History YMMV / ValiantHearts

* BizarroEpisode: [[spoiler: Anna drives to the frontlines to the tune of the Can-Can.]] Befitting the mood of the beginning of the war or just out of place?
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: The driving sections, each one backed up by MickeyMousing obstacles and hazards... set to ''classical music'' (and one of the tracks used was even from the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VGb1m45P38 Ren and Stimpy show]]).

*** The fact that in the end, [[spoiler: only Emile dies. While it's tragic and beyond depressing to realize he ended his life by being shot by his own countrymen, it's calming to know that Karl, Anna, Walt, Freddie, and a few others definitely survive; Given the original implications of a KillEmAll ending from the marketing.]]

* SpiritualLicensee: Finally! The ''Literature/WarHorse'' video game you never knew you wanted, only the horse is now a dog.

* ShownTheirWork: ''Many'' of the history factoids, even with ArtisticLicense. A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecFHkHuRUOE behind-the-scenes with the sound team]] revealed only a fraction of the work in recording the sounds and themes heard in the game, including archival audio from the French documentary ''[[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse,_la_Premi%C3%A8re_Guerre_mondiale Apocalypse: World War I]]". Period music themes for other countries that shows up were also taken into consideration.

** Freddie's theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_a8oEMnG40 "Escape the Apocalypse"]]. You know there's a CrowningMomentOfAwesome coming when you start hearing it.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: There's tons of it, proving that hope can shine even in the darkest of places. Whether you're Emile helping various people while Reims is being bombed (finding a couple's lost daughter and rescuing various people), seeing Karl interact with his family, or watching Emile and Karl be reunited at Neuve-Chapelle, or helping German soldiers (one saved by Emile in a mine, convinces his comrades to let Emile go).

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The driving sections, each one backed up by MickeyMousing obstacles and hazards... set to ''classical music'' (and one of the tracks used was even from the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VGb1m45P38 Ren and Stimpy show]]).
** The hint system humorously depicts a French messenger pigeon as wearing an Adrien helmet ([[AnachronismStew even while the French soldiers are still wearing kepis]]). That's not the real funny part - that's in using the hint system in the game's first chapter, then getting to the start of the second chapter and seeing the pigeons actually ''all'' wearing Adrien helmets like that in true gameplay.

** Thirdly, an adaptation of [[ComicBook/{{Battle}} Charley's War]] in French's perspective.

* AwesomeMusic: [[ShownTheirWork Accurate period music]] aside, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3rClyAOxwA soundtrack is beautiful as well haunting]].

** Thirdly, an adaptation of [[ComicBook/Battle Charley's War]] in French's perspective.

** Alternatively, the ligne clair art-style and light-hearted adventure-story feel of the early-game make it the best [[Comicbook/{{Tintin}} Tintin]] game there never was.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The driving sections, each one backed up by MickeyMousing obstacles and hazards... set to ''classical music'' (and a track of which was even from the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VGb1m45P38 Ren and Stimpy show]]).

* SpiritualLicensee: Finally! The WarHorse video game you never knew you wanted, only the horse is now a dog.

** Alternatively, the ligne clair art-style and light-hearted adventure-story feel of the early-game make it the best TinTin game there never was.

** Alternatively, the ligne clair art-style and light-hearted adventure-story feel of the early-game make it the best TinTin game there never was.
* UnfortunateImplications: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzYQ8uAqAg0 Historians]] have noted that the game tends to marginalize the presence of French colonial soldiers among the French dead while at the same time emphasizing the Indian soldiers who fought for the British during the war.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The driving sections, each one backed up by MickeyMousing obstacles and hazards... set to ''classical music.''

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_a8oEMnG40 Freddie's theme "Escape the Apocalypse"]]. You know there's a CrowningMomentOfAwesome coming when you start hearing it.

** Alternatively, the ligne clair art-style and light-hearted adventure-story feel of the early-game make it the best TinTin game there never was.

** Karl putting a gas mask on the dog. Or, for that matter, the fact that the Germans even have a gas mask for dogs.

* SpiritualLicensee: Finally! The WarHorse video game you never knew you wanted, only the horse is now a dog.

* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler:Emile's commanding officer's SanitySlippage. By the end, he's a screeching, barely coherent madman mindlessly sending hundreds of innocent people to their deaths for a cause he knows is lost. Only his death at Emile's hand ends the madness, death and destruction. Before Emile comes to hit him with his shovel, he's had to proceed taking cover behind ''piles of corpses''.]]

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: There's tons of it, proving that hope can shine even in the darkest of places. Whether you're Emile helping various people while Reims is being bombed (finding a couple's lost daughter and rescuing various people, seeing Karl interact with his family, or watching Emile and Karl be reunited at Neuve-Chapelle.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The driving sections, each one backed up by MickeyMousing obstacles and hazards...set to ''classical music.''
* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler:Emile's commanding officer's SanitySlippage. By the end, he's a screeching, barely coherent madman mindlessly sending hundreds of innocent people to their deaths for a cause he knows is lost. Only his death at Emile's hand ends the madness, death and destruction.]]

* InternetCounterattack: Happened on the website ''Jeuxvideo.com'' ("Videogames Dot Com"), the biggest videogame database and community of the French Internet. Some people speculated that George have been taken out of the game (see DemotedToExtra on the main page) with the intent of releasing later a DLC containing the true ending of the game (despite nor future new chapter neither DLC having been announced), in which George would be playable. It leads a lot of people to give the game the lowest grade allowed on the website[[note]]0 out of 20[[/note]], while those reviews could basically summarised by "I don't play this game, but I give it a 0 because they removed one of the playable characters in order to sell the ending as a DLC" (said unfair reviews have been eventually deleted). The fact that the game have been made as some companion to the commemorations for World War One beginning probably explains why gamers have been so furious to the idea of a DLC for this specific game.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The driving sections, each one backed up by MickeyMousing obstacles and hazards...set to ''classical music.''

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The driving sections, each one backed up by MickeyMousing obstacles and hazards...set to ''classical music.''
* TearJerker: Considering the [[WorldWarOne subject matter]], this is pretty much inevitable.
** In just the opening, Karl is deported from France and drafted into German army, while Emile is drafted into the French army, and are both unwillingly put into opposing sides of the war.
** When you find out Freddie's backstory, [[spoiler:his wife was killed in a German bombing raid on their wedding day.]]
** While navigating a mine, Emile rescues a trapped German soldier, who returns the favor by distracting his own men to allow Emile to escape. A little while later, [[spoiler:Emile is ordered to help demolish the tunnels, inadvertently killing the same German soldier he had just saved]].
** The nameless German medic who [[HeroicSacrifice disregards his own safety]] by making sure Karl and the dog reach safety first, and is killed by an artillery shell.
** Karl's [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice by giving his gas mask to Marie when she's caught in a gas attack. Karl nearly dies, but gets better thanks to timely intervention from Anna.]]
** And finally, [[spoiler:Emile's execution and his final letter to his daughter.]]

** The nameless German medic who [[HeroicSacrifice disregards his own safety]] by making sure Emile and the dog reach safety first, and is killed by an artillery shell.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The driving sections, each one backed up by MickeyMousing obstacles and hazards...set to ''classical music.''