#VC4

[frickingnerd]

dating leena & minerva

pairing: leena "kai" schullen x gn!reader x minerva victor

tags: wholesome fluff, polyamorous relationship, soft & affectionate girlfriends, protective girlfriends, hints at spoilers

since minerva isn't part of squad e, she isn't as close with leena as most of the other members of leena's squad are

at first, the only thing that connects those two girls is you! they both have a crush on you and as you start dating them, leena and minerva slowly get to know each other better as well

both girls are pretty protective! how couldn't they, when you live in a time of war? and when they both have lost people important to them due to that war…

minerva and leena make a good team, working together on the battlefield, to keep you safe! leena is always there to give minerva back up from further away, while minerva is usually in the middle of the fighting

during your relationship, you're the only one who gets to call leena by her actual name. even minerva calls her “kai”, before realizing that isn't leena's actual name

as the two girls grow closer as well, due to their mutual respect for one another, leena reveals the entire truth about kai to you and minerva. all about what happened to her brother and why she had to become kai instead of leena

while minerva and leena might not date each other as well, they are very close and care a lot about each other. they recognize that both of them went through horrible things and vow to protect not only you, but each other as well

both of your girlfriends seem rather cold and harsh to others, but only you know that they each have a very soft and affectionate side!

leena gently steals a kiss from you whenever the two of you find a quiet moment by yourselves, while minerva whispers compliments and reminders of her love to you, when nobody else is listening

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[ardour-87]

[someoneintheshadow456]

“Vinland! Fuck yeah! Coming again to save the motherfucking day yeah! Vinland! Fuck yeah! Final Flame’s the only way yeah!”

HOO BOY chapter 14 was a headache. And not because of Crymaria’s lazy ass who doesn’t show up until you capture a completely optional camp (and you get AMPLE time to set up before doing so, unlike Selvaria who gave you no such luxury), but because of the Vulcan. I had to do all the skirmishes to learn the Penetration order so Raz could kick his ass.

While it was expected that Angie was basically the kid from Snowpiercer, what was NOT expected was everything else that came with it. I was out here thinking the Cavalier was going to blow up normally and then I saw those blue clouds and the Vietnam flashbacks of VC1 kicked in.

My moments of sadness then immediately got ruined by Poor Man’s Jaeger comforting Crymaria (and he doesn’t even know she saw her own kind blow herself up!). All I felt then was anger because it was given to a character who didn’t deserve it.

And even the cutscene with him and the random NPC is just SO hackneyed it’s not even funny. I have seen almost no indication of Crymaria being “more human” compared to the beginning of the story. In fact, she was one of the most emotional and unstable characters. Poor Man’s Jaeger’s intervention did Jack shit as he just told her what she already knew about Belgar. Poor Man’s Jaeger calling her “the woman he loves” was what truly did it for me, I never popped a blood vessel that fast over a romantic line.

Where was Selvaria’s happy ending, huh?! Where was her one true love who would save her from Maxie?! Where was her redemption arc?! Stop trying to fix your mistake from VC1, Game. All you’re doing is making me angrier.

The fact that Riley’s dad and the USV in general were the ones who made all this tech to begin with makes her blaming Claude in Act 1 even MORE ridiculous than it was before. Woman you have zero right to call Claude a coward or cry for Angie because your own father bloody deserved what he got. FFS anyone who’s getting praised by Belgar done fucked up bad.

On that note, that’s the ONE thing VC4 is doing better than the original - make the villains related to the heroes in some way. Maxie wasn’t related to Welkin and co at all, if not for the war, he would have no reason to kill him. I know that’s more realistic, but it makes for a less compelling plot.

While Gallia had bad apples within the army but as a whole was a decent country, the Feds seem just as bad as the Imps, if not worse. Like you can TELL the USV was involved from the onset because the scummy tactics used to recruit Valks are exactly the same as the ones the modern US military uses to recruit soldiers. They even pick the SAME type of people - elder siblings from poor and broken homes.

That being said, the war really needs to be won. Valk Rights Activism can be achieved if the Imps are defeated. Which can only be possible if these children remember that this is an army.

I never intended to make a VC4 log. I never intended to start playing VC4 until I finished VC2. I wanted to just get through it to see how it was because you apparently didn't need to play VC2-3 to play this one.

But dear GOD.

The gameplay is much more challenging, and there's WAY more things to do here. I've had to look at guides for most of the levels, just like VC1 except I wasn't running around screaming. Siegval Line is the only level where I got a B... God that chapter was an absolute nightmare.

But the story and characters are much MUCH WORSE, and I thought VC2 was bad. VC1's mains were mostly pleasant but boring, and the most annoying ones - Largo and Rosie, wise up at the end (plus Rosie's anime incarnation is MUCH better than her game counterpart). VC2 took place in cadet school, so you knew with those mains not to expect too much.

