Valkyria Chronicles 2: World Artworks (VALKYRIA CHRONICLES SC)

Awesome artbook, it tells you the whole story of the game.

As a big fan of the VC series, I had been waiting a long time to get around to buying this book and i'm very happy with what i got. Looking through it reminded me of playing the game all those years ago.The artbook arrived a day earlier than I had expected (which was only a few days already). It was packaged nicely without any damage. The book itself is what was advertised. Great purchase.

Not as impressive as the first. More focus on all of the character entries than the rest of the game.

An absolut must for Valkyria Chronicles fans, japanese RPG gamers and doujinshi connoiseur. The superb illustrations from Raita and the "realistic fantasy" world of VP2 comes to life in bright colors. 100% reccomended.

I was absolutely gobsmacked by the AMAZING artwork and the amount of detail put into UDON's 1st book on the Valkyria Chronicles series, which I purchased last year.This second installment, which I had eagerly pre-ordered and just recieved, builds even more on the 1st by exploring the second game, Valkyria Chronicles 2 and the wonderfully imagined military college at Lanseal and it's cadets in Class G as they fight the Gallian Civil War. These games are a hidden diamond among todays high-budget 'all action, no story' games and unfortunately have become understated and overshadowed, SEGA didnt help things by making VC2 a Playstation Portable exclusive, which is a shame. BUT if you are a die-hard VC fan (like me, in case it wasnt obvious!), you could do no better than purchasing this book!It includes promotional art, character development and back-stories, illustrations of pretty much everything you see in the game, and many things you DON'T see! Detailed illustrations of the Uniforms and weapon's which will no-doubt be a god-send for Cosplayers! Also included are timelines, cutscene storyboards a REALLY indepth interview with the game developers and a comprehensive glossary covering all manner of info from the first 2 games. And all of these have been faithfully annotated and translated by UDON with great detail!For £25 you cant go wrong!Also by buying this book you'll be showing UDON and SEGA that VC still has a loyal fanbase, and so future installments in the series will be more likely, VC3 wasnt released in the West but UDON has shown interest in translating the VC3 book if the sales from this volume are good! Without meaning to plug, if you ARE a big VC fan and you DO want to help campaign for some sort of Western release of VC3, the 'Gallian Liberation Front' is the group with this aim! I won't put links but they can be found easily online.A fantastic book thats the perfect partner for a brilliant series of games I can't recommend highly enough! I wish I had more than 5 stars to give it!

The media could not be loaded.  Since I already have the Japanese edition of the book (ISBN 4047268577), I borrowed the English edition for this review.Valkyria Chronicles 2: World Artworks is presented in a similar fashion as the first art book, Valkyria Chronicles Design Archive.It's thinner at 304 pages which is still quite thick. The binding looks good enough. It doesn't have the dust jacket as the Japanese edition.The video game Valkyria Chronicles II is only for the PlayStation Portable, which unfortunately I don't have so I can't comment on the completeness of the content.Half the book is on the characters and the other half covers art for the tanks, weapons, backgrounds, storyboards and other miscellaneous art. What's missing is the narrated guide to the story. The artistic style is similar to the first book.The character art section has the character profiles, their roles in the game, the designs including uniform changes. There are notes and little details relating to the game - basically things like how they relate to other game characters. There's even more character sketches at the back of the book.The Weapons and Machines section covers the tanks, armed weapons and the soldier armor and equipment. The tanks beautifully designed and painted, as usual. As for the weapons, they are cool but aren't too many and the designs are minor iterations to those from the first game.The background art are paintings and sketches with commentary. The places covered include the towns, buildings and various rooms. The architecture and set designs are beautiful. They are printed a bit small though.It's a wonderful book but if you already have the first art book, everything feels awfully familiar. If you can only get one book, you should get the first one. Valkyria Chronicles fans should of course get both.(There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)