Valkyrie Profile Covenant of the Plume is the new FFT

[Chaotic_Heretic]

It wasn't that fucking obtuse. You'd think this of all places would appreciate the lack of a fucking quest compass and making some of your choices actually matter.

It is not the means to get the ending that I am opposed to (personally thought the seal rating thing and odin was pretty cool) It was the anime love saves heaven and earth faggotry I hated.
Nocturne had kinda obtuse means to get true ending...but damn the ending was worth it.
@Renegen
K CotP sounds good enough for a playthrough... but spoiler tag you faggot!

 

[Renegen]

I think the story arc is a bit obvious since the game is a protagonist-driven story. You go what he goes through. Bonus, the game is only 15-20 hours long for one playthrough.

 

[Damned Registrations]

It wasn't some love saves all bullshit. She's the death goddess, and the entire fucking world had just perished during the apocalypse that had been prophesized and led up to for the entire fucking game. It's not like she powered up because of her friends or something. She's a fucking stone cold bitch through the entire game. The only romance plots are Lucian (summarily rejected) and Lezard (creepy as fuck.)

 

[Chaotic_Heretic]

Well maybe I was retarded but VP1 true ending felt too fucking happy. And my memory is foggy but it felt like she d8d powerup due t her memories of her human life....

 

[abnaxus]

She powers up by absorbing the souls of every living thing that was wiped out by Loki and gets an uber powerful sword. And Loki gets owned.



Though above video doesn't show apocalypse cutscene.

 

[Chaotic_Heretic]

Ohh, that changes a lot. Guess my interpretation was fucked up. there was a bit about the elf body or something... how does that fit into the plot?

 

[SCO]

Valkyrie profile A ending fucking sucks. The whole 'human life' backstory was fucking lame, especially the 'romance'. But my charge of weabooism towards CotP was just for character design, it's obvious from the intro (and even more shameless than the first game).

 

[Damned Registrations]

In short, Lenneth visits her own grave and regains her mortal memories of Lucian, which triggers a failsafe that gives Hrist control of her body. Hrist then tries to kill Lenneth's uncooperative companions, but she defends them and gets blown to ghost bits in the process. Hrist leaves her for dead and decides to spare the stupid mortals. Lezard shows up and partially ressurects Lenneth in his creepy half elf child body (which has a subplot concerning why Lenneth is so powerful she can beat the shit out of Loki and undo the end of the world.) Hrist goes off to fight Brahms, Brahms and the scooby gang beat the shit out of Hrist to get the other bits of Lenneth's soul. They shove those into the homunculus as well and Lenneth is back for real.

 

[Chaotic_Heretic]

Ok so not love saves the world retard... but not particularly engrossing either.

@SCO
Well CotP art isn't as bad as far as anime styles go... Etrian Odyssey is a lot worse in that regard.

 

[abnaxus]

In short, Lenneth visits her own grave and regains her mortal memories of Lucian

Thing is, Lenneth and Platina are two entirely different souls. Valkyrie soul lies dormant inside mortal bodies until Odin awakens them, and the memories of the mortal are sealed away. Lenneth broke the memory seal and remembered Platina's past life.

 

[Chaotic_Heretic]

the gods sure are cheap fucks reclying lives and shit.

 

[Cynic]

As far as weaboo character design goes, VP manages to pull it off without going too far into anime faggotry. Some of the designs are really grounded and cool others go too far but those are kind of in the minority.

The strong focus on Nordic lore and thematics also give this game series a very unique feel.

I think the IP is dead though, quite sad, would have loved to have seen another like CotP.

 

[yes plz]

Yeah, the art for VP1 was at least mostly bereft of animu faggotry.

 

[Athelas]

I thought the first Valkyrie Profile had one of the most fascinating premises for an RPG ever, but the execution was less than stellar. And the less said about the 'twu luv saves the world' schlock, the better.

The game also has some oddities - the voice-acted bits are full of basic grammatical errors and horrible Engrish, but the flavor text of the world map locations are very well-written and detailed. Actually, that sort of thing seems to happen a lot in localized game.

 

[yes plz]

It wasn't uncommon for them to outsource parts of the translation to other companies in order to get it done faster back then (I know it happened with the original Final Fantasy Tactics translation), which could've happened with VP.

 

[80Maxwell08]

As far as weaboo character design goes, VP manages to pull it off without going too far into anime faggotry. Some of the designs are really grounded and cool others go too far but those are kind of in the minority.

The strong focus on Nordic lore and thematics also give this game series a very unique feel.

I think the IP is dead though, quite sad, would have loved to have seen another like CotP.

Considering how Square Enix is digging up their somewhat unused IPs to make social game spin offs maybe they should leave VP alone until they get it out of their system.

 

[abnaxus]

Logically speaking next game would be Valkyrie Profile 3: Hrist. But Hrist already had a big part to play in VP2.

But I've no idea what tri-Ace is working on now. Are they developing another Star Ocean?

 

[80Maxwell08]

Well here's their website. A decent amount of it is in english so it's possible to move around it pretty easily.
http://www.tri-ace.co.jp/en/index.html
The first thing that pops up looks a bit like Resonance of Fate to me but Google Translate only works so much.

 

[Rahdulan]

As far as weaboo character design goes, VP manages to pull it off without going too far into anime faggotry. Some of the designs are really grounded and cool others go too far but those are kind of in the minority.

The strong focus on Nordic lore and thematics also give this game series a very unique feel.

I think the IP is dead though, quite sad, would have loved to have seen another like CotP.

I would say not only for the focus on its Nordic lore, but also for being thematically consistent. A lot of JRPGs tend to favor the "kitchen sink fantasy" approach when it comes to their settings, not with Valkyrie Profile which was pretty seriously rooted in Nordic lore. Well, for the most part. You needed something different once in a while for diversity's sake because, after all, you can't survive on buxom armored maidens forever.

 

[abnaxus]

Well VP had a big world; apart from the obvious European medieval part, one part was Wapanese Sengoku period and another part was almost Renaissance themed.

 

[Cynic]

Logically speaking next game would be Valkyrie Profile 3: Hrist. But Hrist already had a big part to play in VP2.

But I've no idea what tri-Ace is working on now. Are they developing another Star Ocean?

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/...-stunning-new-engine-looks-unreal-get-it.aspx

From 2011