Valkyrie Anatomia first trailer published by Square Enix.
Some games have a rather unusual way of conveying information and taking people on an adventure, and we then see that mechanic mimicked. Konami’s Dance Dance Revolution and GuitarFreaks led to games like Pump It Up and Guitar Hero. Tri-Ace’s Valkyrie Profile is a similar sort. It’s an RPG, but blends in platforming and a more active interface for engaging in attacks. But, as interesting as its ideas were, they didn’t really influence other games at the time. Rather, it took years for other titles to start picking up on the concepts and attempting to integrate them into their own experiences.
Noisy Pixel reviews Valkyrie Anatomia: The Origin from developer Square Enix and publisher WonderPlanet, available now on iOS and Android devices.
I love when mobile games are given knockoff/buzzword titles to garnish sales. Except SE is knocking itself off!
Today Square Enix announced that a popular character from Bandai Namco's Tales series is coming to the mobile game Valkyrie Anatomia: The Origin.
I miss Tales of the Rays. Not often that western gamers get crossover Tales games
It doesn't tell us that much :P
Translation please!
It has a pretty epic feel for a probable mobile game. But then, Tri-Ace's other two phone games, Chronos Ring and Heaven X Inferno are above average quality-wise, so I'd expect an even higher quality treatment of one of their more established series.
Also, the fact that they have a pretty serious Japanese playwright writing and directing is promising to me. Why would someone like that agree to contribute significantly to this if it were just a smartphone money generator with a VP paintjob? It must be a bigger project than that. Furthermore, why would Tri-Ace waste talent like that on some churned out piece of smartphone crap? Seems like the kind of guy you'd enlist the talents of if you were making something of consequence.
What's not encouraging is that very few of the key people behind the original games seem to be involved. Hopefully this playwright guy can fill that void.
How about one for the ps4?