Longplay of Valkyrie Profile (1/3)

Longplay of Valkyrie Profile, played as the NTSC version on the PlayStation. This game's version was released on Aug. 29th, 2000. Tell us what you think by leaving a comment down below!

00:00:00 - Prologue
00:10:01 - Opening
00:11:28 - New Game/ Chapter 0
00:21:56 - Einheriar: Arngrim/ Boss: Lesser Harpy
00:45:53 - Boss: Ghoul
00:53:22 - Boss: Lombert
00:58:40 - Artolian Mountain Ruins
01:40:02 - Boss: Elder Vampire & Dragon Servants

Chapter 1:
01:48:17 - Chapter 1
01:49:58 - Artolia: Picking up Dragon Slayer
01:52:04 - Einheriar: Llewelyn
01:59:15 - Crell Monferaigne: Picking up Goddess Pendant
02:02:30 - Solde Catacombs
02:39:18 - Boss: Drow Shaman & Ramapithicus
02:46:19 - Cave of Oblivion 1
02:56:14 - Einheriar: Belenus
03:04:21 - Lassen: picking up Pressed Flower
03:07:27 - *Grinding (beating monsters in a completed dungeon, no treasures respawn)
03:07:47 - Transferring Llewelyn
03:10:40 - Sacred Phase 1

Chapter 2:
03:14:10 - Chapter 2
03:15:21 - Einheriar: Lawfer
03:21:33 - Einheriar: Yumei
03:39:50 - Einheriar: Jun
03:47:13 - Salerno Academy
04:24:45 - Boss: Harpy
04:30:03 - Nethov Swamp
04:59:37 - Boss: Dragon Zombie
05:06:37 - Cave of Oblivion 2
05:13:25 - *Grinding
05:13:34 - Transferring Belenus
05:14:16 - Sacred Phase 2

Chapter 3:
05:18:04 - Chapter 3 /Taking off Nibelungen Ring (Ending A path requirement)
05:22:15 - Einheriar: Nanami
05:28:09 - Hai-Lan: Picking up Dragonbane & Fragment of Lapis Gem
05:40:34 - Einheriar: Kashell
05:47:04 - Camille Village: Vainslayer & Oddrock Caves
06:28:06 - Boss: Greater Demon
06:32:52 - Clockwork Mansion
06:51:05 - Boss: Chimera
06:55:13 - Cave of Oblivion 3
07:14:52 - Brahms Castle (Ending A path requirement)
07:34:55 - Transferring Jelanda
07:37:02 - *Grinding
07:37:48 - Sacred Phase 3

Chapter 4
07:42:02 - Chapter 4
07:46:12 - Einheriar: Aelia
07:50:09 - Einheriar: Janus
07:55:22 - Crell Monferaigne: Picking up Raven Slayer
07:59:46 - Cave of Thackus
08:51:20 - Boss: Kraken & Giant Crabs
09:01:06 - Dark Tower of Xervah
09:50:29 - Boss: Hel Servants
10:00:08 - Einheriar: Lorenta/ Tower of Lezard Valeth (Ending A path requirement)
11:44:43 - Boss: Lezard Valeth & Dragon-Tooth Warriors

By: nikodem123asdf

[nikodemasdf]

