- VALKYRIA CHRONICLES 3 ENGLISH CUTSCENES PS4
- VALKYRIA CHRONICLES 3 ENGLISH CUTSCENES PS3
- VALKYRIA CHRONICLES 3 ENGLISH CUTSCENES SERIES
Your squad roster slowly increases as you play, giving you more soldiers to choose from, and regular visits to the armoury offer the chance to try out new weapon upgrades or reconfigure your tanks. And there is so much game to enjoy, much of it outside of the battles. Though Valkyria Chronicles is riddled with these eccentricities, is bubbling over with character, it never lets any of this get in the way of the game itself. It's never explained why the princess has so many rifles, machineguns and rocket launchers, nor where they come from.
VALKYRIA CHRONICLES 3 ENGLISH CUTSCENES PS3
"I have a theory: each Valkyria Chronicles disc holds some special, secret power within it, and that power is the ability to make any PS3 anywhere, no matter how old, battered or weary, immediately look its very best." Every soldier had their fair share of quirks and peccadillos.Ĭontinued success has you invited to the royal palace ostensibly to receive awards and decorations, but more often than not the princess presents you with another of what seems to be an endless supply of firearms for your squad to use. One of these tells the story of your squad going on holiday to the beach. Then the plot introduces you to a reporter who documents your progress and, if you fund her work, will unlock more battles and several additional cutscenes. A scout “just can't help” but stop to chat to their friends even in a firefight. One ageing conscript tells you their back has gone. In the heat of battle, some soldiers start to manifest pollen allergies. As those battles become tougher and tougher, the story grows ever sillier to keep pace.Īs your squad fills out, you quickly discover that certain members have taken a shine to others or, in the case of one soldier, simply fancy everyone they're serving with. For all the blood that's spilled, there's somehow not a drop of cynicism to be found anywhere.
VALKYRIA CHRONICLES 3 ENGLISH CUTSCENES SERIES
Built around a series of increasingly difficult battles, some of which can be positively brutal, is a melodramatic story of love, war and flying pigs, populated by some of the most naïve characters I've ever seen in a videogame. You read another one of their cheery biographies before a battle, discover one of them is only fifteen, then find yourself watching as the kid is caught by the incandescent tongue of a flamethrower and moans their last words into the dirt, slipping away before a medic can reach them, alone on some corner of a far battlefield that will be forever Gallia.īut you don't mind the eccentric duality that so characterises Valkyria Chronicles because it's all part of what gives this game so much life. Your squad members babble away to one another, sneering or smiling according to who likes who, before stumbling their way into another brutally difficult battle punctuated by onomatopoeic captions like BLAM, RATTA and RUSTLE RUSTLE. The animation and art remains excellent and will probably never date the game. Then, your sergeant is suddenly yelling at you about his love for vegetables, and with good reason, since his spontaneous passion for potatoes has just granted him special powers. One moment you find the plot has weaved its way through a fantasy interpretation of World War II to suddenly present you with a sombre labour camp and the game's analogy for national anti-Semitism. It's also chirpy, cheesy and downright daft. Valkyria Chronicles remains an excellent tactical wargame with all the finest traditions of squad selection and small-arms tactics, a rarity on any console and something that prefigured the new XCOM. This is something I know.Īnd yet the game is also nuts. Valkyria Chronicles is a very special game and when we look back on the history of this console, when we write our retrospectives and compose our memoirs, we will cite it as one of the finest titles to grace the platform. It's like pouring an elixir into your disc drive. I have a theory: each Valkyria Chronicles disc holds some special, secret power within it, and that power is the ability to make any PS3, no matter how old, battered or weary, immediately look its very best. Whenever I slip the Valkyria Chronicles Blu-ray into a console that's supposed to be at the end of its life cycle I get no sense of age, no feeling of a looming obsolescence or an imminent loss of status. Was it really four years ago now that the Second Europan War began? Is the PlayStation 3 really supposed to be six years old? I refuse to believe it.
Digital Foundry will be along to assess the merits of the new version shortly, but before then here's Paul Dean on what makes Sega's strategy game so special, in a piece originally published in 2012.
VALKYRIA CHRONICLES 3 ENGLISH CUTSCENES PS4
Valkyria Chronicles has found its way to PS4 this week via a remaster of the 2008 original.
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