This is one of the coolest Namco games out there and also one that I see next to no one talk about. Valkyrie no Densetsu is an arcade adventure game that plays like a mix of Legend of Zelda or insert early console ARPG here and a top down run and gun shooter. The visuals of the game are cute and charming and it just generally plays really well for a game released in 1989.
A quirk of this game is that all of your weapons/powerups have limited ammo and you'll need to constantly be searching for or purchase other weapons as you progress through the game. This becomes a engaging system of resource management once you get past the initial obtuse nature of it, and learning which weapons/spells are best for certain parts of the 8 stage journey is a pretty major aspect of routing the game.
Valkyrie no Densetsu is by no means an easy game and you'll have to spend a lot of time learning the bosses, stages and item collection routing if you want to make good progress without constantly dying, but most of the game feels surprisingly fair and balanced (besides the last stage, which is just crazy with its enemy spam and precise platforming).
A quirk of this game is that all of your weapons/powerups have limited ammo and you'll need to constantly be searching for or purchase other weapons as you progress through the game. This becomes a engaging system of resource management once you get past the initial obtuse nature of it, and learning which weapons/spells are best for certain parts of the 8 stage journey is a pretty major aspect of routing the game.
Valkyrie no Densetsu is by no means an easy game and you'll have to spend a lot of time learning the bosses, stages and item collection routing if you want to make good progress without constantly dying, but most of the game feels surprisingly fair and balanced (besides the last stage, which is just crazy with its enemy spam and precise platforming).