Valkyrie Profile is such an iconic and beloved game. So much so, our D&D group has been working through a campaign loosely based on Valkyrie Profile. The DM is Lenneth and the rest of us are her einherjar.
#0: Maddie Blausteins brother, Jeremy Blaustein, translated the game from Japanese to English. He also directed the voice actors. Jeremy also translated Silent Hill 2 and 3, Dragon Warrior 7, Metal Gear Solid, Snatcher, Suikoden 2, and many more. He's the best in the business! #-1: The game was designed by Masaki Norimoto. #-2: Valkyrie Profile sold only 73,000 copies in NA. #-3: Valkyrie Profile was tri-Ace's 3rd game, following Star Ocean and Star Ocean 2. #-4: Both VP1 and VP2 had Japan exclusive collector's editions. #-5: several of the VP1 voice actors came from the Pokemon anime. #-6: VP1 is my favorite game of all time.
And apparently, a family member of mine had one of those 73k copies because that's how I experienced it. I've yet to play any of the following games or the remake. I didn't get very far, as in early chapter 1 or so. I don't know what became of their copy of the game. I just know I've played it and recall some of the themes, like the theme that often plays when someone dies or has their soul called, like Princess Jelanda and the overworld theme.
So true. Personally, I've never really been a fan of female protagonist in video games, till I played Valkyrie Profile. Since then, Lenneth has been and always will be my favorite female character of all time.
For sure dude. And she isn’t sexualized at all, and she doesn’t don ridiculous skimpy “armor” that just barely covers the boobs with a g-string and heels, like all the freakin Japanese rpgs and animes do (especially back in during the time this game came out, that’s when it started becoming a mainstream thing to have half naked anime girls bouncing around). So kudos to the devs and creator for actually making a legitimate warrior woman who’s totally believable as a Valkyrie.
Hrist/Ahly is still waiting somewhere in Valhalla for her debut for its real sequel... Oh, and great work at doing research about this - I've just learned much, so thank you!
Because Ragnarok is "doomsday" in Norse Mythology, of course there will be nothing after the apocalypse, that's why every single Valkyrie Profile game after VP 1 is a prequel. Still waiting for Valkyrie Profile 3 : HRIST though.
Thank you for the video. Motoi Sakuraba is a genius like Nobuo Uematsu and Yasunori Mitsuda along with Noriyuki Iwadare; they are all genius composers. Motoi Sakuraba also composed Tales Series and Star Ocean Series soundtracks as well. Just a note though, the ending outro song was very very loud.
I still can't belive this game shot up in price so much! I'm so glad i bought this game years ago for only $35 on ebay. I loved this game and been playing this during childhood and im so glad i got a copy and kept it! A beautiful and great game!💗
Favourite game if the PS1 lifetime. Final Fantasy 7 was until I played this game. Series is great in general. Edit: Lezard is one of my favourite all time villains also.
@@fernandoolivera648 "In my hand the creator's sword that calls forth eternal sleep. Honor thy pact and hear my command--animate earth!" It's kind of sad that the universe's biggest nerdy creeper is so powerful, but he is very good at it.
From what I understand, Freya is the one who watches over the Valkyries and the fallen soldiers in Norse Mythology. The age for the names doesn't make sense, but the roles seems fine.
That game is awesome. Especially the music. And i like the easter egg bosses like gabriel celeste or the etheral queen which also appear in the star ocean games. I was very surprised to see them, because the first time i met them was in Star Ocean 4.
Nice video Erick!! as soon as I saw the title video "valkyrie profile" .. press instantly to watch it!! one of my favorite JRPGs games.. still waiting to a new game from this series someday!! Love it!!
One of my top 10 games of all time. With one of the best soundtracks ever. To The Unhallowed Ground was my favorite track, it capture the majesty of resurrection and entering Vahalla. Great scene.
I remembered in my schooldays me and all of my friends are into FF's, LOD, LOL, TOD (PS1 Greats) I bought Valkyrie Profile just to try it for a change w/o tellling my friends. Back then when I was a kid I'm not into storylines and game plot so I got bored in the first hour of the game coz of the lenghty script BUT when I got to the scene where I have Freya in my party got her into throwing Ether Stike a whoopping 11K damage and She's only Lv2. I jumped on my bed and said SERIOUSLY? a bloodrush came to me and got hooked into VP eversince and the rest is history. I hope they continue this awesome franchise not in Mobile game.
a direct sequel would be impossible IMO as the story itself was concluded in a way the myth it represents was concluded, it is well known that the Norse myth would end in Ragnarok and the game ended it the same way with a little bit of twist depending on the Ending the player is aiming for...
In the end of vp2 they said something about Lenneth being the only valkyrie left and kind of foreshadowed a new Lenneth game so that could possibly happen
@@crowquet56 I don't wanna spoil the true ending of VP so I won't say anything but there was never any foreshadowing about it, the only thing is that if you didn't get the true ending the game will tell you about it and as mentioned by the video, VP2 is a prequel so it could very well be pointing out into the story of the first game...
