Players control a group of young Gallian nationals who decide to pick up guns (for the first time, it seems) and try to repel the invasion. ![]() It seems that Gallia is home to rather large reserves of the all-important Ragnite ore, which has great potential to be used not only for warfare, but for positive applications as well. Gallia has the bad luck to be caught in the gears of a massive land-war between two neighboring super-powers-the East European Imperial Alliance, and the Atlantic Federation. The game tells the tale of Gallia, a tiny republic in what appears to be an alternate-history (albeit very recognizable) Europe, circa 1930-countryside, architecture, family names, tech levels and all (only the faces, hair and general snappy, mod-military fashion sense appear overtly Japanese). It’s even got that wonderful familiar-yet-askew, timeless look that so many Studio Ghibli films have-at any given moment, you’re never quite sure if the next thing over the nearest rise is going to be some kind of funky steam-punked vision of a pre-WWII-era Nazi tank, or a horse-drawn cart from a not-so-long-past rural age…and neither one would surprise you all that much. ![]() While the art style for environments and characters is textbook Anime, the engine gives the apparent ‘technique’ of inked, hand-drawn lines filled with soft hues redolent of colored pencils or watercolors the maps of the various battlegrounds-indeed, the entire progression of the story-is told through these same kinds of storybook images, with colors fading off at the edges of the ‘page.’Īs good as any given still screen-shot of this game that you might see looks, trust me, it all looks better in motion-so much so that you wouldn’t get many funny looks if you compared its visual quality to that of any Studio Ghibli production. The first thing you’ll notice about Valkyria Chronicles is the unusual visual presentation, courtesy of the proprietary “CANVAS” engine. Valkyria Chronicles, however, fits that description: Even at an over-attended, over-structured editor’s day at Sega’s San Francisco offices (that started too early in the morning, following a night of way too little sleep), this unique, visually dazzling tactical combat game was just too pretty to not look at. There have even been scores of (obviously far less-serious) war-themed games that could be called ‘cute’ (the Worms series, just for example, or any of the Advance Wars titles you choose to pick-at least up until you hit Days of Ruin, anyway) and of course, there’s that relative handful that fall into the ‘drop dead gorgeous’ category… but there aren’t many that come to mind that I would actually call ‘pretty’. I'm not very good at understanding the emulator settings yet.Over the years, we’ve seen literally hundreds of war-themed games whose realistic, convincing (or otherwise eye-pleasing) visuals might have obliged us to call them ‘beautiful’ (irrespective of how grim or scary the game’s world or subject matter was). ![]() I will also be grateful if you can tell me how I can somehow improve the graphics and still have good performance. The game is not as laggy as in the video. It seems to be visible in those shots where the bulletin board on the background: Here are the settings for PCSX2 v1.7.0-dev-145-g0bf54aa6f, the game version PAL (SLES-54644 with cheat, withour reshade): It's even difficult for me to explain what exactly the problem is, maybe the background becomes blurry, or something else, but I can't play for a long time due to pain in the eyes. ![]() Probably a solvable problem - when moving in the game (running, cutscenes on the game engine, etc.), eyes start to hurt. The PAL version with cheat and reshade looks great, but there is one unsolvable and one possibly solvable problem. Despite the fact that it has 60 fps, but unlike the PAL version, there is no cheat for the NSCT version that would fix such glitches as a lost forest, etc. Using both versions of the game (PAL (SLES-54644 with cheat) and NTSС (SLUS-21452 without cheat)) Using third party GS plugins (Gsdx-cutie & GSdx-SSE4_VP2 which only works on older versions) Using a great cheat from Maori-Jigglypuff (link)ĭifferent settings in built-in GS plugins, etc. Installing the latest dev version of PCSX2 (v1.7.0-dev-145-g0bf54aa6f) Graphics Card - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Tiįor several days I have been trying to find configurations close to ideal for the Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria.
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