I'm here to announce that on March 10th I finally became a believer : I bought and started playing Valkyria Chronicles!
If I had known a little earlier this game was from the team that created Skies of Arcadia I would've bought it first day.
Right now I'm on Chapter 7 and I'm savouring every bit of it, every piece of the story, the journals, the personnel information, and I listen to as much dialogue as time allows me (instead of skipping it along with the subs, and I'm playing with Japanese dialogue -the only way Anime is suppoused to be enjoyed! ;)
I'm delighted to say the least. The Battle at Barious was awesome, and those cinematics with Selvaria there , my God! has it been so long when I felt so excited with an RPG! All the attention to detail, personalities... I love so many characters in my Squad! I'm proud I haven't let anyone die yet!