10 Things You Didn't Know About Valkyria Chronicles (No Spoilers)

[@D4L333]

Just found your channel, awesome video, looking forward to watching more on your channel, and also wanted to say I love your accent!!❤

[@paullaing5921]

I freaking love this game. I picked it up cheap for my brand new PS3 shortly after I got it, I thought it looked interesting and vaguely remembered reading about it somewhere. I'm so thankful I picked it up that day. Also, one of the few games to make me cry, twice.

[@SuperSupersoda]

I am an ardent opponent of permadeath in video games as a general rule, but the way Valkyria Chronicles implemented it is one of the few good ways to do it. By giving the player the option to send a medic to help the fallen soldier, the game changed permadeath from an incredibly annoying mechanic into a choice for the player. Throughout playing the game, I never lost a soldier to permadeath because every time a soldier fell, I always mounted a rescue operation which succeeded. It was a fascinating gameplay mechanic, a soldier falls, and immediately, a mission to capture the flag transforms into a rescue operation.

[@stephenwood6663]

As an unexpected corollary to this: the game tries very hard to make you sympathise with Selvaria, but I never really forgave her for killing Dallas at Barious (she riddled her with laserbeams and stomped on her body in the same activation; there was nothing I could do). I held a grudge against her right to the end.

[@vito7428]

​@@stephenwood6663It's always the worse when your soldiers get downed in close quarters and is either in the enemy's path or they intentionally went over to finish them off. I always keep backup saves when I think one or more of my team members is isolated and is in a risky situation where the enemy might push and down them on their turn

[@Arizona-ex5yt]

One of my favorite games of all time! Beautiful game. I loved the gameplay mechanics and wish more games did this. It's a shame we'll probably never get another after VC4. What the heck is wrong with gamers? Why didn't this series catch on?!

[@nr2676]

No marketing from Sega + no worldwide release + release on dead platforms or to early (PS3 + PSP) + terrible release date (they released VC4 with Monster Hunter World in Japan, and with Dragon Quest XI in West + after Fire Emblem Three Houses announcement, which overshadowed this game from huge marketing, because Sega not spend millions $ on marketing like Nintendo did). If no one hear about game, they dont buy game even if is 95% on Metacritic like Skies of Arcadia. This series need high budget reboot (minimum 50-100M $ budget, because Fire Emblem exist which took 90% of japanese SRPG audience), but unfortunately dev team died in 2018 and Ryataro Nonaka + Shuntaro Tanaka left Sega in 2017 + Sega like always spamming Sonic and Yakuza games, which keep overshadowing their rest games.

[@iloikepoumelou9859]

im gamers, very deeply remorseful for not having found out about this game any sooner

[@driftingswordsmanzer]

I loved this game back in the day, the story is so good. I got super invested that when I couldn’t reach some of my fallen characters, I truly felt it.

[@mauricioaguilera3194]

The fact that the best one, VC3, was the only one that didn't got localized still hurts ... But the fact that the franchise is pretty much dead hurts even more

[@nr2676]

How can be alive franchise, when Sega disbanned whole Creative Studio R&D 3 among with Valkyria Chronicles devs ? I'm pretty sure if Sega would not restructurized whole CS in 2018, and Mediavision dont had a huge human resources problems (they still searching for experiences devs with Unreal Engine, since 2018, and still no new games, except Visual Novel - Digimon Survive), this series would be continued. And technically all original Sega series are dead / on life support, except Sonic and Yakuza.

[@snakey888]

Honestly VC4 is better.

[@nr2676]

@@snakey888 Gameplay and map design wise yes, but story and character wise no.

[@snakey888]

@@nr2676 To be fair, gameplay and related aspects such as map design, are the most important element of a game.

[@nr2676]

@@snakey888 I would rate VC games by two categories: Gameplay / map design (as a SRPG): VC4 > VC1 > VC3 > VC2 Story / character development (as a Visual Novel): VC3 > VC1 > VC4 > VC2 But comparing PSP with PS3/PS4 games in category gameplay map design is a bit unfair, due to limitation of PSP. As a PSP game VC3 is really good, and fixed most of problems of VC2, just like VC4 fixed most of problems of VC1.

