Valkyria Chronicles™ Reviews

Lots of bugs, crashes and could have been so much more.

no autosave, when my game crashed suddenly, when I relaunched i am still on the prologue, lost almost 8-10 hours of progress. 1 out of 10. will not replay to completion due to loss of progress.

What should be a fun X-com type game is sadly just a puzzle solver, with almost each battle having a '1 turn solution' to get an A rank. Yes, one single turn, rush into the base with a fast scout unit and win the battle, and the devs actually REWARD this stupid gamey play by giving you extra exp and income boosts for turn 1 clearances. So, with that said, ignore all those abilities, all the other classes, all those cool perks each character has, its all meaningless, you will literally never have to actually defend anything, if you give the enemy just one turn, your already losing, might as well reload the mission and try again.

Whilst the difficulty can be very up and down, and class balance is very uneven at times Valkyria Chronicles still means a lot to me as one of my first gateways into RPG's with a captivating story and memorable characters that bring me back to playing this game years later

I love Valkyria Chronicles series, because I grew up with it. I love the stories and unique combat system. Of course it's too much grinding for EXP and DCT. If I got money and discount, I'll buy the fourth game. It is deeply regretted because second and third game is PSP exclusive. If SEGA had plan, please release the second and third game to Steam. I'll love it to wishlist it and buy it for my childhood memories and nostalgia.

Good game, bad port. Get it on Switch or Playstation if you can, if not then save frequently and be prepared for crashes and some minor graphic glitches.

Aged poorly, and kb+m controls are absolutely atrocious... though incredibly photogenic, the gameplay process is incredibly unbalanced, and force-feeding the unskippable story by FMVs is painful.

Strange game this like, 3rd person XCOM, real time reaction fire from your own troops and enemies gives a more immersive feel. Tactics are varied but sadly the game seem to awards you more for bumrushing than taking a more clinical approach. Still you can play it however you feel and story is compelling enough to keep it moving, and being moving in places too. All of this underscored with a beautiful soundtrack and aesthetic it's worth giving a try. I strongly recommend bashing your head against a wall first time through and finding ways to a rank and seeing what secrets (Enemy Aces and hidden recruits) you can uncover then using what you learned to smash it on new game plus. Only real problems I can think of are a few missions where ambushes are lobbed on you via trigger points you had no way of knowing existed. Some of the mechanics in a couple missions are poorly/timed obscurely too. But this only happens a couple of times throughout and you can generally save yourself from any of these situations.

A great game, the series comes the closest to feeling like Fire Emblem without actually being it. It's aged very well and the port is decent. Story is basic but charming, and gameplay is very fun. Its basically an easier version of XCOM mixed in with some Fire Emblem. Some notes about the port: - SAVE OFTEN: I had one crash that happened twice right after the first mission, the first time it happened I didn't save and lost 30 mins progress. The second time I saved and it was fine. Have not had issues since but just make sure you save after every mission as there are no auto saves. - This is a port, not a remaster. cutscenes are stuck at 1920 x 1080, and some textures look bad, especially at higher resolution but its fine as long as you go in knowing that. In terms of QOL Mods there aren't many, just one that will skip the intro and load the game faster. There are some rebalance and graphics mods but they don't seem worth it.

The content of the game is actually really good, but the game crashes when I switch from ‘headquartes’ to ‘book mode’. Which causes progress to be lost as the game has no form of auto-save. This wouldn't actually be a big problem, or so I thought. However, I'm not the only one who has this problem with the game and in fact this problem seems to have existed for years. It's a real shame, but I don't want to support a product that requires the player to solve problems that should actually be solved by the developers.