Valkyria Chronicles™

it good

I love this game. The characters in this game have so much personality and you really care about them.

The story is pretty good en cute, but also has a lot of dark moments in it.

The soundtracks are a 10/10 and the main theme is personally my favorite.

The gameplay is great and perfectly balanced in my opinion.

VERY GOOD GAME, JANE OP.
wish the missions were better designed tho. Lot of the missions require constant save scumming just cause they are not explained properly.

One of my all time favorite games. Excellent combination of strategy and action game play and a pretty great story with good character development. Played it quite a bit on PS3 and had to get it for PC when it got ported.

Good memories, very underrated franchise.

The best one in the series and way ahead of its time.

Highly recommended strategy RPG. Its gameplay is really unique and creative. I haven't found something similar anywhere. The upgrade system is super satisfying. Choosing what troops you'll dispatch based on their relationships, attributes, class, and skills is brain scratching but good! All the thinking is kind of reserved for the first two-thirds of the experience, though. Once you understand the systems well enough, you'll breeze through most maps with an "A" grade. (That's a positive for me.) It's rewarding to easily crush the enemy you had a hard time dealing with before. It's a shame the third game is not fully fan translated yet. Hoping Valkyria Chronicles 2 and 3 find their way to PC, as they are stuck on the PSP.

Still an amazing game despite being out for years.

Awesome but...

1. Cool battle system, you need to experiment with the level and character perks to pass the level, but the actions you do takes so many time so you dont want to practice at all and just watching walkthrough to speedrun the level.
2. The ending is dumb ( why da hell Faldio is suicide at the end, whenever team can just shoot him? Just to sacrifice what he did? L
3. How da hell they both jumped on the full speed plane????????????

Going off the in-game map, Gallia is roughly an equivalent of Estonia in our world. Unfortunately, this means that our loving cast of ragtag rebels are in fact Estonian beet and onion slop farmers who are resisting the USSR elevating them to sapience.

Gameplay's fantastic, I'd recommend this game to anyone who likes the genre. But you making people think Estonians are good people is a crime.

Culturally Marxist themes

Good story and characters but the port could be done alot better. Got turned off after 10 mins of having to fight the controls to move the tank from one position to the next. On the other hand the world design and style is second to none, learned alot of design elements from this game.

If you have a playstation, play it on that instead or try VC4 (hopefully the controls are better there)

VERY GOOD THIS IS ONE OF THE BETTER VALKYRIA GAMES 2 BEST

The only thing about this game that is bad in my honest opinion is the gameplay, story was decent, characters good, a lot of them funny they do grow on you but playing the game was the hardest part.

Awesome combination of tactical and turn based strategy, though with short story it focuses on the protagonist development

Simple to learn, hard to master tactics hybrid that expects a lot from the player, but at great reward for the payoff when the planning and strategy pays off. The final portion of the game really pushes you to be efficient. The computer WILL take advantage of any slack you give them.

The story has some solid beats, and explores war and how it affects the characters well..

The game has aged well with its "history book" aesthetic and solid character/world design. Even the individual squad mates that would be randomly generated and lifeless in a modern game all have their own personality.

As a fan of Disney's Treasure Planet I respond to the seemingly anachronistic mix of medieval armor in a WW2 setting with "whatever its cool"

I loved this game on PS3

I love it now... Its a reminder of when games were fun and served as an escape from reality and immerse yourself in a different world... seriously I would recommend this to everyone

Story: 10/10
It's an interesting story. I watched the anime before I knew there was a game. I think that the story might be best experienced in the anime, but it's still good in the game.

Setting: 10/10
As a great war rages on the continent, a previously neutral country is invaded and has to defend itself. The technological level in this world is similar to the early mid-1900's with the main differences seemingly being because of the resource ragnite which is used for fuel and a wide variety of other applications. And there are no planes.

Gameplay: 10/10
It's turn-based tactics, but with a unique flair. Instead of telling each soldier where to go, you control them directly and as you move the enemy will fire on you. This makes it feel more like you're in live combat and not as if the entire battle pauses for you to take your turn. You thus have to think before you move and not stop out in the open.
There are different soldier classes with separate uses, strengths and weaknesses to use for your plans.
The gameplay is really fun and the main reason I'm recommending the game.

Graphics: 10/10
It's anime style, but on top of that there's a shader that makes any shot from the game look like it was hand-drawn. It's beautiful!
I was actually tricked in the menu where you can read the characters' biographies. The images of the characters weren't images at all, they were 3D models that you could rotate!

Music: 10/10
The music is lovely and always put you in the right mood.

godawful game

A tactical turn-based RPG that overreliance on RNG and inflexible tactic are both unfun and frustrating.

