Buy Valkyria Chronicles™

Tactical turn based RTS/FPS style combat
You'll laugh
You'll cry
You'll miss shots with 100% accuracy
You'll hit shots with 0% accuracy
You'll recruit barn yard animals
You'll mediate fights between your allies
You'll realize how frail humanity is
HOW MANY CANNONS??
IS THAT TANK THE SIZE OF A LARGE OFFICE???
PEW PEW LASER BEAMS
If you like Fire emblem
If you like Final Fantasy Tactics
If you like X-COM
can you just buy this ♥♥♥♥ god damn
peace

The only military in the world where it`s okay to have relations with your CO.

10/10 would anime WWII again

Valkyria Chronicles commits one major sin as a strategy game: it expects you to follow a certain order of steps in order to complete any given map. You *can* beat the maps in a variety of ways--and the game will rate you poorly for it. Setting up chokepoints with scouts, blitzing with soldiers, sabotaging enemy tanks with Lancers... you can be as smart as you want, VC won't like you unless you play how *it* wants.

If you can get past that, you'll find an amazing title here. Lead artist Raita is a little odd in how he draws women (boobs do not work that way, good sir), but there's no faulting the amazing visual style and setting for this game. For something set in as mined-out a concept as World War II, Valkyria Chronicles is far more engrossing in its visuals and music than its concept will make you think. Gameplay-wise, Valkyria Chronicles is also quite inviting in its combination of real-time third-person action and turn-based gameplay.

Many of the fun content in Valkyria Chronicles--different weapons for recruits, for example--are hidden in out-of-the-way areas and will need a guide to be found, and the odd sense that you're not playing as the game wants you to will haunt you, but Valkyria Chronicles is a game that is definitely worth your time and money.

My first playthrough:

"How did they kill my scout!"

"Where did that lancer come from?"

"I am literally in a guys face and he ducks my shot"

"AHHHHH.... SHE ONE SHOT MY TANK!!!!!"

"Why can't I move my tank?"

"I question why they dont just shoot her"

"NOOOOOOOOO"

"I hate and love this writer"

"YOU ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥"

"They have all of thos machine guns and they can't...... WTF is that on the left???"

Now, here's the second playthrough:

"MC Hammer Start playing"

"My one character wiped out your entire squad"

"You lancers cant hit the broad side of a barn"

"My lancer just sniped your tank"

"My sniper literally can't be hit by anything because their so far away"

"Record Scratches"

"She still one shot my tank"

"My lancers are no longer snipers"

"A dust allergey ended a perfect game"

"Where did that mine come from"

"My sniper missed"

"My tank is stuck on a rock.... again"

In the end, Catherine has 100 confirmed kills
My scouts can fight an entire enemy batalion
One shock tropper=complete control of camp
My one engineer can take no damage, another hits harder the less life they have, and another basically told me to go to hell.

10/10 would never put Hermes in charge of repairing my tanks 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.

Do not let the cute anime style shy you away from this game, it is a serious and amazing game that I could not recommend enough at such low prices.

PROS

-Very gripping story about war, loss, racism, torture and the bonds that are formed to fight it
-Amazing characters with rich backstory (even secondary ones have great personalities and tales to tell)
-Innovative and fun turn-based combat, allowing every class and soldier to have a purpose
-Beautifully hand-drawn artstyle
-Much variety in customization for both characters and vehicles
-Extra content such as skirmish battles and more episodes are well done

CONS

-Lot´s of cheesy dialogue spread throughout the game
-A weird and useless "winged piggy" thrown into the story
-Tank controls aren´t very responsive
-No Valkyria Chronicles 2 and 3 port for PC yet!

All in all, an excellent and seriously underrated game outside it´s genre, despite it´s good steam sales! Where are the sequels?!?!?!?

I like the art, I like the game mechanics, I like the character prpgress, I got sick with the music. Anyway, good game for having enjoyable time. Worth the money most definitelly.

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

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, a super saiyan that loves baking bread, a farmer with a 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.

On a serious note this game has tons of characters about 100 in total and the more you play the more you learn about them and no character is the same as another wich is probably my favorite thing about this game some characters work well with others while some may not the characters also get buffs and debuffs based on where they are at some of the characters may hate being outdoors while others love to be in the desert or in the woods You don't want to send some into the desert if they have a desert allergie it may cost you the battle

12/10 just for character development alone

Review by : Panda Waifu & Meguca 2.0

- Great story.
- Lovely anime art style.
- Great voice acting. (English and Japanese)
- Unique blend of real time and strategic gameplay.
- Challenging.
- Tons of management/upgrade options.

- Matches can take a long time. (not necessarily a con)
- Frustrating menu system.
- Enemy turns are not skippable, or able to be sped up.
- Some 'strategic' choices have to be made without the necessary information.
- No mouse support in menus.

Valkyria Chronicles is a largely story based, turn based strategy game. The story itself is extremely enjoyable, with well written characters and a compelling world.

The story is set in the 1930s, in the continent of "Europa," with two super powers (The Imperial Alliance & The Atlantic Federation) who are at war with one another over a mineral called ''Ragnite'' which is used to power all technology in this world.

The Imperial Alliance makes the decision to invade the small neutral country of Gallia during this conflict, because Gallia has a lot of the Ragnite under its soil.

During the story you will follow Welkins (protagonist), Isara (Welkins's sister) and Alicia. All 3 were just normal people living in Gallia, but were conscripted to defend Gallia upon the Imperial's invasion.

The game features rich character development, or background information for both the main characters and for side characters. Every character has entries to read indicating their backstory, strengths, weaknesses, people that they work well with, and more. This information helps to make each character feel more 'real,' and can give you a sense of connection to them, making things such as their deaths far more significant.

The army is made up of both soldiers by profession, and by militia. As a result, there are people of all ages, races, genders, social standing, etc which causes some interesting interactions.
In terms of gameplay, you control a relatively small squad in turn based strategy missions, somewhat comparable to XCOM Enemy Unknown. Each turn you get a limited number of 'command points' which you can use to move your units, make them attack, and a range of other things. When you use a command point on a unit, you take control of the unit and control them in real time. Enemies with a line of sight to your character will open fire if you are in range, you will need to aim and take your shots yourself, and so on. This makes the game feel like small segments of real-time action, limited by ammunition and by the number of command points you use. For a good rank at the end of a mission, you need to minimize the amount of commands that you use.

This game features permadeath, so any character of yours which dies remains dead forever. There are limited story central characters who you will be required to keep alive, but the rest are expendable.

The game starts off feeling rather easy, with limited options, but it opens up and increases in difficulty as you go. This involves larger battles, more variety in your squad, leveling up unit types, researching upgrades for your army, taking into account the strengths and weaknesses of each unit, and so on. This allows for you to learn new mechanics slowly as they're introduced, rather than being overwhelmed at the start of the game. Along with the interesting story and the character development, this results in you becoming quite addictive, with you constantly wanting to try out new things.


This game was originally released in 2008 on the Playstation 3, but on the PS3 it was locked at 30FPS and 720P Resolution.
The PC version is a port, but was upgraded to 60FPS with HD resolution, remappable keybindings, adequate mouse and keyboard support, and anything else that you could need. An excellent port, which stands out amongst many sub-par ports in recent years.
For the price of €19.99 it is quite worthwhile, especially since SEGA bundled all the DLC in to the PC Version for free (2 extra stories to play, and a hardmode for the main story).

Developer : SEGA
Publisher : SEGA
Genre : Singleplayer, Strategy, RPG
Website : ''Look @ Sega Blog''
Released on Playstation in 2008
Released on Steam in 2014


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