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* MildlyMilitary: Emile, a French soldier, gets away with being out of uniform and not carrying a rifle rather a lot.
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* MildlyMilitary: Emile, a French soldier, gets away with being out of uniform and not carrying a rifle rather a lot. Ditto Freddie, an American enlisted in the French army who frequently leads infantry charges or infiltrates behind enemy lines armed with nothing but his fists and any explosives he can get his hands on in the field.
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* TwoFistedTales: deconstructs this by placing it in the real-world context of World War 1. The early game focuses on the RagtagBunchOfMisfits tracking down a [[AristocratsAreEvil Diabolical German Baron]] who has kidnapped TheChick's ReluctantMadScientist father and used his genius to engineer devastating super-weapons in the name of German Imperialism. However, even once the apparent BigBad is defeated, the War itself continues on and the game shifts focus to the GrayAndGreyMorality of the situation and the extreme personal tole of the war on the protagonists.
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* MildlyMilitary: Emile, a French soldier, gets away with being out of uniform and not carrying a rifle rather a lot.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Despite being fairly historically accurate, there's more than a few licenses taken that are beyond simple RuleOfCool, such as tanks appearing before their historical debut (and shooting down airplanes to boot). For instance, what appears to be a translation error in the in-game narration and material states casualties as deaths; i.e. 700,000 dead at Verdun, as opposed to 700,000 dead, wounded, and captured, the actual historical number. Oddly, this makes the already infamously bloody WorldWarI seem even more gruesome than it actually was.
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* WarIsHell: Oh ''boy''. Any history buffs know that World War I was a terrifying war for a number of reasons, including heavy disease, awful living conditions, the every encroaching fear of getting your head blown to bits by a sniper, the loneliness, the huge advances in technology such as the machine gun and flamethrowers, and most of all, the fear of never seeing your loved ones again. ''Valiant'' portrays this trope in all it's awful, sickening glory, and doesn't shirk away from the more human aspects of it either.
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* WarIsHell: Oh ''boy''. Any history buffs know that World War I was a terrifying war for a number of reasons, including heavy disease, awful living conditions, the every encroaching fear of getting your head blown to bits by a sniper, the loneliness, the huge advances in technology such as the machine gun and flamethrowers, and most of all, the fear of never seeing your loved ones again. ''Valiant'' portrays this trope in all it's awful, sickening glory, and doesn't shirk away from the more human aspects of it either.either.
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: After the tunnel segment at Verdun, Emile refuses to be decorated for the heavy losses he helped inflict on the Germans and actually ''burns the medals he got''.
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: After the tunnel segment at Verdun, Emile refuses to be decorated for the heavy losses he helped inflict on the Germans and actually ''burns the medals he got''.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Finally! The WarHorse video game you never knew you wanted, only the horse is now a dog.
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* DrillSergeantNasty: The officer in charge of Emile's regiment seems like this at first, continually yelling at you to go through the sequence of getting kitted out, though he does give you praise when you do each section of training correctly. [[spoiler:It gets to the point where Emile has to kill him.]]
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* DrillSergeantNasty: The officer in charge of Emile's regiment seems like this at first, continually yelling at you to go through the sequence of getting kitted out, though he does give you praise when you do each section of training correctly. [[spoiler:It gets to the point where Emile has to kill him.]]
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* AmbidextrousSprite: Zig-zagged; Most of the characters are roughly symmetrical with the item their carrying always showing for accessibility. At the same time Karl averts the trope with the things on his belt and Anna plays it straight with her satchel always facing the player.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: Varies in form and importance, but one in particular that sticks out is Emile's use of a serving ladle.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: Varies in form and importance, but one in particular that sticks out is Emile's use of a serving ladle. ladle.
* KleptomaniacHero: No one seems to notice or care that Anna, fixes, but ultimately steals a French taxi.
* KleptomaniacHero: No one seems to notice or care that Anna, fixes, but ultimately steals a French taxi.