[@nr2676]

Sadly Valkyria Chronicles is dead series along with developer. No marketing from Sega killed them, like they did with Skies of Arcadia.

[@Diablange95]

Vyse and aika are in one of the valkyria chronicle episode.

[@nr2676]

@@Diablange95 there is also Nagisa (Phantasy Star) in VC3

[@Diablange95]

@@nr2676 didn't know since I didn't do the infinity version and it's unlocked by a password, thanks, I'll check that.

[@vito7428]

SEGA is keeping them on hibernation along with their devs,passively milking it with re-releases,collabs,merch and everything else they can think of aside from an actual new entry. Which is fair enough I suppose since imo if we're going off sales,VC as a franchise should've disappeared since 2. But still this kind of teasing to keep fans hopeful and on edge is getting tiring especially since it's been almost the same amount of time between 3 and 4,if we're not counting the HD remaster of 1 that came out between said games

[@nr2676]

@@vito7428 Sega keeps them now only for PC porting (aside of Sakura Wars 2019 which was made mostly by Team Sonic and them). Do you know they ported Persona 5 Royal, Hatsune Miku Project Diva Megamix, and few other games on Steam ? It's funny because they do not that with own games (Sakura Wars, Valkyria Chronicles 2&3, Skies of Arcadia, Shinobi PS2 etc.), but they port Atlus and AM2 games on PC. There is hope, because they looking now for devs who are familiar with Sakura Wars and Valkyria Chronicles, but it takes ages when they publish a brand new game again. Hmmm... maybe in 2028 ? Now, we can count on a maximum of one new game from them for 10 years, and this is main reason why their games is destiny to flop. Especially while Atlus it's heavy promoted by Sega, and constantly keeps overshadowing their RPG games.

[@suiken3149]

Speaking of Sakura Wars, Valkyria plays so similar with its combat Not everyone knows or played Skies of Arcadia. You should have mentioned that AIka, Vyse and Fina is in this game

[@LordelX]

I love this series. Valkyria Chronicles will always be one of my favorite games.

[@ivanbluecool]

Honestly would love to see 4 as an anime. The story staring out as kids not knowing the true horrors of war and how they slowly change and lives lost was massive. Especially when lives were lost. Almost lost my breath when karen was attacked and destoryed every sniper in the area. Wouldn't say this system is original but it's very underated and deserves more game companies trying to polish this system more.

[@stephenwood6663]

And good grief, the finale! It hit me hard to see people I've come to like doing their damnedest to bring a doomsday device into the heart of a vast city.

[@DictionaryMath5903]

Cat people? Lizard mounts?? Ok, we need to see this alternate version. Speaking of dream requests, can we have a Valkyria Chronicles x Unicorn Overlord mashup please!

[@hongluong3427]

They missed the chance for DLC 😂

[@nr2676]

2:11 also Battle System BLITZ is based on Sakura Wars 3-5 ARMS battle system, so yeah VC still have DNA from this series. You have also huge references to this series in VC3 on PSP.

[@suiken3149]

All the sequels have reference in this series, minus the spinoff.

[@StArShIpEnTeRpRiSe]

About the continent name, Europa isn't some fictional modification of Europe, it's literally the name of the continent in some (or many) European languages. I love the whole series, my favorite maybe 4 because it's the only with PC version (which is missing in 2 and 3), and playable Selvaria (in Valkyria form not just as soldier than in the 1st game DLC) But my love for the game started when I first heard about the original 1st game, AND it was already out on PC, so I gave it a chance, and it quickly became one of my favorite games.

[@matdrift]

For Valkyrie Profile part, my sister mislead me about Valkyria Chronicle is relates to the Valkyrie Profile based on her own assumption. Thanks to her I played this game and happy with it. I knew this game because the game was kept showed in my PS3 store and made me wonder and ask my sister. Played it 3-4 years later after release date. Still my no 1 TRPG of all time!