Sad thing is all of the Tri-Ace properties are trademarks of their respective publisher. They have absolutely little to no intellectual property whatsoever to call their own, and since "Valkyrie Profile" and, "Star Ocean" are owned trademarks of Square-Enix (and Exist-Archive is owned by Spike-Chunsoft), Tri-Ace has their hands tied. They can't independently develop new entries into these franchises without Square-Enix budgeting the financial resources and drawing up the contract ...
ahh i really love 2 game sequel of Valkyrie. Valkyrie Profile & Valkyrie Profile 2 : Silmeria. Good story, good mechanics, good character design, good music, good artwork.
i can never get tired of lezard's voicelines. i can never take him to seriously despite being a powerful psychotic wizard or alchemist. his jp va tho, really fits his personality.
I love love love Valkyrie Profile!! My favorite video game ever! I wish it was more popular but it seems like fans are few and far between ): Thank you so much for making this video! It made my day!
At least that game was released in North America. Europe didn't get it back than at all. Sakuraba created that awesome soundtrack without knowing for what story?! That guy is great. I've never touched the original (for obvious reasons) but the PSP port and the two following titles. Did they really change every voice actor except Lenneth? I didn't knew that. I don't remember the PSP port's voice acting being that bad. I always thought VP2 was a sequel because of that device inside Dipan castle. Isn't it the same as Lezard used in the first game? You should make that spoiler-heavy video explaining the connection between those two. It would be interesting to find out what I missed there (or have forgotten)
One day maybe we'll receive an announcement for "Valkyrie Profile Hrist" or something like it but for now I think the game still needs to be appreciated by many more people. I personally love the games in spite of their punishing difficulty but I can imagine that many might find the game hard to engage with at first. Even Covenant of the Plume technically requires multiple playthroughs to get the best out of it. One day, the weird soul will be purified and we'll get a sequel where Hrist gets her time to shine.
Not really a huge fan of turn based RPG's but wow I freaking love this game. The combat system is real time and really frame dependent. My favorite soundtrack is "In water, air and light".
The creation gem/jewel obscurity is always one of the first things I think of when the title is mentioned. Such a bizarre mechanic (amongst many other unexplained systems in the game)...but damn this game is absolutely amazing. I enjoy filling in the blanks in narrative with stories of my imagination, as many of the sequences end abruptly and/or are mistranslated, unfortunately. Such a cool series
@@MarxasThomas I was coming here just to say that. Two out of three Valkyries have game...... AND A HUMAN..... but no Hrist... They even joke about this in Covenant of the Plume, I think.
@@vDorgengoa Yes they do, in the post-game dungeon IIRC. It's sad 'cause Hrist is so cool. For the first run of the post-game dungeon in Silmeria, I mained Hrist just because her halberd style is awesome and she still has Nibelung Valesti. (I did eventually give in and just spam a single generic heavy warrior using the same ridiculous move over and over with the right equipment and sealing stones to bullshit-slaughter everything, at least until I min-maxed Freya on hamsters.
@@Nyonics Yeah, I loved Hrist too.... and *that human one* lol. I loved getting access to them in the Seraphic Gate. Freya was a beast with or without the seeds lol. I had both her and Rufus solo Dirna Hamilton just to see if I could (and because I was competing with my uncle). One thing that I would have changed though is that the Nibelung Valesti move would look different for the different characters. Silmeria = Bow Specific Lenneth and Alicia = Sword Based Hrist = Spear based (which would be more awesome because of the actual spears in the move itself) *the special one* = who used every weapon (it would've been awesome!!)
Speaking of the price, I've seen it go from $130-$3,000. I've even seen people selling one disk for $60 on the low end. I had a copy on 2 separate occasions, but one got scratched to be unplayable and the other was in a CD case that was stolen
Really dont know how I managed to miss out on Valkerie Profile back in the day but I'd really like to play it. The price though, such a put off. It doesnt help that I'm borderline OCD about games being CIB.
So many PS1 era JRPGs (and games in general tbh) will never be experienced by a new generation of gamers because publishers refuse to re-release them in an accessible way. Emulation is becoming less trustworthy since Nintendo and other companies declared war on the practice, meanwhile, games like Valkyrie Profile continue to skyrocket in price, making them nearly impossible to play unless you spend an entire paycheck or two. Once the PS3 stops supporting their digital store, even more JRPG classics like Suikoden II, Vagrant Story, and Xenogears will be lost as well. It’s genuinely sad.
@@retrogamernes3121 Figures, I meant artbooks like the Anatomia one on playasia to say, guess it's a matter of time anyway, sooner or later something will come up, hope not Anatomia related though.
9:55 nice speech, except for the fact that easy and normal are actually harder than hard mode. sure you don't need to grind levels but without all the divine weapons, items, extra dungeons, odin rewards, and custom skill sets its actually harder to play on the lower difficulties while getting less story. I would just recommend everyone to play on hard mode with a guide as its the best way to play the game, you also get to finish the post game.
