Mothra?! What did Mothra do to you?!
Just reached chapter 6 in Valkyrie Profile Lenneth, just recruited characters from Flenceburg and Gerabellum, heading to Hai-Lan to pick up whoever’s ready to come with me now. Nothing much has changed in my opinion of the game, except I’m ready for it to end now.
I’m enjoying the dungeon crawling and the battling as much as ever, but no one’s posed a challenge to my party in a long, long time. I even swapped stalwarts like Arngrim, Kashell and Aelia out and put in the latest weaklings I’d gotten just to liven things up, but to no real avail. Valkyrie herself is too strong. I was enjoying leveling up for a while but now there’s nothing to put my CP into. New characters already come with enough CP to max out most of the most important skills anyway. Maybe I should have played on Hard mode after all.
As for the story… wait, what story? Oh there have been vague mutterings about Valkyrie’s origins, and Lezard spent like 5 minutes blathering on about the origins of the gods, but since I’m not getting the best ending anyway I don’t see why they’re wasting my time trying tease me with story elements. I’m not interested in that kind of story. I find the exploits of my heroes in Asgard much more interesting. I wish I could get missions like that instead, stopping fort constructions and negotiating with elves and stuff like that. Mindless dungeon crawling for the sake of leveling up troops is all good and nice, but it’s gotten a bit old now.
Anyway I hear the game isn’t very long unless you’re going for the ‘A’ ending, so I should be done soon. I don’t know if I want to replay it for the best end, not when I can just google it. But I do want to play VP2: Silmeria (come back to life my darling PS2!!!) and the DS game though. Maybe next year.
just a little bit to see what it was like. Then I played a little bit more. And a little bit more. And here we are, 6 hours later. It’s very early days, just chapter 2. About 172 periods left till the end of the world IIRC.
after about 26 hours. Got an ending where Claude and Jeanne went treasure-hunting while Rena and everyone else ended up forever alone. Like I care. With game characters, as with human beings, when you don’t like someone, nothing they do can ever please you. The supporting cast was decent but the mains just annoyed me non-stop. And the game was so sluggish. The talking parts were a pain because a character would say a line, then walk slowly for 30 seconds, say another line, then “. . . . . .” slowly for another 5 seconds, etc etc. The battles were fast-paced and frequent even with Scouting on max, but level ups were plentiful and I liked distributing SP so that wasn’t a problem. I mained Claude throughout until the final battle, then switched to Rena and spammed healing items and magic till the last boss died.