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someoneintheshadow456 · 2 years ago

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It looks like I have a nasty habit of speaking too soon because Minerva FINALLY made up to Claude and said "you have one thing that I don't, you didn't lead your friends to their deaths." So... Minerva has gone from being straight up cancelled to "on thin ice." Plus she's useful gameplay wise.

And YUP I was very very right about the OG Kai. It's also obvious as to WHY he's working with the Imps. Good old Captain Morgan and his first mate kept the engine room "forbidden" for a reason. A pink haired 12 year old amnesiac reason.

Crymaria is just Poor Man's Selvaria in every sense of the word, even literally because they came from the same lab. The game is trying SO HARD to make us sympathise with her, even makes her angst about how she wants people to love and need her and emphasizes how Belgar is abusing her.

Even gameplay wise, she gave me less of a headache than Selvaria did at Barious. This woman stands in a Danger Zone that triggers if you move your units to a certain point and you can just move around her. In fact it was the random heavy Gaitling near the base camp that gave me more trouble than Crymaria herself.

To add insult to injury, it looks like the writers listened to the criticisms about Jaeger not intervening for Selvaria and took them very seriously. Because Poor Man’s Jaeger over here is being heavily shipped with Crymaria and gave her the speech that Selvaria SHOULD have gotten from Jaeger and Johann. Poor Man’s Jaeger even got a confession FFS! The copy gets the happy ending that the original should have gotten and I just feel so much anger and emptiness.

I once said that Kreis replacing Isara as tank commander was equivalent to the parents giving the child a new pet right after the old one died. I was wrong, that description is more fitting for Crymaria's entire character and existence. And one of the major reasons WHY Crymaria doesn't work is because Belgar isn't a hot 30 something but a decrepit old man. And that too a decrepit old man who has little to no relationship with her.

And in a case of VC4 being VC4 again, everyone is totally cool with Leela being a spy for the Imps because she was "so sowwy uwu." She may be the least bad character overall, but people excusing her for being a traitor just because they were once besties is something I cannot look past. I'm very surprised that the Federation managed to get ANYTHING done with these children commanding an army.

The gameplay is the only reason why I’m here at this point. All VC4 is doing is making me love the original more than ever.

I never intended to make a VC4 log. I never intended to start playing VC4 until I finished VC2. I wanted to just get through it to see how it was because you apparently didn't need to play VC2-3 to play this one.

But dear GOD.

The gameplay is much more challenging, and there's WAY more things to do here. I've had to look at guides for most of the levels, just like VC1 except I wasn't running around screaming. Siegval Line is the only level where I got a B... God that chapter was an absolute nightmare.

But the story and characters are much MUCH WORSE, and I thought VC2 was bad. VC1's mains were mostly pleasant but boring, and the most annoying ones - Largo and Rosie, wise up at the end (plus Rosie's anime incarnation is MUCH better than her game counterpart). VC2 took place in cadet school, so you knew with those mains not to expect too much.

VC4's mains however, with the exception of Leela, range from mildly annoying to straight up making me want to throw my joycons across the room.

Riley blames Claude for running away from the fire that killed her family... when they were literally both TWELVE. TF was Claude supposed to do?! Apparently he's a coward for... *checks notes* behaving like how any 12 year old would in a deadly situation.

Raz should have gotten court marshaled a LONG time ago but he's able to get away with all this shit because he's besties with the commander. But apparently shit like this actually happens in the real military, so... points for accuracy?

The OG Kai is so obviously working with the Imps they may as well have hung a signboard over his head saying "I'M EVIL." I'm shocked that the writing team thought that they could fool us about why he deserted when even a five year old can figure out why.

Claude gets blamed for literally every fucking thing but you can't even feel too bad for him because of how much of a Gary Stu he is. Characters can be shit talking him to his face and our uwu golden boi just takes it in stride and gets promoted just for breathing. Even Welkin had moments where his emotions got the best of him and had to LEARN shit throughout the story. Claude gets NONE of that.

Even the VILLAINS are less interesting this time around. The only one we have seen so far is a cheap copy of General Jaeger. In VC1 by this time, we already saw the main villains, but it's Chapter 7 and they still haven't shown up.

But the worst character of all, and the one who prompted me to make this post, is Minerva. At first, she just hated Claude for petty middle school BS reasons, and I hoped to GOD she would get some character development.

But the moment she blamed Claude for her girlfriend's death was the point when she crossed over from "annoying bitch" territory to "joycons flying across the room" territory.

My dude, my guy, YOU sent him on that mission. YOU gave the go-ahead for him to ambush a supply base. And you fault him for not being at his post when your squad got decimated... when you TOLD him to do so?! And why do I have the feeling that if your pwecious cwystal made it out unscathed, no fucks would be given from you?

Your pretty speech about how you want to set aside your pride and fight with Squad E means JACK SHIT if you continue to blame Claude when he was JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS. As though he wasn't fighting, as though he was just sitting around having tea while tanks were crushing you. I know it's still early in the game, but I have ZERO hopes for you if you continue to be this bad.

Congratulations, Minerva. You just dethroned Maxie for worst character in the VC universe. I hope you're happy.

#vc4 #Valkyria chronicles 4 #I do not care what happens to ANY of these people…#And poor poor Selvaria…#Your cheap copy gets the happy ending YOU deserved

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