Valkyria Chronicles 2 in development for PSP

I hope you're joking

Not joking at all. What if Uncharted 2 came out on the PSP? Not some side story like Uncharted: The Legend of Nathan Drake, but Uncharted 2. I bet a lot of people would be pissed. This sucks.

I see where you're coming from, and I get why you're angry, but just because it isn't on the PS3 doesn't mean its not a real sequel.

Oh come on! The PSP is easily able to handle a Valkyria Chronicles sequel. Outside of perhaps the nice of cel-shading, it really shouldn't be an issue. The game was hardly pushing the PS3. A lot of the story was told via portraits.

I just hope that Sega don't make some of the missions so obtuse this time. The rescue the princess one was mental. The game offers the WORST ADVICE EVER and you end up failing over and over. I read a FAQ and you can finish it in two turns with one character. Lame.

Yeah, you're right about that, I just think it's lame since I freakin' love Valkyria Chronicles but I don't want to buy a PSP just to play the sequel. Can't I just download this from the PSN store and play it on my PS3? Hell, I bet they could do that with all PSP games. I'd certainly buy some.

@ Liam
not pushing the PS3 limits? VC is one of the most beautiful games on the PS3. just cuss its not fully 3D and life-like doesn't mean its 2nd rate. and i think you also may have ADD or something if you cant stand doing the same missions over and over again. this is, of coarse, a strategy game.

"The rescue the princess one was mental."

are you high? i beat that mission with an A rank on my first try. you must suck at strategy games...

Since beating Jeanne D'Arc I've been salivating for another PSP SRPG and this will fit the bill perfectly. I've played some fun RPGs (Crimson Gem Saga) & Action RPGs (Monster Hunter Freedom Unite) but haven't come across anything like Jeanne D'Arc yet. Knights Of The Nightmare (DS) is a great SRPG but it's a different style of play and is more frantic and arcade like.

This is one of those surprises I'm happy about ... this game is probably equally suited for the PS3 as the PSP.

Did they ever do a trophy patch for Valkyria Chronicles?

The one where you had to scale the building and take out the unbeatable Valkyrie chick was mental. Only after reading a FAQ did I realize that she's completely blind deaf and dumb if you hit her with a smoke bomb. The final battle also sent me to a FAQ (which I only do when I'm insanely aggravated and fed up, which is very rare) to find out how to take the guy down even though he keeps regenerating health. Turns out that if two characters are close enough to each other, they will both shoot an enemy and do basically double(ish) the damage. If only the game had told me this at some point, it would probably have been even easier than it was (which was pretty easy, and no, I never RTFM).

I hope they can make the gameplay work on a hand held. I'd rather have had the sequel on the PS3, but at least a sequel is being made.

@johnnynumber5

You can't go wrong with Wild Arms XF, is quite similar to Jean D'Arc in many ways. And Warhammer Squad Command is also good, albeit a bit on the short side.

@bananaboat

They definitely tell you that you can do that in like, the third mission. The one with the woods where the tank appears at the end.

But it definitely is true that the usefulness of that tactic on HP giants is understated to say the least.

@Michelobius -

Good point. There isn't a non-tank enemy before the final battle with enough HP to warrant combining multiple units, so it's not as if the tactic of combining attacks was fresh in my mind. I didn't finish the game in a short amount of time, and it's likely that I saw the cut scene where it told you that you can combine attacks, but forgot about it during the months between when I started the game and when I finished it (which is my fault). That the cut scenes were so hackneyed didn't help though (It's likely that I either skipped or drowned out the cut scene where that tactic is introduced)

That is hardly my only gripe with the game to say the least. My biggest gripe is actually the low difficulty (except for the couple of times where it really ramps up) which seems to stem from poor AI, and from the computer not fully taking advantage of a turn (the computer often quit a turn with plenty of command points left, for no apparent reason, and often when my tank was one shot from defeat). Having said that, I loved the game, and it is in my top 5 PS3 titles at this point.

