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March 9, 2009 at 4:40 am #4937NiahakModerator
I’m surprised there’s not a topic for this game around, seeing as it’s close to the rarest RPG S-E has made. Or was, until the re-release on the PSP.
I started playing this for the second time, and it’s a lot of fun. All the characters are really non-standard, death is rampant (though it’s your means of recruiting, so it makes sense) and along the "best" ending path you have to deal with some pretty shady characters. It gets a bit ridiculous on hard mode though, with some bosses killing your party every turn (you just need to pray "guts" triggers so you can auto-item your party back to life).
I started playing this since I heard about the third game in the series out for DS soon. It’s a tactical RPG so I’m not that interested (I find them really stressful) but it reminded me that I have the PSX one…
Also, has anyone here played VP2 (Silmeria)? I hear it’s good, and I will probably end up getting it… just not sure if it’s worth playing right away.
March 9, 2009 at 5:11 am #36356Lord Yuan ShuKeymasterI only played the original Valkyria Profile. It was decent, got towards the end but stopped playing. I felt going through that you get so many characters and don’t really have a chance to utilize them, and was using some of the earlier characters for a long while. I forget all of them at this point, that was back in 2000 or whatever. Hard to believe it was so rare, I didn’t think it was a big thing getting it back then. But I guess you could say that about a lot of those PSX rpg’s.
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Huo Hu's Adventure started Destiny of an Emperor hackingMarch 12, 2009 at 12:19 am #36357NiahakModeratorYeah, I’m hitting the part of the game where you get a ton of worthless characters, especially on hard mode.
I like the stories for each character, they’re entertaining and often inter-related, but then you do get a ton of characters with no uses…
March 12, 2009 at 4:20 pm #36358Lord Yuan ShuKeymasterI did like the stories as well. A little depressing and they all seemed to be in their own little world, but for the most part they were all well-told.
Not sure if I played on Hard, I feel like I did. What are the options, easy or hard? or is there a medium?
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Huo Hu's Adventure started Destiny of an Emperor hackingMarch 12, 2009 at 9:56 pm #36359NiahakModeratorEasy, Normal, Hard.
Easy can’t get all the ending or characters.
Normal can’t get all the characters, but can get all endings.
Hard can get all of both, and an after-game dungeon as per usual Tri-Ace fare.
More games should be depressing :P
March 23, 2009 at 4:35 am #36360NiahakModeratorFigured I’d update since I got Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria.
So far (~14 hrs in):
-More characters than VP1
-No time constraints
-Much more interesting but also tougher combat; it’s like a position-based game slapped on top of the original VP fare, and you get items for knocking body parts off enemies
-Skill system is weird and I don’t really see the point; any character can get any skill given the right items, but few skill points to use
-Story is decent but moving far too slowly
Overall, I’m not certain I’ll stick with it. It seems like the game is expecting me to grind much more than I have been; I’ve got a half dozen einherjar I have yet to "free" (the equivalent to transfer in this one, sorta) and every new area I come to I really struggle with the battles. Way too many of them have insects or spirits (both of which can *only* be damaged by casters or archers) which is just a good way to piss me off.
I want to stay with it because combat is so much better than VP1. But the story is just incredibly slow and it’s telegraphing the next plot twist a ton (I started seeing it coming about 4 hours ago).
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