Three Moves Ahead 448: Valkyria Chronicles 4

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

Video Games, Games, War, War Games, Strategy, Games & Hobbies, Strategy Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2018

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Sega's not-really-World-War-II set in kinda-Europe returns in Valkyria Chronicles 4. Valkyria Chronicles marries tactical military gameplay with anime style and story. This extra long episode of 3MA, which features Rob, Heather Alexandra, and Austin Walker, covers a wide range of topics: Austin's definitive thesis on anime, Rob's complex feelings about Cowboy Bebop, problematic butt pats, the first episode of The Shield, and occasionally Valkyria Chronicles 4.

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0:00.0	Good evening, you are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney.
0:03.4	Tonight, we welcome back our friend and reigning subterfuge champion, Katakus, Heather Alexandra.
0:09.4	I do one thing correct, and it becomes the thing I'm known for.
0:13.7	Well, it's also the triumph of yours that I most envy.
0:18.1	I cannot stop thinking about it.
0:20.3	It's like, I feel like Salieri, as I said. Yeah. Oh, it is
0:25.0	miraculous. She just played, she played one game, one game, and straight to the promised land.
0:31.1	I was very lucky. We also welcome back, Austin Peak anime Walker. That's me.
0:38.2	I played one game of Subterfuge also had a bit of a breakdown and left academia.
0:45.2	Okay.
0:46.1	Well, that's...
0:46.9	Wow.
0:48.2	That's...
0:48.6	You can read about it on Paste.com.
0:51.5	It's, you know, that's where you can find my review of subterfuge and also formalism in video games.
0:57.6	Subterfuge, a game we play for content.
1:01.6	Man, there's two things that, like, I could never recommend someone in good conscience, and that would be graduate school and subterfuge.
1:11.4	Like, my answer to both of those is like there are some rewards.
1:15.2	You really must ask yourself if it is worth it.
1:18.5	Yeah.
1:19.6	Yeah.
1:20.7	But speaking of things that are definitely worth it,
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