I purchased Valkyrie Chronicles (video game for the PS3) when it came out. Ever since I have been busy with school or sick. Now I come to a point in my life where I can procrastinate for a few days and relax a little bit, so I started playing.
The game is explicitly a story, the way you advance is by interacting with a book. This is one type of game that I really like, there is a strong story that you can connect with. The writing is fairly good. It is a fantasy world and there are some unlikely situations, and some lea way is need for that, but the suspension of disbelief isn’t as difficult as for watching a modern block buster movie. Heck it is actually worth it.
There are several main characters. There is a male who would rather be peaceful, but since violence is thrust upon him, he is going to defend his family and country. His adopted sister is a racial minority who stands up to murders to defend a pregnant woman, then saves her brother with some quick thinking. There is another female lead who is the love interest. Unlike every other love interest or woman character that I have seen of late this one is strong, defends her people and country. Yes she is good looking but she dresses fairly modestly.
There is some outright racism against the sister at one point. This isn’t adequately dealt with. She goes on to show that so is not only willing to help the team but does some major good.
Moving onto how the game works there are two things that really stood out to me. One is that they slowly introducing features. This keeps you from having to learn everything about the game all at once. This works well from keep you from getting over loaded and either giving up or simply ignoring some parts of the game.
The graphics are very interesting. A cell shading effect is employed to very good effect.
