Valkyria Chronicles Review

By Chris Hudak

Sega knocks it out of the Reich.



There’s an old Bloom County comic strip where the Usual Anthropomorphized Suspects are watching some military combat on television—it’s either live cable coverage of some real-world, body-count conflict or an old episode of “Rat Patrol”, they’re not really sure—and in a fit of moral confusion, one of them suddenly yells something along the…

  • Absolutely elegant, gorgeous presentation
  • Unique approach to RPG strategy
  • Fleshed-out, mangled-mythos if-world
  • Engaging story
  • Mostly good voicework
  • Hit-and-miss AI
  • Some annoyingly inconsistent mechanics

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Chris Hudak
Chris Hudak

Chris Hudak is a writer, former San Francisco Zoo penguin recorder, frequent-flyer junkie, self-proclaimed lucid dream expert, poolshark-in-minnow’s-clothing, “student” of all things Japanese, borderline alcoholic (see “writer”), video-gamer-with-a-life, and moonlighting, kinda-sorta actor in his copious spare time.  He writes weird fiction, and contributes articles to Playboy, Wired, The Toronto Star, and whoever else has money.  Chris is the protagonist of the Harlan Ellison short story “Keyboard”—no, really—and someday wants a house in Walt Disney World.

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