Valkyrie Profile: Silmeria: Difference between revisions

Silmeria, it turns out, was sealed by Odin well before Ragnarok into Princess Alicia, sole heir to the grand kingdom of Dipan. However, the sealing process was incomplete, and Silmeria was still able to communicate with Alicia. This is particularly problematic as Silmeria became aware of certain plans Odin had, and was out to stop them before they could come to fruition. Meanwhile, both Odin and Alicia's father, King Barbarossa, are proceeding with plans concerning both the mortal realm and Asgard, which could potentially accelerate the timetable for Ragnarok.

 

 

* [[A God Am I]]:

** {{spoiler|Lezard}} after {{spoiler|killing Odin and stealing Gungnir}}. Additionally, {{spoiler|Rufus}} techically counts as well, as he {{spoiler|takes Odin's place in Asgard}} at the end of the game.

** Or just read [http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps2/931102-valkyrie-profile-2-silmeria/faqs/52920 this].

* [[Another Dimension]]: Creating one of these turns out to be the goal of a couple big players in the game.

* [[Becoming the Mask]]: Happens to {{spoiler|Hrist, who's disguised as Leone. She's only in disguise to spy on them and steal the Dragon Orb, but she gains an empathy for Alicia she didn't have before and tries to spare her life}}.

** Sword: Arngrim and Dylan. Most of the other Heavy Warrior type Einherjar follow suit.

** Spear: The Nibelung Valesti's (except Alicia's first one, which instead uses the crystals she normally uses to aid her platforming for combat purposes).

* [[Bonus Dungeon]]: The Seraphic Gate, though unlike the other games in the series this one's located on the world map instead of through the start menu.

* [[Broken Bridge]]

* [[The Cameo]]: Early in the game, you meet a young, talented mage named Lezard Valeth, who's a reference to the character of the same name in the previous game, only this time he's a kind, courteous and chivalrous ally of the party. {{spoiler|Except he's not. He really ''is'' the same as the previous game, and it's all an act he's keeping up as part of his [[Time Travel]] evil plan.}}

* [[Casual Danger Dialog]]: In addition to the standard battle quotes, if you put Einherjar into your party that knew each other in life, they might have a brief conversation at the start of a battle. Some are heartwarming bits where sisters reunite, and others are more amusing as enemies who killed each other basically go, "Er, no hard feelings, right?"

* [[Chewing the Scenery]]: Hrist when she performs Nibelung Valesti.

** Lezard, once he shows his true colors.

* [[Continuity Nod]]: When you visit Dipan in Chapter 4, Hrist notes that she can sense Lenneth there. In truth, she is not sensing Lenneth from that time, but Lenneth from the first game who was sent back in time by the three wizards while exploring the ruins of Dipan.

* [[Critical Existence Failure]]: Semi-averted for enemies -- you can target pieces of an enemy, and you can break off their body parts with enough damage. In addition to producing more items, this can result in enemies being unable to move or attack (and thus easy prey). Played straight with the player characters and humanoid enemies, {{spoiler|except Lezard, who can be dismembered like any other enemy, but he just regenerates any missing pieces at the end of the combo.}}

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: {{spoiler|Turns out that Brahms is mostly interested in keeping Midgard in one piece... he just became King of the Vampires to do so.}}

* [[Disc One Nuke]]: If Dylan, Leone, Arngrim and {{spoiler|Lezard}} leave the party at a certain level, it's possible to get some extremely powerful weapons.

** To elaborate; you can get a bunch of game-breaking weapons that will last you all the way to the endgame if you manage to get the above-mentioned characters to absurdly high levels (40-50 depending on character, around twice as high as you'd normally excepted to be at that point in the game, although the accessories you get by grinding {{spoiler|Lezard}} are hardly useful). These weapons are so hideously broken that you can one-shot every storyline boss with a single combo without even trying.

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Alicia's mother}} after Dipan falls. And then {{spoiler|Alicia}} at the top of Yggdrasil, when {{spoiler|Rufus}} seems to have died. Only {{spoiler|Rufus letting her know he's alive}} prevents it.

* [[Enemy Mine]]: Alicia manages to get {{spoiler|Hrist and Brahms}} to work together to keep {{spoiler|Lezard from destabilizing both Midgard and Asgard and get Lenneth's soul back from him.}}

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Lezard Valeth... It's not like he did anything obscene or disturbing in any Tri-Ace game he's ever appeared in.

** Also, {{spoiler|Arngrim}} is forced into this; {{spoiler|Hrist kills him and transforms him into her einherjar, thereby forcing him to fight Alicia}}. This is reversed later on, though.

* [[Flat Earth Atheist]]: One NPC mentions early on that she only believes what she sees with her own eyes, and this apparently does not include the gods, despite the supernatural being fairly commonplace in the setting. She changes her tune, however {{spoiler|after the gods flatten Dipan, after which she decides she's definitely going to the chapel from now on.}}

* [[Foreshadowing]]: The first half of the game is ''filled'' with {{spoiler|Leone, Lezard, and Rufus}} giving each other looks that get a ''lot'' more significant once you know what the twists in the plot are.

** {{spoiler|Alicia merges with the three Valkyrie sisters at the end of the game to form an incredibly powerful, if short lived, being.}}

** The original plan was for Brahms to do it, what would that have looked like? A gorilla in a skirt and breastplate?

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Eventually, Hrist comes around.}} It's that or an [[Enemy Mine]], depending on your viewpoint.

