When games are shrunk down from console titles to portables ones, it sometimes seems like a lesser experience. That's not the case with the move from PS3 to PSP in Valkyria Chronicles 2.
I played the show floor demo and watched a quick presentation here at the 2009 Tokyo Game Show today and came away impressed. Valkyria Chronicles' formula of blending action and strategy and a bold art style was already a winner, so they didn't really mess with much in this sequel. The visuals are mostly the same, keeping with that watercolor-ish sketch book look. Granted, there are less polygons and the game is at a much lower resolution, but you don't miss it. VC2 looks great and translates very well to the PSP's screen.
This really is just a smaller sized Valkyria Chronicles with a new story. No complaints here. The transition is so easy for players of the first title that it was easy for me to forget that I wasn't still playing the PS3 predecessor on a smaller screen. The BLiTZ battle system is still here, and the controls on the PSP work fine for it.
What is new is that up to four players will be able to play cooperatively. While the floor demo was only a single player campaign, we were shown video of some team up attacks. In this sense, it could be better than the original when it's all said and done.
Japan will see the release of Valkyria Chronicles 2 on the PSP early next year. Let's hope our version will follow soon after.
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Dale North is Destructoid's Editor-In-Chief, a founding editor, and specialist in Japanese gaming. An accomplished musician, Dale was reporting from Japan during the earthquakes of 2011. Luckily, he got the fuck out alive and is home in America now with his wife and beloved corgi, Einstein. Dale is also a co-founder of Destructoid's sister anime site
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2:40 PM on 09.25.2009
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Glad to see it gets a second chance of sorts, but no PS3 sequel w/ online multiplayer hurts my heart, cuts me deep.
Keeping my fingers crossed for a while longer, it seems...
I share your pain buddy.
Also (I cant really tell from the fugly screenshot, I bet it looks great on the screen) does it not have cell shading?
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