Valkyria Chronicles Remastered Scores A Limited Run Switch Release, Pre-Orders Live

Nice that we finally got a physical edition of this game but when will we also get VC2 & VC3?

limited run hell no ill stick to playasia for importing physical games over.

I’m part of the problem…. I ordered one.

LRG did a good job on this one, LOVE the flag, medal, tank, and book cover.

But man… do we need a plush? I’m a 37 year old man child.

I also wish LRG would up their card board quality game. The thickness isn’t where it needs to be

@RiasGremory Totally agree with you on this.

This is a nice ad for LRG though…

Love Limited Run Games. They've made big improvements this year, so I'm sold on getting a physical print of this.

It may be easier (and probably cheaper) to get this game on PS4, or even PS3. But strategy games feel right at home on a handheld system.

Sigh I thought 2 or 3 were getting ported for a second.

I ordered the base version of this. If the ragnite edition had an art book like the VC 4 special edition I would have been in. I've always had good luck with LRG. I think they've gotten better with the preorders.

The standard edition is sufficient for me.

@Serpenterror
I'm torn. I'd love remasters of VC2/3 but I also want VC5 as well. The developers behind this series (MediaVision) are working on Last Defense Academy which will be their first new game in 7 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media.Vision

I'm glad LRG are helping poor indie company Sega make a physical of this.

First things first, I really hope everyone can channel the anger they have against Limited Run Games towards SEGA instead… this game should have always had a physical version. (Or better yet get angry at real life things? There’s like a big world out there that we can change if we organize. This is a video game publisher)

ALSO this is incredible news. In the Limited Run Showcase they announced Wolfenstien 2 was getting a rerelease with the whole game on the cart, and my reaction was that they really should do Valkyrie Chronicles instead.

I feel I may have willed this into being.

This game rules so hard, though I never finished it!!! I played and enjoyed 4 when it released on Switch, and it was missing some of the charm of this one. It also had a weird twist that I did not care for where children were literal fuel for the enemies death weapons?? That always say weird with me

I'm really curious if this is the Remastered version or not.

The Switch version is the standard game + DLCs. It's not marketed with the Remastered title. That's only for PC & PS4 which run at 1080p 60fps.

IMO looks like false advertising.

I’d bought a Switch copy of Valkyria Chron 4 a year or two ago, and was bummed that the earlier titles didn’t also have a physical release. So I’m glad for this announcement and will end up patronizing LRG yet again

Its nice they are bringing us these physical games, but I share people’s concern over how everyone other than Nintendo and Capcom is just outsourcing to LRG these days. It’s bad news for the physical market for sure. Nobody wants to wait 3-6 months after the eShop release just to place your preorder for the physical, and then wait another 5-12 months for the actual game to deliver!

But I guess all you can say is delayed gratification is better than none at all. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@TyroKith
The Switch packaging says “Remastered,” so I sincerely hope it is indeed the remastered version of the game, and consistent with the other platforms’ releases!

@Teksetter @TyroKith Hard to say, I'm also curious as to the real answer. While the marketing clearly has remastered in the title, the screenshots it has are definitely from the non-remastered version. Also the description doesn't say anything different from the features the switch version had. It's starting to feel less like we'll be pleasantly surprised & more like somebody effed up thinking the switch version was also the remastered version.
Edit: To be fair, the PC version does not have the remastered logo & supports 1080p, so who knows

Sega has joined the scumbag tier of Ubisoft, Konami, Bethesda, Disney, etc. in using an "indie" publisher to release their title. 🤦‍♂️
LRG is a cancer on the hobby, and the big publishers fuel it.

At least VC4 got a standard retail release.

@EVIL-C I don't think Disney has ever used LRG lol. I'd ask you to explain yourself, but based on the lunacy of your statement I doubt I'll get a reasonable response. It doesn't make a bunch of sense to call LRG an indie publisher at this point either, it doesn't really make a difference. They've published AAA games several times so insisting that they're indie is just silly

@yohn777 LRG has published many Star Wars Aspyr titles. SW is owned by Disney, and all associated products and re-releases. Did you forget that?

