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started Valkyria Chronicles this weekend and I am AMAZED!

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Definitely worth $20, yes. Still, read RPS' comments about the screwed up scoring system, because you'll wonder WTF you got a lame grade for when you kept everyone alive and finished the mission in a seemingly-reasonable time. It's a decent system without permadeath, it's an obnoxious one with it.

Ultimately, I got more enjoyment out of Disgaea 3.
 
You just have to ignore the scoring system and accept that it's an example of the JRPG "punish the gamer" mentality where you have to collect 1,000 lupins scattered on the world map to finish a quest, or do something exactly right in hour 5 to be able to collect the Sword of Smities in hour 20.
 
DaveSimmons said:
You just have to ignore the scoring system and accept that it's an example of the JRPG "punish the gamer" mentality where you have to collect 1,000 lupins scattered on the world map to finish a quest, or do something exactly right in hour 5 to be able to collect the Sword of Smities in hour 20.
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I see where you're coming from, but I disagree. A scoring system is not an "extra" in any way, shape, or form - it's shoved in your face at the end of every mission, and it (supposedly) tells you how well you did. It is an integral part of the game, and as you've just pointed out, it's so broken it should be ignored. This is something the game should rightfully be criticized for, and it detracts from your enjoyment of the game.

If they wanted to toss in trophies for "beating the stages as fast as possible", that would be acceptable in my eyes. But the game is penalizing you for not making absurd times by giving you less rewards than you'd see in a non-dumb scoring system. So, not only is a bad design decision making me annoyed, but it's directly interfering with the gameplay. Again: unacceptable. Closing your eyes does not make that part of the problem go away.

I don't want to seem too down on VC - I played it, I enjoyed it, and I would recommend it. I just want to set expectations to where they should be, and that is simply that VC is not the most amazingest SRPG to come out in the past ten years.
 
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