Japan to get more Valkyria Chronicles DLC
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When a much hyped game doesn’t receive the initial sales its publisher anticipated, there’s always the fear that it will quickly be forgotten about; relegated to the ranks of “We tried something different, it didn’t do too well, we’re moving on.”
Not so with Sega who, recognising that lush RPG Valkryia Chronicles is a quality product with a fervent fan base, are continuing to produce new and exciting DLC. With a number of packs already available, we now have news that another download is on the way.
Now that the game seems to have finally found its stride sales wise, we can only hope the game and its comprehensive DLC will be enjoyed by more and more converts to what is a deeply tactical and graphically adventurous title.
Currently only confirmed for Japan, IGN has picked up on Japanese magazine Famitsu’s report that more Valkyria Chronicles DLCÂ is about to hit. Scheduled for release on June 26th in Nihon, the pack consists of six new stages entitled Eddy Butai no Chousenjo – literally translated as “Edy’s” (slighty different name in the Western version) “unit/brigade” “written challenge” or “Edy’s Squad Challenge”, if you allow for some poetic licence.
With the reduced price of ¥300 (€2.25/$1.89/$3.11), if and when this new content sees a Western release, we can only hope we also get such a great discount for some new content of a truly amazing game.
Still no trophies though – but we’re hearing that a lot lately.
lol – I wish they’d stop teasing us and either stop development on it, or release trophies, one or the other! I don’t need trophies – am playing Folklore now, for instance, as I’m very confident it’ll never get them (and recommend it to folk as well, it’s a great game, at least for the first couple of hours – will report on the rest once I’ve played it
) – but I like to have them as a memento of the game (like looking back at my 27% on Wipeout and remembering the 99 lap run when I didn’t get within 3 seconds of that fiend Zico!), so would be disappointed if I played VC (which I already own) and then found out they’d patched trophies in.
Either way, though, great to see more content for the game – I look forward to playing it:
a) post-trophy patch; or
b) when they’ve clearly stopped producing stuff for it and trophies’ll never happen (fortunately, it’s not as if there aren’t other good games to play in-between, I’m sure there’s another building on Mars that needs blowing up….)
Folklore is a good game. Well at least the portion I played was. I kept falling asleep on one level and I never finished the game. (That happens way too often! A combination of late night gaming and getting up early for work
) I’ve been meaning to go back and finish it off.
A Trophy Patch to VC may get me to finally pick it up. Well much sooner than later anyway.