60 Metacritic with 22 Reviews, 59 Opencritic with 20 Reviews and 64,58% GameRankings with  12 Reviews

Some Reviews:

Launch Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUMm_VfgSmk

I was afraid of this.... they shouldnt have changed the formula that much.

"It sacrifices the unique historical setting and art style of the Valkyria Chronicles series proper in favor of generic JRPG elements that fail to leave a strong impression, and its hack-and-slash combat offers little in the way of strategy and ruins its own flow with an poorly matched magic system." - IGN

"The true misery of Valkyria Revolution is how much of the series’ roots show through, and how much Revolution itself doesn’t know what to do with them. The qualities that defined earlier Valkyria games are mostly vestigial, but Revolution doesn't present anything strong enough or distinct enough to replace them. What it does do often directly conflicts with those legacy bulletpoints, making a game that feels like a bland timesink at its best and a fractured mess at its worst." - Polygon

They should have kept combat as it was, in the older games.

Changing the formula is not the problem. Revolution is suppose to be a splinter series. It was never marketed as anything else. What the problem is they choose close range combat as the focus. Why? If this was like a RPG shooter/real time strategy game it would have been much better. 

As a hardcore fan of the original VC, it pains me to say that I could see this coming from the first time I played through the demo of the game. They took the unique and strategic gameplay of the VC series and watered it down into some of the most bland action RPG gameplay I could imagine. How they managed this, I do not know. I had incredibly high expectations from this studio and I can only hope they go back and make a true sequel to the Chronicles series, or at the very least a full on remake of VC3 on PS4.

UltimateUnknown disagree's with you.  Also see the quotes by polygon & IGN.

I havnt even played the demo of this, but I could tell from the videos back then, that it was too changed.

Imo you shouldnt take what people love about a game series and then just throw it out the window, thats a good way to get people angry with you.

Even god of war, haveing more "narrative" doesnt mean they throw everything else that was god of war out, they added instead of subtracting

This is stupidity for sake of whining. 

There is Mario then  Mario Kart

Pokemon then there is Pokken

There is Phantasy Star then Phantasy Star Online

Valkyria Chronicles the Valkyria Revolution.

We had a whole entire announcement article in which it was openly stated the Revolution is a spinoff/splinter series to Valkyria Chronicles and both would have no bearing on each other. If UltimateUnknown's disappointed steams from being Chronicles, which we were told, that's his problem. The point of a spin off series IS to be different from the main series. Revolution's direction sucks. It could have been an awesome series.

Use your head. 

eh I'm not that surprised when I first saw that they changed the gameplay. Will get it when it hits around 10€ which is pretty much the maximum I spend for games in the 60s.

To sum my feelings up, it feels like a stupid way to expand the franchise.

When was the last time a core Phantasy Star title came out?

Its not stupid. I'm already said this this dumb direction. Its ridiculous to be complaining about it not being something else when its was openly announced that way. We knew knew from the gitty up that it was not going to be a Strategy game. So why still hold accoutable for not being what it said it wasnt. If I tell you there is a sandwich in your lunchbox, are you going to expect a Pizza?