This sequence coincides with a more upbeat but determined melody, and the lyrics proclaiming the idea of continuing to have hope even when things are at their bleakest, with Reila singing the final three words of this middle section being particularly powerful given her attitude towards Kurt and his role of drawing her out of her depression. The other members of the squad are likewise disaffected or fatalistic, and it is only the arrival of Kurt that changes things ( seriously, look at that manly motherfucker striding towards the camera at 0:38, that light behind him is the poorly-suppressed desire of all the girls of the world) with the change in tonality being reinforced by the visual of the sun breaking through the clouds and the squad charging into combat, fighting for their lives both literally and metaphorically.
Reila is an empty shell of a person bullied for her appearance as a child then shunned as an adult due to her reputation, coming to believe in the curse attributed to her, whilst Imca effectively has no personality other than a desire to avenge her lost. The beginning of the intro sets up the bleak feeling of the game brilliantly the discordancy of the tones, the harshness of the winter landscapes and visuals of wounded soldiers.
Whilst some truly deserve such a sentence, many of the other members are simply people who crossed the wrong superior, were in the wrong place at the wrong time or otherwise were deemed too troublesome to deal with and thus got thrown in the expendable dumping ground for problems that need to simply Go Away, with the three main individuals featuring in both the game and the OP being Reila, a Valkyria-descendant who gained the reputation as a jinx after being the only survivor of several squads otherwise wiped out to a man even as she appeared uninjured, Imca, a Darcsen seeking revenge on the Valkyria who burned her village and murdered her family, and Kurt, a straight-laced military prodigy who became accused of treason after unknowingly coming too close to the machinations of a treacherous superior, and whose personality makes him difficult to like (I’m fairly certain he has Aspergers actually, but that’s for another article) and with an attitude that initially distances him from the other members of the squad who are fully aware they’re in the Nameless to die. Whilst the first followed regular people (for a given value of “regular”) as they went to war, fell in love and changed the world, and the second follows cadets putting down a religious uprising with genocidal ambitions and getting back in time to finish their homework, the third gives us the members of Squad 422 (likely after the 442nd Regimental Combat Team), termed The Nameless: criminals in action or accusation who have each had their existence stricken from records for plausible deniability and are sent on suicidal or morally questionable missions that cannot be officially sanctioned.
Valkyria chronicles 3 english emulation Patch#
VC3 is the latest, and arguably the best, game of the franchise so far and takes a much different tone than the previous two (Note: Whilst it has never been released overseas, a fan-made translation patch is available here, and once I finally finish playing it I intend to review what has so far been an incredibly worthwhile experience).
Valkyria chronicles 3 english emulation movie#
The above video is the English-subtitled version of the opening movie to Valkyria Chronicles 3, a hybrid real-time squad-based tactical war game. Song: Moshimo Kimi Ga Negau No Nara | Artist: May’n | Game: Valkyria Chronicles 3
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