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* BizarroEpisode: [[spoiler: Anna drives to the frontlines to the tune of the Can-Can.]]
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Valiant Hearts: The Great War is a side-scrolling 2D adventure game from Ubisoft Montpellier, set during the Great War; otherwise known as WorldWarI. The story tells the tale of a number of people who are involved in the war, and their points of view: A drafted German soldier, his stepfather, a Belgian nurse, a rescue dog, an American soldier, and more. While most of the games in the [[TheSeventhGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames previous generation of gaming]] about war have glorified it (save for [[SpecOpsTheLine a few,]]) Valiant Hearts aims to tell the true impact of war, and how it tears apart lives, and forms blood brothers on the smoke-filled battlefields of Western Europe. It also aims to educate in several facts about the war, and teach people that while WorldWarII had a very clear, defined [[BlackAndWhiteMorality morality]], World War I did [[GreyAndGreyMorality not]], and that, at many times, the kindness in the human heart was overrode by the horrors of war.
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Valiant Hearts: The Great War is a side-scrolling 2D adventure game from Ubisoft Montpellier, set during the Great War; otherwise known as WorldWarI. The story tells the tale of a number of people who are involved in the war, and their points of view: A drafted German soldier, his stepfather, father-in-law, a Belgian nurse, a rescue dog, an American soldier, and more. While most of the games in the [[TheSeventhGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames previous generation of gaming]] about war have glorified it (save for [[SpecOpsTheLine a few,]]) Valiant Hearts aims to tell the true impact of war, and how it tears apart lives, and forms blood brothers on the smoke-filled battlefields of Western Europe. It also aims to educate in several facts about the war, and teach people that while WorldWarII had a very clear, defined [[BlackAndWhiteMorality morality]], World War I did [[GreyAndGreyMorality not]], and that, at many times, the kindness in the human heart was overrode by the horrors of war.
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* RedShirtArmy: Don't get attached to any friendly soldier you don't know the name of.
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* ActionGirl: While she rarely if ever actually fights anybody, Anna is a nurse who isn't afraid of driving taxis through war zones in order to care for the wounded.
* GaulsWithGrenades: Many. Emile, actually, is a member of the French Military.
* GrayAndGrayMorality: Goes out of it's way to show that WWI was decidedly *not* a showdown between good and evil.
* GrayAndGrayMorality: Goes out of it's way to show that WWI was decidedly *not* a showdown between good and evil.
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* MilestoneCelebration: For 100th anniversary of WWI, although "celebration" is certainly not the right word, given the fact it's one of the most traumatic events in human history. The game was released just days before the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and done with the cooperation and endorsement of France's commission on remembrances of the 100th anniversary of WWI.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: Varies in form and importance, but one in particular that sticks out is Emile's use of a serving ladle.
* MilestoneCelebration: For the 100th anniversary of WWI, although "celebration" is certainly not the right word, given the fact it's one of the most traumatic events in human history. The game was released just days before the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and done with the cooperation and endorsement of France's commission on remembrances of the 100th anniversary of WWI.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler: Freddie does one to Von Dorf and only spares him because he feels like it'd make him no worse than Von Dorf himself.]]
* MilestoneCelebration: For the 100th anniversary of WWI, although "celebration" is certainly not the right word, given the fact it's one of the most traumatic events in human history. The game was released just days before the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and done with the cooperation and endorsement of France's commission on remembrances of the 100th anniversary of WWI.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler: Freddie does one to Von Dorf and only spares him because he feels like it'd make him no worse than Von Dorf himself.]]
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* HeroicDog: Walt, of course, most notably when he [[spoilers: runs through miles of war-torn France to get nurse Anna to come save Karl, who has been exposed to poison gas.]]
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* HeroicDog: Walt, of course, most notably when he [[spoilers: [[spoiler: runs through miles of war-torn France to get nurse Anna to come save Karl, who has been exposed to poison gas.]]
