巴伦西亚传说：索菲亚的重生 Valencia Saga:Sophia's rebirth

better than SoV

Short Version: • Valencia Saga is an independent fan-game base on Fire Emblem Gaiden from the NES, expanding the original story and scope of the maps, while leaving out the free exploration. • The game is made with SRPG Studio and features a mix of stock and custom assets with an amateur english translation that has missing bits, weird grammar and spelling issues here and there. • The game is really challenging, slow peaced and long with chapters lasting up to 4 hours to beat, but features an easy mode without permadeath for mid-core fans of the genre. Long Ass Review: The presentation is pretty decent, the game maps and sprites look like they are from the 16-bit era but without the limits in color palette, and the menus and portraits looks beautiful and modern. If the maps and sprites look familiar to you, that would be a side effect of the game being made with SRPG Studio using a fair bit of the stock resources and custom assets made to fit into the same style to keep everything cohesive. On the negative side, the translation is incomplete and broken at times but still everything is readable enough… but this is something to be expected since it was made by friends …

honestly the best fire emblem in the series

Valencia Saga: Sophia's Rebirth is an old-school strategy RPG built around demanding turn-based battles, careful unit positioning, and the satisfaction of overcoming encounters through planning rather than reflexes. Developed and published by 清之鸣, it is a largely solo-created project that spent several years in development. Its independent origins are apparent throughout the experience, both in its modest presentation and in the highly personal approach it takes toward classic tactical RPG design. Rather than attempting to modernize every convention of the genre, it embraces many of the mechanics and ideas that made traditional grid-based strategy games appealing in the first place. The story takes place on a continent divided by conflict between two nations. Against this backdrop, two central characters become involved in a journey that expands beyond their immediate circumstances and develops into a struggle concerning the fate of the people around them. The premise relies on familiar fantasy RPG themes involving warfare, responsibility, companionship, and heroic intervention. It is not necessarily the most innovative narrative framework, but it serves its purpose by establishin…

Wow. This game was a real experience. I played it only on "normal" difficulty, and that was already among the hardest SRPGs I've played (as well as one of the longest)... I can only imagine how much nuttier "hard" difficulty could be. For those who don't know: this is a fanmade remake of Fire Emblem Gaiden (FE2), created in SRPG Studio. In a nutshell: this game is everything FE15 (Shadows of Valentia) should've been. Whereas FE15 did nothing to improve the soporific gameplay of its source material, Valencia Saga added in tons of well-crafted battles, items galore, and fairly unique units to play around with. You will definitely need to approach every battle with lots of thought and finesse if you want to survive! Certain battles took me over 50 in-game turns, and the final battle took me 4 hours of real-time, spread across 80 in-game turns. Valencia Saga contains 64 main chapters + dozens of optional side missions; to say that it's long is an understatement. My playthrough lasted 45 hours, which is longer than even Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth! Valencia Saga boasts more content than most AAA SRPGs, and the depth of strategy is superior to anything on the market, to boot. The …

Not recommended. There are major game breaking glitches that still exists and it looks like the Devs have abandoned the game. The game otherwise was well made by people who are clearly fans of fire emblem games. The major game breaking glitches that currently exist are inventories not saving correctly (so there is a chance that secret items you worked hard for go missing) and faulty RNG calculations (skills activating way more than they should be).