Did you not see my quotes around "indie"? How could you miss my ironic use of indie? Of course LRG isn't an indie publisher anymore. That's the whole point of part of my criticism. 🤦‍♂️ The abandonment of their roots. They wanted to help Indie titles from Tiny development teams find a path to retail; now they can't wait to promote and publish the latest title from Ubisoft, Bethesda, Konami, and now apparently Sega.

The lunacy of my statement? Talk about hyperbolic. I've been burned by LRG. Waiting 12+ months for some past orders. Paying $15 USD shipping throughout most of their existence. Scott Pilgrim's false advertising of requiring an online check to boot up, when LRG advertises " always being able to play everything from them offline".
Their weird obsession with trying to publish a lot of junk titles for the lulz, like Plumbers don't wear ties or Bill & Ted (the latter bombed), is annoying and foolish from a business and fan perspective.
The recent fiasco of them using low quality CDRs for the 3DO release of D, and they didn't tell anyone beforehand.

They've even recently taken away other payment options, like PayPal and Sezzle. Not only is one limited to a 30-day window, but now one has to pay all at once, rather than split the payment up over a few weeks. Talk about adding insult to injury.

Please inform yourself on LRGs history and practices before attacking and name-calling others.

their remastering this game!? the original was a classic, loved playing it on steam. wonder what they are doing to improve this!

@EVIL-C I literally never did any "name-calling" lol. I think I'm fully allowed to have a different opinion than you & so I thought your comment sounded kind of extreme. The idea that somebody could think LRG was anything like they used to be when they first started was silly (not you as a person), was simply my misunderstanding of your "irony" as you called it.
I'm not the biggest Star Wars fan, so I didn't know Disney had in 2021 started relicensing the remastered stuff & new games under Lucasfilm, that's totally my bad.
I don't really see any problem whatsoever about LRG growing as a company, I'm sorry you & apparently a lot of people don't like it, but I'm gonna be honest what we have now is impossibly better than fighting bots for actual limited quantities. That garbage was so exhausting & nobody will convince me that was better than modern LRG.
Also don't see the problem publishing obscure games, it's cool that they have the money to do stuff like that even if it's not "financially viable" or whatever. I'm fully aware of the controversies over the years, it sucks problems keep happening but to my knowledge don't they usually still try to make up for their mistakes?
I like buying video games & I guess consumerism ruined me, so if there's a video game I'm interested in, I'll buy it if I can afford to. Games are kinda my favorite thing so it's basically the only thing I spend money on other than bills & food. Yeah I heard about the 3DO thing, that's lame. I guess I've gotten lucky, I've never been surprised by the products I've bought & it usually always took the amount of time it was supposed to for production & shipping. I can remember a few times it would be delayed by a month or two, but when it was happening I usually didn't even realize it was late because it'd been like 6 or 8 months of waiting already.
Also it seems like the hate for these "bigger games" should be directed at the original publishers rather than LRG, I don't see how they could be faulted for taking money from people like Sega, Bethesda (Microsoft?), or EA. If they won't publish the game themselves, why does it matter that LRG did it for them lol. If your problem is that they choose to associate with these companies at all, then I have nothing else to add because that seems like a different conversation altogether.
I can understand the people who got burned & don't want that to happen again but I've had a mostly pleasant experience with LRG over the years, so I'm honestly still shocked every time I see people speak about them so harshly. Perhaps it's deserved but I don't mind supporting them as long as they keep improving

@yohn777 I was associating lunacy with lunatic, which to be fair you didn't directly call me that, so fine we can put that to rest. And yes of course you're "allowed" to have different opinions. Anything otherwise was never stated nor implied.

Ironically, some of those Star Wars games end up going to regular retail, like Podracer/Republic Commando and the Jedi Knight 2-packs. I wish I that was true of every Star Wars re-release.

