For heaven’s sake… Odin may look bored at times, but he’s still happy to order you around from the comforts of his throne. As a result, Valkyrie Elysium is a confused mess, a middling adventure with a predictable story, repetitive quests, and adequate but tedious combat. It’s still about Ragnarok and recruiting Einherjar to your Valkyrie’s side, but the game genuflects to the Soulsborne series so often that it impairs its own identity.
In an attempt to modernize the series, it instead emphasizes action to such a degree, challenging you to purify waves of enemies with swift weapon combos, that the gameplay will be largely unrecognizable to fans of the Valkyrie series. But Valkyrie Elysium is not a traditional JRPG in any way. At the outset, Square Enix and developer Soleil position it as a reboot of the Valkyrie series, whose last main entry was Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume released in the US back in 2009 on Nintendo DS. Valkyrie Elysium is unsure what kind of game it wants to be.
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