History VideoGame / ValkyriaRevolution

''Valkyria Revolution'', [[MarketBasedTitle known in the Japanese market as Valkyria: Azure Revolution]], is a spinoff game from the main VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles series. It was released on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and the Vita[[note]]Outside Japan, it's only released in PSN stores as a digital release.[[/note]] in all territories with the Xbox One version being released in all territories except for Japan.

* ICallItVera: Helena refers to her weapon as "Mr. Stabbington."

** The Ruzhien Empire is based on Tsarist Russia. Jutland's location in Europa corresponds to Anatolia in our world. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Turkish_War_(1877–1878) See the dots connect themselves.]]

''Valkyria Revolution'', [[MarketBasedTitle known in the Japanese market as Valkyria: Azure Revolution]], is a spinoff game from the main VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles series. It was released on the PlayStation 4 and the Vita[[note]]Outside Japan, it's only released in PSN stores as a digital release.[[/note]] in all territories with the Xbox One version being released in all territories except for Japan.

* SteamPunk: Set in Midgard's Industrial Revolution period when people were just figuring out automobiles. It's just that they're using GreenRocks instead of coal as a fuel source. To whit, the main combat vehicles are ostentatious MiniMecha instead of nice, sensible tanks. Society is also on the border of the HeroicFantasy of a traditional JRPG and the WeirdHistoricalWar of the early-modern ''Valkyria Chronicles'' proper, with wizards and swordsmen fighting alongside the aforementioned {{Walking Tank}}s.

* CognizantLimbs: Walkers can have their legs targeted, similar to a tank's treads in the main games. However, an immobilized tank becomes a heavily-armed stumbling block, and a kneecapped mech tips over like ED-209 on a staircase

* SteamPunk: Set in Midgard's Industrial Revolution period when people were just figuring out automobiles. It's just that they're using GreenRocks instead of coal as a fuel source. To whit, the main combat vehicles are ostentatious MiniMecha instead of nice, sensible tanks. Society is also on the border of the HeroicFantasy of a traditional JRPG and the WierdHistoricalWar of the early-modern ''Valkyria Chronicles'' proper, with wizards and swordsmen fighting alongside the aforementioned {{Walking Tank}}s.

* SteamPunk: Set in Midgard's Industrial Revolution period when people were just figuring out vehicles. It's just that they're using GreenRocks instead of coal as a fuel source. To whit, the main combat vehicles are MiniMecha instead of nice, sensible tanks.

* AlternateHistory: In-universe. The game takes place in an alternate timeline of the VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles series where Europa underwent an Industrial Revolution and developed into a much more fantastical setting opposed to the more World War II inspired setting of the original games.

* TrueCompanions: The Five Grand Criminals have been together since childhood at the same orphanage. [[ForegoneConclusion They all have been found guilty and sentenced to death on the same day.]]

''Valkyria Revolution'', [[MarketBasedTitle known in the Japanese market as Valkyria: Azure Revolution]], is a spinoff game from the main VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles series. It was released on the Playstation 4 and the Vita[[note]]Outside Japan, it's only released in PSN stores as a digital release.[[/note]] in all territories with the Xbox One version being released in all territories except for Japan.

Europa has experienced an Industrial Revolution-like event that resulted in the great use of ragnite. One of the countries that has benefited from this is the Ruzhien Empire, which has occupied a number of countries including Jutland under the rule of Emperor Claudius Powlovich Kiev and the [[EliteFour the Four Commanders]]. Not wanting to remaining under Ruzhien control while suffering from sanctions under an economic blockade known as the BRFH Blockade, Jutland has launch a war of independence to [[OccupiersOutOfOurCountry get rid of Ruzhien occupation.]] One of those involved is Amleth Grønkjær, a Jutlander military officer who serves in the [[ElitesAreMoreGlamorous Jutlander Army's Anti-Valkyria Squad known as Vanargand]], which is in charge of spearheading the war effort from the military side. In response, the Ruzhien Army has acquired the services of a mythical Valkyrie named Brunhilde.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading: The game's loading screen takes up quite awhile especially if a cutscene only lasts for a minute or two then the "Now Loading" screen appears.