Fighting a bot for a title that balloons up to $200-300 on eBay, vs. under-printing certain games that have exceeded demand (like some of the Shantae Switch releases) is not infinitely better. Same BS, different way of going about it. Their insistence on never reprinting anything only serves to benefit one who already got a copy when it was cheaper. LRG hasn't solved the FOMO problem at all.
And btw, go to Playasia and what will you find? Japanese or SEA copies of several Shantae titles at a reasonable price as one comparative example.

There are obscure games, and then obscure games that people actually want. Games that get many, many requests. LRG should focus on those. Even they've realized some titles like Bill & Ted sold poorly. You can't argue for LRG to expand their business, and then in the next breath disregard their product selling poorly by their own admission. That makes no sense. If you ran your business like that, you'd be bankrupt.

Your buying habits with games sound exactly like mine; after housing and food, games & entertainment takes a lot of my income that is disposable, because I'm a lifelong gamer and I adore the hobby; as a pass time, as a business, as an art form, the joy it has brought me, you name it. Cheers. 🍻

Oh that's completely fair about the big publishers point. Something I didn't explain at all. After a Ubisoft, a Konami, a Sega, etc.. does such a deal once, it's going to happen again. And again. And again. A giant, multi-billion dollar, multi-decades experienced publisher, should not be using a boutique retail label, when they had previously published these games themselves in years past. The fact these huge companies are doing this, and so frequently, is outrageous to me. They aren't "Indie studio 154" with 2 employees, pouring everything they have into making 1 game, let alone the pipedream of seeing their game in physical form.
This does go back to my above point that many Japanese or SEA games, one can find those at regular retail like Playasia or Amazon Japan (like Shantae), but here in North America, some games get held hostage by LRG/their publisher, when other regions do not, which really bothers me. (The owner of wayforward and LRG have a close personal relationship, hence why Shantae is now always LRG exclusive in North America).

I would like them to improve. The one area I can give them credit on (see, I'm not unreasonable) is their shipping prices have drastically gone down, at least as of this year. What was commonly $15 USD for a game every time, is now like $7 USD. They just kind of had to add a new drawback by taking away other payment options, so... 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Some independent stores such as Videogames Plus or PNP games here in Canada routinely stock various LRG (and others) titles, so I try to use them if there's a LRG title I REALLY want. They've already made the purchases, plus it's usually cheaper since they get a volume discount (and $0 shipping), and it supports a local business, which is easier to stomach for me.

@EVIL-C Limited Run Games was bought by Embracer so they are no longer in the same status as they were a few years ago. They are certainly no longer an indie publisher since Embracer backed them up for all the physical games they sell. My only problem I had with Limited Run Games right now is that since they are acquired by a big publisher, they still act like an indie publisher by limiting release on physical games. As part of a bigger company now, they shouldn't be doing limited releases and instead should had just open an online store where people could freely purchase a physical game without waiting for batches to be met until shipping.

@EVIL-C Thank you for having a reasonable response, sorry I admittedly came in sounding a bit hot tempered. You're also right that the same BS happens with scalpers but you have to see that the current method is still an improvement over things selling out in literal minutes after going up for purchase, right? Now we get weeks to secure a pre-order.
I really don't think these guys deserve the hate they get, that's all. I know in the past there were serious problems with transparency about the extras included or the shipping for certain games, but like I said, they've seemed to be slowly improving with certain things that they have been heavily criticized for.
I know people liked the indie vibes of having a limited numbered physical release from small dev teams but I still greatly prefer the current LRG to the old one.

@Serpenterror That's true, and I had completely forgot to mention that that buyout happened with Embracer (one of the worst companies in the industry). I agree 100% with what you said; they aren't indie owned anymore, so there's no need for LRG to pretend like they are. The limited FOMO crap is BS. 👍

@yohn777 Ah, good catch on the PC version not having Remastered in the title despite being 1080p (and above?).

But yeah... This is really looking like a mess up. Don't get me wrong if it's somehow the PS4 Remaster getting a port I will pre-order it immediately. But let's be honest, there's no way. 1080p? On the Switch? Like... Smash Ultimate and a handful of others. 60fps? No chance. That is Valkyria Chronicles Remastered. The switch port is "Valkyria Chronicles (for Nintendo Switch)" AKA the PS3 version + DLCs.

