Sunday, May 15, 2016

On Valkyria Chronicles' Magical Realism

It's late October 2008 and the affecting fiction of Valkyria Chronicles peeked from store shelves for the PS3. It felt like it should loom. Scant fanfare preceded its Western arrival, and very little succeeded it. It didn't succeed, at least commercially. For the war crime of being an artful anime SRPG in the time of brown military shooters, nobody bothered to market it properly outside of Japan, where it received a conferral of honours that persists to this day in the form of every method of merchandising known to pop culture. There's even a threequel that charts the misadventures of a penal battalion, Valkyria Chronicles 3: Unrecorded Chronicles, that sounds fantastic. At least, on paper. It's never been officially localised.

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