What I would call hard in Hard mode is that the dungeons are very annoying. And also it doesn't even have that Black Dream Tower with that cool music theme. That is why I prefer Normal mode. The only things that I hate to miss from hard mode are the battles vs Genieve and Akethamen. Aside of that, I like Normal mode more. About Lyseria, I prefer Mystina over her for completely, so for me it is not a great loss.
@@Hereticbliss322 ok you want facts then: in valkyrie profile equipment and abilities are the deciding factor on how strong your character is with items that give giant stat boosts that make up about 50 -80% of your attack power, the ability to null specific attacks, instantly heal and revive when attacked, and granting all characters their best attack patterns all of which are not available in easy mode which instead gives you slightly weaker enemies while you are at like 20% power.
windwaker0rules oh yeah I know how the game works. I guess my comment confused you. When you say something like “except for the fact” and then follow up with a subjective opinion, it gives the impression that you don’t know the difference between fact and opinion. I hope that is more clear.
You didn't mention that there was a novel based off the game, although I don't blame you for not knowing since the book only released in Japan. Still, cool video, Valkyrie Profile is a game that flew under my radar but now I want to play it.
I had no idea about the game discs being fragile driving the price up! I'm gonna check my copy right now. It should be fine, as I try to keep my gaming collection in perfect shape, but it's been a very long time since I last played it.
Covenant Of The Plume being before Valkyrie Profile 2 doesn't make any sense to me. If Covenant Of The Plume took place before Valkyrie Profile 2, the einherjar in Valkyrie Profile 2 would have been there, Dipan would have intervened and Artolia wouldn't be a massive nation. There is lore in Valkyrie Profile 2 that shows what happened prior to Covenant Of The Plume and it had nothing to do with the events of Covenant Of The Plume. It was all about the founding of Villnore and the war of Camille Hill, none of which had anything to do with Artolia. In fact it's because of Covenant Of The Plume that Artolia is in the state it is in during the first Valkyrie Profile. Either the writers of Covenant Of The Plume messed up or the sources messed up. Wouldn't be the first time since Anatomia did the same thing, the whole 3 valkyries being the same person was changed to Lenneth being the only Valkyrie.
My friend that's my favorite saga an the first game is my all time favorite. I have hope that after anatomia square give another chance to VP, a new game is needed. Um abraço do Brasil meu amigo dos rpgs :)
Never played the PS1 version. Got hooked on the PSP remake and also its follow-up on the PS2. Probably should give Covenant of the Plume a try these days.
I remember finishing this game once.... no, maybe i think i finished it two times.... Or was it three? or maybe... Yeah, I finished VP more times that i can count, it is my all time favorite RPG, second to none played silmeria a couple of times top (yeah, enough to make the initial enemy hard to kill XD), but nowhere near enough as the original VP. one interesting fact that you might have mentioned when you mentioned the dificulties is that optional end game dungeons are far harder in the easy mode, thanks to scarce resources...
There's quite a bit of censorship in the English version, like in the tutorial when the agent went to the bar to hire Badrach, she gets him a glass of beer in the Japanese version. Lezard's teleportation symbol was changed from a pentagram into a circle, obviously to avoid any satanic reference Frei and Freya's name reversal was kind of dumb, but it was even more stupid that the localization team didn't catch it and corrected it. It became obvious that they merely translated the typo without doing any research to see if the naming is correct, as if they're saying: Our job is just to translate, not to make any changes, even if it's based on incorrect information that we could have corrected Adding easy and normal actually had the opposite effect. Not only is hard mode actually easy in the long run, but it also had hard mode exclusive dungeons. Thus, most players would never get to see the easy and normal dungeons if they seek the full experience that only hard can provide
My favourite psp game. Such a decent setting. Im desperate for at least a port to the psn. Seeing that the first star ocean is getting a port this year, im remaining hopeful. Interesting fact number two!
"It was going to be a Strategy RPG" I frigging knew it! Where's the remake where you also get to play the war on Asgard with the Strategy RPG elements?! Where?!!
Great video. About the decision of making the easy and normal modes against the criteria of the creator, I think it wasn't like that at the end. Yoshitara did it just to please Enix, because if you played the modes, you'll began to notice that actually the game is harder in easy and normal modes. Why? Because all de good items and weapons can be found in Hard mode, so eventually the Hard Mode ironically becames the EASY mode xD
That game got a lot of hate but I really enjoyed it. Magic wasn't nearly as OP as it was in Valkyrie Profile was one of the biggest game play gripes I heard from friends.
@@jaymeaaron ps2 broke before I can finish wild arms 5 ff12 and Valkyrie profile 2 ps2 broke. Cause I have a bad habit of putting games on hold once I'm nearing completion or halfway there.. I especially feel hard to finish games the dread of reaching the end while I'm having fun feels like despair don't want it to end. To this day haven't finished these games. I'm gonna try with ff12 on pc.