* OccupiersOutOfOurCountry: The motivation of the Jultander War of Independence. [[spoiler:Which the Five Grand Criminals used to get their revenge on Claudius.]]
* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: The actions of the Vanargand unit [[spoiler:partially because Amleth is one of the Five Grand Criminals who infiltrated the Jutlander Army]]. Even so, a historian who met with Professor Laudrup insists that the truth of the incident should be revealed, [[TheMasquerade which she objects to]].

* TheInfiltration: [[spoiler:What the Five Grand Criminals did after Maria was kidnapped by Ruzhien forces from the orphanages. They infiltrated the Jultander government, military, business and the intelligence services to put their agenda.]]
* ThePlan: [[spoiler:The Five Grand Criminals used their positions in Jutlander society, including the military and government to hunt down the culprits responsible for kidnapping Maria and stopping their black ops project on using the powers of a Valkyur.]]

* TrueCompanions: The Five Grand Criminals have been together since childhood at the same orphange. [[ForegoneConclusion They all have been found guilty and sentenced to death on the same day.]]

''Valkyria Revolution'', [[MarketBasedTitle known in the Japanese market as Valkyria: Azure Revolution]], is a spinoff game from the mainstream VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles series. It was released on the Playstation 4 and the Vita[[note]]Outside Japan, it's only released in PSN stores as a digital release.[[/note]] in all territories with the Xbox One version being released in all territories except for Japan.

It takes place prior to the start of the VC games, in which Europa has experienced an Industrial Revolution-like event that resulted in the great use of ragnite. One of the countries that has benefited from this is the Ruzhien Empire, which has occupied a number of countries including Jutland under the rule of Emperor Claudius Powlovich Kiev and the [[EliteFour the Four Commanders]]. Not wanting to remaining under Ruzhien control while suffering from sanctions under an economic blockade known as the BRFH Blockade, Jutland has launch a war of independence to [[OccupiersOutOfOurCountry get rid of Ruzhien occupation.]] One of those involved is Amleth Grønkjær, a Jutlander military officer who serves in the [[ElitesAreMoreGlamorous Jutlander Army's Anti-Valkyria Squad known as Vanargand]], which is in charge of spearheading the war effort from the military side. In response, the Ruzhien Army has acquired the services of a mythical Valkyrie named Brunhilde.

''Valkyria Revolution'', [[MarketBasedTitle known in the Japanese market as Valkyria: Azure Revolution]], is a spinoff game from the mainstream VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles series. It was released on the Playstation 4 and the Vita[[note]]Outside Japan, it's only released in PSN stores as a digital release.[[/note]] in all territories with the Xbox one being released in all territories except for Japan.

** The Ruzhien Empire is based on Tsarist Russia. Jutland's location in Europa corresponds to Anatolia in our world. [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Turkish_War_(1877–1878) See the dots connect themselves]].

** The Ruzhien Empire is based on Tsarist Russia. Jutland's location in Europa corresponds to Anatolia in our world.[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Turkish_War_(1877–1878) See the dots connect themselves]].

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The story is a reminder of how colonialism has affected countries in South America, Africa, Asia and parts of Europe that were administered with unjust policies/colonial leaders.

In the midst of the incoming war, five individuals known in modern Europan history as the "Five Grand Criminals" work in the shadows behind their fellow Jutlanders to bring the war home so that the Ruzhien Empire can be taken down while looking for a woman named Maria Schmeichel, who was kidnapped by Emperor Claudius when he was still the Ruzhien Crown Prince.

->''Here lies the Circle of Five, whose vengeful actions brought forth an inferno or war. With their execution, the blood of the brave legions is redeemed, and a just peace born. They rest eternally in the land of their birth, by the grace of the Holy Mother.''

* TrueCompanions: The Five Grand Criminals have been together since childhood at the same orphange.

* OccupiersOutOfOurCountry: The motiviation of the Jultander War of Independence. [[spoiler:Which the Five Grand Criminals used to get their revenge on Claudius.]]

* TitleDrop: The events that led to the adoption of Ragnite in Europa is known as "The Azure Revolution".