There's a soft-spoken villain that's fun, and some of your companions add a little seasoning to the proceedings, but Valkyrie Elysium is a mostly charmless affair. Your Valkyrie is cold and one-note for much of the game, and Odin might as well be wearing a tee shirt with "I am actually evil" printed across the chest. It only becomes mildly interesting about four minutes before the credits start rolling. The story is a whole lotta nothing, and if you're here for a ripping yarn about gods and kings and mythical beings then there's not much to sink your teeth into.
You play as one of these Valkyries, and Odin's bidding involves smashing up a lot of monsters with a variety of weapons across nine levels set in various different, but often aesthetically similar locations. Set in the midst of Ragnorok - the end of the world in Norse mythology - the dashing king Odin has created beings known as Valkyries to do his bidding in the aftermath of his apocalyptic war against a big bad wolf named Fenrir. This is a game with an almost PlayStation 2 style design philosophy, for better and worse, and what you're here for will determine whether that dated approach is appealing or not.
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There's something distinctly old school about Valkyrie Elysium, and we don't mean because it's part of a long-running franchise a series that started with the turn-based JRPG Valkyrie Profile way back in 1999.
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