[@Mintcar923]

Best 20 dollars I ever spent! Kinda weird how the sequels(and spinoff) are so vastly overlooked or so it appears.. I’m more of a traditional sequels should follow up the same story but having each game tell the story of a different squad kinda works too.. Would love to see a prequel that discloses what happened with Welkins dad

[@nr2676]

No marketing from Sega, releasing games on dead consoles (PSP), Valkyria Revolution disaster + terrible release date (for example VC4 was released in West in same week with Dragon Quest XI). Basically terrible IP managment from Sega, they only care about Sonic and Yakuza.

[@Mintcar923]

@@nr2676 Well PSP was kinda prime when VC2 dropped.. And, I dunno what they were thinking with VC 3 as most of us never played.. Yup they should def do better marketing because it is a great series

[@nr2676]

@@Mintcar923 VC2 was huge downgrade from VC1, because Sega chased the trend to copy Persona 4 like most of niche jrpgs at that time. I'm pretty sure if VC4 was VC2 released on PS3, the series would sell much better, than VC2 on PSP. VC3 fixed that, but it was released only in Japan, due to bad sales outside of Japan. At least it ended as a best selling game in franchise in Japan , debiut with 101k physical copies in first week, but this was still weaker sales than most of games in older sister franchise - Sakura Wars (the weakest selling main game in Sakura Wars series had 95k on PS2, still better than VC1 with 85k, the best one had ... 507k in first week on Saturn). Thats probably why Sega after worst selling game in series in Japan (VC4 - which debiuted ,,only'' with 67k), returned back to Sakura Wars series not that long ago (PS4 game debiuted with 141k physical copies in FW, which is still better than best selling Valkyria Chronicles game in Japan). And Sakura Wars PS4 was probably cheaper to develop than VC4, due to be released only on one platform, and had no english dubb.

[@Mintcar923]

@@nr2676 Oh I’m not disagreeing with you in that they made mistakes with it in the past.. But at least they have some of the series on a lot of platforms.. They don’t even have Yakuza on Switch for example.. Still that another one of my favorites thankfully gained traction in recent years.. So I’m hoping it’ll go the same way with VC.. Fingers crossed

[@Cheers_Mcgee]

Picked this game up a long time ago for a great price, did not know it would be one of the best out. Still have warm memories thinking about it to this day for sure!

[@vinniamsterdam700]

It's such a beautiful game in so many ways.

[@nr2676]

Yeah, like their earlier game Skies of Arcadia (and Sakura Wars in Japan).

[@remitemmos9165]

incredible! you did teach me a few things! thanks!

[@ivanbluecool]

Valkyria Chronicles series definitely deserves more love in the main stream. I had a fun time playing 4 and got it on a good deal of 10 dollars. Great characters and great game system like codename steam and some alien game i played as a kid. Wish more games had thus system

[@sugarymushroom]

One of the first games I bought when I got my switch.

[@DrHackmoff]

The third title is the best in my opinion but it needs a remaster badly

[@musicacatastale]

Got this game when I was about 7, sadly didn't know anything about rpg and strategy games. Never passed the first couple of missions and never bothered too much. Years have passed and this remains my biggest regrets in gaming

[@paullaing5921]

You can still get this game and try again. It's been out for a while so is also pretty cheap now.

[@firstswordcorvus7368]

A favorite game I never got to finish, a lot of it was newer games I wanted to try kept coming out. 2012 was when I got the PS3, I was also getting a lot of other jrpg's for the PS3 and in the ps store under the PS1 and PS2 classics section. Gaming stuff wasn't well advertised in my town until we got a GameStop and it was the only place that heavily advertised video games and still is here even though it's gotten a lot less business. Likely only still open here cause some gamers like myself still like getting physical copies of games. I have a lot of games that I still haven't finished even though I enjoy playing them. I've finished a good number of games even a few with multiple endings

[@user-xn5me8iz7c]

Man I'd be stoked if we got a 5th game. I'm not sure what they could do but plenty of ideas could work. Plus I know it won't happen but the west getting 3 would also be awesome

[@manofcultures]

still loving the game.... hope fully we get another game just as good

[@quintussilenius4324]

fun fact about sakura wars: the first two games were translated somewhere around 2007... into russian, of all languages and it actually gets even more bizarre: from what i know, it was in fact an official release, not a fan translation

[@nr2676]

And Sakura Wars 1+2 on PSP suppoused to have official english release by NISA (because Sega don't care), but Sony banned localization of this game.

