Almost the perfect sequel but for some reason they completely bungled the tone of the game and removed the einherjar introductions,
What a shame

Pretty much. Damn shame since the gameplay/graphics/music are fantastic. But the retarded anime story/characters brings the whole thing down.

>removed the einherjar introductions
They are completely irrelevant and are only there to get some leveling items when you release them. They have no personality, no story, nothing, two lines of dialog when you find them in the wild. What a waste.

>>11868030 (OP)
I tried to play this but the gamrplay was shit.
I remember hating it after I completed VP (I even 99 all my Einherjars on the double Fenrir fight).
And yes the Einherjars being faceless nobodies didnt help.
Then CotP was an srpg and Elysium soulless action rpg.
Was it so hard to just make VP1 but a new cast?

>2025
>PS1 VP undub is still broken and crashes on multiple places most likely due to cheatprotection

Did Full Metal Alchemist reference this guy?

sad

I disliked pretty much everything. No proper exploration, cringe cast, boring story and confusing gameplay. You have the SE big budget production but the game is a mess and it doesnt help that the ps2 is full of good jrpgs. Maybe the first nuSE game.

>>11868061
Unfortunate. I remember playing it for a few hours and it was pretty cool. Here's hoping someone fixes it.

>>11868030 (OP)
Sad

>>11868030 (OP)
Hard not to feel a little disappointed by the presentation after the first game had some of the best spritework I've ever seen on a home console. The 3D models aren't bad by any means and I know 2D wasn't selling at the time but it still felt like an objective downgrade to me

>>11868030 (OP)

>Almost the perfect seque
lol. Lmao, even

>One of the few games to have native 16:9 support for the PS2
>Ditto for progressive scan support
>Ditto for surround sound
>Looks good unlike most 2.5D games of the era
It's obviously not a low effort game, but man how could they have removed such a integral from the original, the einherjar quest or whatever you'd call it.

Anyone know if it still emulates weird? Was thinking about playing through it on my deck but I've heard its one or the very few ps2 games that just doesnt work on emulators

>>11869513
it always worked but you had to run in software mode or you'd have graphic glitches like in the lost forest at the beginning that had a broken red effect that obstructed visibility. it's fixed now and the effect is properly blended though i don't know about the rest of the game yet.

>>11869513
I finish the game recently on emulator, you have to leave the rendeder at auto, if you try to force opengl or whatever, you'll get glitches. Leaving it at auto I think the emulator chooses vulkan which ran without issues on gameplay. The only graphical issue is that in some cutscenes the DOF effect is broken and can get very strong. It's fine other than that, I played it at 4K internal resolution with Special K HDR retrofit.

>>11869663
>>11870321
Awesome, so it sounds like at some point everything was fixed. Like I said, a while back it was unplayable apparently and would glitch late into the game and kill your playthrough after you invested so many hours (ie:the absolute worst kind of glitch)

Guess this series is back on the menu. Might get to it after FF9.

Has anyone here beat the game through OPL?
I know the compatibility list says activate MODE 3 & 6 but just double checking

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>>11869663
>>11870321
>>11870639
Looks like after doing research it is still borked on pcsx2, particularly during the turgen mine cutscene that freezes the game. You need a very specific ver of pcsx2 to get past this part. Its odd how its a known, discussed issue that still hasn't been fixed.

>>11871427
>You need a very specific ver of pcsx2
I don't remember any freeze at all but I don't have a great memory. Even if does, you could probably skip it, though I still don't remember ever doing that. I play on nightly pcsx2 updated daily.

>>11871697
https://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-Help-softlock-in-Valkyrie-Profile-2-Silmeria

Bizarre. Apparently as of February of this year the issue persisted but perhaps it has been addressed? The wiki still reports the issue as active but in need of retesting

>>11871697
Those portraits are so soulless man.

>>11871896
>3d models look good enough now, let's cut costs
it's so fucking lazy

>>11871958
No reason not to use 3D portraits when the models themselves are 3D. VP1 kept it consistent as well.

>>11871967
>No reason not to use 3D portraits when the models themselves are 3D
what a reductive take, you'd fit right in a modern triple A company.

>>11871973
So defensive. You'd fit right in with the retro slop companies.

>>11871982
>retro slop
did you get lost on your way to /v/? Also yeah i'd happily join a "retro slop" company, I'll the next open world niggercreed to you.

>>11871760
Maybe, honestly I can't remember. If it did freezed in a cutscene, I probably just reloaded and skipped it since you can skip them all if you want. But I did finished it on the latest nightly build, didn't have to download some ancient build or anything.

>>11871967
The reason is there >>11871697
Looks like shit.
Specially when VP1 could have easily just have the faces in the character status screen but instead used full body artwork.
VP2 looks lazy by comparison.

>>11870735
pls respond

>>11873276
Which compatibility lists are you seeing? Last time I checked, they were from 2017 or so and half the games were already fixed in the latest official opl builds. Rule of thumb is to just try a game with default settings and just look at the compatibility lists if you see any problem.

>>11872198
i fucking love the menu in this game, one of the series best menus imo.

>>11873284
I can't really use that mindset in this case because in chapter 4-5 there is this cheat protection that gets triggered and corrupts all Valkyrie Profile 2 saves
Is this list still relevant?
https://www.ps2-home.com/forum/page/opl-game-compatibility-list-1

>>11868049
I want to add that VP2 einherjar have very developed backgrounds and connections in their bios even get bonuses if you put them togheter.

>>11873291
Also call med ESL I don't care what the fuck does this even mean?
>You may want to turn on mode 3 and 6 to make sure the anti cheat will not corrupt your save for Valkyrie Profile 2 Silmeria [NTSC] just a warning been reported before that it can do that but especially mode 6 some have reported with mode 3 off getting a past the problem

Should I have both enabled or not?

>>11871967
Nah, it's pretty lazy. Not even the 3 3d rpg's kemco did does that.

>>11873297
https://www.ps2-home.com/forum/app.php/page/opl_modes

In my experience with messing with modes, mode 6 is the biggest cancer that make many games not work. The reason is that OPL has a in game reset plugin that's enabled by default, and if a game already has one natively, they conflict. It's safe to set Mode 6 to ON on all games, so it disables the opl plugin.

Yeah I know, it must be set to ON in order to disable it, OPL is retarded that way.

>>11873312
>Yeah I know, it must be set to ON in order to disable it, OPL is retarded that way.
Nice thanks you are a life saver.

Funny seeing people scrambling to run this in OPL and PCSX2. Meanwhile I've had a copy of this game for like 20 years and never even opened it - still sealed. Seeing people shit on the game also makes me even less interested.

I liked VP1 a lot - although I don't know if I'd call it a great game. There's so much Prima Guide bullshit you have to do to get the real ending. And if you don't know that you have to do it you'll just get the pleb endings which from what I understand are just terrible. And then that's it - you have to start the whole game if you wanna get the real ending. Just a terrible design choice. It's been a long time so maybe I'm misremembering something but pretty sure I'm not

It was pretty good!

>>11868063
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