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| Cutscene in the game |
Valkyria Chronicles is a strategic video game with shooter aspects for the PS3. It was a great game with its touching story, anime-like art design, interesting visual tone for World War 2 environment and unique game play. It had great reviews on its innovative depth into WW2 battles that was never tried before. Combining strategic gameplay with your units interacting on the battle like a 2nd person shooter game.
The main character is a tank commander who commands a squad of soldiers to defend their country, Galia. A fictional country that neighbors two powerful nations, who have at war for years and Galia has remained neutral in their conflicts but eventually the war spread to their borders. The hero leads to defend his country along side some colorful characters.
The story is both heartwarming and tragic. The hero will go through similar issues of WW2 that bring a sense of relation to better understand the world of Valkyria Chronicles and the cultural influences that can be seen in the game.
The gameplay is something that every gamer should try, its a turn-based strategy where the hero selects troopers to the battlefield. When your turn begins, you choose a soldier or tank, move across the battlefield, set up and shoot at any enemies. The shooting phase set the soldier or tank to shoot in a 2nd person shooter aspect.
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| 2nd Person Shooter View |
The each soldier you choose is unique as each of them have their personal traits that effect their battle skill. The solider could fight better in cities or forest, have better accuracy, is more resilient or can spot enemy units from farther distances. It makes you feel like your playing XCOM or Final Fantasy Tactics.
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| In cover |
There are several DLCs for the game, introducing misadventures of certain characters in the game and another campaign on the Empire's side of the war. There is no online features which is probably why not many people heard of it but the game was succeeded into two sequels for the PSP. An anime was released years ago and it was interesting to see characters from the game in a different view.
Valkyria Chronicles has been released in Steam. If you are interested, go get it. It leaves an awesome impression.