[@zg-it]

Cell shaded Graphics have aged so well, pretty much all the games from the 2000s look terrible except for the cell shaded

[@Justupid-cf9iq]

The 1st game that i 100% Achievement in STEAM, love this game so much...

[@Cookiedon15]

Great video 👍 I didn't know this game existed until I saw people streaming it. I didn't know it was on PS3 but I got it on PC. I also didn't know it ran at 60 FPS. I thought the game was just slow but it was just my graphics card, lol. Ya, game was fun. I found some exploits in finishing missions quickly so it felt kinda cheaty for me While I'm not the biggest fan of the game, I ended up with a PS3 copy through a games lot bundle. Maybe I should check that version out someday.

[@NMac30]

In my top 10 favorite games of all time. I love 4 almost as much!

[@manuelcenteno4279]

Juegazazazo. Saludos desde Guadalajara, Jalisco

[@johnofthewired]

great video man, was thinking of playing the games again.

[@karlmueller1980]

The PlayStation 3 you got it also remember didn’t sell well in the states and in Japan. It didn’t fly off the shelves like the Wii and the Nintendo switch. Or even the PS4 sold better. And this is also one of the reasons why the PlayStation five is not selling well in Japan. The Nintendo switch is hence why why square is going to release more games on the Nintendo switch and switch2 or whatever the switch successors name is going to be.

[@Queenofthesevenseas]

My first experience was actually with the anime series 😂 I had no idea their was actually a video game until after I watched tha anime😩 So happy I decided to get a copy for my PS3 absolutely love the game ❤❤ still one I go back to regularly today

[@nr2676]

Valkyria Chronicles anime is also one of best animes based on video games, which only shows how good source material game was (Ryuataro Nonaka have big experience in animation industry).

[@SAL-20893]

True story; my first contact with VC was on the PSP with VC2 Never finished the game, because it fealt not rewaring at all and it became stale quickly. Never touched any other VC game because of this.

[@joshbessey9647]

I grinded Alicia to level 10 and one shotted’d the entire army!

[@RedColoR4]

How about valkyria 4 and possible to see new valkyria story?

[@AFarCryAway]

We Could Have Had NEKO CHRONICLES And They Took It From Us?!

[@monsterking1973]

A great game it’s a shame 3 never got officially released in the west

[@Freedomcustom]

Sony US dropped the ball on that one citing piracy and lack of player desire for the sequel to be worth their time and effort aka we don't see the game making the profit numbers we want so what happened? We bought the game from Japan and translated the damn thing ourselves all while shoving it in Sony US's faces because they could literally do nothing about it

[@DanstevGraker]

Great game, I didn't realize it was that popular, though.

[@Mintcar923]

Yeah it’s basically Fire Emblem meets XCom.. Prolly my 2nd fav SRPG series behind FE

[@nr2676]

@@Mintcar923 Actually XCOM it's like Valkyria Chronicles, because VC was released earlier than XCOM on PS3. And there was interview with developer of XCOM, when they told they took inspirations in gameplay from Valkyria Chronicles.

[@Mintcar923]

@@nr2676 Well a game could be like another game.. It doesn’t really matter which came first

[@nr2676]

@@Mintcar923 Yeah, but most of people compare to more popular IP, not for IP who did that first. And technically Sakura Wars 3 in 2001 did that even earlier, than VC and was developed by same dev team, but that game never left outside of Japan. This means a Sega Overworks was 10 years ahead of its time.

[@lightnix9188]

Good game, but no autosave screwed me once…was going to return to book mode to save then it decided to crash 😂

[@nr2676]

Let me guess, PC version ? It's buggy compared to PS4 and Switch version.

[@AsakuraYukiko]

I got it on release day. I still LOVE this game. I cried so much after chapter 13.