So if I were to buy a physical copy from Amazon, I would have to be extremely careful I don't get ripped off? Now I'm worried if it's worth buying it since I heard how great it is and never played it myself.
Game CD's being slightly scratched and become unplayable? sounds familiar! I picked up my copy from Toys R us on the first day and after playing it once, the game got scratched and didn't work since.
You forgot the easy mode in valkyrie profile is hardest mode than hard mode because in easy mode you get 'bad' character, 'bad' equipment, and 'bad' dungeon contains 'bad' items.
Is it sad that Valkyrie Profile has no actual sequel? Because Somalia and Anatomia: The Origins are prequels, and Convenant of the Plume is both a prequel and spin-off, since Lenneth, the main character from the first game became the main antagonist, for some reason.
nah, it should have only the Hard Mode as they dont inform the player at all that the other modes are missing MASSIVE amounts of content. I had to download saves just to experience the content I missed on Normal Mode.
Still waiting for Valkyrie Profile: Hrist.
They gave us VP for the iOS instead to monetize our nostalgia.
Producer is quit so not gonna happened.
From 2023
SE does release the new Valkyrie series, but its not Valkyrie Profile: Hrist😢
Valkyrie Profile is such an iconic and beloved game. So much so, our D&D group has been working through a campaign loosely based on Valkyrie Profile. The DM is Lenneth and the rest of us are her einherjar.
This soundtrack is one of the best I've ever heard. I can listen to The First Union all day long
The First Unison is IMO the best dungeon theme of all time.
I agree.The first union along Oblivion Joy are master pieces!
The composer made that in the dark... holy crap!
Their soundtrack is amazing. The PSP lets you select songs to just play from a playlist in the library. I did that for many hours.
I love this soundtrack... Even more than the game. It's so good.
#0: Maddie Blausteins brother, Jeremy Blaustein, translated the game from Japanese to English. He also directed the voice actors. Jeremy also translated Silent Hill 2 and 3, Dragon Warrior 7, Metal Gear Solid, Snatcher, Suikoden 2, and many more. He's the best in the business!
#-1: The game was designed by Masaki Norimoto.
#-2: Valkyrie Profile sold only 73,000 copies in NA.
#-3: Valkyrie Profile was tri-Ace's 3rd game, following Star Ocean and Star Ocean 2.
#-4: Both VP1 and VP2 had Japan exclusive collector's editions.
#-5: several of the VP1 voice actors came from the Pokemon anime.
#-6: VP1 is my favorite game of all time.
Valkyrie profile is also my favorite game of all time. You have great taste bro.
And apparently, a family member of mine had one of those 73k copies because that's how I experienced it. I've yet to play any of the following games or the remake. I didn't get very far, as in early chapter 1 or so. I don't know what became of their copy of the game. I just know I've played it and recall some of the themes, like the theme that often plays when someone dies or has their soul called, like Princess Jelanda and the overworld theme.
Lenneth is the best female character in videogames
Strong
Smart
And is not forced at all
She really is someone you can respect
So true. Personally, I've never really been a fan of female protagonist in video games, till I played Valkyrie Profile. Since then, Lenneth has been and always will be my favorite female character of all time.
For sure dude. And she isn’t sexualized at all, and she doesn’t don ridiculous skimpy “armor” that just barely covers the boobs with a g-string and heels, like all the freakin Japanese rpgs and animes do (especially back in during the time this game came out, that’s when it started becoming a mainstream thing to have half naked anime girls bouncing around). So kudos to the devs and creator for actually making a legitimate warrior woman who’s totally believable as a Valkyrie.
@@Eshkanama thoes things are not bad ,women whit skimpy clothes are always welcome but in case of lenneth hits diferent
The sound track of this game is timeless.. one of my favorite of all time..
One of my favorite games! I love the artwork.
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Hrist/Ahly is still waiting somewhere in Valhalla for her debut for its real sequel... Oh, and great work at doing research about this - I've just learned much, so thank you!
11:35 "All it's sequels are actually prequels."
**laughs in Zelda series**
It was their take on Norse mythology with a darker take it took a lot of time on Valkyrie Profile.
Norse Mythology is already dark by itself.
That's what made it....to me...a cult classic
Because Ragnarok is "doomsday" in Norse Mythology, of course there will be nothing after the apocalypse, that's why every single Valkyrie Profile game after VP 1 is a prequel.
Still waiting for Valkyrie Profile 3 : HRIST though.
The world was recreated by Lenneth and both VP2(at some point) and the special VP event in SOA happen after Ragnarok, so...
Thank you for the video. Motoi Sakuraba is a genius like Nobuo Uematsu and Yasunori Mitsuda along with Noriyuki Iwadare; they are all genius composers. Motoi Sakuraba also composed Tales Series and Star Ocean Series soundtracks as well. Just a note though, the ending outro song was very very loud.