It sounds so immature but I fear LRG could get in legal trouble for this. This would be blatant false advertising unless 1) The "Remastered" title got blended into the aether of the game and every version is kind of the remastered version now or something, or 2) this physical release is somehow actually the remastered version of the game.

I have nothing to say on the matter of physical release or LRG, but man I wish SEGA would pull their head out of their own ass and gave us more VC. Or at least port VC2 (which is the weakest in the series) and VC3 (which is the best in the series).
Either remaster in style of Square Enix's Final Fantasy Type-0 or a full on remake.
SEGA gave Yakuza a chance, so give a chance to VC.
Although, leave that Aladin and Rosanno bullcrap out of the series.

@YourDaddy is 3 that good?? I have played 1&4, but skipped 2. 3 never even got a dub right?

@ScalenePowers 3 is super good.
All the major mechanics in 4th game either started in VC3 or got refined in VC3.
VC3 has the best story, characters and stylistically superior to the other VC games.
It even has somewhat branching story path.

VC2 gameplay-wise is solid, but the story is really-really mediocre. Sure, it expands on after war state of affairs in Galia, shows post-war Welkin and Alicia, and somewhat expands on the whole Valkyria lore. That said, it's full of anime cliches.
Fire Emblem did far better job in showing academy and life of students.

VC3 on the other hands, has a serious story (still retaining goofy moments) about the rag-tag band of misfits sometimes being sent on suicide missions but defying all odds. It also delves further into corruption in Galian army and darcsen struggle before and during the war. It even has romance (you can choose between two main heroines).

Sadly yeah, due to poor sales of VC2, SEGA decided to keep VC3 in Japan.
If it wasn't for fan patches, it would stayed in there.
It's a miracle we got a 4th game.

@YourDaddy okay yeah that all scans and sounds cool as heck. It also sounds
Like I’m talking to a VC super fan that is exciting.

You kind of nailed what I had perceived about VC2 which is why I skipped it back in the day. I think I just have more of an aversion to trope-y characters than most (it tanked BOTW for me :/) Especially seeing that the first one so effortlessly built real characters and avoided much of that pitfall in anime adjacent properties!!

VC4 is an interesting case, and is a game I’ve never had the chance to talk about with anyone. I think I loved it for the first half, I’d say maybe up and until I got to the giant battleship. Idk if it’s the result of some of the story twists, but it started to grate on me more than I feel like it should have. So while I finished 4 it didn’t leave the same impression on me that 1 did.

Which brings us to 3! Which looks so so cool, and the story sounds awesome!! I’d very much like to see it remade/remastered with the canvas engine. I’d buy it day one, especially with this endorsement!

@ScalenePowers ah, well, not much of a super, but a fan indeed.
Fell in love with the series the first time I saw VC1 on PS3. It seemed like it can scratch that "alternative WWII" itch I got after seeing "Operation Darkness" on XBOX360. Got my first PSP, got VC2, spent 180 hours (still got my save). Found out about VC3, lamented about it being Japan exclusive, found out about fan translation, played through it. Few years passed and I bought VC1 on Steam for PC, played it, loved it. Then I bought it again on PS4 (alongside with Valkyria Azure Revolution, but that shameful part of VC history better left in the past), got a platinum trophy. Fell in love with the game all over again.
Saw VC4 announcement, lamented about a lack of funds at that moment and in unbelievable stroke of luck, won a code for PS4 version of VC4 in a giveaway.
Played it, liked it. Noticed some elements from VC2/VC3 I mentioned before, liked some parts of the story, hated some decisions devs (or maybe English translators) made.

So in the end, I love the series and wish it nothing but success. Oh if only I had money for Valkyria Chronicles figurines based on arts made by Raita Honjou.
I think I'll dust off my PSP and complete VC2 and 3 all over again. I miss this series, there's nothing like it on the market.

Sorry for the wall of text. Not every day I get a chance to express my love for these games.

@YourDaddy I’d read you talk about this series anytime!

I wish blogs were still a thing. I mean they are but it’s not like it was 15 years ago