Valkyria Chronicles™

Put a kid in a tank. The game let me. That’s the review.

]Solo dire que si te gustan los juegos tacticos, debes jugar alguno de estos titulos, son muy buenos

Loved playing the game at my friends place on playstation way back when. Unfortunately this is another bad console port with barely any attempt at implmenting mouse and keyboard support and bad console ui. Would be nice if the dialogue was skippable (if you are like me and suck at the game and have to see the same dialogue for the umpteent time).

i played this way back in the day and wasnt sure it would hold up, its still amazing, the game plays like your 'band of brothers' with permadeath of characters and a heavier tone, there is alot of talking between game scenerios but the story is pretty good

This game give me depression 10/10 recommended

Отличная, стоящая особняком от остальных представителей жанра тактика. Прошёл все миссии, включая бонусные (разблокируемые) и получил огромное удовольствие, хотя иногда поддушивался, если в миссии было слишком много юнитов с обоих сторон. При этом разработчики приложили все усилия, чтобы игровой процесс вам не наскучил. Карты, условия победы, доступные ресурсы для боя выжимали максимум из довольно простой боевой системы. Омрачает этот факт туповатость ИИ, которая в тупую компенсируется обилием ходов у компьютера и бесконечными подкреплениями. Хитрых манёвров от ИИ ждать не стоит, но условия и задачи боёв сглаживают этот момент. Сюжет в целом скорее инфантильный, хотя и попытается показать расстрелы гражданских, пытки, концентрационные трудовые лагеря и прочих спутников войны. Но показано это довольно мягко и поверхностно. Сами герои довольно мягки, словно они не на войне. Арт соответствует духу истории. Но при этом за историей персонажей всё равно интересно наблюдать. К ним привыкаешь и привязываешься.

A game full of charm whose only flaw is not having more content especially considering its new game plus feature. The story is charming and the setting is, in my opinion, well chosen. Characters feel organic and the earlier chapters manage to capture a good sense of morality and motivation for a war driven world. The gameplay is a simple premise but it is executed flawlessly, with only some small quality of life aspects missing, like better information and some warnings before doing certain actions. All in all a brilliant game, made even better by this remastered that does not take anything away, it just adds and improves.

It's p good, but there's a few things I personally felt off about. Nothing major, mind you, but the occasional graphical bug during dialogue (ALL the time in character portraits when speaking), being unable to walk up specific platforms outright, and the tank controls being extremely stiff (like, more than normal. It was a specific chapter) was kinda questionable to me until I found out they were all seemingly tied to the refresh rate of my monitor. At least for the platform bugs and tank controls, they immediately ceased upon this revelation and went away when I swapped to 30 fps but.....its hard to get used to that. That said, story is alright with some good moments here and there, but it is mostly simple. Not that straightforward is bad, but it did feel like you were just going through the motions most of the time. Character wise, there's only like 5-7 relevant characters to you as a player, some of those you don't even play as (they just happen to be with your party or closely tied by affiliation). It does feel a bit strange because there's like 50 playable characters at your disposal and basically none of them have their own dialogue or lines during the story; just some details sprinkled into their bio every so often. Different in the DLC where this all changes ofc, but we're talking main game. Majority of gameplay can be boiled down to the tank rampaging through everything with a few infantry picking up the pieces and capturing objectives, but the game does switch it up every so often with "unique" gameplay elements or story-related beats. This game has Marina in it tho so at the end of the day no biggie.

Marking as "I Don't Recommend" due to three chapters (7,14,15) having terrible game design, where you're supposed to "approach it differently" but has no direction on what to do, and it hit by trigeering events mid-combat, making for a frustrating gaming experience. Actualy won those by doing some cheese strategy like positioning units before enemy spawn and save scumming. The Good: - Liked the story, plot twists and character development - Gameplay is great when it's not BS - Reminds me of X-COM, (mostly) without the RNG problem The Bad - Graphics may be a bit jittered (at least of my RX 9070 XT, I expected more sharpness) - Game rewards how fast you end the batters, andit's usally not an interesting approach (kinda makes the levels feel lame) The Ugly - Bad chapters wiith frustrating design - Infinite Respawn on some events - Difficulty spikes ouit of the blue