Valkyria Chronicles 4 Complete Edition
A Continent Engulfed in the Bitter Flames of War! Commander Claude Wallace and his childhood friends set out to fight in a desperate war, but bone-chilling blizzards, waves of imperial soldiers, and the godlike powers of the Valkyria stand between them and victory.
Valkyria Chronicles 4 Complete Edition is a strategy, anime and turn-based game
developed and published by SEGA.
Released on September 25th 2018 is available only on Windows
in 9 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Japanese.
It has received 6,407 reviews of which 5,590 were positive and 817 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam and has a 80% discount.
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Windows
- OS *: Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i3 6100 or equivalent AMD
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 650Ti 2GB
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 36 GB available space
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TLDR: if you played Valkyria Chronicles, this is largely the same, for better or for worse. For me, it's mostly a good thing. Really the only major difference gameplay-wise between VC and VC4 is that you now have artillery units, which are fun additions. It's a great turn based tactical combat game. There's definitely a learning curve due to the variety of units and mechanics but you really feel like a commander when you pull off some great moves. I love setting up a defensive position with my shocktroopers that just mow down charging enemies. I love getting my lancer behind an enemy tank and shoving a rocket up its ass. And now in VC4, I love drawing a group of enemies together and blasting them with my grenediers. The combat gameplay is truly the highlight of this game and it's really well done. If you are unfamiliar with the series, check it out on YT or pick up VC and try it out first, as VC4 is a little more complicated and builds on VC. That being said, if you only like constant action, this game is not for you as fighting is slow, deliberate and turn based. My major gripe with VC4 is the same that I had with VC: The story sections are agonizingly slow. In each chapter, you fight usually one battle and then are forced to sit through lots of long cutscenes. And really, only a small fraction are animated cutscenes you can watch. A majority of the story is just dialogue on screen read by the voice actors. The story itself is pretty good but in true anime fashion, two minutes of content is stretched out over 45 minutes as characters do their required anime gasps, monologues and ramble on and on about the most banal things. It's not just during the story sections either, but also in the required process of using the menues to upgrade your soldiers and equipment. You want to buy 5 improvements to your weapons? You're going to sit through Miles saying the same two lines of dialogue over and over with every button push. What should just take 30 seconds to click a few things takes 10-15 minutes when it's all said and done. I just wanted to get back to the action. It's enough that after I finish a battle, I would love to go on to the next but sometimes I just save my game and come back later because I'm not in the mood to sit through everything again. You can somewhat speed through by pressing continue and reading the text but there is just so much of it. I do like the characters and the setting, which seems to be a mostly real life based WW2 inspired world but with some (fantasy?) (steampunky?) elements. Even the world map matches real life Europe to a high degree. The art, music and just environment is charming and I am not even super into anime. But the world is beautiful both in the world building and art style. Overall, this is definitely a must play if you are into turn-based or tactical combat. Just be prepared to sink as much time into watching wayyyy too drawn out cutscenes and frustrating menues as you do fighting battles.
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A great follow up to a highly underrated franchise that upgraded the artstyle, graphics and gameplay to an entire new level. A system of gameplay that have yet to be replicated anywhere else. This game is a gem.
