Valkyria Chronicles 2: The South Shall Rise Again

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Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

Tae posted:

What do they do otherwise? Clean up mines, repair sandbags, still have long-range offense in Grenades, have a Blast suit, and also they have a giant loving shield...that deflects all interception attacks. They are the closest to having unlimited HP if you angle the shield right, though their AP isn't the greatest. If nothing else, they are great Camp capture characters by getting to a place healthy and chucking a grenade to move an enemy out of the way.

I really miss having mine clearers that could move farther than the tank, fortunatly mines haven't shown up very often as far as I've gotten in the game.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2015 00:39

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 16:29

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

SSNeoman posted:

Watch as it suddenly turns out to be some Railgun thing, where they're not the worst, they just have latent powers that are not prevalent (because the protagonist is there see)

When your cast makes that of Index/Railgun look competent...

# ¿ Apr 8, 2015 08:16

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

BioMe posted:

...Why would Soviet Germany agree to give any hostages to Switzerland again?

Probably had something to do with the politics of getting their army and the corpse of a prince back.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2015 19:04

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

OddObserver posted:

They can't seem to make up their mind whether it's the oldest academy or the only one (in which case, what point is there in technically correct labelling as oldest? Unless they mean there wasn't an older one that got closed or something).

The old academy building is the tiny castle with its own moat in one the points of the star.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2015 22:40

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

Aiming at the feet of super dodgy baddies still works, doesn't it?

# ¿ Apr 12, 2015 17:56

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

I just promoted Alexis and fed them all to his sword.

# ¿ Apr 15, 2015 19:42

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

You know, given the idiots in charge of the Galian Military, this makes perfect sense. See, somebody smart wouldn't trust Class G with the Duchess, but, because Class G is here, clearly it's some unimportant target.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2015 03:48

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

Agean90 posted:

hmm yes the only black person in the class is a caveman and the mc thinks the holocaust is no big deal

I stopped playing this shortly after the goofy armor guys showed up, which is good because the game seems to be getting even more hilaribad with every story update.

Given how dumb/ignorant Avan is, he may not even know it happened.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2015 21:22

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

Francis posted:

what the gently caress

this is not the true vc2 experience

where is your pride as an lper, man

He accidentally clipped it with Avan's sword.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2015 20:37

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

Male.

# ¿ Apr 21, 2015 03:41

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

theshim posted:

The best part of Bloodthirsty is her line when it activates. It's just this amused "Heh. Cute. I can take you all! "

My biggest problem with Bloodthirsty is that it always procs after she's just finished murdering everything with the flamethrower and there's nobody left to hit with it.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2015 06:38

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

She's also sadly the only woman on the force not named Rosie, Alicia, or Aika who had a personality past "Let me tell you how much I hate the Darcsens/empire." Not that being a terrible singer and person all around is a good personality, but she was enthusiastic about it.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2015 03:46

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

Tae is eventually going to be reduced to a force of all engineers and Avan as a lancer.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2015 21:06

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

I think skits that don't show anything new about the characters can be skipped.

Like
*Avan is asleep/eating something
<CharA> I certainly am a [trait].
<CharB> That <CharA> what a [trait].
*Avan says something ignorant.

can be skipped, but

<CharA> I'm a [trait] because [event] happened.

might have some worth.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2015 01:37

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

He's a fencer, that bullet did, like, three points of damage, tops.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2015 02:49

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

BioMe posted:

Regardless, "database culture" is a pretty dumb fancy way of saying "cliche".

... Perhaps the word you are looking for is trope? You didn't honestly think I'd link to that, did you?

# ¿ Apr 30, 2015 00:08

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

Mehuyael posted:

For some reason Noel's face looks wrong to me. I always get the creeps when looking at her.

Human eyes are supposed to be in line with the top attachment of their ears. Noel's are above them and there's a huge gap between her eyes and her nose.

# ¿ Apr 30, 2015 20:53

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

Hopeford posted:

I seriously hate Melissa. I strongly dislike when fiction tries to pass off stalking as funny or cute. Maybe I'm just an overly sensitive baby but I'm always like "Ehhhh this is seriously uncomfortable."

Also as an aside, is it me or is Avan way more bearable when he's in plot scenes than during random skits? I mean his personality is still the same but he's way less annoying(to me, at least) when he's reacting to the plot as opposed to some attempt at comedy. I kind of don't even mind his character like that.

Oooh right that's what it does, thanks. Yeah that's really useful on some maps. And yeah I don't get why the game even allows for troops that are already promoted to keep getting certificates. If not for that, even the grinding would be a lot more bearable.

Because you might decide that you don't actually want that guy to be a mobile mortar and want to change his class to something else in the same tree.

# ¿ May 2, 2015 02:06

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

Ikasuhito posted:

I know its already been hammered half to death about the piss poor pacing, but I have to add my two cents.

I cant tell where we are in the context of the story, we could be half way through or the next update could be the finale and I wouldn't be surprised.

We've been introduced to, but haven't take out any of the enemy generals, so we're somewhere in the middle of the story, but if the Dirk reveal and Juliana's death signal the begining of the middle or the start of the end, I've got no idea. In a better game there'd be a huge tone shift here, but character quests mean that wacky school hijinx will continue until the end of the game.

# ¿ May 5, 2015 21:45

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

So, if Valkur are Newtypes, does that make lances funnels? ... And I guess the V2s are cybernewtypes.

# ¿ May 6, 2015 00:15

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

It feels like she's supposed to the same archetype as Kaolla Su from Love Hina: wild dark skinned girl who's good with machines (I wonder if Vicky had the Kansai accent in the original), but she utterly lacks any charm.

# ¿ May 10, 2015 21:06

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

Glazius posted:

I swear, these potentials and orders seem like they were made for the last game's maps, not this game's maps.

These units too, who really cares if a a fencer or a mauler can't run very far if all the maps are tiny and crampt?

# ¿ May 13, 2015 04:23

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

This update brought to you by the :rolldice:

and

# ¿ May 16, 2015 03:19

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

I know this is the wrong thing to notice with an ending that bad, but why is Alixis in the wrong uniform in that group shot?

Anyway thanks for suffering through this for us, I don't think I'll ever finish it myself.

# ¿ May 19, 2015 21:12

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 16:29

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

In a better written game Dirk was a real person who died during the program and his crazy dad just replaced him and told the brainwashed Leon to never take his helmet off.

# ¿ May 21, 2015 01:34

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