Valkyrie Profile delay softened by new footage

by Chris Greenhough { Sep 1st 2008 at 8:00PM }

Square Enix has delayed the Japanese launch of Valkyrie Profile: The Accused One by four weeks, citing a need to improve the game (in ... four weeks?!); the title has now been shifted to October 30th.

While we immediately began to fret over the implications of this development, Square Enix skilfully took advantage of our famously short attention spans and chucked a new video our way, one that left us gurgling with pleasure at some of the ridiculously over-the-top attacks that will be available. Honestly, give us some bright colors and fast-moving images, and you've got our undivided attention.

Source: Nooo! Delay!
Source: Yaaay! Video!

Tags: delay, rpg, square-enix, the-accused-one, tri-ace, valkyrie-profile

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Very Metal @ Sep 1st 2008 8:23PM

Text looks like Riviera on the GBA...

N and C @ Sep 2nd 2008 9:21AM

Hahahaha, true. It's encouraging picking on the little guy :D

Jason8 @ Sep 1st 2008 9:36PM

That poor bastard in the middle never had much of a chance, did he.

kahblammo @ Sep 2nd 2008 1:57AM

I wasn't sure what was going on but it looked cool nonetheless.

TJF588 @ Sep 2nd 2008 1:22AM

"Gravity", "Bye-bye", and... some word that I thought I caught before, now have forgotten, and might've just been misheard (y'know, like those Misheard Lyrics videos on teh YouTubes); prolly more Engrish that I wasn't paying attention to. Coupled with that screen jam-packed with English before the battle, and... I could definitely see this getting to American (and European, I guess) shores without too much incident.

ballistic3188 @ Sep 2nd 2008 1:37AM

not be that graphics guy. but i don't know maybe it was my time with ps1 valkyrie profile. but wow the graphics on that are bad. i would have though they would have at least upped the sprite animations or something those are so tiny and the animation is terrible. Seriously compare this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Vpbattle.JPG

to what was shown... I was my understanding that the DS was roughly the N64 in power and if the ps1 can run that kinda power this why can't the DS?

PS. hope this isn't a double post the damn comment system is messed up

CJLopez @ Sep 2nd 2008 1:50PM

Its not the system fault, mostly is because of what the designer decide to do.

I'm pretty sure designers didn't want to meddle much with scrolling, hence the little sprites on the screen so they could fit everything on 1 screen

But still, doesn't look that good to me

Kefka @ Sep 2nd 2008 11:38AM

Shmeh, I'm not too impressed... The sprites, animations and backgrounds were all butt ugly. Special mention to the way too animated idling animations. It's like they're all trying to dance without moving their feet.

But apart from that, the gameplay looks like it largely runs itself while you occasionally poke it in the right direction - I can see it appealing to the Japanese market, but personally - meh.

Red @ Sep 2nd 2008 3:29PM

I haven't played the second game in the series, but I have the first. Assuming they haven't significantly changed things, it's more active than it seems: the first Valkyrie Profile game involved juggling attacks (each character being represented by a button, you get X number of attacks per character, nonsense like that), chaining combos, and charging up the meter to do what you saw above. For what it's worth, there's a large degree of interaction involved. (Once again, this is assuming the formula hasn't been significantly overhauled.)

....

That being said and done, I fully agree with you on the sprites, animations, and backgrounds. Yeesh. The trailer, and most likely the game itself, has totally been flogged by the ugly stick.