* [[Karmic Death]]: {{spoiler|Karma finally catches up to Lezard Valeth.}}

** Compared to its [[Valkyrie Profile|predecessor]], the first half or so of the game is much more colorful and cheerful, with bright colors all around, and generally cheery music in towns as opposed to the drab colors and depressing score of the original game. Things take a nosedive in the latter parts of the game, of course.

** Interestingly, the [[Lighter and Softer]] feel is justified in-game. {{spoiler|Odin's theft of the Dragon Orb}} is directly responsible for the world becoming [[Crapsack World|crappier]] by the time the first game happens.

** [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]], as Tri-Ace took a look at how lousy archers were in the first game and seriously built up the class. Now, they're much more accurate to go with their more-hits-per-attack, so the fact that their hits do less damage than others' strikes is quickly mitigated. And as the game is heavily [[Combo]]-based, and their Soul Crushes do the most hits, they basically went from "Why would anyone ever use an archer?" in the first to "Why doesn't everyone use multiple archers?" in the second. Using them is also necessary if you want to perform an infinite combo, thanks to one of their attacks that hits large enemies repeatedly and recovers more AP than it costs to use.

** Played straight with the mages, however. In the first game, magic was very powerful, likely to make up for the fact that mages had to recharge after each cast. Their Soul Crush finishing moves in particular went from the most powerful attacks you could do for the vast majority of the game to about the same strength as anyone else's Soul Crush or, in some cases, weaker.

* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]

* [[Preexisting Encounters]]

* [[Rage Against the Heavens]]: The start of Barbarossa's plan. Also, one chapter of the game has Alicia and Rufus {{spoiler|storming into Asgard and just about wiping out the Aesir that try to stop them.}}

* [[Randomly Drops]]: Most annoyingly, the recruitable characters are completely random, which can be annoying if you're hoping to get a particular mage (and thus a particular Great Magic spell).

* [[Slouch of Villainy]]: Odin's standard pose.

* [[Soul Jar]]: Alicia's old einherjar are trapped in their weapons, and can be recruited by letting them out.

** Actually they are trapped in Silmeria, who is trapped in Alicia (russian doll Soul Jars?) The weapons they once owned act as physical conduits to release them.

* [[Spam Attack]]: The game's combo system encourages you to carefully time your attacks to conserve AP and the number of attacks, and to make sure they all land. But when Break Mode activates, you have infinite AP and attacks for about 10 seconds, which will result in this.

* [[Surprisingly Easy Mini Quest]]: In Yggdrasil, at one point, Alicia is left as the only available story-centric party member, and has to backtrack through the place to retrieve something. Probably just in case you dismissed all your Einherjar, all the monsters and bosses are significantly nerfed. But chances are you'll have at least a full party's worth of Einherjar, meaning you're going to [[Curb Stomp Battle]] anything up to and including the area's boss.

* [[Tear Jerker]]

* [[Timed Mission]]: Reaching the Rainbow Bridge {{spoiler|before Rufus' body fades away.}}

* [[Timey-Wimey Ball]]: {{spoiler|Lezard tries to go back in time and take possession of Silmeria, so he can make his own World Tree, and thereby force Lenneth to become his bride. Lenneth the Creator, from after the first game, goes back to try and stop him... it only gets more confusing from there.}}

** Complete with an upgrade to {{spoiler|her}} [[Limit Break]] a few gameplay hours later and generally more [[Badass]] battle-quotes.

* [[Vendor Trash]]: Certain items are available only if you sell the right amounts of this to vendors. Plus, what trash you get depends on what you break off of enemies. While the "trash" items ''do'' give stat boosts when equipped, they tend to be non-runic (and thus don't contribute to the linked-equipment boosts), and the items you can get by selling them tend to be powerful weapons and accessories, although some of them are still worth using as accessories since they give large stat multipliers.

** It probably refers to her {{spoiler|returning to her own [[Alternate Timeline|timeline]].}}

** Also, the game confirms that the original game's [[Golden Ending]] is canon, so what happened to Lucian?

*** While he doesn't appear, some of Lenneth's lines when she first appears (e.g."fight for the ones I love") clearly refer to him so it's highly likely she just didn't bring him along this time.

*** [[Wild Mass Guessing|Possibly]] he's simply staying at home to watch the kids (and judging from the above line, this isn't too far-fetched at all). Still, his complete absence -- he's not even mentioned by name -- is kind of a let-down for people who liked him in the first game. But well, that's what happens when you're not as [[Badass]] as Arngrim.

** Then later on, this kind and friendly version of Lezard turns out to be {{spoiler|the same sick bastard from the original game, he steals Silmeria, and ''eats Odin''.}}

* [[The Worf Effect]]: This is the second time in the series that {{spoiler|Odin, father of the gods and ruler of the heavens}} is killed to show powerful the real [[Big Bad]] is.

* [[Wrecked Weapon]]: In Chapter 5, Alicia's sword is broken during the cutscene when {{spoiler|Lezard reveals his villainous intentions.}} Of course, [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|the sword is just fine]] by the time you get to the next battle.

* [[Yandere]]: {{spoiler|Lezard. It should be obvious to the people who played the first game.}}

 

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