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Topic	The Board 8 Discord Sports Chat Ranks Their Top 100 Respective VIDEO Games pt. 2
Bartzyx 01/29/21 10:10:44 AM #300:	#44 Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume (Nintendo DS, 2009) Despite being the third game in the series, this one acts as a prequel to the original Playstation game. It's also the first one that I played. My brother had the other games and for some reason lent this to me to play on my DS. I enjoyed it so much that I played through the other games later. Covenant of the Plume plays something like a tactical RPG. The battles are fought on an isometric grid in a turn-based fashion. Like other Valkyrie Profile games, combat with party members uses the face buttons as a means of controlling each character's attackseach character uses a different button and your effectiveness comes down to timing the attacks properly. How many characters engage in combat depends on how you position them before launching an attack. The main character, Wylfred, a human who led a tragic life in which his father was killed and claimed by the Valkyrie in the afterlife. His family left in poverty, he blames his circumstance on the Valkyrie and swears revenge. Shortly afterward, Wylfred is also killed, but is given another life by a demon, along with an ability that will sacrifice the life of a friend in exchange for immense power. The rest of the game concerns Wylfred's role in a war between kingdoms in the world of humans as he prepares to slay the Valkyrie. It's a tragic and more mature story than most and I found that fresh. The game is impossibly hard. The only reliable way to win battles is to sacrifice your allies in order to power up Wylfred. However, the more allies you sacrifice, the darker circumstances become and the more of a "bad" ending you receive. The neat thing about the game is that you can start a NG+ and retain some of Wylfred's power, which lets you make it through the game sacrificing fewer people and get progressively better endings. It's a neat mechanic and gave me a reason to finish the game multiple times. The game itself is not very long, and the story changes depending on your actions, so playing through a few times was not a chore. If you want to go even deeper, there are some post-game scenarios to take your characters into once you tire of the main game. --- At least your mother tipped well <cite>Bartzyx posted [p:950050081] in The Board ... [t:79241274]...</cite> <quote>#44 Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume (Nintendo DS, 2009) Despite being the third game in the series, this one acts as a prequel to the original Playstation game. It's also the first one that I played. My brother had the other games and for some reason lent this to me to play on my DS. I enjoyed it so much that I played through the other games later. Covenant of the Plume plays something like a tactical RPG. The battles are fought on an isometric grid in a turn-based fashion. Like other Valkyrie Profile games, combat with party members uses the face buttons as a means of controlling each character's attackseach character uses a different button and your effectiveness comes down to timing the attacks properly. How many characters engage in combat depends on how you position them before launching an attack. The main character, Wylfred, a human who led a tragic life in which his father was killed and claimed by the Valkyrie in the afterlife. His family left in poverty, he blames his circumstance on the Valkyrie and swears revenge. Shortly afterward, Wylfred is also killed, but is given another life by a demon, along with an ability that will sacrifice the life of a friend in exchange for immense power. The rest of the game concerns Wylfred's role in a war between kingdoms in the world of humans as he prepares to slay the Valkyrie. It's a tragic and more mature story than most and I found that fresh. The game is impossibly hard. The only reliable way to win battles is to sacrifice your allies in order to power up Wylfred. However, the more allies you sacrifice, the darker circumstances become and the more of a "bad" ending you receive. The neat thing about the game is that you can start a NG+ and retain some of Wylfred's power, which lets you make it through the game sacrificing fewer people and get progressively better endings. It's a neat mechanic and gave me a reason to finish the game multiple times. The game itself is not very long, and the story changes depending on your actions, so playing through a few times was not a chore. If you want to go even deeper, there are some post-game scenarios to take your characters into once you tire of the main game. --- At least your mother tipped well</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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