I hope that the series eventually makes its way back onto the PS3. With a little better AI, and maybe a little bit better of a story, it could easily be one of the better games original franchises of this generation. At the very least, I won't be satisfied until there is a Valkyria title with an online multiplayer mode, or maybe co-op missions.

better franchises*

I'm loving VC too (not sure how far I am, just took fourzen) but the AI is my biggest complaint as well. it makes stupid/wasteful moves, wastes CP points, etc. if they had made the "hard mode" DLC hard by improving the AI, that would be something. I have no desire to play the game without the edelweiss, even though much of the time I don't use it.

as for the sequel coming to PSP, I'm sure the game can work quite well and look very nice on the PSP. but i too am sad, as I would love to play the sequel, but have no intention of buying a psp. i think it would be awesome if all psp games could be played on the ps3, though im sure they'd be afraid of cannibalizing psp sales that way.

Captain__Planet
"not pushing the PS3 limits? VC is one of the most beautiful games on the PS3. just cuss its not fully 3D and life-like doesn't mean its 2nd rate."

Those statements are not mutually exclusive. It's true that it's a beautiful game, and that it's first-rate, but that doesn't mean it's pushing the PS3's limits.

The PSP could most likely handle that graphic style. Keep in mind that there will be fewer pixels to push on the smaller screen, so less power will be required.

High def will be missed, but look at what you gain from this...you no longer have to be tethered to a TV to play. You can play it anywhere. Disgaea on PSP is one of the greatest things ever, for example... and I'll be buying this too even though I haven't had the time to play my copy of the first one yet.

@Liam:
The Rescue-the-Princess mission wasn't hard at all. You're supposed to block the most direct paths for the (enemy) car with the tank and use shocktroopers to nail the car's radiator in the back. I say shocktroopers with the _s_ at the end exactly because you need a group of them to do the friendship attack.

It's a really straightforward mission that is hard to fail.

Is that some sort of a poem ... lol. Marius FTW (still haven't forgot that banning you got for coining the term "gayble") ...

Or you could NOT get a Go. :P

get psp slim from dell for 130 bucks.

Yeah seriously, get an older PSP and a big memory stick. I still have my fat PSP, and unless that PSP GO offers me a bag of money, or FF7 remastered, I won't get it. :P

oh yes I remember that ban

This.

I was recently thinking "well I've already owned one once and got rid of it, should I really get one again?"

Here's my answer -_-

It's still a kick in the balls to us fans, though. VC was originally a bomb, but strong fan support and evangelizing got the game decent numbers ... and so Sega rewards us by putting the sequel on a different platform?

Oh well, between this and MGS: PW, I guess I'm gonna *have* to buy a PSP now, even if I do loathe the analog stick with a passion.

Get a PSPgo, then. The analog stick is supposed to feel a lot better on it.

The high price is kind of off-putting, especially given that it's basically a gimped PSP phat.

Hey, on the PSP they can get far better sales in Japan, similar sales outside Japan, and drive costs way down all the while.

Yeah, there are pretty good reasons to put it on the PSP. I don't think another PS3 VC is worth the risk right now.

Actually I think Sega decided to cut some budget costs for the game (considering the not-so-stellar sales of the original) and later decided to move it on to the PSP altogether.

It is a smart business move on their part, but it is definitely understandable that fans would be more than a little upset.

if Sega is doing what it has hinted within VC1, it will be a prequel, and i think the anime is during EW2

looking at the giant 1937, i think it'll be a prequel.

GLORIOUS NIPPON!

no. more sales? wii or ds.
or multiplat. but this case, psp is good enough

Yeah because those 360 exclusive RPGs have sure sold well ... riiiiiight.

JRPGs have become niche this generation and JSRPGs are the most niche of all the JRPGs on the market. Not to mention the game didn't have much marketing support in North America.

It seems like all the super hardcore SEGA games this gen flop regardless of platform.

Well there is one good thing about it being on PSP. Makes it easier to port to the PS2, and that did well for sales of quite a few other games.

Hopefuly that happens, so I can actualy play the sequel to one of my favorite games of this generation.