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First of all, please ignore Sega’s wtf naming sense: you don’t have to know anything about VC2 or VC3 (both PSP-only titles) to play and enjoy VC4, since it really is a sequel to VC1. It’s also a full sequel only gameplay-wise, while story-wise they happen in parallel, so you can even start here if, for some reason, this installment specifically captured your attention (though, since both games are equally worth playing, I’d say most people might as well start at VC1). Having cleared that up, this is a great continuation that iteratively builds upon the original in all the right ways. You get a new unit class that distinctly changes the battlefield, bigger maps and much more varied victory conditions. At times it can appear overly safe, clearly not having courage or budget to stray too far from the winning formula, but considering the quality of the said formula (and since they aren’t exactly churning these games out every 2-3 years like a few other JRPG franchises), this is hardly an issue. Just like in VC1 or perhaps even more, the tactical gameplay is smart and well-balanced. On one hand, it always makes you think, calling for different approaches on different missions, inviting to not waste a single action so you can reliably get good ranks and rewards. On the other hand, it never turns into a strict puzzle with a single solution, leaving enough leeway to recover from mistakes and even options to straight-up cheese through stuff if you’re so inclined. Conveniently, you can save/load at any point during a mission, though I’d recommend everyone not to rely on it too much, since situations where you really mess up but then still somehow manage to turn it around usually lead to the most memorable battles. It also helps that "instant defeat" conditions got toned down considerably (even losing the main tank isn’t a game over now). The story has some rough patches, but for 90% of the time it’s a well-paced tale that mixes anime-style JRPG storytelling with the more cynical realities of war. The main characters are a likeable, honest, moral bunch, striving to win without compromising their ideals while muddier decision-making is left to the higher-ups. Simultaneously, the game isn’t afraid to sour their victories or remind that war is hell, quite brutally so (yet never enough to outright break them). The antagonists too are presented in good detail, even when they go off the deep end, leading to a balanced narrative about how one might or might not stay human at the times of conflict. …up until the final stretch, at least, where it forces a big, crappy, "damned if you do" decision onto the main character, making him anguish and mentally give up on the golden ending (instead of insisting on it despite the odds like a big damn JRPG hero would do) – only to get saved from the worst of it at the very end anyway. Coupled with some excessive screaming and a few unneeded bait-and-switch moments, this manages to sour the late-game impression, but thankfully it’s not enough to ruin the whole story, and I guess it deserves credit for drawing bold parallels with sensitive historical topics (starring Riley Miller as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the waifu edition). In any case, the best narrative improvement isn’t even related to the main characters but to the side characters instead, and that is squad missions: unlockable chapters that pair your secondary teammates into groups of three and tell short stories about their circumstances. Despite having simple, archetype-based characterization, they do a wonderful job at fleshing out personalities and sneak in some surprisingly earnest, humane moments into brief cutscenes. Since they unlock only if you use at least one of the involved party members enough during the battles, I’d highly recommend to regularly rotate your roster, because almost every single one of those chapters is worth seeing. There’s also an impressive amount of post-game content that doesn’t feel like a repetitive grind, especially if you include all DLC. Skirmishes smartly alternate between enemy-heavy, "go all out" scenarios and limiting, puzzle-like scenarios, while extra scenes continue to flesh out the characters unobtrusively. My other recommendation would be to play with the original voices, because this is awesome work even by the Japanese VA scene’s standards. You get Kazuya Nakai, the person behind One Piece’s Zoro and Gintama’s Hijikata, sounding more expressive at times than Hijikata did during his retorts. You also get the silky smooth voice of Show Hayami, whom some JRPG fans might know as Umio from Neptunia VII (funnily enough, he also specializes in underwater stuff here). The visuals likely need no extra praise, carrying on with the same eye-pleasing watercolor style and showcasing solid graphic design like stylish uniforms or expressive biography-page poses (though the limited budget rears its head here and there as well). Overall, this is certainly a worthy title to spend your time with. You can find a number of much less generous reviews or impressions online, particularly in regards to the story and its tropes (probably because the game attracts some stricter realism-oriented audience due to the war themes), but honestly, by the genre’s standards this is nothing; maybe just a tiny extra suspension of disbelief is needed.
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Valkyria Chronicles 4 definitely deserves its Very Positive Steam rating. It has the same great gameplay as the first game, but with alot more stuff that makes it better and a more challenging story that gets really hype and crazy. The gameplay is just better. Tanks costing only one action point, APCs that can carry squad members around, the ability to form squads that can move together mortars, and much larger maps make for more interesting missions with alot more options. Scouts are still important, but they cannot be used to just win battles by sneaking around all of the enemies like in the previous game. Winning a battle in a few turns to get an A-rank requires alot more planning and actually using a variety of units and orders. The game is also significantly longer and has better menus that make replaying battles and using DLC content much easier. The story of the game is also great. It still has a cast full of anime tropes like the first game, but it also has better fleshed out character arcs for more characters and uses characters to explore more challenging ideas. It was very hard to predict what would happen in a good way. Hopefully the series gets another game one day because it deserves it.
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Story is only about 80% of the original's in terms of how great it is but it makes up for it with 120% of the gameplay. And not to say the story is bad, it's just a little over ambitious. I will keep buying it for friends until I have other people to talk about the series with, I'm looking at you Johnny. Sega pls keep making the games, as much as I love John Yakuza I need my WWII Fire Emblem more it's my favorite series
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Online players
144
Developer
SEGA
Publisher
SEGA
Release
25 Sep 2018
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