Valkyria Chronicles is one of those hidden gems from the early-ish days of the PS3; a strategy-RPG with third-person shooter controls and stunning anime styling. If you’re into any of those genres (or World War II, for that matter), I highly recommend you procure a copy.
While Valkyria Chronicles didn’t top the sales charts, it inspired intense fandom among many who played it (be prepared to open your wallet wide if you want to get ahold of the detailed Valkyria figurines coming out of Japan). Like many of these fans, I’m particularly excited about the prospect of carrying the game’s sequel with me for most of the 2nd half of this year.
So I took the short trip to Sega’s US HQ to play an English build of Valkyria Chronicles 2 for PSP, and report back to you. VC2 may be shrunk down to portability, but there are significant advancements in this sequel, including multiplayer.
We’ll have more details on Valkyria Chronicles II soon.
Looking forward to this game a lot, although I want a non-UMD digital version.
I also want a trophy patch for the first game :p
TROPHIES Patch for Valkyria chronicles 1 PLEASE! EARNING those VC 1 trophies would be a Badge of Honor on them Psn id cards 8) Thank you
Disappointing it isn’t on PS3 but that didn’t stop me from having this pre-ordered since forever :D
Ya mod nation racers is the best
Yester day I got socom fireteambravo for my psp and it is so cool I could by all of them
say on the Playstation network how do u update you psp? I all ready have it on version 6.31 but I was just wondering
Hey dose any one else have call of duty roads to victory out there because I am a big COD fan but the psp game of COD sucks!!!!!!!
I will buy this to make sure that we get the 3rd one on PS3 :)
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! Cannot wait for this!! Hurry up & release it Sega!! :D
I hope everyone goes out and supports VC2. I wanna see more of this awesome series on PlayStation platforms!
CANNOT WAIT
@2 TorgoTime
lol, how the hell can it be your “game of the year” when you only completed 15% of the game?
Will there be a japanese voice track option? I’ll buy it regardless, but I would prefer it.
Thanks for an awesome interview Jeff, way to know already that this is a game deserving of an interview.
How much will this cost? Will it have voice actors for characters like in PS3 or will all the speech be in text only? How many episodes are in this PSP version? Is there any movies/animes/toys/collectibles/comics based off the first game? If so, will they come out to the US? Thanks for any info Jeff, Sega?.
Any idea if there will be a bundle [for Europe], looking to buy another PSP and a VCII bundle would be great.
VC1 is still the best game on PS3, along with Yakuza 3 and Demon’s Souls. 2 out of the 3 are Sega games. Sega, if anyone from your staff is reading this… thanks for all of the great games you’ve brought to the PS3 and PSP. If it weren’t for you guys, I probably would have sold my PS3 by now, as I am highly disappointed with the lack of good Japanese games this generation.
This reminds me of why I still own a factory sealed Dreamcast, just to reminisce over Sega’s glory days every time I look at it. You guys are still the best! VC2 will probably be the only reason I buy a PSP again.
How about a trophy patch for the first one? That will definitely get me back to playing it.
Can you guys please fix the latest firmware update? Since trying to update my PS3’s HDD I cannot install update 3.41
As much as I will enjoy playing this, I’m still really upset they didn’t release another on the PS3… I would even be happy if they just made some more add-ons/extensions to the original.
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XD BOOM! my brain fried… can you tell I’m excited?
ugh I HATE when sequels are on different platforms!
VC is one of my fav ps3 games (up there with demon souls, MGS4 and disgaea3). I am a Rpg and Strategy fanatic and was thrilled when I played the first game on PS3. Wish they put trophies on it though (that and mgs4). I can’t wait to play this game. I have had it pre-ordered for months now. Games like this is what made the ps2 so popular last gen… Real in depth unique style RPGS, something Sony itself seems to forget (look at the ps1 games that they release…and then look at the sales for the jrpgs that trickle out once a year).
Don’t mean to rant, as psp has been on a role with rpgs and good games in general. Between Peace Walker, P3P, Heyx Force, Gravity crash and now this.. My psp has been on every day. Glad this game is getting finished up. Again I still think we need more rpgs (both western and eastern and strategy games) on PS3, stop with all the shooters and bring out more games like VC or Demon souls.
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Come to think of it you are right… Sega has released some of the best PS3 games this gen.
VC1, Yakuza3, Rennosance of Fate, Phantasy Star Portable, Alpha Protocol (I loved that game, even though a lot of ADHD twitch gamers hated the stats…guess what, a real rpg has stats!!!) I am glad Sega is still sticking with the playstation family.
How are these controls going to work out, i’ve never played a Valkria game. You said 3rd person shooter controls…is that like FTB or Syphon Filter?
Pretty much – move the reticle with the face buttons.