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Arti posted...

That's interesting, it's one of my favorite PS3 games. Why didn't you like it?

I whined about this enough in my 2016 game ranking topic as I was playing it, but what it boiled down to was that it honestly didn't feel like Valkyria Chronicles was truly a strategy RPG. There were a few missions that felt like actual battles, but mostly it was a matter of figuring out a broken method that would trivialize everything. In one mission I ignored the whole level and took the target out with snipers. In another where units randomly spawned in halfway through I just restarted, positioned my guys where I knew enemies would appear, and then won in a single turn once they did. Even the fun missions usually ended with a scout charging forward alone. That isn't strategy, that's a badly designed puzzle game.

EDIT: And I just realized I previously praised Lost Dimension for having a unique solution to a mission's problem when I teleported my dude through a door, but there was exactly one short mission where that was possible and it wasn't an intended solution to the level. In Valkyria Chronicles, I save-scummed like crazy, killed one enemy unit for every action, frequently charged a scout forward and took the base way before I should've realistically been able to reach it... then got a B rank. I don't know why but they clearly balanced this game around the BS tactics.
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