Valkyria Chronicles

This game was the main reason I held onto my PS3 for so long. I played it through twice on the PS3 and am going through my third now on the PC. I love the art and tactical combat. The story is nice, but by no means a selling point. Unit progression feels good as you go through the campaign, and it's fun to replay th…

A fun tactical RPG with a solid story. In terms of gameplay it blends a turn-based system for actions and real-time system for movement which works quite well. The classes aren't perfectly balanced and some feel much stronger than others but they all get some moments to shine. The story is fast-paced and relatively…

A game with a great art style and interesting setting ruined by trial-and-error gameplay that can't really be remedied by anything. The beginning is great and makes it seem like this is going to be a fun game. Unfortunately after a while it just becomes frustrating. Most missions seem like you either need to find ou…

Some people said it's a game of trial and error. Well, I can say that it is just a "time rewinding" feature using save and load in between every actions. I remember doing that a lot when playing old FPS games back in the day. For me it's very satisfying when figuring out the optimal path to reach the end of the miss…

Good game but comically clunky controls

A damn masterpiece for as long as it's the only game you can play. If it was the only title I had on a PS3 back in 2008 I'd love it, I'd replay the hell out of it, I'd think about it at school and strategize the hell out of it. Unfortunately, back in 2008 I was obsessive about Tibia, not this, and I can only imagine…