I still can't belive this game shot up in price so much! I'm so glad i bought this game years ago for only $35 on ebay. I loved this game and been playing this during childhood and im so glad i got a copy and kept it! A beautiful and great game!💗
Lucky. I had to pay $120 for the game and guide, and that was 15 years ago! How there are still unwrapped games available on ebay is insane.
I just paid $290.00 today for a mint complete copy. Yes. Be very thankful. Both of you. Lol
Favourite game if the PS1 lifetime. Final Fantasy 7 was until I played this game. Series is great in general.
Edit: Lezard is one of my favourite all time villains also.
I'm very agree with u... this game is way better than ff7 and Lazar one of my favorite characters
@@fernandoolivera648 "In my hand the creator's sword that calls forth eternal sleep. Honor thy pact and hear my command--animate earth!"
It's kind of sad that the universe's biggest nerdy creeper is so powerful, but he is very good at it.
From what I understand, Freya is the one who watches over the Valkyries and the fallen soldiers in Norse Mythology. The age for the names doesn't make sense, but the roles seems fine.
A huge success yet STILL under appreciated! This game is mind blowing!
That game is awesome. Especially the music.
And i like the easter egg bosses like gabriel celeste or the etheral queen which also appear in the star ocean games.
I was very surprised to see them, because the first time i met them was in Star Ocean 4.
They're pretty much in all tri-ace games as bonus bosses. They're even in Radiata Stories.
Lenneth and Freya are bonus bosses in Star Ocean till the end of time.
@@jaymeaaron lol this is cool
@@jaymeaaron And I love 'Till the End of Time' and 'The Last Hope' and 'Radiata Stories'
@@vDorgengoa radiata stories is one of my favorites. even though many characters were useless, I liked that you could use any of them.
The pentagram that appears under Lezard when he teleports was also censored for the NA PS1 version.
Nice video Erick!! as soon as I saw the title video "valkyrie profile" .. press instantly to watch it!! one of my favorite JRPGs games.. still waiting to a new game from this series someday!! Love it!!
One of my top 10 games of all time. With one of the best soundtracks ever. To The Unhallowed Ground was my favorite track, it capture the majesty of resurrection and entering Vahalla. Great scene.
I remembered in my schooldays me and all of my friends are into FF's, LOD, LOL, TOD (PS1 Greats) I bought Valkyrie Profile just to try it for a change w/o tellling my friends. Back then when I was a kid I'm not into storylines and game plot so I got bored in the first hour of the game coz of the lenghty script BUT when I got to the scene where I have Freya in my party got her into throwing Ether Stike a whoopping 11K damage and She's only Lv2. I jumped on my bed and said SERIOUSLY? a bloodrush came to me and got hooked into VP eversince and the rest is history. I hope they continue this awesome franchise not in Mobile game.
Ah, yes. Lol, the game starts very slow. But once you get to the first dungeon, it improves
Valkyrie Profile is so awesome. It's an all time classic
One of my favorites on the ps1. If if it appeared on the psn store I would buy it in a second. Great game.
My favorite game of the PS and one of my best ever. Thanks for the additional info bru!! Keep up the good work.
I LOVE THIS GAME SO MUCH!
a direct sequel would be impossible IMO as the story itself was concluded in a way the myth it represents was concluded, it is well known that the Norse myth would end in Ragnarok and the game ended it the same way with a little bit of twist depending on the Ending the player is aiming for...
In the end of vp2 they said something about Lenneth being the only valkyrie left and kind of foreshadowed a new Lenneth game so that could possibly happen
I thought the same, but I wouldn't mind seeing another one.
@@crowquet56 I don't wanna spoil the true ending of VP so I won't say anything but there was never any foreshadowing about it, the only thing is that if you didn't get the true ending the game will tell you about it and as mentioned by the video, VP2 is a prequel so it could very well be pointing out into the story of the first game...
Sad thing is all of the Tri-Ace properties are trademarks of their respective publisher. They have absolutely little to no intellectual property whatsoever to call their own, and since "Valkyrie Profile" and, "Star Ocean" are owned trademarks of Square-Enix (and Exist-Archive is owned by Spike-Chunsoft), Tri-Ace has their hands tied. They can't independently develop new entries into these franchises without Square-Enix budgeting the financial resources and drawing up the contract ...
"do you think you could defeat me!" we like that voice acting
ahh i really love 2 game sequel of Valkyrie. Valkyrie Profile & Valkyrie Profile 2 : Silmeria. Good story, good mechanics, good character design, good music, good artwork.
This game and the 2nd installment were such a classic. Just wish that there's a 3rd game that focuses on Hrist. For now we only have the mobile lol
"A new valkyrie profile is unlikely"
*Sony announces Valkyrie Elysium*
Me: "I NEED MORE INFO"
Tri-Ace: We're not involved in the making unfortunately. *Action RPG* :\
i can never get tired of lezard's voicelines. i can never take him to seriously despite being a powerful psychotic wizard or alchemist. his jp va tho, really fits his personality.
