Comments on: Watch – Valkyrie of the Battlefield December Trailer

By: DAV3

DAV3 — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 06:18:43 +0000

Looks like something people may want to buy a PS3 for.

By: EvilAkito

EvilAkito — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:59:09 +0000

Well, I definitely like the style. I don’t plan on dropping the cash for a PS3, but the game does look pretty cool.

By: Atlus Shrugged

Atlus Shrugged — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:00:49 +0000

PSN Exclusive, BOOO!! HISSS!!

(also, I’m with the above poster, does Noun know what pseudo, elitist, or diatribe means?)

By: Man Ray

Man Ray — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:12:10 +0000

Pseudo-elitist diatribe?

By: Noun

Noun — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:08:32 +0000

Regardless of visual influence(s) and pseudo-elitist diatribe, this will probably be the game to nudge me toward the purchase of a PS3.

By: Man Ray

Man Ray — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:46:12 +0000

@ Aoishi00 & John H.

If you read the November 2007 issue of Play and head to the Japanese section of the magazine, you’ll read an interview with the game’s producer (Ryutaro Nonaka) and director (Shuntaro Tanako) who both say that Miyazaki’s art style and visual aesthetic were a big influence in the game’s design (something Kid Fenris just pointed out). I don’t think it’s wrong to say the game looks like a Miyazaki film because it really does.

By: Kid Fenris

Kid Fenris — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:38:10 +0000

“And Iâ€™m unsure about the appropriateness of copying Miyazakiâ€™s look and applying it to non-Miyazaki content.”

I don’t think it’s a direct rip of the Ghibli look. It instead draws on the same gently rendered pastoral element that shows up in a lot of Miyazaki films, though the trailer also seems perfectly in line with the violent warfare seen in Miyazaki’s Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

Still, if Valkyrie of the Battlefield has a direct anime counterpart, I’d say it’s closer to the not-quite-WWII-Europe atmosphere seen in series like Fullmetal Alchemist and Pumpkin Scissors.

By: Aoshi00

Aoshi00 — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:07:09 +0000

I’m not sure if this looks like Miyazaki/Ghibli’s style.. to me it’s similar to Eternal Sonata’s more than anything and I love it. I wonder if this or Operation Darkness is more fun, as I’m interested in both.

By: John H.

John H. — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:39:51 +0000

While, if one’s to copy something with one’s art design, there are lots of worse things to copy than Miyazaki, this does highlight how video game creation is a fundamentally derivative process these days.

And I’m unsure about the appropriateness of copying Miyazaki’s look and applying it to non-Miyazaki content.