After some technical problems the first part if finally up.
Here we have Valkyrie Profile (Lenneth), the first game in the somewhat obscure series created by Tri-Ace. The game was intended to be a more straightforward, easy to pick up alternative to Star Ocean 2, to bridge the gap between it and Star Ocean 3.
The story in this game is quite excellent, not because of the writing itself but more because of how it's delivered, or rather how hard you have to look to actually find it. If you play the game normally you will only find suggestions as to what the story may be. In fact the game actively gaslights you in both in the objective descriptions as well as gameplay mechanics to prevent you from finding the true path and becoming strong, which is ABSOLUTELY fitting to the narrative presented. It does make the game harder to play as basically playing it without a guide is literally a waste of your time but on the other hand it's so unique only a bunch of sadistic nerds working at Enix in the 90 could get away with it. I decided to show off the A path in this video but I made sure to point out the stuff that's different as well as including the remaining endings in the 3rd part.
The gameplay is quite an unusual mix of turn based active time combat with style 2D platforming stages as dungeons. The combat part is excellent, the combat mechanic are simple to understand, however the execution can be quite complex when it comes to equipment, skills and the characters you choose to use. When it comes to characters themselves the game pretty much lets you use anybody and there's no real penalty for giving up on someone and swapping out for a new shiny waifu or husbando's who's backstory moved you to tears (or the way they make fingerguns and a lil pow every 5 seconds while bouncing in combat gives you unmeasurable joy). There's only 3 classes (not counting specific weapon users): Warriors, Archers and Sorcerers, each one with a different set of skills they can learn. You don't need to be picky cause with the right combination of equips and items you'll have way more Skill points than you can spend. This brings me to balancing, or seeming lack thereof the difficulty is either a joke or "what!? how !? they can do that!? what do I do??? this is insanity!!!", but once you realize that Valkyrie was put together by a bunch of sadistic nerds who are too talented to be amateurs but too unprofessional for mainstream, you'll start thinking in ways you can completely break the balance in your favor before the lack of balance crushes you instead. That's when you really start having fun and don't feel bad about doing this, when you get to halfway point you're pretty much required to figure out immortality via skills (it's guts+auto item set to union plume).
When it comes to the other part of the gameplay(the platforming stages) whoo boy, it's a bumpy ride. While combat mechanics are seemingly a mess, but in reality are somewhat of a work of chaotic art, the dungeons are not that great and it's not because of lack of effort, but rather too much of it. The stages on hard difficulty (I'll be using those as reference as they are the real meat of the game) are horribly convoluted and confusing to navigate. There usually are puzzles scattered throughout which often aren't introduced very clearly, you only get vague hits as to what did what. Luckily enemies don't respawn so backtracking isn't as painful... or it wouldn't be if if it weren't for how impossible the map is to use. While stages themselves are 2D, the map is displayed in 2, 5 D'ish perspective with all the layers overlapping like pancakes, not only that, the game doesn't make a distiction between when one room ends and the next one starts, if there's 5 rooms next to one another it will be one long rectangle, you can place markers on the map but seeing as the only real way to experience this game is to use an FAQ, just follow instructions there and never look at the map itself. And we haven't even gotten to platforming itself which is... well just not great, Lenneth takes good moment to actually jump after pressing a button and in order to not go insane you need to master the art of crystals. For the most part it's a neat mechanic, you can create crystals on walls and floor which can act as a stepping stone or slight elevation, and can be exploded to send you flying in the opposite direction (this allows you to do a low-long jump needed for crossing certain platforms). Exploding a crystal that's above you will also produce a small crystal sparkle which serves as a temporary platform. All these are quite fun and useful, but then there's building hills out of shattered crystals which is incredibly finnicky and if you want to get all rewards or even finish some stages you need to make them to perfection which can be quite infuriating.
All in all this game is an experience, a bittersweet one but definetly one I'm glad I experienced on the emulator. If you are to play this game, play a modern rerelease or the PlayStation version on emulator, actually playing this game on a real PS1 is very dicey. Not just because the original copies cost an arm and a leg, the game itself was programmed for fast loading (as seen in the longplay), but the coding wizards at Tri-Ace didn't consider how that would be affected by scratches, as a result even a smallest scratch can render a copy unplayable.

[Razors]

Finally, part 1. Again, I cannot thank you enough for bringing this game back to me. Thank you, truly.

[tatianavelasco]

one of my favorite action fantasy games so far

[A-L-U-C-A-R-D-X]

One of my top 3 favourite games for the PS1.
It's still an absolute masterpiece.

[doomzilla]

Oh, a reupload? Anyways, glad you tackled this amazing game for the ps1, this game by tri-ace is very fun and engaging, glad to see square returned to the series!!!! Great

[ethan]

In 4:30:08 scene, Nethov Swamp is more full wet quickmud, Because the weather is falling heavily rain summon by Loki, And that He make all rivers water and dry sediment mixed to wet quickmud rivers is trap, Lenneth must careful exploring maze, Because her cuirass, Half armoured full slit skirt, greaves get stained heavily wet mud and really dirty, And that she stay or walking in wet mud for long time, That make her cuirass and greaves will get rusty and cannot hold more and failure defense, If she encounter evil bane strong monster and have a battle, if she don't notice that the monster uses a powerful heavily weapon or magical attack, Her cuirass and greaves will take massive damage, There will even be cracks or shatters make she without protect armour and resistance to attack, Lucky She wearing full body tight short sleeve chain shirt and tight shin chain socks is potect and cover her body when her cuirass, Half armoured full slit skirt and greaves destroyed by evil bane monsters handing heavily weapon and fire magic attack, That her underwear armour can easy escape surrounded by mosters and exit maze to out the world to restore her new cuirass, Half armoured full slit skirt, greaves and rest and heal her health points, That Loki really enjoying to looking her tight chain shirt and tight chain socks on her body is very happy and evil laughing, That really brutal.

Valkyrie Lenneth wearing full body tight short sleeve chain shirt and tight shin chain socks design and summon by Freya, Her full body tight short sleeve chain shirt and tight shin chain socks had padded cotton linings to prevent large areas of metal from coming into direct prolonged contact with the skin, But her special chain shirt and socks can't holding more strong monsters attack, But can covered her body and keep warm and very light and comfortable and easy moving around and avoid, She only escape surrounded by mosters and exit maze to out the world with her full body tight short sleeve chain shirt and tight shin chain socks is basic survive battle. But her tight chain shirt and chain socks is nice awesome pretty, LOL!!❤🤣

[rezopolis]

me lookn at the thumbnail and video time "😏 haha ofc 11 hours, ValkP is indeed a very long game"
me reading the title "1/3 💀"

[БубликПомидорович]

Did Odin copulate with Freya (and / or) Lenneth? :)))

[thelastnotary]

I love hearing the womans voice when they call out their moves

[TheeLiteClub-]

"For a gaming industry that tries to shove contemporary society in my escapist entertainment with the force of a charging rhino, I am baffled that my dating experience is summarizied perfectly in a game from the year 2000. Maybe the answer is literally behind our backs!"
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