Valiant Hearts: The Great War by Ubisoft - Preorder available

[toro]

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It has a real artstyle, a mature theme and is made by Ubisoft who is not even trying too hard.

It reminds me of Jaques Tardi's stuff which is always a good thing in my book.

I hope Tim Schafer sees this.

 

[felipepepe]

Ubisoft has been really surprising recently.

 

[Cosmic Misogynerd]

Looks incredible! And done in the same engine as Rayman: Origins. This is like if we were in some bizarro world

 

[Name]

Ubisoft has been really surprising recently.

OT: And now a 2D JRPG...
http://childoflight-game.com/

Ubisoft is going full retro... Now let's hope they won't find some way to turn these things into their yearly money grinder like they did with their mega franchises.

 

[Boleskine]

This game looks beautiful. Love the art style and animation. Hopefully it has somewhat challenging puzzles and isn't too easy or linear.

 

[Taxnomore]

No gameplay shown. Looks good, but I can't help remembering it comes from Ubi.

 

[deuxhero]

I'm not buying as long as it has u-play.

 

[toro]

I'm not buying as long as it has u-play.

u-play has less drm than steam and if you unlock achievements then you get some gold coins with which you can buy actual dlcs.

 

[Black_Willow]

Ubishit makes game looking like shit, shit Codexers rejoice.

 

[Haba]

HEY GUYS, LOOK AT ME! I AM SO EDGY! I JUDGE GAMES BY THEIR LOOKS! ESPECIALLY ADVENTURE GAMES! I TOTALLY FIT IN HERE AT CODEX!

 

[ghostdog]

Color me interested.

the adventure puzzler is kind of like The Walking Dead.

Hmm, on second thought not so interested.

Valiant Hearts really isn’t much like Walking Dead either. Dialogue is nearly non-existent, with Ubi instead opting to take inspiration from the likes of Machinarium to produce a mixture of audio cues and visual language.

Ok, maybe a little bit interested.

Valiant Hearts: The Great War certainly looks impressive, but the demo only clomped around on the surface of what has the potential to be an extremely deep, nuanced look at a wildly complex subject.

We'll just have to wait and see.

 

[Acheiropoieta]

I'm looking forward to this, if only for the art style and setting. Gameplaywise I can't imagine this being anything other than extremely simple, so hopefully it's at least clever enough to stay interesting.

 

[Siel]

Game comes June 25.

New trailer :

 

[Starwars]

The voiceover is kinda hammy at times but hey, at least this looks pretty different. Good on UbiSoft I say for doing some smaller, interesting games like the new Might & Magic (that was them right?), Child of Light and now this.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Available for preorder now:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/260230/

 

[Athelas]

I hope this isn't a repeat of Child of Light where the gorgeous art will be the only good thing about it.

 

[Crooked Bee]

I dunno, I thought Child of Light was pretty good.

 

[Scroo]

Just stumbled across this. The trailers alone are giving me the chills. Will definitely preorder.

Another trailer:

 

[Boleskine]

Reviews are out.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/06/24/valiant-hearts-review-pc-world-war-one-game/

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-06-25-valiant-hearts-the-great-war-review

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/06/24/valiant-hearts-the-great-war-review

http://www.pcgamer.com/review/valiant-hearts-review/

 

[Taxnomore]

There is a lot of butthurt here about the final chapter being DLC.

 

[1451]

There are some nice ideas in gameplay but the game is too simple. No inventory, you pick up an item and you can't pick up another one unless you throw the one you were holding.
Puzzles are not complex, stealth mechanic is atrocious and should be removed. There are some boss fights, nothing fascinating, plain old qte do this or you lose stuff.

Graphics may be 2d but they are great. I explore the levels just to admire the moon and the sky. You also find items unrelated to the game, they have descriptions. You can read them or you can read wikipedia. Not sure where is the fun in that.

Overall a mediocrity, good to pass some time until D:OS.

 

[racofer]

Just played the game and it's total shit. I wouldn't even call it a game, it's more like an interactive story. Every game part is way too simple to even consider this a game.

Look at a game like The Swapper if you want interesting gameplay and puzzles with good atmosphere.

 

[Jugashvili]

Oh look, a game set in WWI! I wonder if it will be a mature and intelligent take on the conflict...

>Mandatory mopey WWI-is-teh-horrible narrative

>Giant steampunkish zeppelin

OK, I'll pass.

 

[Tramboi]

There is gameplay in this game, this is not Walking Dead. Though gameplay is simple.
I liked the art (graphs and musics), the characters speak in their native language and the French tries to sound early 19xx, which makes it nice.
Overall, I liked it very much.

 

[Starwars]

I really disliked this game. I enjoyed the art and overall presentation but the gameplay was terrible. The story had its moments, but mostly it was terrible too.