Valkyria Chronicles

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Valkyria Chronicles looks like a watercolor sketchbook come to life. Sega's CANVAS engine renders its world with soft pencil hatching, paper-textured skies and onomatopoeia that bursts across the screen when the bullets fly, and the story is presented as the pages of a history book about the war. Few PlayStation 3 games have aged as gracefully, because its style was never chasing realism in the first place.

The war is a fictional take on 1930s Europe: the East Europan Imperial Alliance invades the small, neutral nation of Gallia to seize its reserves of ragnite, the mineral that fuels everything from tanks to medicine. Welkin Gunther, a gentle student of biology who would much rather be sketching wildlife, finds himself commanding Squad 7 of the Gallian Militia from the hatch of his tank, the Edelweiss. Beside him are Alicia Melchiott, a baker's apprentice turned squad leader, and his adopted sister Isara, whose Darcsen heritage exposes the ugly prejudice running through Gallian society. Then the Empire fields Selvaria Bles, a Valkyria straight out of legend, and the war changes shape.

The BLiTZ battle system is the reason the game earned a devoted following. Each turn begins on an overhead map where you spend command points to activate units, then drops into a real-time third-person view where you physically run a soldier across the battlefield under enemy fire, crouch behind sandbags and line up a shot before your action gauge runs out. Scouts, Shocktroopers, Lancers, Engineers and Snipers each fill a role, and every recruit has a personality, quirks called potentials and a real chance of dying for good if a medic cannot reach them in time. Hitoshi Sakimoto's sweeping score gives the whole campaign the feel of a wartime epic.

It sold slowly at first and built its reputation by word of mouth, eventually leading to PSP sequels, a remaster and Valkyria Chronicles 4. This original PlayStation 3 release is where Squad 7's story began, and its blend of turn-based planning and real-time nerve still feels unlike any other strategy RPG.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
2008
Publisher
Sega
Developer
Sega WOW
Players
Single player
About the game

Set in a fictitious continent reminiscent of the 1930s, Valkyria Chronicles depicts Europe divided in two and ruled by two super powers: the Empire and the Federation. The Empire has set its sights on invading a small neutral country called Gallia, situated in the middle of the two superpowers territories, in an attempt to secure invaluable natural resources. Within this struggle a hero named Welkin, and his fellow soldiers of the Federation's 7th Platoon, are fighting back against the invasion and the Empires attempts to unify the continent under its power. During the ensuing war the Federation discovers that the Empire possesses a secret weapon, known as the "Valkyria" - an ancient race with special powers thought to exist only in legends. With this new discovery the fate of the Federation's ability to turn the tide of the war, and the hope for a better future, hang in the balance. “CANVAS” graphics engine: A unique engine that produces breath taking images that look like watercolour paintings in motion.

Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.
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