As an unexpected corollary to this: the game tries very hard to make you sympathise with Selvaria, but I never really forgave her for killing Dallas at Barious (she riddled her with laserbeams and stomped on her body in the same activation; there was nothing I could do). I held a grudge against her right to the end.

How can be alive franchise, when Sega disbanned whole Creative Studio R&D 3 among with Valkyria Chronicles devs ? I'm pretty sure if Sega would not restructurized whole CS in 2018, and Mediavision dont had a huge human resources problems (they still searching for experiences devs with Unreal Engine, since 2018, and still no new games, except Visual Novel - Digimon Survive), this series would be continued. And technically all original Sega series are dead / on life support, except Sonic and Yakuza.

Honestly VC4 is better.

@@snakey888 Gameplay and map design wise yes, but story and character wise no.

@@nr2676 To be fair, gameplay and related aspects such as map design, are the most important element of a game.

@@snakey888 I would rate VC games by two categories: Gameplay / map design (as a SRPG): VC4 > VC1 > VC3 > VC2 Story / character development (as a Visual Novel): VC3 > VC1 > VC4 > VC2 But comparing PSP with PS3/PS4 games in category gameplay map design is a bit unfair, due to limitation of PSP. As a PSP game VC3 is really good, and fixed most of problems of VC2, just like VC4 fixed most of problems of VC1.

No marketing from Sega + no worldwide release + release on dead platforms or to early (PS3 + PSP) + terrible release date (they released VC4 with Monster Hunter World in Japan, and with Dragon Quest XI in West + after Fire Emblem Three Houses announcement, which overshadowed this game from huge marketing, because Sega not spend millions $ on marketing like Nintendo did). If no one hear about game, they dont buy game even if is 95% on Metacritic like Skies of Arcadia. This series need high budget reboot (minimum 50-100M $ budget, because Fire Emblem exist which took 90% of japanese SRPG audience), but unfortunately dev team died in 2018 and Ryataro Nonaka + Shuntaro Tanaka left Sega in 2017 + Sega like always spamming Sonic and Yakuza games, which keep overshadowing their rest games.

And good grief, the finale! It hit me hard to see people I've come to like doing their damnedest to bring a doomsday device into the heart of a vast city.

They missed the chance for DLC 😂

No marketing from Sega, releasing games on dead consoles (PSP), Valkyria Revolution disaster + terrible release date (for example VC4 was released in West in same week with Dragon Quest XI). Basically terrible IP managment from Sega, they only care about Sonic and Yakuza.

@@nr2676 Well PSP was kinda prime when VC2 dropped.. And, I dunno what they were thinking with VC 3 as most of us never played.. Yup they should def do better marketing because it is a great series

@@Mintcar923 VC2 was huge downgrade from VC1, because Sega chased the trend to copy Persona 4 like most of niche jrpgs at that time. I'm pretty sure if VC4 was VC2 released on PS3, the series would sell much better, than VC2 on PSP. VC3 fixed that, but it was released only in Japan, due to bad sales outside of Japan. At least it ended as a best selling game in franchise in Japan , debiut with 101k physical copies in first week, but this was still weaker sales than most of games in older sister franchise - Sakura Wars (the weakest selling main game in Sakura Wars series had 95k on PS2, still better than VC1 with 85k, the best one had ... 507k in first week on Saturn). Thats probably why Sega after worst selling game in series in Japan (VC4 - which debiuted ,,only'' with 67k), returned back to Sakura Wars series not that long ago (PS4 game debiuted with 141k physical copies in FW, which is still better than best selling Valkyria Chronicles game in Japan). And Sakura Wars PS4 was probably cheaper to develop than VC4, due to be released only on one platform, and had no english dubb.

@@nr2676 Oh I’m not disagreeing with you in that they made mistakes with it in the past.. But at least they have some of the series on a lot of platforms.. They don’t even have Yakuza on Switch for example.. Still that another one of my favorites thankfully gained traction in recent years.. So I’m hoping it’ll go the same way with VC.. Fingers crossed

Yeah, like their earlier game Skies of Arcadia (and Sakura Wars 3 in Japan).

Vyse and aika are in one of the valkyria chronicle episode.

@@Diablange95 there is also Nagisa (Phantasy Star) in VC3

@@nr2676 didn't know since I didn't do the infinity version and it's unlocked by a password, thanks, I'll check that.

Let me guess, PC version ? It's buggy compared to PS4 and Switch version.

Valkyria Chronicles anime is also one of best animes based on video games, which only shows how good source material game was (Ryuataro Nonaka have big experience in animation industry).

All the sequels have reference in this series, minus the spinoff.

And Sakura Wars 1+2 on PSP suppoused to have official english release by NISA (because Sega don't care), but Sony banned localization of this game.

There is no devs, they were demoted in 2018 (whole Creative Studio R&D3 which VC devs were part of), due to restructurization in Sega. Also Ryutaro Nonaka and Shuntaro Tanaka left Sega in 2017. Some devs like Tetsuya Otsubo (Sakura Wars 3, Skies of Arcadia) were hired in RGG Studio and Team Sonic, and they developed also Sakura Wars on PS4 and ported ... Persona 5 Royal on PC, but after that is total silence about them. The second developer Mediavision is in still searching devs who are experienced with Unreal Engine, and after Digimon Survive (Visual Novel) they dont made any console game, due to lack of resources.

@@nr2676 to bad :( thx for the info :)

@@dcb6113 Well Sega still searching new devs (especially for Team Sonic, and newer aquired Sega Sapporo Studio), and announced revivals of some of their legacy IP's like Jet Set Sario, Crazy Taxi, Shinobi, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage AND MORE. Let's hope in this AND MORE will be also Valkyria Chronicles, but it will be developed as already by diffirent people, not original developers.

@@nr2676 I'm still pissed they butchered Sakura Wars. Gotta blame Team Sonic for that. They could have stick with the old system and gauge people's interest first before jumping into the hack and slash bandwagon.

Yeah it’s basically Fire Emblem meets XCom.. Prolly my 2nd fav SRPG series behind FE

The real problem I had was how the invincible bosses can basically run through your army with no downsides. Wish they could be stunned or temporarily defeated to give you some chance as fairness. Only the tanks if you hit them lose AP as Riley was able to solo our date

@@ivanbluecool Valkyrias are treated like Super Saiyans and thats not a bad thing. Bosses can only run through your army if you apply wrong strategy.

VC4 localization was really bad.

Dude, try the original.

Story in VR is surprisingly very good, and game is not that bad if you count this game more like Visual Novel with ,,gameplay''.