Customer Reviews

Valhalla Knights 2

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

I am something of an RPG freak, and as far as Valhalla Knights 2 goes, I was definitely satisfied. There are elements from the first Valhalla knights that are improved upon, such as extended character customization, which really helped make this game a win for me.

PROS
- The story was interesting and I was intrigued from the beginning. Though this is a dungeon crawler and there is lots of grinding involved, there is a coherent story also.
- The graphics are great for a PSP game. Everything looked crisp and clear on my screen.
-The battle system and subsequent battles are fast paced and exciting, but there is also an element of strategy involved. For you to be successful in battle, you can set up your character's formation, equip them with various different equipment. This is done before the battles actually start however. The game gives you ample time to prepare and countless enemies to gain experience from.
-The amount of customization is fantastic. There are hundreds of different weapons and armor types, the more powerful ones discovered as you become more powerful. You can also customize your class. You choose one class to start with (Fighter, Mage, Priest, Thief, or Monk) but you are not limited to this one class. In fact, you level up faster if you choose more than one class. For instance, you can choose to start as a Fighter and then when you reach level 10, choose to be a Monk and you'll start over at level 1 BUT still have the level 10 hit points and stats. Lastly, VH2 gives you the option to customize your characters appearance and race. For each different race, there are a selection of hairstyles and face types to choose from.
-The game is definitely not too easy. Items have to be analyzed before you can equip them or sell them, and the enemies become more difficult as you gain more experience.
CONS
-The only place you can save is at the hub town. This is easily remedied by pausing the game and then turning your PSP in sleep mode.
-There are no warp gates back to the hub town, which means to reach an area, you have to pass through the areas before it. However, once you fulfill your given quest, you can use the item ESCAPE CARD which takes you all the way back to the hub town's save point immediately. The escape card is available at the hub town's armory.

Overall this game is a great choice for those who enjoyed the first Valhalla Knights and love a good dungeon crawler.

I bought this game the other day and am slightly disappointed. I love the customization very much as you can change out your armor and weapons for each character you have in your party...up to 6 party members total. You can also change your jobs and spells, etc... I love the kinds of monsters you get to fight...venom bees, moths, mischiefs, mantis, hares, etc... The graphics are extremely lacking though. It is also taking soooo long to level up my characters. I am an old school rpg guy having grown up with them, but geewhiz I don't remember it taking this long to level up. Maybe it's just been so long I can't remember. =) Hopefully, the game will pick up pace. I have a number of hours invested in the game so far with my highest characters at level 11. If you don't mind taking awhile to level up before you can advance and don't mind subpar graphics, but want really good customization, then pick up this game cheap somewhere. Oh, another cool thing about this game is the types of characters and job classes you can choose from. Between that and all the customizing you can do is why I bought the game.

Valhalla Knights 2 is much the same as the First game, you complete quests, gain levels, etc.
The GOOD: The Graphics are excellent. Easily the best point in the game. LOTS of areas to explore. Story is good, sound is good, and the Colliseum is a nice touch for quick leveling. And a Massive amount of quests to complete.
The BAD : Your going to do a lot of walking. There are no waypoint, or partals in the game. You'll have to trudge through several areas just to get where your going. With so many quests to do, sometimes its hard to figure out which to move the story along.

Aside form the constant time consuming walking, I'd Highly recommend this.

The three reviews written before mine basically touched all the points I wanted to express. However, here are a few I wanted to elaborate on:

*Walking through the entire map for every quest was down-played on the 4 & 5 star ratings. This is so redundant it made me put the game away. Escape cards are great to get you back to 'Town', but that's only half your battle. The further along in the game you get, you get so aggravated trying to get to point Z from Point A.

*There is absolutely no explaination on how to do anything in this game. While I don't want someone to hold my hand the entire game, getting the basics down is explained at a quantum physics level. You pretty much figure things out after hours of frustration.

*Character customization is an experience of its own. There are an abundant amounts of different items to use, but there really is no major difference from one to the other. Also, you never know which race can wear which item, so you either have to cycle through each item or attempt to memorize each race's compatibility (not happening).

*Although the game is co-op, there are only a handful of missions your partner and you can do together.

Even with these, the game is not entirely boring, hence the 2 star rating.

the game looked enticing in the store so i bought it. when i got home after 7 hours of playing the game i was unable to advance past the 3rd locked door without using CWCheat on my H@xx0red PSP. This game is so poorly designed that even cheats wont help. the story line is so bad that you are not told what you have to do and where to go. i belive i eventualy advanced to areas way beyond where i was suppose to during my last hour. Even with the infinite HP on the main character turned on i died. i will not be going back to this game. Disgaea is far more fun.

The PSP has been plagued with bad RPGs and Valhalla Knights is no exception. In fact, it probably takes the cake as the worst of them all. Almost every aspect of this game is bad. I could write a 20 page paper elaborating on every bad point but I'll keep it to bulletpoints.

* Little to no story and what is there is mind-numbingly boring.
* Constant backtracking. There is only one path through the entire game and everytime you go out and come back you have to go through every point in that path. There are Escape cards that can bring you back to town but they are expensive and you get so little money from anything in this game. To make matters worse, I have yet to find a revive spell (20 hrs in) so everytime one of your party members die you have to run all the way back to the town to revive them then run all the way back to where you were.
* Every item you find needs to be analysed, even if you have already found and analysed it before. This is punishing at the beginning of the game when it costs 100g to get something analysed that you can sell for 110g. Oh, and if you do not analyse it you can only sell it for 10g.
* Battles are over in about 5-7 seconds. Part of the fun of RPGs is setting up strategies for battles. Unfortunately, you cannot even navigate a menu before the battle ends. This makes Magic users useless and fighters are relegated to hack and slash.
* I have yet to find a weapon in this game that is stronger than any other weapon. The only differences I have seen is in their status effects.
* There is NO explainations on anything in this game. You wind up guessing or accidentially running into something that may help your character.
* Graphics are bad. Probably some of the ugliest character models I have ever seen.
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I could go on and on. Do yourself a favor and avoid this game. It is boring beyond believe. Thank God I kept the shrink wrap intact because this game is going back.

If you want another opinion go to RPGamer. I agree with everything they said.