UGO writes: "In the past few years my interest in Japanese RPGs has waned to the point that I only play one or two a year, and never on a game's release date. I'll pick them up months after they've come out to fill whatever lull the industry is in; when I finally have the time to invest in a 30+ hour adventure. To be honest, I'm oddly not even excited by Final Fantasy XIII because it's hard to get excited for a game--even a blockbuster--if there's only a minute amount of information to run with. I'm only saying all this because today I ran across the first RPG in a while that made me perk up and take notice.
SEGA's Valkyria Chronicles combines two of my favorite elements in RPGs: guns and tactics. I'm tired of swords and bucklers, spears and wands. I want hot, bolt-action gunpowder and metal. And it's exactly what Valkyria Chronicles delivers."
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While the Valkyria Chronicles franchise has been somewhat dormant for four years, it certainly hasn't been forgotten.
Sega is great for relegating its characters to cameos in other games. Heaven forbid they announced Valkyria Chronicles 5 or remaster VC 2 & 3.
It's definitely starting to sound like this game is worth looking forward to
*QUALITY* JRPG's and JSRPG's, only on Playstation 3.
There are a couple of great points about this game that haven't really been explored yet...
1) Playstation exclusive - This wouldn't really be that big of a deal, except that PS3 hasn't really seen that many RPGs yet, so the fact that it's getting one from a big name dev (sony) and that it's exclusive is big news.
2) New style of game - This game is a hybrid of two different and successful genres, strategy and action. I for one haven't seen this type of combination that created a game similar to a FF:Tactics, but with action and almost an FPS integration.
3) Cell shading done right - Unlike the kiddy and cartoony cell-shading in games like Windwaker, this style of it lends it self well to games and doesn't turn away the target audience of core gamers that the game is made for.
All in all, I've already pre-ordered this game after reading the really good reviews that its received from Japan