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Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria: Original
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Valkyrie Profile 2 isn’t just its battle system. Valkyrie Profile 2’s dungeon system is very much the same as the original Valkyrie Profile’s. Players work their way through a series of rooms, only moving in a 2D space. Silmeria is able to shoot photons which cause enemies to crystallize and freeze. When these frozen enemies are shot with another photon, they switch places with Silmeria. This technique of swapping places with on-screen enemies is necessary for solving some puzzles as well as finding some of the better treasures.
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While Valkyrie Profile 2 deviates from your typical RPG dungeon exploration, it completely reinvents the battle system. The combat from the original game has been refocused to concentrate on tactical strategy, all while maintaining the button-mashing glee that made the first game so exhilarating. For starters, the battlefield has been expanded to allow you and your party to run around and engage enemies individually. The action is semi-real time - although you directly move your characters, the enemies only move when you do, so you’re free to strategize without worrying about getting attacked.
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Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria is the long overdue sequel to its predecessor, which was released some seven years ago. Unlike many of the other series in the Square Enix lineup, this title actually has significant relevance to its first installment. In fact, VP2 is slightly different in the respect that it is much more linear and story-driven, while the original VP was much more open-ended. Linear isn’t necessarily a bad thing, though. The storyline is epic and very immersive. It can easily stand on its own for newcomers to the series, but it ... adds more depth and appreciation to the history of Midgard, Asgard, and all the realms in between for veterans of the original Valkyrie Profile.
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Probably one of the most anticipated soundtracks of the year so far, the Valkyrie Profile 2 - Silmeria Original Soundtrack will feature Motoi Sakuraba's talents once again. Like all of his recent soundtrack releases (except Tales of the Abyss), the album will be published under his Japanese promoter, TEAM Entertainment, with the catalogue number KDSD-00102~3. On sale July 12.
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When the original Valkyrie Profile was released at the end of 1999, it offered a completely different experience to RPG fans. Instead of being a traditional adventure with fixed party members and travelling from town to town progressing the story, the player instead took on the role of a warrior goddess free to travel the world as she saw fit to recruit fallen warriors to join her in the final battle of Ragnarok. The game was non-linear, had dungeons filled with 2D platforming and featured a battle engine which resembled a beat em up without the movement. So it is hardly surprising that when a sequel was announced six years later, that fans wondered if it could live up to the originality of its predecessor.
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Whereas the original Valkyrie Profile focused upon retrieving Einherjar to send to Valhalla, the sequel changes things quite considerably. No longer loyal to Odin, Silmeria's task centres on the need to reincarnate the Einherjar trapped within her at the time of her exile; but instead of sending them to Odin and Valhalla, she chooses to resurrect them in their previous mortal state on the realms of Midgard. Beyond an obvious insult to Odin, reincarnating the souls as mortal beings in Midgard plays a significant role as these characters will pop up to provide assistance and unique items to Alicia throughout the game.
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