Showing posts with label WWI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WWI. Show all posts

The Great War, A Great Story, An Incredibly Great Game

Tuesday, July 1, 2014


I use Steam fairly sporadically and probably only own about half a dozen games on it, all of them fantasy RPGs, so when it recommended a little game to me called "Valiant Hearts: The Great War / Soldats Inconnus  Memoires de la Grande Guerre" I began to wonder if there was a tiny psychic living inside the magical box in my living room. "How could you know that I'm a history buff with a particular interest in the World Wars?" thought I.

A little breakdown of what this game actually is:

Valiant Hearts is a side-scrolling comic book style adventure set in World War I. At first I worried that this almost light-hearted portrayal would fail to do the setting justice. I soon learned that this "softer" style of art was probably the only way they could convey the story without reducing would be players to tear-soaked wreckage.