Thanks for the note, it's fixed now.

In reply to this comment by ponceleon:
*dead after the commercial

I really enjoyed this game but I never replayed it. The enemy AI is really poor, and the game is too forgiving. The game is very much aimed towards a teenage or younger demographic, as you can see in its art and ease of difficulty. It's mix of semi-WW2 setting, "war is hell" messages, and "Everyone is so pretty during war!" art was strange to me, too, I thought. (That being said, I've never played a war game where I cared about the characters and story as much as I did here.)

More importantly, I just couldn't get into the quasi-turn based gameplay. I need real-time combat. If SEGA made a Rainbow Six/Ghost Recon-style version of Valkyria Chronicles, it would probably be one of my fav games of all time. But as it is, it's just too odd seeing VC's combat unfold. Enemy troops just frozen in place as you move about in the world. My troops moving one at a time, doing things one at a time. It's just... strange.

Also, it seems clear Yahtzee did not pass the 35% game completion mark. After that point, you can upgrade your guns into different branches of attributes. I think I gave my machine gunners high damage and my snipers debuff weapons.

Ah well, if there is a sequel ever made, I will definitely get it. I just hope it's more real-time. Driving around the Edelweiss in real time would be so cool

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>> ^Darkhand:
I agree with Yahtzee on all points except for being shot at while you are moving. It adds more strategy to the game so you can't just run behind enemy lines and start shooting people in the back.

That's why opportunity fire was invented back in 1984.

I have Valkyria Chronicles and I have to say it IS a good game. I agree with Yahtzee on all points (he obviously is a little too angry about some things) except for being shot at while you are moving. It adds more strategy to the game so you can't just run behind enemy lines and start shooting people in the back.

If all your characters could be shot at then your army would die while you decided where to put the one you were controlling

Best games of '08:

1. The World Ends With You (NDS)
2. Valkyria Chronicles (PS3)
3. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)
4. Little Big Planet (PS3)
5. Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3)

Honorable Mentions:

- Etrian Odyssey II (NDS)
- Bioshock (PC)
- Touhou Project 11: Subterranean Animism (PC)
- Echochrome (PSN)

Dishonorable mention:

- Star Wars: Force Unleashed (PS3)

Looking forward to in '09:

- Final Fantasy XIII (PS3)
- White Knight Chronicles (PS3)
- Dragon Quest IX (NDS)
- Getting around to playing Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 (PS2)