The Official Valkyria Chronicles Thread

[outlawauron]

makingmusic476 said:

forevercloud3000 said:

makingmusic476 said:

Dgc1808 said:
Wow.....

Valkyria Chronicles
Eternal Sonata
White Knight Chronicles [hopefully this year]
Little Big Planet
Resistance 2
Dead Space
Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm
Tekken 6
Bioshock.....

..... I hope I have enough money for all this......

 

Heh.  Maybe in Japan.

I just hope the game actually has a good plot for once.  I like Level 5's work (the world building in Dark Cloud was really fun), but their stories are usually pretty weak.

I used to think the same thing about Level 5. I love all their game's battle systems and actual gameplay. Dark Cloud 1 and 2 were great RPGs with  SIM like twists to the game play, but the story was trash. Rogue Galaxy was awsome with a battle system that was what FFXII should have been, still story was bad as usual though.

Then of course I played Jeanne D'Arc. OMG that game blew my MIND! I was so engrossed in the story, I never though I could like a hand held so much. THat game did things with SRPG rules that I never thought possible. One of my favorite levels was when Jeanne was trapped in a chamber with a huge dragon. The rest of the party has to find a detour through a window to get into the room. Meanwhile you must keep Jeanne alive long enough to be rescued, it was awsome. And the story tugged at my emotions. I wont give it away but someone close to the story dies in a very heart wrenching way. :(.

If the story of WKC is anything like that, It will be SUPERB story telling...

 

 

Wow.  And in a recent interview I saw it seemed that WKC will have a coherent storyline, which would be awesome if it's anything like that..

Jeanne D'Arc is their most recent RPG, so maybe that's the new direction they're going in.  I'd love for that to be true.

See, I didn't mind Dark Cloud's lack of a coherent story, for the most party.  The small stories were often pretty interesting (like the one with the Sailor and the Queen in the sunken ship), but most importantly the gameplay was awesome.  I absolutely loved collecting the Georama and rebuilding the towns how I saw fit.  I ultimately didn't finish the game, however.  I stopped in the final temple, and looking back, I realize it's because there were no more towns to rebuild, just memories to organize, and the whole thing was somewhat boring.  I already had my favorite sword by that point as well, and the uninteresting main story left me with little reason to actually finish the game.

I'm having trouble getting through Rogue Galaxy for similar reasons.  The gameplay is pretty fun, but I'm currently trying to escape a jail.  Why I'm in the jail, I have no clue, and I'm also at a loss as to what the hell I'm supposed to do after I find my way out.  When I died once after a twenty minute stretch of gameplay with no saves, I said screw it and went on to play Ico, Okami, and now I'm in the middle of FFX.  I'm absolutely loving it (my first FF), and I hope to finish Rogue Galaxy when I'm done, but I'm just not sure I'll be able to get through it.

Anywho, a good story is a real plus for me. :)

Your in the jail because you were framed for an attack on the embassy area and that really popular chick Mio.

(And you have another game to finish too .......)