Valkyrie Profile 2 > Valkyrie Profile 1 -- Even in Music

[MrAngryFace]

I've been pondering a second play-through on the harder difficulty while listening to the original and arranged soundtrack, and this shit is REALLY good, IMO better than the originals music. Not to mention VP2 > VP1.

I wish this RPG got more credit, fucking Final Fantasy

[Junpei the Tracer!]

This game is REALLY hard but I like the battle system so I'm gonna beat someday.

[MrAngryFace]

its not that hard, just grind at the shrine, skip the mines and the forest which appear as your first optional dungeons, they're too hard for when they first appear. Then get the double exp orbs n stuff like that and..I had a thread on this lemme see if I can find it.

So I am almost 34 hours into Valkyrie Profile 2 and STILL in chapter 3. This is not a knock against the game, it is a knock against Nippon Ichi games which trained me to be an OCD freak that needs to collect everything and grind to get ultra uber powerful rewards or just make your characters as gods. So I will be getting the two special swords from a few characters at the start of chapter 4, my team in general is a crazy beast.

Id like to say how much spheres rock this game. It adds a bizzare pokemon atmosphere to the title which drives me deeper into my compulsive disorder. For example:

I collected these spheres...a few of many I have restored and now OWN. 2 x Experience/Bigger Bonus/120% attack/Drain Life. These arent the proper names but it describes what they do.

Now if I place the drain life sphere on a dias, all monsters I fight, will lose life in a battle. Now when I mean lose life I mean 80 hp a ...well roughly translated a turn. While VP2 appears somewhat real time it is goverened by a system of turns under the hood. As you use the battle system more you will start seeing the turns pass as you play and this will result in you dominating battles. Understanding this system is key.

ANYWAY, so I fight some enemies and their HP is just diving. Well I equipped 2 x experience on myself, which doubles the experience I gain, but takes away any earned money from a fight. Screw money, I have 350k and nothing to buy. The Bigger Bonus sphere results in more crystals dropped in a fight. The 120% attack sphere is there so I can get enemies to overkill faster which results in more crystals with every hit the enemy takes past the overkill mark. Jawesome. Not to mention skills like Training which boosts a characters received EXP to 150%.

Also, the Einjajejeyrear you get in a dungeon are a randomly drawn set of three. For example I have the fortune/misfortune of drawing an archer almost every time. So once I had them leveled up 5 levels above their 'free soul' level, I freed their souls and took the stat bonus items from them and pumped them into my archers. So you can effectively liquidate class types and pump them into whoever you wanna keep.

Anyway I beat it once, and it invited me to play through it again on a harder difficulty and ive been soooo tempted lately. Its so good

[demi]

who fucking cares, go play something else

[tiesto]

Oh god, that's a tough one... I would have to go with VP1 over 2 though. Mainly because I liked how each character got an exposition instead of a 2 paragraph blurb buried within the status screen, and VP2's plot seems like a really confusing, half-assed way to shoehorn a bunch of VP1 fanservice into the game, not to mention that for 75% of the game (chapter 3), absolutely nothing happens, plot-wise.

[MrAngryFace]

I never thought the individual expositions in VP1 were handled particularly well. Most were pretty hamfisted and lacked any real variety.

VP2s story was never about the einheriar, and they never really suggested it was intended to be. Can poo poo it for something it wasnt supposed to be doing.

[Ichirou]

I never thought the individual expositions in VP1 were handled particularly well. Most were pretty hamfisted and lacked any real variety.

VP2s story was never about the einheriar, and they never really suggested it was intended to be. Can poo poo it for something it wasnt supposed to be doing.

lol, you said "poo."  Two times, even.

But seriously, you're making me want to play this game.  I want to play/finish Radiata Stories first, though.

[MrAngryFace]

Radiata was a lot of fun, but I would make a spot next in line for VP2 for sure.

[Beezy]

Oh snap! I was just deleting a bunch of files off my computer and I came across the Valkyrie Profile ISO! WTF, I don't remember ever downloading this! It plays perfectly too!

[MrAngryFace]

Hah, I have the PSP VP1, and PS2 vp2

[BlueTsunami]

I loved VP1 to death and I really need to play VP2. Tri-Ace are my masters

[MrAngryFace]

VP2 is so good. The move from 2D to 3D was done so well, the battle system is great. In fact its even deeper in VP2.