Valkyria Chronicles’ Marina is one of the Gallian Militia’s best

We all have our favorite characters in games. Especially in RPGs and strategic titles, where each person has their specialty. When it comes to Valkyria Chronicles, Marina Wulfstan is by far my favorite, and she should be one of yours too. This heroine is one of the strongest soldiers in your militia. She’s not only well-rounded, with a strong backstory, she’s also skilled and quite human.

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Review: Valkyria Chronicles Remastered is an unadorned classic

Let’s get this out of the way: Valkyria Chronicles Remastered is virtually identical to the game’s 2014 Steam release. It raises the resolution and includes all the game’s add-on content, but otherwise preserves everything about the PS3 original. The differences? Here they are: you can buy it on a physical disc, there are PlayStation button prompts again and, perhaps most notably, trophy hunters can now earn their Platinum that they were deprived last generation. That’s really it. This release included the demo for Valkyria: Azure Revolution in Japan, but there’s been no word on that in the West.

Now that we’ve taken care of that, we can move on to talking about how well Valkyria Chronicles holds up in 2016, which is unreasonably so.

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