Valkyrie Elysium is a shitty barebones 3D brawler that has zero reason to exist aside from to milk money out of people who are fiercely loyal to the Valkyrie IP. No talented or creatively minded individual worked on Elysium, which is something very special.
What you've basically got here is Babylon's Fall, without co op and replacing your 4 equipped weapons with 4 AI companions that effectively break any challenge offered by the game design. You build up a combo to 999 very quickly and spend the rest of your time just holding the combo for no real reason. S Ranks are pathetically easy, enemies hardly attack you back, and the bosses have easily exploitable weaknesses.
The low challenge seems like a cover for the shitty dodge and parry mechanics that feel delayed and unresponsive. If the game was hard, they would piss you off. Even sprinting around comes and goes at frustrating random intervals. Its an utter shitshow.
Valkyrie Elysium is a functional spectacle fighter with zero reason to be played by anyone except the most desperate Valkyrie Profile fans. It has no raison d'être. This is an easy example of Square machine gunning mid tier games at a wall to see if any land. Apparently Star Ocean was good, so I still want to try that.
Why is this mid game getting 1 star? Because there id zero good reasons for you, the reader, to waste hours on this game. If the story had any bite, the combat had challenge or depth, or if the music even had a good track on it, I could maybe say its worth wasting a weekend on, but it has nothing worth seeing. I'm sick of these shit, inoffensive games because people who have somehow played every good game like them because "not every game can be good." Then why waste 60 dollars on a piece of media that does not challenge or engage you?? Its a joke that I, and hopefully you the reader aren't in on.
The final fuck you, the platinum is locked behind grinding the same few missions for 8-12 hours, to max out a mechanically useless proficiency meter for every weapon. Even the OCD trophy hunter in me says "Fuck off!".
What you've basically got here is Babylon's Fall, without co op and replacing your 4 equipped weapons with 4 AI companions that effectively break any challenge offered by the game design. You build up a combo to 999 very quickly and spend the rest of your time just holding the combo for no real reason. S Ranks are pathetically easy, enemies hardly attack you back, and the bosses have easily exploitable weaknesses.
The low challenge seems like a cover for the shitty dodge and parry mechanics that feel delayed and unresponsive. If the game was hard, they would piss you off. Even sprinting around comes and goes at frustrating random intervals. Its an utter shitshow.
Valkyrie Elysium is a functional spectacle fighter with zero reason to be played by anyone except the most desperate Valkyrie Profile fans. It has no raison d'être. This is an easy example of Square machine gunning mid tier games at a wall to see if any land. Apparently Star Ocean was good, so I still want to try that.
Why is this mid game getting 1 star? Because there id zero good reasons for you, the reader, to waste hours on this game. If the story had any bite, the combat had challenge or depth, or if the music even had a good track on it, I could maybe say its worth wasting a weekend on, but it has nothing worth seeing. I'm sick of these shit, inoffensive games because people who have somehow played every good game like them because "not every game can be good." Then why waste 60 dollars on a piece of media that does not challenge or engage you?? Its a joke that I, and hopefully you the reader aren't in on.
The final fuck you, the platinum is locked behind grinding the same few missions for 8-12 hours, to max out a mechanically useless proficiency meter for every weapon. Even the OCD trophy hunter in me says "Fuck off!".