In the world of Valkyria Chronicles, the year is 1935 E.C., and the continent of Europa has been plunged into the Second Europan War between the Autocratic East Europan Imperial Alliance -- also known as The Empire -- and the Atlantic Federation over the precious resource Ragnite. The Empire is sweeping through the continent like an unchecked wildfire and has its eyes set on the rich Ragnite deposits of the Principality of Gallia. Although peaceful Gallia remains neutral in the conflict, its citizens will need to defend home and country against the inevitable invasion. Players follow Lieutenant Welkin Gunther and the vaunted Squad 7 of the Gallian Militia as they take on the seemingly insurmountable forces of the Empire.
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Derpsauce
28 Jun 161#8
Well worth it for this price!
elchery
28 Jun 163#7
For 10 pounds less you can get it on Steam... So consider it if you have a decently fast PC
GokeUK
28 Jun 161#6
I am playing this at the moment and its very good. Well worth the price.
Tee_Doff23
28 Jun 163#4
Great game. The story is set out as a book with chapters. You go through the book watching cut scenes and then there is usually 1-2 battles per chapter as well.
There are around 18 chapters, and around 12 skirmishes as well some character chapters and some DLC challenges/harder skirmish modes. The game also has new game plus.
Combat is a turn based and action hybrid. You have a certain amount of points (moves) per turn, and each move let's you control one character who has an action point bar. Once the AP bar is empty you can't move, but can still attack - however you only get one attack per turn. It's kind of like Xcom with some real time aspects.
Game took me about 32 hours for two runs through, but NG+ is really easy with your suped up characters. So expect 25 or so hours for one run, with a few skirmishes thrown in.
LankySi to Tee_Doff23
29 Jun 16#9
Nice one, cheers guys, makes it a bit clearer. I did love Advance Wars. I just got the impression that there's a lot of sitting, reading dialogue and I'm not really into that at the moment, want more action haha
LankySi
28 Jun 16#3
Been watching some videos on this. As far as I can tell it's an interactive animation/comic mixed in with strategic, turn-based battles. Would that about sum it up or is there more to it than that?
soap_box to LankySi
28 Jun 16#5
Hm, I'm not sure about the interactive comic/animation. It's a turn based strategy RPG, like FF Tactics, Fire Emblem, Advance Wars, XCOM etc. There's cutscenes of a typical anime style in between battles.
Royds
28 Jun 16#1
Any good? Been getting right in to rpgs as of late
oUkTuRkEyIII to Royds
28 Jun 161#2
I haven't got round to installing it yet, they have been very generous with it on metacritic though
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There are around 18 chapters, and around 12 skirmishes as well some character chapters and some DLC challenges/harder skirmish modes. The game also has new game plus.
Combat is a turn based and action hybrid. You have a certain amount of points (moves) per turn, and each move let's you control one character who has an action point bar. Once the AP bar is empty you can't move, but can still attack - however you only get one attack per turn. It's kind of like Xcom with some real time aspects.
Game took me about 32 hours for two runs through, but NG+ is really easy with your suped up characters. So expect 25 or so hours for one run, with a few skirmishes thrown in.
Nice one, cheers guys, makes it a bit clearer. I did love Advance Wars. I just got the impression that there's a lot of sitting, reading dialogue and I'm not really into that at the moment, want more action haha
http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/valkyria-chronicles-remastered