Dark Rose Valkyrie
"Defend humanity from the Chimera Virus as the new leader of Japan’s covert military agency (ACID) in Dark Rose Valkyrie! Featuring work from “Tales of” scenario writer Takumi Miyajima and “Tales of” character…
Dark Rose Valkyrie is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Compile Heart, released 21 July 2016 on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $2.99 at Fanatical. The main story takes about 28 hrs to finish.
What Dark Rose Valkyrie is
Dark Rose Valkyrie is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Compile Heart and released in 2016. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
"1929 - It was the year of the outbreak. In masses, normal people were transforming into inhuman creatures called Chimeras. The cause: a mysterious virus brought to earth by a meteorite, known as the Black Garnet, which crashed there long ago. The Chimera Virus in its beginning stages would wipe out 3% of the world's entire population. In a state of national emergency, Japan became a closed nation in an attempt to stave off the pandemic. A covert military agency known as ACID was established to combat the remaining Chimeras in country. Time passes. ACID establishes a special unit known as Special Force Valkyrie in order to eradicate the Chimera that threaten humanity to this day."
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Dark Rose Valkyrie holds a critic score of 59 out of 100. That places it above 12% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 9 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 28 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $2.99, that works out to about $0.11 per hour of the main story.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $2.99 at Fanatical, 85% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Dark Rose Valkyrie launched on 21 July 2016, within three weeks of No Man's Sky, Abzu, Overcooked! and Starbound. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: No Man's Sky, Abzu, Overcooked!, Starbound.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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