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Short Review Valkyria Chronicles 4 is often highly ambitious in its storytelling. But it's also highly cliche in other areas. The characters are more like VC2's than VC1's in that - even though it's not set in a school - all the characters feel like tropes. In fact, pretty much all the classes have just two models per gender, which leads to some pretty obvious palette swaps. Squad E isn't fit to lick the boots of Squad 7, to be honest. There's no Vyse here. There's not even a Jan. But I guess we take what we can get to avoid stuff like Valkyria Revolution.

A lot has been made about the game's sexism - It's basically true that this game feels like it was written by virgins. The males are stupid and the females are into cute stuff and getting married. I'm not saying all narratives have to feature strong, progressive characters, but they shouldn't only be generic waifus. VC1 was overall better in this regard though it admittedly wasn't a strong suit there either.

Why am I doing this? I dunno, it's contest season.