The world of the game, effectively and straightforwardly introduced by the prologue, is very gloomy. It is quite different in the case of Valkyrie Profile. Often associated with the Vikings, this universe, although violent, fascinates many people, who would almost want to live there. The authors have totally appropriated this mythology, even if it means betraying it the better to surprise. Yet it is indeed in the universe of Nordic mythology that the story unfolds.

Very situated in time (the sets and equipment), in an often fantasized mythological setting, this painting of humanity does not seem to belong to any era, however, which is purely universal. This mortuary succession resembles a landscape of the human condition. The scenario can therefore initially be summed up in a series of deaths, not exactly glamorous and commercial as a principle. Nevertheless, even if it has provoked the rejection of certain players, it is this refusal of any compromise that gives coherence to the whole, totally far from the standards of the Japanese RPG, and which makes Valkyrie Profile an extraordinary game in the sense proper of the term. The course of the game, in particular, seems completely unbalanced, a simple succession of scripted presentations of characters and places without any real objective other than to overcome them. This seemingly minimalist scenario to say the least is in fact the basis of a very strong radical concept from which each compartment of the game is defined, otherwise it would be wobbly.

It is these purifications that provide the places in which the characters fight. The player controls Lenneth and alternates between recruiting Einherjar and purifying, that is, eradicating undead.

This starting point constitutes for a certain time the only flesh of the scenario. As a result, Lenneth, one of the three Valkyries in Odin’s service, is given the mission to travel to Midgard in order to recruit Einherjars and send them to Freya. The Ragnarök – conflict between the gods of Asgard and the ice giants – is approaching.

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