looks like Valkyria is not your thing. I wasn't too impressed with the demo myself but after all the recommendations, I gave it a shot anyway. When you play the actual game gradually, its much more immersive than that skirmish battle that is the demo. You start to care about the characters and fall in love with the game's style.
...or maybe it's just me but I love this game.
"Dr. Tenma, according to you, lives are equal. That's why I live today. But you must have realised it by now...the only thing people are equal in is death"---Johann Liebert (MONSTER)
"WAR is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler
