Thematics: Valkyrie Profile
Posted by CmdrKing on April 15, 2011Valkyrie Profile: a gameplay-driven yarn featuring loosely adapted Norse Mythology detailing the events of Ragnarok. We take the helm of Lenneth, middle sister of the Valkyries, as she searches Midgard for worthy souls and trains them for the coming battle in Jotunheim. But with the evil pedo wizards, the business end of Odin’s dickery, the fire giants and watching people die and slaying vampires, what’s Valkyrie Profile trying to say? What’s the idea at the center of its unique take on a story older than the written word? That’s the task for Thematics, a little experiment I’m running in which we’ll be applying something approximating literary analysis to RPG plots and seeing if there’s anything left.
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