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* HeroicDog: Walt, of course, most notably when he [[spoilers: runs through miles of war-torn France to get nurse Anna to come save Karl, who has been exposed to poison gas.]]
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* CanineCompanion: Walt, the lovable and smart Doberman Pinscher.
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* AirborneAircraftCarrier: A Zeppelin in the game is depicted as having this. This is TruthInTelevision, although perhaps a little too early in the war.
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* CoolAirship: Von Dorf's Zeppelin.
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* FakingTheDeath: [[spoiler: Karl fakes his death by swapping his dog tag with that of a dead man]]
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* UnfriendlyFire: [[spoiler:Emile has to kill his officer to stop his stupidity.]]
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* DrillSergeantNasty: The officer in charge of Emile's regiment seems like this at first, continually yelling at you to go through the sequence of getting kitted out, though he does give you praise when you do each section of training correctly.
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* DrillSergeantNasty: The officer in charge of Emile's regiment seems like this at first, continually yelling at you to go through the sequence of getting kitted out, though he does give you praise when you do each section of training correctly. [[spoiler:It gets to the point where Emile has to kill him.]]
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* OnlyOneName: We only learn the last name of one playable character- [[spoiler:Emile Chaillon.]]
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* MilestoneCelebration: For 100th anniversary of WWI, although "celebration" is certainly not the right word, given the fact it's one of the most traumatic events in human history. The game was released just days before the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and done with the cooperation and endorsement of France's commission on remembrances of the 100th anniversary of WWI.
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** [[AllThereInTheManual The official website]] says Freddie is Louisiana Creole.
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* EagleSquadron: Freddie is this, an American (albeit one who appears to have been living in France at the time anyway) who joins up with the Allied Forces. The historical information included in the game notes other examples of this.
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* ShoutOut: The title of the game appears to have been taken from the poem/hymn "O Valiant Hearts", about the fallen in WWI.
** Potentially coincidental: The first-aid dog's name is Walt. WaltDisney was a Red Cross ambulance driver in France immediately following the war.
** The raising of the Canadian Flag at Vimy Ridge is done in a similar style as the raising of the American Flag at Iwo Jima.
** Potentially coincidental: The first-aid dog's name is Walt. WaltDisney was a Red Cross ambulance driver in France immediately following the war.
** The raising of the Canadian Flag at Vimy Ridge is done in a similar style as the raising of the American Flag at Iwo Jima.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Freddie appears to be African-American and definitely has a darker skin color than the other characters, but it's never really commented upon and the dark tones of the game's pallet in general make it hard to really pinpoint anything.
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* CanucksWithChinooks: The Canadians show up in the Vimy Ridge level, and, as in the actual event, acquit themselves splendidly. The historical information that comes with the level and Freddie's post-battle diaries more-or-less note how it was a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for Canada.
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* SequelHook: [[spoiler:TheStinger about America joining the war as the war rages on and continues to swallow up uncounted lives. Also, Von Dorf remains alive and free, albeit in a behind-the-lines job that he hates.]]
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* TheStinger: [[spoiler:Mid-way through the credits, we see a quick scene of Freddie waving to American troop ships coming in as they enter the war shortly after the events of the game. It's noted that the war's appetite 'is infinite'.]]
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* DemotedToExtra: In early promotional materials, the British pilot George was billed to be one of the playable main characters. However, in the game itself, he only shows up as an NPC for a single mission as an aerial spotter.
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: The game goes out of its way to portray the often overlooked colonial forces that were sent into the war, such as Indians and Gurkhas fighting for the British Empire and Algerians and the French Foreign Legion fighting for France.
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* DrillSergeantNasty: The officer in charge of Emile's regiment seems like this at first, continually yelling at you to go through the sequence of getting kitted out, though he does give you praise when you do each section of training correctly.
* SpeakingSimlish: Subverted. Despite many of the character lines being illustrated by pictograms and the lack of subtitles except for the narration, they do talk in their respective languages, though they're somewhat soft spoken so it's hard to hear.