VC4's mains however, with the exception of Leela, range from mildly annoying to straight up making me want to throw my joycons across the room.

Riley blames Claude for running away from the fire that killed her family... when they were literally both TWELVE. TF was Claude supposed to do?! Apparently he's a coward for... *checks notes* behaving like how any 12 year old would in a deadly situation.

Raz should have gotten court marshaled a LONG time ago but he's able to get away with all this shit because he's besties with the commander. But apparently shit like this actually happens in the real military, so... points for accuracy?

The OG Kai is so obviously working with the Imps they may as well have hung a signboard over his head saying "I'M EVIL." I'm shocked that the writing team thought that they could fool us about why he deserted when even a five year old can figure out why.

Claude gets blamed for literally every fucking thing but you can't even feel too bad for him because of how much of a Gary Stu he is. Characters can be shit talking him to his face and our uwu golden boi just takes it in stride and gets promoted just for breathing. Even Welkin had moments where his emotions got the best of him and had to LEARN shit throughout the story. Claude gets NONE of that.

Even the VILLAINS are less interesting this time around. The only one we have seen so far is a cheap copy of General Jaeger. In VC1 by this time, we already saw the main villains, but it's Chapter 7 and they still haven't shown up.

But the worst character of all, and the one who prompted me to make this post, is Minerva. At first, she just hated Claude for petty middle school BS reasons, and I hoped to GOD she would get some character development.

But the moment she blamed Claude for her girlfriend's death was the point when she crossed over from "annoying bitch" territory to "joycons flying across the room" territory.

My dude, my guy, YOU sent him on that mission. YOU gave the go-ahead for him to ambush a supply base. And you fault him for not being at his post when your squad got decimated... when you TOLD him to do so?! And why do I have the feeling that if your pwecious cwystal made it out unscathed, no fucks would be given from you?

Your pretty speech about how you want to set aside your pride and fight with Squad E means JACK SHIT if you continue to blame Claude when he was JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS. As though he wasn't fighting, as though he was just sitting around having tea while tanks were crushing you. I know it's still early in the game, but I have ZERO hopes for you if you continue to be this bad.

Congratulations, Minerva. You just dethroned Maxie for worst character in the VC universe. I hope you're happy.

[flame2ashes]

I want to replay Valkyria Chronicles 1 but then I'd have to deal with the fact that it's Valkyria Chronicles 1 and not Valkyria Chronicles 4, which had all the QoL gameplay improvements and actually had side stories involving the recruitable members and developing their characters. Do you see my dilemma

[brbgensokyo]

did Valkyuria Chronicles's weird painterly effects engine ever get used for anything else?

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[laurarolla]

And so, Valkyria Chronicles 4 is finally finished after many hours and very few retries. In terms of difficulty, there are parts that probably would have been rougher if I didn't know how absolutely overpowered many of the special weapons and orders were in the base game. This was an enjoyable game with a gorgeous art style and lovely music, full of delightful characters. All in all, a pretty great experience. But now comes the real question: do I like it more than Valkyria Chronicles 1?

The short answer is that mechanically, VC4 is far superior to VC1, and in terms of gameplay variety and potential, it's not even close. I mean, there were two other VC tactical games between 1 and 4, so I would hope that they learned a few neat tricks. Narratively, however, is a harder question to answer.

VC1 centers the story on the history of the Darcsen and the Valkyrur, and how the myths associated with a false history had become the core of systemic oppression for the indigenous Darcsen population of Europa. The struggles and suffering, as well as the pride of the Darcsen as a people living under these conditions, are arguably the most central part of the story. Even characters who aren't themselves Darcsen have stories often related to class hierarchy and systemic expectations. However, there is one minor issue with the false history narrative, and I admit it's probably me overthinking something. I'm always a little wary when a piece of fiction originating from Japan uses the idea of a "secret history that oppressors use to justify their oppression" shows up. There are some Japanese nationalists who claim that the crimes of the Japanese Empire from the early 20th century were "fabricated." Japanese war crime denial is definitely something that is a part of very right-wing politics in the country. However, I don't think it really is an issue in this game, as it's more strongly connected to concepts like cultural mistreatment of minorities.

VC1 does drift at times into being about "curing the racist of their racism because there's a logical explanation for it," and that's a genuinely more troublesome element of the story. Rosie is just, like, really racist and also a vital member of your squad. On the one hand, I'm glad they have her turn her attitude around. On the other hand, killing the game's most prominent Darcsen character as the last push she needs to be "cured" of the racism is kinda fucked up. I don't like how Isara's death in VC1 is written, and playing VC4 really shows how they could have done a notable character death better in just about every way.