"It shall be engraved upon your soul" One of my favorite games of all time
I love love love Valkyrie Profile!! My favorite video game ever!
I wish it was more popular but it seems like fans are few and far between ):
Thank you so much for making this video! It made my day!
At least that game was released in North America. Europe didn't get it back than at all.
Sakuraba created that awesome soundtrack without knowing for what story?! That guy is great.
I've never touched the original (for obvious reasons) but the PSP port and the two following titles. Did they really change every voice actor except Lenneth? I didn't knew that. I don't remember the PSP port's voice acting being that bad.
I always thought VP2 was a sequel because of that device inside Dipan castle. Isn't it the same as Lezard used in the first game? You should make that spoiler-heavy video explaining the connection between those two. It would be interesting to find out what I missed there (or have forgotten)
Come to me dark warriors
I never bored of that opening
I prefer the "To my side, my noble Einherjar!" more though.
@@rickzantua7 ❤️
Still need to try Valkyria Profile. I got the PSP port.
One day maybe we'll receive an announcement for "Valkyrie Profile Hrist" or something like it but for now I think the game still needs to be appreciated by many more people. I personally love the games in spite of their punishing difficulty but I can imagine that many might find the game hard to engage with at first. Even Covenant of the Plume technically requires multiple playthroughs to get the best out of it. One day, the weird soul will be purified and we'll get a sequel where Hrist gets her time to shine.
Not really a huge fan of turn based RPG's but wow I freaking love this game. The combat system is real time and really frame dependent. My favorite soundtrack is "In water, air and light".
The creation gem/jewel obscurity is always one of the first things I think of when the title is mentioned. Such a bizarre mechanic (amongst many other unexplained systems in the game)...but damn this game is absolutely amazing. I enjoy filling in the blanks in narrative with stories of my imagination, as many of the sequences end abruptly and/or are mistranslated, unfortunately. Such a cool series
I don't remember the game explaining the battle system at all lol, maybe the fairy in the catacombs does, but I can't say I read all of that
It is a shame that Mystina's ancestor didn't appear in Silmeria.
I was wondering where Lawfer and Lewellyn's ancestors were too.
@@adyenlichtwachter6684 Yeah, they appeared on "that" custcene, they were probably on Hrist's army and that's it
Nice! Valkyrie Profile is my favorite JRPG of all time. Great video!
We need VP3 or remake first two games...im waiting..years...
exist archive is not enough :)
I wants my Hrist darn it😭
@@MarxasThomas I was coming here just to say that. Two out of three Valkyries have game...... AND A HUMAN..... but no Hrist...
They even joke about this in Covenant of the Plume, I think.
@@MarxasThomas Hrist best valkyrie. Give her her own game already damnit.
@@vDorgengoa Yes they do, in the post-game dungeon IIRC. It's sad 'cause Hrist is so cool. For the first run of the post-game dungeon in Silmeria, I mained Hrist just because her halberd style is awesome and she still has Nibelung Valesti. (I did eventually give in and just spam a single generic heavy warrior using the same ridiculous move over and over with the right equipment and sealing stones to bullshit-slaughter everything, at least until I min-maxed Freya on hamsters.
@@Nyonics Yeah, I loved Hrist too.... and *that human one* lol. I loved getting access to them in the Seraphic Gate. Freya was a beast with or without the seeds lol. I had both her and Rufus solo Dirna Hamilton just to see if I could (and because I was competing with my uncle).
One thing that I would have changed though is that the Nibelung Valesti move would look different for the different characters.
Silmeria = Bow Specific
Lenneth and Alicia = Sword Based
Hrist = Spear based (which would be more awesome because of the actual spears in the move itself)
*the special one* = who used every weapon (it would've been awesome!!)
Amazing game, love the serie
Fantastic game and my favorite JRPG, great video !
Speaking of the price, I've seen it go from $130-$3,000. I've even seen people selling one disk for $60 on the low end. I had a copy on 2 separate occasions, but one got scratched to be unplayable and the other was in a CD case that was stolen
Manuel Ortiz where did you see it go for $3,000 haha. Was it a sealed graded one?
@@Hereticbliss322 on ebay
This game is and will be one of my most beloved of all the times 😘
Really dont know how I managed to miss out on Valkerie Profile back in the day but I'd really like to play it. The price though, such a put off. It doesnt help that I'm borderline OCD about games being CIB.
The psp version isn't too expensive
So many PS1 era JRPGs (and games in general tbh) will never be experienced by a new generation of gamers because publishers refuse to re-release them in an accessible way. Emulation is becoming less trustworthy since Nintendo and other companies declared war on the practice, meanwhile, games like Valkyrie Profile continue to skyrocket in price, making them nearly impossible to play unless you spend an entire paycheck or two. Once the PS3 stops supporting their digital store, even more JRPG classics like Suikoden II, Vagrant Story, and Xenogears will be lost as well. It’s genuinely sad.