[@Senshitengu]

The anime of this game is pretty good also, hail selvaria bles👀

[@bladeofmird]

I still remember the days back when the game was first released on PS3 me and others who were playing it we were all trying to spread the word on big forums like GAF and elsewhere of just how good this game was and that every PS3 owner should at least try it. Unfortunately the initial sales were disappointing even though the game itself was critically acclaimed (and rightfully so). I just hope we see VC5 one day as well as a localised remaster of VC3 for modern consoles.

[@mojojojotokyo]

Senjo no Valkyria translates more closely to “Valkyria of the Battlefield” than just “Battlefield Valkyria”

[@dcb6113]

If the devs would read this Valkyria Chronicles 5 plz :) I would go hype train full prize on it.

[@nr2676]

There is no devs, they were demoted in 2018 (whole Creative Studio R&D3 which VC devs were part of), due to restructurization in Sega. Also Ryutaro Nonaka and Shuntaro Tanaka left Sega in 2017. Some devs like Tetsuya Otsubo (Sakura Wars 3, Skies of Arcadia) were hired in RGG Studio and Team Sonic, and they developed also Sakura Wars on PS4 and ported ... Persona 5 Royal on PC, but after that is total silence about them. The second developer Mediavision is in still searching devs who are experienced with Unreal Engine, and after Digimon Survive (Visual Novel) they dont made any console game, due to lack of resources.

[@dcb6113]

@@nr2676 to bad :( thx for the info :)

[@nr2676]

@@dcb6113 Well Sega still searching new devs (especially for Team Sonic, and newer aquired Sega Sapporo Studio), and announced revivals of some of their legacy IP's like Jet Set Sario, Crazy Taxi, Shinobi, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage AND MORE. Let's hope in this AND MORE will be also Valkyria Chronicles, but it will be developed as already by diffirent people, not original developers.

[@suiken3149]

@@nr2676 I'm still pissed they butchered Sakura Wars. Gotta blame Team Sonic for that. They could have stick with the old system and gauge people's interest first before jumping into the hack and slash bandwagon.

[@nr2676]

@@suiken3149 They probably give this series a second chance according to leaks and job offer from 2023. But please, stop changing everything into mindless button mashers dear Sega (Shining games on PS2 & PS3, Altered Beast 2005, Golden Axe The Beast Rider, Valkyria Revolution, Sakura Wars 2019 etc.).

[@VorkKnightOfGood]

Catgirls riding lizards? Write it down. WRITE IT DOWN!!!

[@dustybunny6716]

Loved this series, except for the spin off. Wished I could watch the anime

[@Sight-Beyond-Sight]

I also grabbed it up when it was made available on Steam.

[@aditfractale7991]

I never play Valkyria Chronicles before, but i already played valkyria revolution on ps4. I love the story and gameplay even many people hate that game..

[@suigalep]

Dude, try the original.

[@nr2676]

Story in VR is surprisingly very good, and game is not that bad if you count this game more like Visual Novel with ,,gameplay''.

[@hazeamen]

Top 5 games for me

[@williamjones4117]

I almost missed this game, and I am so glad I didn't. I didn't pick it up until the PS4 version, but it led to me amassing the whole series. No regrets. Just a lingering sadness that 2 and 3 were never given a proper console treatment. And in 3s case, a proper localization. Or, at least a translation given how... questionable... localizations have been lately.

[@nr2676]

VC4 localization was really bad.

[@runningdecadeix4780]

1st view? I see Valkyria Chronicles I like

[@Aaron-wv5si]

Was recommended the series with VC4 by a friend a couple years ago, and once finishing that one I immediately grabbed VC1. Really love the games. Only critique I have is that I wish they were a bit more grounded in reality in respect to the Valkeries. I think the games each go downhill when those things make an appearance.

[@ivanbluecool]

The real problem I had was how the invincible bosses can basically run through your army with no downsides. Wish they could be stunned or temporarily defeated to give you some chance as fairness. Only the tanks if you hit them lose AP as Riley was able to solo our date

[@suiken3149]

@@ivanbluecool Valkyrias are treated like Super Saiyans and thats not a bad thing. Bosses can only run through your army if you apply wrong strategy.

[@chunkymilk]

Alicia is cute!