Valkyria Chronicles

[Jefe]

Ops, yeah. I forgot you live in that shanty town in the middle of no man's land growing grapes and selling French cheese ;x

[Kazen]

Gah, apparently they don't sell points cards in Europe, guess I don't have much choice.

You could always put how much money you need onto a disposable Visa card and use that then toss it (I would think they sell those in europe, but I'm not sure, I just know they have them here).

[Hitoshura]

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VALKYRIA IS KING OF THE JUNGLE!

Valkyria Chronicles sales jump in the US, tops charts in Japan

Saling The World: Valkyria Chronicles Tops Japan

Valkyria jumping back to #5 place on US sales chart? Ballin'.

Quoting a buddy of mine, some damn good news finally getting the recognition it deserves.

[Kaylia]

Rofl@the picture. I think everyone who watched minami is thinking the same.

The anime, combined with the re-release and DLC probably helped a lot. I didn't play the game (only the demo), but it's one of the best anime this season imo. It's simple, and the animation isnt great, but I love the character.

I'm glad to see the game sales are going up. Effort and originality need to be rewarded.

[Elcura]

Yay, sequel sequel~

And more DLC until the sequel!

[SamanosukeShiva]

finally got around finishing valkyria chronicles. what an awesome game

Spoiler: show

and i'm loving the ending too. I'd rather have an obvious but satisfying ending than unexpected with a twist bullshit ending any day.

[SamanosukeShiva]

downloaded the DLC for VC

hard mode... damn.. no more 1 turn win hahaha, have to actually think to win

[Elcura]

Yeah, ending was simple but satisfying, a lot of the plot points and stuff were pretty predictable and somewhat cliche, but still good to see. Playing the DLC (Edy and Silvaria's missions) was a lot of fun but a little frustrating at the same time, since my troops weren't max level with the best equipment and my snipers could actually miss lol.

Still, once you beat Silvaria's DLC, you get her machine gun for shocktroopers which fucking owns! You can take down tanks by shooting the engine/radiator and the range which you can counter attack from is insane.

[SwampdonkeyPLD]

About how much time is invested into playing the dlc?

[Elcura]

Not much time, a few hours per DLC mission depending on skill. The extra hard mode DLC will last you a lot longer because you need to kill all the enemies instead of just capturing the enemy base.

[Kaelan?]

I've done about 4 or so missions on extra hard mode so far and I'm loving it. It's not necessarily incredibly harder than hard mode was, it just takes different types of strategy (and more strategy in general) than before. I like how they reused the old maps but managed to make missions than play completely differently by changing unit placement, goals, enemy unit types and locations, etc.

The hardest part about it is how strong the enemy units are. Most enemy scouts and shocktroopers can take out anyone of your units in a single attack if they have a clear shot and scouts have a huge attack range - if you just run straight at one with one of your shocktroopers you'll be dead before you get into firing range. Have to do a lot more of choosing which enemy units to take out first, taking cover behind stuff so they cant aim properly (i.e. walls, buildings, etc - just staying behind sandbags/grass doesn't keep you alive for very long if they can see you).

And yeah, like mentioned before, most missions are now 'kill all enemies', so you can't take the fast way out. You also can't use either of your tanks in any of the missions, welkin fights on foot as a scout (and as always if he dies, you lose) and you can't use any orders.

Can't wait to play the other missions when I get some time

[Null]

Just got this game, what characters do you guys find to be your favorite / best for each class?

I went back and read the past few pages and I am confused as fuck as to how you guys played through the game. I've been reading people say stuff like, "I'm at chapter 14 and just got my characters to level 9."
I'm at chapter 4 and all my classes are level 11. WTH??

[Hiryo]

Depends on how well you do with your missions. If you're getting rank A on everything then you'll level faster than the player getting E's on everything.

But besides that my top characters are usually my scouts :D which is usually true for everyone. Beaten the game so right now my power-play team is Cindy/Fressia/Alicia with someone like Rosie or my favorite sniper Catherine on cleanup duty. I've only just now after beating the game started using shocktroopers more often, they really are good at many things like oneshotting lancers and defending spots from enemy shocktroopers.

[BRP]

Successful formula: make game, make anime.

[Bockage]

... what characters do you guys find to be your favorite / best for each class?

Scouts
-Alicia: Unlocks some great bonuses as the story progresses.
-Ted: His personality cracks me up, good stats too.
-Freesia: Good stats, just don't use her last.

Shocktrooper
-Rosie: Nice stats and adds extra CP.
-Vyse
-Jane

Lancer
-Largo: Good stats and gives an extra CP.
-Jann: Good overall stats and funny as hell.
-Audrey: Mooch ability is awesome.

Engineer
-Dallas
-Nadine

Sniper
-Marina: Best sniper hands down once she unlocks Ult. Accuracy and Penetrator.

[Hiryo]

Marina was my top sniper too but then she and Motley up and left me for no reason but i started using Cindy and <3ing her to death, and reusing Catherine because she still gets a couple of the good stats herself.

[Kaylia]

Successful formula: make game, make anime.

How is this succesful? I can't think of any other anime based on game that was decent.

[Hitoshura]

^Zone of the Enders had an anime series that I enjoyed. Also Persona Trinity Soul was good for the first 10 episodes or so..

[Pharaun]

How is this succesful? I can't think of any other anime based on game that was decent.

Gungrave. Also the Valkyria Chronicles anime has been decent so far, not great but not horrible.

[Zumi]

Alicia + Awaken Potential, made the game way too easy toward the end. Only complaint about it.