series where in each episode there is a tactical battle that is played in FPS turn-based mode. Without doing a full review the story was top notch and one of the best I've ever experienced in a video game. The art style and animations were top quality and the voice acting was also pretty good. Much of the game will be spent watching these cut scenes which explains the massive 26GB harddrive space needed.

The tactical combat was fun and a wide variety of missions is thrown at the player. The game starts off easy showing you the ropes before you put your team together Jagged Alliance style. The characters have a wide variety of personalities and the game is not without humour.

For the actual combat you have a number of command points to move your characters and issue orders. Once selected it turns into a First Person Perspective for movement. Characters have a finite number of action points to spend moving and get one attack per activation anytime during their move. The blend of FPS and turn-based tactical is unique and flows very well. Defensive fire keeps the tension up.

In between battles there is the headquarters where you can assign experience to your classes, buy R&D, equip found weapons, and a number of other strategic tasks. There are also skirmish battles you can reply if you find your experience of money lacking.

A few negatives keep this from becoming a 10. First are the tank controls. Moving the tank in FPS mode almost works but takes a while to get used to. I spent a couple activations early on spastic-ing in place while trying to inch forward. Sometimes the controls are hard to move forward just a little to repair sandbags or disarm mines.

Another negative is the mid-game battle versus the giant tank which was almost depressing. Aside from that though, the battles were great. It was almost information overload once the headquarters is introduced, although it doesn't take long to understand and get into it.

All in all, the graphics, art style, story, squad-building tactical fun is like nothing I've ever played before. After 40 hours I was sad to see the story end although it did so with Ghibli delight. Overall I have no difficulty recommending this game. 9/10.

RIght up there with Fire Emblem in terms of strategy and thinking so that all of your characters dont die horribly.
It also has the mandatory anime beach scene
10/10 would take my tank to the beach again

Super fun and addicting, great graphics but easy to run. In depth gameplay that rewards strategy. Highly reccomend.

This is a fun pseudo-turn based strategy game that is very heavy on story. Selecting a unit, lining up a shot, using different weapons, and using skills are all turn based with a set number of action points. In an odd twist moment happens in real time; so as you're moving your unit into position you're being shot at continuously and you have to very quickly decide where to go and then mash that action button to freeze time before you die. Beyond that this game ticks all the turn-based tactics boxes. There's unit classes, expierence, and skills. New weapons to capture and research. New global commander abilities to learn (like in Advance Wars). Then finally there's the story. There's a movie's worth of pre-rendered cut scenes in this game and enough text backstory to fill a novel. The more you use a unit the more you learn about them and it fills out this encyclopedia in between battles. If you're looking for a Final Fantasy Tactics level of story, this is the game for you. Graphics, art-style, and music are all top-notch.

I can honestly say that this is my favorite turn based strategy game I have played. I really like the cool looking hand drawn graphics and OST. The gameplay is fun and varies from level to level, the story tugs on the heart strings, and there is plenty of replayability. I would suggest picking this one up on sale. Over all: 9/10 pretty swanky

Beautiful game with a unique engine and graphics. Very fun and challenging. Glad to see this on PC and PS4, with *much* faster loads :P

I have been screaming at my child soldiers because.......

THEY CANT HIT FOR ♥♥♥♥
SNIPERS CAN ONLY MOVE 2.5 FEET
THESE KIDS CAN'T EVADE FOR ♥♥♥♥
LANCERS CAN'T HIT A GIANT ♥♥♥♥ING TANK
HOMER SIMPSON IS A MASOCHIST

You should get this game anyway though. It's really good. I Give it 10 Homer Simpsons out of 10.















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Oh. Hi there. I totally wasn't fapping to Marina. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

10/10 would cry again

I recommend this video game.