VC4 centers its narrative on two large scale military powers in open warfare, with the chance to see that darker parts of both sides of the conflict as they strive to kill each other. The Empire are a fascist hierarchy with vast resources but an expansionist mindset. They murder their own citizens as a warning to others, and expect their soldiers to kill themselves instead of surrendering. They are patriarchal to a fault, with the only women on their side of the battle lines being brainwashed child soldiers or living superweapons created through near-death experiences and experimental procedures. This is a country that should not be allowed to exist as it does. However, one of the central antagonists of the game, Forseti, is born entirely of the crimes of the very Federation that opposes them.

Turns out the United States is an amoral horror in the Valkyria Universe, too. The equivalent of the Manhattan Project results in the creation of an in-universe, non-radioactive energy source with fission reactor levels of power output, including explosive potential. The difference is that not only are these weapons horrendously destructive and completely immoral by their nature (just like the atom bomb in our own reality), each one is also powered by an abused child. Your forces end up driving a trio of mini-Omelas boats toward the capital of the Empire, intent on using an abused kid as the trigger for a crime against humanity. And the only reason any of the characters know this is because one of the girls gets free and is allowed to be an actual child experiencing the crew's love and care for a while. It's a horrible situation, and it combines with one more aspect of the story to build to the best climax in either game.

Raz, your shocktrooper commander and main character Claude's best friend, spends the whole game with his mouth writing checks that his ass can absolutely cash. He's one of the most capable soldiers in your squad, and while his reckless behavior results in difficulties for his comrades, he grows to be more careful and understanding as the plot continues. Just before the endgame, however, Claude is forced to come up with a plan he would never want to implement. Raz, along with any soldier of your choice, must make a suicide run to save your entire remaining force from the Imperial trap they were led into. You choose who dies with Raz (or farm it out to your Tumblr audience like I did, good job picking the exact same person I would have picked). There's no way around this. Combined with the death of Cristal and nearly all of Squad F, as well as any soldiers you happened to lose on the way to the end and countless others who died at the Empire's hands, it makes all the sense in the world when Claude is all but ready to murder-suicide the civilian population of most of the Empire's capital with a nuke. Perhaps in the end, he's only saved by a ceasefire being called just as he's about to pull the trigger. Walking away from the situation and freeing the abused child from the reactor causes Claude to be seen as unfit for future military command, and he's discharged. Was all the struggle for nothing in the end?

I think what I prefer about VC4's story in the end is that it acknowledges a sort of fundamental truth about the idea of justice and the passage of time. There is no buying back of life with life. Killing someone doesn't unkill anyone else. Restorative justice is built on the idea of making things better for people moving forward by counteracting the effects of injustices past. But for those who live with the hurt and the memory of injustice, it can sometimes feel hollow. As I watch more and more of the world begin to acknowledge terrible injustices happening every day around us, I worry about how seeking justified retribution could lead to so much suffering if it spirals out of control. There's a fine line between retributive justice and revenge, and the truth is that with retribution, it's impossible for someone on the outside to see which side of the line someone is actually on.

Anyway, I like VC4 more than VC1 but I think they're both great. Sorry that some of my recent reviews/postmortems have been a bit rambling or navel gazing. I'm not a professional at most things, but I still have feelings about art that I experience and want to get out on the page, even if it's wrong or nobody reads it.

[thomaswinwood]

Here is my Valkyria Chronicles headcanon

Despite its official stance of equal rights for Darcsen it seems to me that the Principality of Gallia is ideologically more closely aligned with the East Europan Imperial Alliance than the Atlantic Federation. Gallia isn't overtly racist—it doesn't run concentration camps, and the pogrom which orphaned a young Brigitte "Rosie" Stark seems to have been unusual in happening outside the Empire—but it retains systemic racism in the sense we see in Largo's interactions with Rosie and Isara, where Darcsens chafing against the inequality that remains both legally and culturally are belittled. (I suspect we'd see the same systemic racism in the Atlantic Federation if we ever got a good look at it from the inside, but the closest we get is a specifically Gallian foreign-legion platoon in VC4.) That said, Gallia has enough of the old racist nobility still intact that the revelation about House Randgriz led to a civil war, whereas the Federation, despite having aligned itself with the rebels in an act of Realpolitik—they want Gallia's ragnite deposits as much as the Empire, they just go about trying to get at them differently—nonetheless asked them to please stop committing genocide because it wasn't a vote-winner back home.

