Unique strategy game ported from the PS3!

User Rating: 10 | Valkyria Chronicles PC

I've played a lot of strategy games before this, whether it's turn-based or real-time-based, but this one somewhat combines them into one. Let's look the aspects one by one.

Graphics: Instead of having a typical 3D anime design that you'll find on many JRPGs, this one is a bit different but it's unique on its own way like Ni No Kuni. The environment and characters were all designed in a form of traditional art such as pencil sketch and watercolor and then it lives! It's like you're playing an art game but with much more gameplay. It has that 30 FPS limit since it's a PS3 port but the lively and beautiful painting-like graphics is great enough for the PC platform.

Gameplay: It's combine both turn-based and real-time-based gameplay in this one and it works highly well. The battlefield takes on turn-based so you have the time to think and you must finish it with limited turns as well as other objectives. As you pick and control one of your units, you play it in real-time so you must act quickly! There's no time limit on that part though. Apart from that, you've been given a lot of options to do such skirmishes and upgrades during your free time.

Story: It's a war genre plot, completely fictional and its scenario is based on a world war situation. It presents you in a story book style so you can repeat specific scenes if you want. It has some romance plot in it like most action anime have. It has hardly any cliches that you can find on similar war and action genre anime so no disappointment to ruin your interest in this one

Conclusion: I can't say anything more about this game since I haven't finished the main story yet at the time of this writing. The game is very interesting for a PS3 game. Excellent presentations, excellent gameplay and excellent plot, all in one, what more could you ask for? Overall, It's a superb game on its own genre and I highly recommend any fans of strategy players to play this.