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- "It's a strategy-RPG, with a much bigger emphasis on combat than before."
- Control of when each character attacks is still in.
- Hit gauge at the bottom fills up with successful strikes. When full, a character can do a "Soul Crush" which also feeds back into the Hit gauge.
- Bonus when two characters are flanking an opponent.
- Grid movement in an isometric view.
- Doesn't have a traditional overworld or dungeons to explore. The game is mainly about the combat.
- "What may be harder to take as the game goes on are the story's darkness and the ruthless gameplay that grows out of it. ... Wylfred is very much the anti-hero, and it's hard to say whether players will sympathize with what he does and why he does it." (Wylfred wants to kill the Valkyrie to get revenge for losing his father. He's helped by Hel (from Viking Hell) who is using Wylfred for her own ends, thus the "Covenant" part of the title.)
Interview:
- Former Quest Corporations staff helped the team (already a lot of strategy-RPG fans among them) with the shift in gameplay to a strategy-RPG.
- "Where in other games it has always been in players' best interests to defend the lives of their allies, Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume forces palyers to ponder the value of sacrifice in view of the greater goal."
- "we really wanted to recapture the gravitas of the original Valkyrie Profile and tell the tale through the eyes of a dark hero who opposed the Valkyrie ... I think those who see the full story will ultimately find the message to be an uplifting one, so I hope they'll play it all the way through."
- Just under 30 tracks from the original VP and 20 new tracks.
- Control of when each character attacks is still in.
- Hit gauge at the bottom fills up with successful strikes. When full, a character can do a "Soul Crush" which also feeds back into the Hit gauge.
- Bonus when two characters are flanking an opponent.
- Grid movement in an isometric view.
- Doesn't have a traditional overworld or dungeons to explore. The game is mainly about the combat.
- "What may be harder to take as the game goes on are the story's darkness and the ruthless gameplay that grows out of it. ... Wylfred is very much the anti-hero, and it's hard to say whether players will sympathize with what he does and why he does it." (Wylfred wants to kill the Valkyrie to get revenge for losing his father. He's helped by Hel (from Viking Hell) who is using Wylfred for her own ends, thus the "Covenant" part of the title.)
Interview:
- Former Quest Corporations staff helped the team (already a lot of strategy-RPG fans among them) with the shift in gameplay to a strategy-RPG.
- "Where in other games it has always been in players' best interests to defend the lives of their allies, Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume forces palyers to ponder the value of sacrifice in view of the greater goal."
- "we really wanted to recapture the gravitas of the original Valkyrie Profile and tell the tale through the eyes of a dark hero who opposed the Valkyrie ... I think those who see the full story will ultimately find the message to be an uplifting one, so I hope they'll play it all the way through."
- Just under 30 tracks from the original VP and 20 new tracks.