VALKYRIE PROFILE: COVENANT OF THE PLUME IMPRESSIONS

So I gave in and paid the 2000 yen (20 bucks) for it today.



On the cover in small printing is has the epic line, "Destiny by sinner sought. Tragedy by power wrought"

This is the first Valkyrie Profile game that I've played. I've heard the first one was amazing, and haven't heard anything about the rest. Although, I remain skeptical since after the merge, Square Enix has taken a lot of series into the dirt.

This game is a strategy/RPG. I think that's unlike the others. It's battle system is a little different than most strategy/RPGs though. If you attack an enemy, you go into another screen where you both get a chance to attack. If one character has moved into a position where he can attack an enemy and waits, and then another character also moves into position and attacks the enemy, then both characters are in the other screen and are double teaming the enemy. This leads to the ability to do combos. Different characters have different ranges of their attack sphere.

So hypothetically, if you move your first character to attack an enemy, it's 1 on 1. Then for your next characters turn, if you go to the same enemy and attack, it's 2 on 1, and then the next character 3 on 1 etc.

It's split up into "players turn" and "enemies turn". No speed statistics.


In the first 20 minutes, there's been a lot of story and not much actual playing. Through the massive amounts of text, everything has had voice acting to accompany it. It really adds a great atmosphere to the game, and seems quite well done (the only other voice acting I've heard for a DS game was FFIV, and it's better than that in my opinion).

So all in all, it was worth it's price.

I'll play more later and post more impressions.

Oh, the story is about some war going on and being from a family impoverished because of woman Gods and all being hungry, so you join the war with your best friend and are in a squadron fighting demons and whatnot. Other stuff happens in the prologue that could be considered spoilers, and maybe people wouldn't want that.