Valkyrie Elysium Review (Alice)
Game is bland, uninspired, and boring. As if Square Enix just gave the team a bunch of checkboxes and the development team just adhered to it with no passion or vision put into it.
Combat is bad, camera is bad, maps are bad, dialogue and story are bad, non-existent world-building, lore built on generic Greek mythology.
Even a 50% discount is not worth to pick this game up. Playing Chapter 1 basically means you have played the entire game out. There is no "wow factor", no awe-inspiring moments, no achievement or skill to be had.
Combat is just button-mashing mess and there is no skill involved in this game. The combat is a complete, absolute mess and are more stat-checks than skill checks.
The more I play this game, the more pissed off I get at how bland, uninspired, and shitty the gameplay is. I would give this a VERY NEGATIVE review if I could. Absolute trash-tier garbage.
If you are looking to buy this game for its story, cinematics, or cutscenes, I would advise you to be sorely disappointed in your expectations as there are abyssmally low amounts of voice-acting and cutscenes. Here is the story. I will just spoil it for you.
1. Go fight 4 bosses that will turn into companions
2. Go find 4 McGuffins for Odin
3. PLOT TWIST - Good is actually EVIL!!!
4. Valkyrie learns to be more humanlike and less robotic from her very limited experiences with the companions.
Enemy types:
There are only 6 enemy types in this game.
Normal/Poison Lantern Undead, Archer/Shield Soldier Undead, Fire/Electric/Water Elementals, Squids, Fire/Ice/Dark Drakes. And Hilde. Absolutely pathetic.
Skill Trees:
There are no Skill Trees. Its a dang Skill Pole with only 1, sometimes 2, lines streaking downwards. Just get everything because there is no customisation of any sort.
Spells:
There are only 8 spells. One for each element (except Fire). Higher levels of the spells DO NOT add anything special nor have ANY special effects.
Heal, Fire Lance, Fire Storm, Ice Bolt, Chain Lightning, Group-Grab, Holy Lance Pierce, Dark Ground Attack.
This is a 3/10 game if you strip away the Valkyrie brand on it.