Not as good as I remember it. Very random... Not super tactical, and annoying to have to redo missions...

This game I remembered playing a demo for back on PS3 when my family first bought it in 2008, and the visuals alone blew me away... Looking somehow hand-drawn yet clearly 3D, cell-shaded as well... It's one of the most gorgeous games of its generation truly.

It also has great gameplay for those who love strategy games and JRPGs, on top of an amazing storyline, and while I've only got past the half-way mark of the story so far, it is DEFINITELY gonna be interesting to see how it continues in the PSP sequels, and eventually also checking out the newest entry with Valkyria Chronicles 4!

Simple to learn, hard to master tactics hybrid that expects a lot from the player, but at great reward for the payoff when the planning and strategy pays off. The final portion of the game really pushes you to be efficient. The computer WILL take advantage of any slack you give them.

The story has some solid beats, and explores war and how it affects the characters well. However, VC does have the common JRPG slump near the end where the writing has to drive toward the final boss fight.

The game has aged well with its "history book" aesthetic and solid character/world design. Even the individual squad mates that would be randomly generated and lifeless in a modern game all have their own personality.

Highly recommended and worth the time.

At the start the mission are condensed and packed it let you make a plan and execute it in a timely manner, unfortunately the later chapters are such a slog to waddle through, no wonder people ended up rushing scouts, is that or having to stay an hour just to move soldiers through the field. Is not by any means hard but spending so much time just moving units to move units to move units to move units to move units, every unit with their animations: orders, movement, potential, execution, result, voiceline. God so many animations I just want to move a goddamn, an scenario takes so long unless you cheese it.

And on top of that the enemy turn, the enemy artillery it's so so so long

chill

I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with this game.
Prospective buyers be aware you need to find a patch for the ladders in chapter 15 or they'll clip your units under the map.

Overall enjoyable but be prepared for some bad-tasting gameplay moments, gameplay that rewards cheese above all else, and that most levels will punish you for starting with more than the bare minimum of units, with optimal gameplay generally being to dip into a level just enough to figure out what that minimum is, then rushing to capture points to bring in the units you want for the rest.

I'm also not sure what happens in the first Selvaria level if the side of the tank she magnetises to happens to be the last one you have left, but the possibility that's an auto-fail is horrifying to me.

I actually played VC2, VC3 and then this. I own a psp, and I just got the time to play VC1.

Based off general combat this has bigger maps, easy personnel & weapons upgrade. VC2's personnel is much worse and the 3rd is even harder. But this review isn't for VC2 nor VC3. Combat and leveling wise I give the trophy to VC1. But the tanks suck so much I could have a civilian do his job even better. (Also the 'Main Characters' the ones with medals suck balls so hard I only deploy them for extra APs. Thank god VC2 & VC3 fixed it)

You would very much cheese this game, as you get higher ranks (easier in the long run). The problem with this game is the difficulty spikes (notably chapter 7, chapter 16 and chapter 18) and you're either forced to Skirmish to FARM exp so you can beat it easier. VC2 & VC3 doesn't have much or it isnt notable.

If you are reading this and contemplating which VC to pick;

VC1: Bigger maps, easy weapons upgrade, HD (wow), basic aim, and high levelled crews eliminates RNG, also easy to get potentials
Tanks are shit and non customizable, difficulty spikes is higher than my sugar spike

VC2: Maps are smaller, weapons are locked behind Aces, levelling up mastery Potentials are RNG, Directional aim (Aiming behind them eliminates evasion), tanks are customizable, no notable difficulty spike

VC3: Same as VC2, but levelling up crew is more RNG than even depends on your crew's class (yes VC3 every char can change class), the tank is customizable. Great story + VC1 and VC2's char have cameos in this. The ending also depends on your choice.

GIve it Scouts are broken (Alicia is just a super soldier) (it's 6) out of 10 but that's because I already played all 3.

the gameplay is simple yet challenging as you try to make the most out of every action point. every mission makes you learn on your own mistakes and come up with different strategies. the themes of standing together against a greater enemy with no morals and fighting for your home really resonated with me since i'm ukrainian and made me connect even more deeply with its already well-written characters. i'm glad that this game was my introduction to turn-based single player games and i will definitely look differently on the genre after playing it.

This game is amazing, hands down one of the best and most unique games I've ever played. I'm a big fan of games like fire emblem, and this game has a lot of similarities to that genre. The characters are very memorable, and the game play is hard at points but not to hard where your slamming your desk.

All in all, there's nothing I can think of that's bad about this game besides the point there's no replay-ability, but there's so much content it'll take a while to get to that point. Very good game and very much worth every cent.

