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Valkyrie Profile

"I Shall Not Forgive..."

STORY

On the surface, Valkyrie Profile doesn't present much of a good quality storyline. But if you dig deeper and that's much deeper, then you would have one of the best rpg love story around. To prove the point, I, "ahem, broke a tear on this love story". Hadn't felt this bad since the death of Aeris. Yes, I'm a sucker for sad love story. Yes, I'm a man. I'm getting ahead of myself here. Let's get back to the starting point. The title of this game fit very well with this game. This is indeed a profile of the goddess, Valkyrie. Mostly about who she is and where she came from. Before playing the game, you can see or watch the story prologue. The story prologue is very important to the story best ending as they are both connected to one another. The prologue begins with two children. A boy name Lucian and a girl name Platina. After finding out that her parents were going to sell her off as a slave, Platina and Lucian decided to run away from home. Aftering running off, the two kids ended up in a deadly place called Weeping Lilys. It appears that if anyone who isn't strong enough inhale the lilys, they die. Platina being a little girl and isn't as strong as Lucian dies. The prologue then ends with Lucian crying over the death of Platina.
Now fast forward to the beginning of the game. The game begins with the Odin, leader of the gods, summoning one of the three goddesses of fate. Valkyrie, the lead (female) character just happens to be one of the three goddesses of fate. Valkyrie is the goddess of chosen souls for your information. Getting back to the point, Odin has summon Valkyrie because a war is going to break out in Asgard, home of the gods. Basically a war of the gods. Odin has summon Valkyrie for a purpose. That purpose is to gather the souls of dead heroes in Midgard, home of the humans. With this objective at hand, Valkyrie sets off to Midgard to look for fallen heroes. Now this is the basic of the game quest and the story. Valkyrie will use her power to find the next character that will fall in battle. You will then get a small background story sequence to that character. Afterwards, you move onto the next character to fall in battle. Now that doesn't look like much for a storyline, does it? Each of the small background story sequence of the characters that join your party does in a strange way fit together but they're more of a jigsaw puzzles and you have to figure out what order of the story sequence goes where. If you play the game the second time around, you'll probably have a better understanding of these small story sequence. Still the story is very lack luster. So where's the love story in this game. The key is getting the really good ending to the game. The game's real story is so hidden like a secret side quest that you really have to try hard to unlock it but it's well worth the effort. Okay, it doesn't take much of a dumb person to figure out that Valkyrie is the little Platina girl that died in the Prologue seeing as they looked exactly the same. The key is to try and trigger an event that will start to bring about Valkyrie past memories back to her. This of course involve, Lucian, one of the fallen souls that Valkyrie gathers who just happens to be Platina childhood boyfriend. Lucian starts off like a dull character but quickly becomes the male counterpart of Aeris. Which explain why I've quickly grown to love Lucian as one of my best male rpg character. Without going into too much details. Lucian while trying to bring Valkyrie memories back met up with Loki, Valkyrie Profile's Sephiroth. And we all know what happens when Sephiroth met Aeris. So I won't explain what happens next. Needless to say, Valkyrie soon got her memories back only to find out what happens to Lucian. "I shall not forgive.." is the best Valkyrie quote for this situation. Then we have the showdown between Cloud and Sephiroth. I mean Valkyrie and Loki. This is probably the best emotional end game fight sequence since FF7 disc 1 scene after the Aeris sequence. What is amazing is that they actually fit this entire storyline sequence into the ending of Valkyrie Profile. This is one of the best endings in terms of closure to a game's plotline and storyline. Without this really good ending, Valkyrie Profile story is very dull and somewhat confusing. The entire story lay heavily on the outcome of the good ending. And the good ending doesn't disappoint you. The downside is that you really can't get this good ending story closure without a strategy guide or a faqs. What is also great about this love story is that they don't try and force a couple down your throat like some rpg games. In fact this is really a tragic love story as the key love couple never got a chance to be together. This love story works for me. Maybe it's because I'm a sap for a good love story. Without the good ending and just the normal ending, the story would get a 7 but I'm adding an extra 2 points to the 7 for the really good ending.

-aecii-