Valkyrie Profile 2 Silmeria (PS2)

Every so often you'll find yourself sitting down and remembering a game that meant something to you. I mean REALLY meant something to you and you go "I wish I had the opportunity to play a sequel or a remake of that game!" Valkyrie Profile 1, the game that meant the world to me set the bar pretty damn high. The story in the first was so brutally powerful, despite the low grade music *PS1, what can you expect?*, the story had me in powerful goosebumps for each person that came your way. But we are not here to talk about that now are we? VP2 is the prequel to that game, and right away I notice that something is going to go ...  Read the complete review

For rebelling against him, Odin transmigrates Silmeria's soul with the Sovereign's Rite. However, the spell is incomplete, and Silmeria awakens within Alicia, the princess of Dipan. Realising Silmeria has awakened, Odin seeks to bring divine intervention down upon her. I like how the story of Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria pans out, the twists are intriguing. The voice-acting is okay but the lip-synching for the FMV sequences are not. Also, the cut scenes seem to suffer from excessive blur - I would attribute this to compression perhaps rather than the shots being out-of-focus. And as detailed as the graphics are, light appears artificial and white, and there ...  Read the complete review