@@KendylTV Just spent 290 bucks on a mint copy of Valkyrie Profile. I feel your pain.
anyone remember "crimeinpartner" playing guide walkthrough i watch his video for valkyrie profile
That was a let's play that was very formative in my love of video games
Oh VP, all the memories and nostalgia
I think there are some art books on eBay but they're in Japanese
@@retrogamernes3121 Figures, I meant artbooks like the Anatomia one on playasia to say, guess it's a matter of time anyway, sooner or later something will come up, hope not Anatomia related though.
Still the best game for me until today
Who will agree with me Lezard is the coolest mage in the game???
Anyone?
Nope, for me, it is Mystina.
Nah he's an edgy niceguy twat
Gandar is the coolest and Shiho is waifu. 🤣
Mysti all the way.
Angela
Time to beat this game again😁
9:55 nice speech, except for the fact that easy and normal are actually harder than hard mode. sure you don't need to grind levels but without all the divine weapons, items, extra dungeons, odin rewards, and custom skill sets its actually harder to play on the lower difficulties while getting less story. I would just recommend everyone to play on hard mode with a guide as its the best way to play the game, you also get to finish the post game.
Exactly. Easy is the true challenge.
Someday i will finish vp in easy so i will be able to say "i finished valkyrie profile in easy how about that".
windwaker0rules you are confusing opinion with fact.
What I would call hard in Hard mode is that the dungeons are very annoying. And also it doesn't even have that Black Dream Tower with that cool music theme. That is why I prefer Normal mode.
The only things that I hate to miss from hard mode are the battles vs Genieve and Akethamen. Aside of that, I like Normal mode more.
About Lyseria, I prefer Mystina over her for completely, so for me it is not a great loss.
@@Hereticbliss322 ok you want facts then: in valkyrie profile equipment and abilities are the deciding factor on how strong your character is with items that give giant stat boosts that make up about 50 -80% of your attack power, the ability to null specific attacks, instantly heal and revive when attacked, and granting all characters their best attack patterns all of which are not available in easy mode which instead gives you slightly weaker enemies while you are at like 20% power.
windwaker0rules oh yeah I know how the game works. I guess my comment confused you. When you say something like “except for the fact” and then follow up with a subjective opinion, it gives the impression that you don’t know the difference between fact and opinion. I hope that is more clear.
Man, I love this game. Great work.
You didn't mention that there was a novel based off the game, although I don't blame you for not knowing since the book only released in Japan. Still, cool video, Valkyrie Profile is a game that flew under my radar but now I want to play it.
Moraknight oh I’m sure he knows, it’s just not really that relevant to a subscriber base of English speakers lol
I had no idea about the game discs being fragile driving the price up! I'm gonna check my copy right now. It should be fine, as I try to keep my gaming collection in perfect shape, but it's been a very long time since I last played it.
Covenant Of The Plume being before Valkyrie Profile 2 doesn't make any sense to me.
If Covenant Of The Plume took place before Valkyrie Profile 2, the einherjar in Valkyrie Profile 2 would have been there, Dipan would have intervened and Artolia wouldn't be a massive nation. There is lore in Valkyrie Profile 2 that shows what happened prior to Covenant Of The Plume and it had nothing to do with the events of Covenant Of The Plume. It was all about the founding of Villnore and the war of Camille Hill, none of which had anything to do with Artolia.
In fact it's because of Covenant Of The Plume that Artolia is in the state it is in during the first Valkyrie Profile.
Either the writers of Covenant Of The Plume messed up or the sources messed up.
Wouldn't be the first time since Anatomia did the same thing, the whole 3 valkyries being the same person was changed to Lenneth being the only Valkyrie.
Yeah but it takes place many years before Covenant Of The Plume.
Well no shit... I'm referring to the time period it takes place
Love this game!... Completed it again a couple weeks ago... ❣️
Thank you. I requested a Valkyrie Profile video a while back
bro love Valkyrie Profile great video
My favorite tactics reviewer, I look for your wisdom on valkerie
The same thing with Valkyrie Profile 2 would be nice
Thanks for this game, I stated to study more about norse mythology.
this and Tales of Vesperia makes me look into archaic words
My friend that's my favorite saga an the first game is my all time favorite.
I have hope that after anatomia square give another chance to VP, a new game is needed.
Um abraço do Brasil meu amigo dos rpgs :)
Thanks Erick, very good work (as always) around what is my RPG of choice and heart
It shall be engraved upon your soul. Divine Assault! Nibelung Valesti!
Never played the PS1 version. Got hooked on the PSP remake and also its follow-up on the PS2. Probably should give Covenant of the Plume a try these days.
I remember finishing this game once....
no, maybe i think i finished it two times....
Or was it three?
or maybe...
