Valkyria Chronicles™

The story is an mediocre at best cliche, and the game confuses challenge with wasting your time. Not recommended, you will be bored and frustrated with this. If you push through the game, you will be rewarded with and endless stream of boring dribble in the form of cheap cinematics. It simply isn't worth it. That said, there are positive elements. I like how all the members of the squad have at least a little depth to their back story, and you can choose your favourites among them. That element is done well. The presentation is also pretty good considering its age.

A unique combination of first-person shooter and turn-based strategy married to an enthralling story set in a familiar yet magical world. I find myself loving my soldiers, and I pushed them to get better at everything they do as I scramble to avoid losing them permanently (yes, your named soldiers could die permanently in this game). The chemistry between characters gave them life and spiced up the story. I kept thinking about this game long after I finished it.

This game is nearly perfect if you can stomach the abrasive anime melodrama.

I love the painted look for the art and love the strategy combat. Makes it feel like a battle.

3/10 not antisemitic enough.

小时候看这集的时候馋哭了 实际到手的时候都成复古风了（汗 除去缺少汉化的部分之外的都相当不错（老作品里面难得的比较新的玩法 可考虑打折时入手，性价比很高

So. Many. Cutscenes... The incredibly long and boring exposition, for a world I was not invested in in the slightest, followed up by 2 long cutscenes, a small tutorial, and 3 more cutscenes, all with boring, unlikable, and incredibly dumb characters making way too many anime noises did not help. The game instantly crashed, when I went to my desktop to change my sound settings. The saves are completely manual, this means if you crash in the middle of playing, you lose all your progress if you don't constantly manually save after each cutscene/gameplay section (I lost my progress twice and had to complete the first tutorial twice and the second one three times because of this). Gameplay is alright, but has some little things I found annoying. My characters kept vaulting over cover, when I didn't want them to, and not vaulting, when I finally did want them to. Since vaulting is automatic, you just have to deal with it. Crouching is only available in dedicated areas. You can not improvise cover with a lot of things that seem like they could provide it, since you can't crouch behind them. After certain in-battle cutscene your characters get moved into very weird positions (the cutscene starts immediately after you kill the enemy without even letting you finish your turn...), that made me outright lose one time and the other few times were very inconvenient. Tutorials were popping up while I was being shot, eating my inputs, and making me get hit like 3 more times. Probably won't be an issue once you get out of the tutorial, but another very annoying thing to add to the many annoying things I got thrown at me when starting the game. I had a couple more issues I wont mention, as they were either unfair on the game or just my fault. They did however contribute to me, eventually, running out of patience with this game. I do realise I do not have a good view of the game, as I just played for one hour, but that one hour was frustrating enough for me to quit. If you can handle the cutscenes. This game might actually be a pretty decent game with some rough edges.

only play if one is a masochist