Valkyria Chronicles

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Azure Revolution is about as far away from Valkyria Chronicles as you could get. I'm glad the series still has some life in it, but it's so disappointing this is the direction it's going in for now.

That's really disappointing! I'm not a big fan of the new character designs, but does it at least still play the same? I love the gameplay in VC.

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VC2 was already proof they were perfectly willing to put everything in the series on the backburner in order to try and nab otaku bucks. At this rate if we can finally get an English release of VC3, that's all I can ask for.

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I like VC2, myself. Obviously the graphics are nowhere near as beautiful as those of the original, but I think the gameplay is still fantastic. I never particularly cared about the story in the first one, so the high school theme didn't really bother me much. It's certainly the weakest in the series thus far, but it's still pretty enjoyable IMO.

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VC2 is the VC game I played the most of. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. It is only a shame that they tried to follow so many trends instead of just continuing on from the first game's structure. But I would certainly take another VC2 over nothing at all.

Though personally I just want an official NA release of VC3.

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Remastered is officially coming West.

Now if only we could get word on a remaster of 2 and 3.

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Footage of the new game in action.

Not a fan of the battle system. It's really generic, especially considering how excellent the original system was.

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They traded in the original trilogy's unique spin on SRPG gameplay for slow, clunky real-time action? The beautiful watercolor art style of the PS3 game is nowhere to be seen in the muddy environments? The sniper character repeats the same canned line every time she fires? What the fuck have they done to my Valkyria Chronicles??

I mean, I guess it doesn't look horrible, but it certainly doesn't look good. This just seems like a bog standard action RPG capitalizing on Valkyria's brand recognition. Even the character designs are worse than before! That video took this game from a "day 1 buy" to a "bargain bin purchase... maybe" for me.

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Valkyria Chronicles 4 announced for PS4, Switch, and XBone for 2018.

Sega finally making a good move with this franchise.