Yeah, I finished VP more times that i can count, it is my all time favorite RPG, second to none
played silmeria a couple of times top (yeah, enough to make the initial enemy hard to kill XD), but nowhere near enough as the original VP.
one interesting fact that you might have mentioned when you mentioned the dificulties is that optional end game dungeons are far harder in the easy mode, thanks to scarce resources...
How did you find out about all this stuff? is there a valkyrie profile interviews and trivia collection on the internet?
I liked this game so much I even picked up the psp version of the game.
There's quite a bit of censorship in the English version, like in the tutorial when the agent went to the bar to hire Badrach, she gets him a glass of beer in the Japanese version. Lezard's teleportation symbol was changed from a pentagram into a circle, obviously to avoid any satanic reference
Frei and Freya's name reversal was kind of dumb, but it was even more stupid that the localization team didn't catch it and corrected it. It became obvious that they merely translated the typo without doing any research to see if the naming is correct, as if they're saying: Our job is just to translate, not to make any changes, even if it's based on incorrect information that we could have corrected
Adding easy and normal actually had the opposite effect. Not only is hard mode actually easy in the long run, but it also had hard mode exclusive dungeons. Thus, most players would never get to see the easy and normal dungeons if they seek the full experience that only hard can provide
My favourite psp game. Such a decent setting. Im desperate for at least a port to the psn. Seeing that the first star ocean is getting a port this year, im remaining hopeful.
Interesting fact number two!
Used to have the game for ps1 but one of my brothers never put it back in the case when taking it out and I found it cracked almost in half.
"It was going to be a Strategy RPG" I frigging knew it!
Where's the remake where you also get to play the war on Asgard with the Strategy RPG elements?! Where?!!
thanks for the education and interesting facts about Valkyrie Profile Professor Landon! Thanks again :D
Please come out with more Valkyrie Profile games! I bet they would look/sound AWESOME on the new PlayStation 5 system! : D
damn someone made a video of this in 2019 surprised.. surprised
undoubtedly the best and most unique battle system ever. nothing has even come close to replicating it.
A very good game, soundtrack is superb.
Great video. About the decision of making the easy and normal modes against the criteria of the creator, I think it wasn't like that at the end. Yoshitara did it just to please Enix, because if you played the modes, you'll began to notice that actually the game is harder in easy and normal modes.
Why?
Because all de good items and weapons can be found in Hard mode, so eventually the Hard Mode ironically becames the EASY mode xD
I mean, if the game is on easy, you might not need the items
@@Fermin-hw5pd Actually no. Ironically, the game is a bit harder selecting easy as the lack of items. The game gets more easier with the items
great Series!
i had a crush on the gril from valkyrie profile in ps2... alicia i think
That game got a lot of hate but I really enjoyed it. Magic wasn't nearly as OP as it was in Valkyrie Profile was one of the biggest game play gripes I heard from friends.
@@jaymeaaron ps2 broke before I can finish wild arms 5 ff12 and Valkyrie profile 2 ps2 broke. Cause I have a bad habit of putting games on hold once I'm nearing completion or halfway there.. I especially feel hard to finish games the dread of reaching the end while I'm having fun feels like despair don't want it to end. To this day haven't finished these games. I'm gonna try with ff12 on pc.
The first rpg i finished with the best (and longest) ending!
I am glad to have the first game as part of my childhood.
So if I were to buy a physical copy from Amazon, I would have to be extremely careful I don't get ripped off? Now I'm worried if it's worth buying it since I heard how great it is and never played it myself.
Few games that makes me fall in love with jrpg genre
Valkyrie Profile 3: Hrist when????
2022 as a mobile game....... okay I was joking....am I ?
@@kallas9318 With SE's current streak..... no.... no you are not.
Wish they would make a remaster on ps4 so I could get trophies for this game
It will be available to on the PSN store alongside Valkyrie Elysium, September/2022. (PSP Port)
Game CD's being slightly scratched and become unplayable? sounds familiar! I picked up my copy from Toys R us on the first day and after playing it once, the game got scratched and didn't work since.
You forgot the easy mode in valkyrie profile is hardest mode than hard mode because in easy mode you get 'bad' character, 'bad' equipment, and 'bad' dungeon contains 'bad' items.
Is it sad that Valkyrie Profile has no actual sequel? Because Somalia and Anatomia: The Origins are prequels, and Convenant of the Plume is both a prequel and spin-off, since Lenneth, the main character from the first game became the main antagonist, for some reason.
How many versions of the original game and which is the best one to start the series with?
Only because you did a video on my fave JRPG
Still my favorite RPG of all time. Sakuraba should've blind composed the OST for VP2, though.
nah, it should have only the Hard Mode as they dont inform the player at all that the other modes are missing MASSIVE amounts of content. I had to download saves just to experience the content I missed on Normal Mode.
Been going through this game on my channel, what are the odds XD
Just an FYI transgender isn’t a sexual preference, it’s just a description of someone not being the gender assigned at birth. It is it’s own thing.
Does anyone know how are the character sprites made? If they were pre rendered images with manual post procesing of pixel added by hand?