Despite being not that optimized for PC, it was a very fun game, great art and voicing, and fun gameplay mechanics. Great recommend for those that like anime and turn based games

Men of War won't open so this is the next thing that I open to blow things in a (pretend to be) WWII tactics game.

The gameplay has it's own merits tho. It is not braindead as other people claim but it falls in the easier side and the story is servicable enough to keep you going, with a couple of strikes of genious, but without breaking any molds and being WWII/Diesel-punk themed won't save you If you don't bite into anime tropes too well.

That said, the game incentivices good plans and execution, has enough mechanical deep to make you consider your squad composition and equipment in and between missions and the game loop is quite solid, taking all mission objectives in record turns will never get old and the main cast is likeable enough to care for them and follow their journey.

Next time MoW crashes on me I'll review VC4.

Really enjoy the tactics in this games, simple yet satisfying. Second purchase of this game will play again in the future for sure. Glad its on Steam so I don't have to worry about console compatibility.

Hopefully they will release VC 2 and VC 3 in the US someday maybe remastered into a PS5 format (really missed out on the customization of the classes from both games). or maybe a VC5 in the future that incorporates those mechanics.

Great game with rich story. Consider to buy it when it's sale. The gameplay mix with turn base, and shooter which is more aiming player's strategy to win this game. Worth to buy

its a great addition to the tactical rpg genre, the soundtrack is amazing and the combat is really fun

Finished the game 100%. Scratched my tactics itch and I'm now aiming to 100% VC4. Story was fun, mechanics was good. Must buy classic if you're into japanese tactics games.

I never played the og but, this game is fucking amazing. Everything from art, animation, story, and game play is really fun. Eventually you realize you only need 1 bread baking scout to basically beat the game, but if you avoid the aliciarushing you can have a lot of fun. i really recommend this to start you off in the VC universe.

Only downside is barely any valkyria running around, and our main girl only uses her power twice and barely does much with it. which makes me a bit sad.

Braindead easy gameplay with a story that would give Tim O'Brien a seizure. All morality in the setting is directly centered around Welkin and what he believes.

It good, but can feel it as the control might be a bit clunky due to an old game

Fun and unique turn-based game with a cool story. Not to be played as a big time-sink but a more comfort game with fun challenges. Enemy AI is usually just the right difficulty, but this doesn't mean there aren't frustrating moments.

is good

War, war never changes

It was very good. Get it on sale and your in for a fun time.

This game along with the remaining of the franchise easily got his way amongs my all-time favourites.
My entry of this franchise is quite unusual, started with the VC2 in the psp, then years later down the line, i tried VCV4 and them VC1, i do hope eventually SEGA will remaster or remake VC2 and VC3.
I don´t think my words would make justice on how much i liked it.
Now, onto to the bad points i found:

-Even though i had found the cast memorable, as i played, along the story, i found a bit of shame that there wasn´t any developtment for any of the secondary characters, there were times it felt that the main story perspective was only within the "main characters, that being welkin, alicia, isara, largo, and rosie).

-Once you get all leveled up and get to have a wide range of tools (weapons), i hate how easy it is to clear a map in a lazy manner if you want to, it doesn´t have to be like that, but it´s very hard not to play like that to get an A rank, and also, the last two missions, map-wise, were a bit of a led-down, i managed to beat the last main boss within 2-3 turns.

-Because of the nature of the game, despite carrying good topics and good dialogue overall, sometimes, there are lines that came out a bit too much cheesy (childish) for me.

I don´t think else i can say related to bad points, and this is just a me thing.
If you decided to decided to give this game a try, i want you to know this, the difficulty of the maps spikes from chapter to chapter and even if you didn´t get an A-rank, you can always come back when you you´re better at the game after clearing the main story, and for the love of Valkyria, DO NOT FORGET TO SAVE, everytime you do something,i can´t tell how much time i lost, problably 10 hours.

A great game that I suck at (replaying a level 5+ times to complete it)

Anime Band of Brothers = Good

In this supposedly tactical game you can't plan your movement because of a mechanic called intercepting fire. You are getting shot at constantly not only when you move (I thought - reaction fire, fair enough) but also when you stop and stay in place or aim from behind the cover. If you take longer than a few seconds your characters just die. An extremely stupid mechanic in my opinion, the devs clearly wanted to to a third person shooter instead.

Very interesting from
the beginning. Becomes extremely boring.

If you love the anime, buying this on sale is quite worth it!
You may also buy the 4th version and play it afterwards, but since I didn't have the money for the 4th version, I'll probably buy it at a later time after finishing this first version.
Unfortunately, you will not be able to play the other versions for they didn't get ported, sadly.
However, as I've said, this is worth it if you like the anime.

I need to play more