History VideoGame / ValkyriaChronicles

* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: None of Squad 7 wears a helmet. In fact, the armor they do wear is highly impractical in general. They have protection on their shoulders, hips, knees and (in the case of the shocktroopers) pectorals, but leave the rest of their center-mass, neck, head and groin protected only by cloth uniforms.

This series is not to be confused with ValkyrieProfile.

A third game, ''[[VideoGame/ValkyriaChroniclesIII Valkyria Chronicles III: Unrecorded Chronicles]]'', has been released in Japan. It is a GaidenGame on the {{PSP}}, taking place at the same time as the first game. This game has also gotten a anime adaptation.

* ArtificialStupidity: The computer will often waste turns moving units back and forth, send wave after wave of their own infantry to certain death by interception fire, will almost always fail to make proper use of cover, and is completely unable to coordinate its units in a meaningful way. Much of the game's actual difficulty comes from having to face far larger numbers of units occasionally supplemented by powerful elite units and obstacles like fortified bunkers or mortar fire.

** Do '''Not''' mess with Largo when vegetables are involved.

* TokenLoli: 12-year-old shock trooper Aisha, who is possibly (depending on how her profile is interpreted) ''[[ImprobableAge the youngest person ever to enlist]]''.

* TheNeidermeyer: Damon and Gregor.

** [[spoiler:Karl had the balls to get angry at Maximilian to his face, while he was slowly becoming unhinged. This, after he already established himself as being incredibly aloof and seeing people's value in their use to him.]]
** And also, [[spoiler:Jaeger. Why in the world would you openly announce your intention to defy your leader, when said leader specifically announced that ''he is willing to summarily execute anybody who tries to defy him.'']]
*** [[spoiler: Slightly subvert since HE SURVIVE, completely unscratched. You can see him walk pass Edy and Homer in last episode.]]

There is a sequel for the PSP, called ''[[ValkyriaChroniclesII Valkyria Chronicles 2: Gallia Military Academy]]''. It is set two years after the first game and involves civil turmoil as students are drafted in to fight the threats within the country.

A third game, ''[[ValkyriaChroniclesIII Valkyria Chronicles III: Unrecorded Chronicles]]'', has been released in Japan. It is a GaidenGame on the {{PSP}}, taking place at the same time as the first game. This game has also gotten a anime adaptation.

* BattleHarem: The game allows you the possibility to do this. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=502ek_pPttE This guy]] shows us how to do it. One of the comments even points it.

* FreudWasRight:
** The anti-tank lances seem larger and, umm, pointier than a rocket launcher would need to be. And the fact that those pointy heads are meant for ''penetrating'' tank armors isn't exactly helpful. Also, is it really necessary for them to be held at [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything waist height]]? The Mortar lances aren't much better, given that they're still held at waist height, [[UnfortunateImplications but at an angle, and they do splash damage.]]
** Any Gallian weapon seems to have this effect: just look at how long and thick those barrels are on the rifles and machine guns when you have them modified for firepower, and the shape of the underslung flame throwers and grenade launchers...
** All of which are dwarfed by [[spoiler:the Valkof and its hiding place]].

* FalseGunshot

* FantasticRacism: Darcsens, although they are a clear analogue for the Jews/Gypsies in World War II and their experiences; this is perhaps muddied by [[http://images.wikia.com/valkyria/images/a/a0/Nadine2.jpg how the Darcsens]] [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101030172110/valkyria/images/8/87/Cordelia_Leanbluff.jpg are visualized]] [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111007123961/valkyria/images/thumb/7/75/Lynn.png/292px-Lynn.png in Anime/Manga style]].

* {{Designated Villain}}: While debatable in the game, in the anime [[spoiler:Faldio's]] 'villainhood' is very poorly executed. [[spoiler: He saves everyone's lives with his desperate gamble in activating Alicia, but gets only grief and reproach from everyone, even himself - though nobody ever suggests a possible alternative to his course of action. That Alicia survives to live happily ever after, whereas Faldio has an ignominious death off-scene, compounds the problem.]] Of course, many fans of the game hate his prominence in the anime *anyway*, so they're likely not to care.

* DesignatedVillain: While debatable in the game, in the anime [[spoiler:Faldio's]] 'villainhood' is very poorly executed. [[spoiler: He saves everyone's lives with his desperate gamble in activating Alicia, but gets only grief and reproach from everyone, even himself - though nobody ever suggests a possible alternative to his course of action. That Alicia survives to live happily ever after, whereas Faldio has an ignominious death off-scene, compounds the problem.]] Of course, many fans of the game hate his prominence in the anime *anyway*, so they're likely not to care.

* DesignatedVillain: It's YMMV in the game, but in the anime [[spoiler:Faldio's]] 'villainhood' is very poorly executed. [[spoiler: He saves everyone's lives with his desperate gamble in activating Alicia, but gets only grief and reproach from everyone, even himself - though nobody ever suggests a possible alternative to his course of action. That Alicia survives to live happily ever after, whereas Faldio has an ignominious death off-scene, compounds the problem.]] Of course, many fans of the game hate his prominence in the anime *anyway*, so they're likely not to care.

** Gallia is apparently a Polish Belgium in the Baltic States with a little military inspiration from both Finland and Switzerland.

* GirlsWithGuns: If she's a female character, she's most likely an ActionGirl. And she most likely has a gun on her as well.

** Any Gallian weapon seems to have this effect: just look at how [[CompensatingForSomething long and thick]] those barrels are on the rifles and machine guns when you have them modified for firepower, and the shape of the underslung flame throwers and grenade launchers...

** Gallia is apparently a Polish Belgium with a little military inspiration from both Finland and Switzerland.
** The Atlantic Federation is essentially akin to NATO and the Western Allies of World War II.
** The Imperials are a mishmash of Imperial Russia, Austria-Hungary, Imperial Germany, and Nazi Germany.

* NotSoFastBucko: The second part of "Showdown at Naggiar", although it's fairly easy to see that coming. Capture the enemy camp, and... enter enemy reinforcements from north and south.