LogFAQs > #884009392

The problem with Valentia is that it's too faithful to the original game, and that was before IS knew much about decent level design. You've got 10 cavalry units that all stand side by side, or a mage that stands on a healing tile that spawns 6 winged monsters every other turn, or a building littered with mages and the only way in being through a tiny corridor.

It's stupid, but at the same time the difficulty level is low enough that it doesn't become too much of an issue. The AI isn't that great, with witches teleporting seemingly at random. A witch that could easily kill Lucas in one shot instead heads for an archer that survives and counters for the kill.

Still, it is a problem because it encourages the exact same strategy on almost every map: tanky units in front that turtle your ranged squishies. So in that regard, it's not a great game, but I still enjoyed it, largely because of the dungeons.