* SpeakingSimlish: Subverted. Despite many of the character lines being illustrated by pictograms and the lack of subtitles except for the narration, they do talk in their respective languages, though they're somewhat soft spoken so it's hard to hear.
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Available on PC and PS4. Of note is the fact that this is another game that uses the [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome Ubiart engine, ]] such as some previous Ubisoft games, RaymanOrigins and ChildOfLight.
!!Tropes used in ''Valiant Hearts: The Great War'':
*AmericaSavesTheDay:America doesn't show up until the later stages of the war, so very downplayed. More or less played straight with Freddie, who is a major {{Badass}}.
*AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: You switch around playable characters all the time, bouncing from Anna to Karl to Emile to Freddie and back again at random.
*BenchedHero: Emile spends the opening segments of the game barely surviving being the Flag Carrier, and is then placed as a cook for the rest of the game.
*BitterSweetEnding: [[spoiler: Anna manages to survive, and saves Karl. He goes back to life with his family, and lives a happy life. Unfortunately, Emile is executed.]]
*BizarroEpisode: [[spoiler: Anna escapes from France to the tune of the Can-Can.]]
*CattleDrive: Human version in the opening segments of the game, as Emile leads his comrades into battle. [[spoiler: Everyone except Emile dies.]]
*WarIsHell: Oh ''boy''. Any history buffs know that World War I was a terrifying war for a number of reasons, including heavy disease, awful living conditions, the every encroaching fear of getting your head blown to bits by a sniper, the loneliness, the huge advances in technology such as the machine gun and flamethrowers, and most of all, the fear of never seeing your loved ones again. ''Valiant'' portrays this trope in all it's awful, sickening glory, and doesn't shirk away from the more human aspects of it either.
!!Tropes used in ''Valiant Hearts: The Great War'':
*AmericaSavesTheDay:America doesn't show up until the later stages of the war, so very downplayed. More or less played straight with Freddie, who is a major {{Badass}}.
*AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: You switch around playable characters all the time, bouncing from Anna to Karl to Emile to Freddie and back again at random.
*BenchedHero: Emile spends the opening segments of the game barely surviving being the Flag Carrier, and is then placed as a cook for the rest of the game.
*BitterSweetEnding: [[spoiler: Anna manages to survive, and saves Karl. He goes back to life with his family, and lives a happy life. Unfortunately, Emile is executed.]]
*BizarroEpisode: [[spoiler: Anna escapes from France to the tune of the Can-Can.]]
*CattleDrive: Human version in the opening segments of the game, as Emile leads his comrades into battle. [[spoiler: Everyone except Emile dies.]]
*WarIsHell: Oh ''boy''. Any history buffs know that World War I was a terrifying war for a number of reasons, including heavy disease, awful living conditions, the every encroaching fear of getting your head blown to bits by a sniper, the loneliness, the huge advances in technology such as the machine gun and flamethrowers, and most of all, the fear of never seeing your loved ones again. ''Valiant'' portrays this trope in all it's awful, sickening glory, and doesn't shirk away from the more human aspects of it either.
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Valiant Hearts: The Great War is a side-scrolling 2D adventure game from Ubisoft Montpellier, set during the Great War; otherwise known as WorldWarI. The story tells the tale of a number of people who are involved in the war, and their points of view: A drafted German soldier, his stepfather, a Belgian nurse, a rescue dog, an American soldier, and more. While most of the games in the [[TheSeventhGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames previous generation of gaming]] about war have glorified it (save for [[SpecOpsTheLine a few,]]) Valiant Hearts aims to tell the true impact of war, and how it tears apart lives, and forms blood brothers on the smoke-filled battlefields of Western Europe. It also aims to educate in several facts about the war, and teach people that while WorldWarII had a very clear, defined [[BlackAndWhiteMorality morality]], World War I did [[GreyAndGreyMorality not]], and that, at many times, the kindness in the human heart was overrode by the horrors of war.
