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Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria: Battles
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For better or worse, Valkyrie Profile 2 does have a few new tricks up its sleeve. Each shop will create powerful items for Silmeria and her party in exchange for certain items won in battle. Unfortunately this feature is probably one of the most obnoxious features of Valkyrie Profile 2. While the items are great, the resources needed to create them can be a total pain to collect. Players will often find themselves fighting the same type of enemy over and over just to harvest a particular item which may or may not appear depending on how the enemy is killed and pure luck. Even with all of the items, players aren’t guaranteed to find a particular creation for sale.
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Weapons ... behave differently in Valkyrie Profile 2. While they will still determine if you can swing anywhere from 1-3 times during a combat turn, they also have one more important factor this time around. Some weapons will allow you to perform a special attack when you get the special gauge to 100. That weapon, however, may be weaker than another one that doesn’t allow special attacks. It also may allow you to only swing once or twice during battle, making the building of the special attack gauge harder. Each of the selectable attacks also has an amount of points it will add to the special gauge when you hit.
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As far as audio is concerned, much like the original Valkyrie Profile, the music is a blend of epic scores and rocking guitar riffs. Voices are solid and very well done. Where the original suffered from some cheesy lines here and there, Valkyrie Profile 2’s awkward delivery and bad lines are very few and far between. The only real downside is the fact that, while much of the dialogue from Valkyrie Profile 1 was cheesy, it was still really fun to listen to- namely how Lenneth would say, “To my side my noble Einherjar!” during the beginning of every battle. Lines like this have been completely phased out from Valkyrie Profile 2. The only time any sort of lyrical dialogue is given is during the special moves, and it still holds just as much of an effect as it did before.
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Gamers who can overlook a drawn-out, needlessly exhausting battle system for a meticulously crafted fantasy world should give Valkyrie Profile 2 at look. But if your RPGs need to be as fun to play as they are to behold, pick up Final Fantasy XII instead.
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