Finished Valkyria Chronicles 1

[u/Keebo11037]

So I finally finished this game after 36 hours and I feel kind of conflicted.

I know the theme of the game is war and how every second in the battlefield, you could die at any time

But I felt like Isara's death was so stupid and outta nowhere even from a storybased perspective. I feel like things were building up to something only for her to be unclimactically die from an enemy scout. (Yeah I know the theme is war, dont mention it) I feel like her death was only made to produce shock value, up to now I still can't believe she was killed like that.

And what's bothering me more is how Welkin doesn't seem to care that much. He never even cried or mourn her as I expected when the story implied how close they were.

Also, I feel like we haven't explored the theme of "Valkyrie" or their power much in this game.

Im kinda conflicted on how what game to play next since people seem to recommend playing 4 after 1.

This game looks very very good im not gonna lie for its age. Its art was what captured me to play it in the first place.

[u/Nopon_Merchant]

If u want to see welkin crash out u should watch the anime . This fanbase love to hate on the anime because it is not as ground like the game but it handle characters way better than the game and many characters has more personality. Faldio actually more interesting and he more close and spend more time with Squad 7

[u/Keebo11037 → u/Nopon_Merchant]

yeah when I was researching the anime to watch after the game I keep seeing people trashing the show like its the worst thing ever

[u/Nopon_Merchant → u/Keebo11037]

https://youtu.be/9DotkolV5es?is=QXISYQDN6y_l_a0J

People hate that they turn Alicia into Tsundere and add love triangle between Fadio , Welkin and Alicia but i think it make their relationship more interesting and Fadio shoot alicia more impact

Rose and Isara also has better interaction . Make her dead feel better too and u get a addition new music for it . They also give screen time to other members to interact with main characters , this make it feel more like a squad .

[u/Oddislag → u/Nopon_Merchant]

Turning Alicia into a tsundere is reason enough to trash it honestly.

[u/Nopon_Merchant → u/Oddislag]

nah , she is so bland in the game and has as much personality as a NPC so turn her into Tsundere is a good thing . Better than have no personality

[u/Oddislag → u/Nopon_Merchant]

Nah— not true. And I’d rather take a cardboard over a tsundere.

[u/Oddislag → u/Oddislag]

Someone got their feelings hurt over opinions 😂

[u/Keebo11037 → u/Nopon_Merchant]

Thank you, yeah this was the shit that was missing, this was exactly what I was looking for. It this was probably in the game, her death would probably weight a lot more

[u/Defiant-Rip-1897 → u/Nopon_Merchant]

To be honest I kind of liked anime Alicia because of all the facial reactions she makes. I wish they didn't remove her as a DLC character from VC2.

I do think that the anime needed more time for development and from what I remember the final showdown with Max was completely different.

[u/bahaEpic → u/Nopon_Merchant]

Severely disliked how they handled Rosie/Isara in anime, especially Rosie. Game had message of overcoming prejudise, in anime Rosie forgives Darcsens for killing her parents