My explanation for this is that the Principality of Gallia was originally part of the Imperial Alliance and broke away from it ideologically as the independence movements in western Europa in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which formed the Atlantic Federation created a geopolitical bloc which was appealing to House Randgriz. This adds some historical context to the Empire using a military solution to the “Gallia problem”—on some level it's simply reclaiming a wayward territory—and possibly some parallels to Fhirald, which I think is the state bordering Gallia to the northeast and may have undergone the same westward drift and been interrupted due to its proximity to the imperial centre at Schwartzgrad.

[haya-suke]

＃＃＃Add　Normal_Map####

uniform sampler2D noise; uniform float height_scale = 0.5;

uniform sampler2D normalmap;

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void vertex() { tex_position = VERTEX.xz / 2.0 + 0.5; float height = texture(noise, tex_position).x; VERTEX.y += height * height_scale; }

void fragment() { NORMAL_MAP = texture(normalmap, tex_position).xyz; }

## +vc4 color ##

void フラグメント() { ALBEDO = vec3(0.1, 0.3, 0.5); }

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※これはAddノードが間違ってる。

vec3(0.1, 0.3, 0.5)したいならr,g,b,はそれぞれMultiplyにするべき

[artisnowy]

I get memories from the weirdest things, someone had a license plate starting with "VC4" and i thought back to the past

[frickingnerd]

dating claude wallace

pairing: claude wallace x gn!reader

tags: slowburn romance, wholesome fluff, shy!claude

claude is pretty shy all throughout the early stages of his relationship with you!

despite how much he has grown and improved, he's still a bit of a coward, which shows the most in his relationship with you

he's hesitant to initiate things, often waiting for you to make the first step, as he's too shy to hold your hand or kiss you

claude also keeps his relationship with you to himself at first! he doesn't want to keep it a secret, but he doesn't really know how to tell his friends he's dating you, so he never mentions it to them

thougz raz is the first one to find out, after teasing claude for always sneaking glances towards you! claude caves and tells raz everything, shocking the darksen boy quite a bit…

as your relationship with claude continues, he slowly begins to open up more and become a little bolder! he starts being able to ask you if you'd like to hold hands or even brings up how he'd like to kiss you

claude comes from a good family, not incredibly wealthy, but certainly doing well when it comes to money! therefore, he's always able to buy you flowers for any anniversaries or any nice presents that he thinks you might enjoy!

if he doesn't know what you'd like and he wants to surprise you, he'll ask leena and riley for advice, who are much more sensible than raz in the regard!

all of claude's friends are very supportive of his relationship with you and obviously want to be friends with you too! you are dating their friend, so you might as well become a friend to them as well!

[inventory-management-software]

The Wavelength Illusion: When Capacity on Paper Doesn’t Exist in the Field

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[someoneintheshadow456]

Torna is already off to a FANTASTIC start because with the exception of Emperor Hugo and Mythra (who apparently is meant to be 18-19) everyone in the party is a grown ass adult. That is an automatic plus in my book because it means we won't get teenage idiocy interfering with the main plot (usually... looking at you VC4) .

The main battle theme isn't as good (a bit too melodious, doesn't have enough drums and the piano hijacks everything) but the combat is SO much better especially with the guard switching mechanic. Why couldn't have this been the whole game?

Other gameplay aspects that are just so much better are the community system, the game actually TELLING YOU what collection points give you what, and campfires (they should have existed alongside inns). Once again... why wasn't THIS in the main game?

I've heard Mythra is more tolerable here than in the main game even though she's worse. I understand why because she's meant to be a jerk and she gets called out by pretty much everyone.

How TF is Mikhail still alive if he wasn't a Blade but an ordinary human child???

That mechon-thing we fight in the beginning looks suspiciously like Metal Face and Zanza combined. I wonder if that might be an indication that Malos is getting help from Zanza or even Mechonis. I know Egil never said anything about another world, but we didn't know Egil that long.

Lora is a MUCH better main character than Rex and I love her and Jin's relationship so far. I just wonder if they'll acknowledge the Golgol in the room that is that age gap. Tbh it's best not to think too deeply about that...

Adam is clearly meant to be the ancestor of Rex but honestly, Rex should have been more like him from the get-go. He's everything Rex tries to be but better.

Gormott's old theme knocks the current one out of the park... can't say so much about old Torigoth though. Good thing we know it bounces back in the present.

AmalSUS was sus in the main story and he's even more sus here. And he's not alone. I don't know how involved the previous Praetor is, but his council is clearly helping Mr. Sussy Baka over here.

Poor Man's Palpatine confirms what we know in Chapter 7 of Blades (and Guldos who are Blades Gone Wrong) being an offshoot of humans. I wonder if AmalSus' goal is to destroy Alrest and bring Earth back? He claims he's doing it all for the Architect... so does he think the Architect wants his world back? So does this mean the Indoline people remember Earth, or are Earthlings themselves?

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