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Bear in mind that shading differences may simply be down to cloud movements. I’m going to be brutally honest: I can barely tell the difference between any of these. So, with all of this in mind, how does Valkyria Chronicles 4 look? How impressive is it with all visual snazziness turned on, compared to the bare minimum? Visual Comparisons and Framerates Intensive (because it’s running the game at a higher resolution) but theoretically prettier. To explain without dipping into heavy jargon: it runs Valkyria Chronicles 4 at a higher resolution than you’ve actually chosen, and then shrinks it down to your resolution, using all of those lovely extra pixels to help calculate the way it should look and smoothing everything out. The flipside to this is Render Scale, which can apply anti-aliasing by supersampling. Most of the Low/Medium/High options are fairly standard, and there aren’t any discrete anti-aliasing options to speak of. The other options aren’t much to write home about, although there are nice nods to those with ultra-widescreen displays. Resolutions go down all the way to 640×480, and if you’ve got a monitor capable of supporting them, they can breach 4K and ultra-widescreen resolutions. I think Target Framerate is mildly misleading rather than adjusting settings on the fly to hit that framerate at the minimum, it seems to simply cap the framerate at what you choose (and thankfully, you can also leave it unlocked). Let’s look at some options, shall we? Graphical Settings

You’ll be pleased to hear that Valkyria Chronicles 4 also has a really solid PC version. The original Valkyria Chronicles got a rather lovely port, updating it with high framerates and support for higher resolutions and the like. But now? Now Sega is launching a surprise attack on the land of Simultaneous Release, probably thanks to the original doing so well.

The series – previously a Sony stalwart, with releases on PlayStation 3 and PSP – made a brief hop to some other systems with Valkyria Revolution, plus a PC re-release of Valkyria Chronicles in 2014. A few years back I never thought I’d get to write “ Valkyria Chronicles 4 is getting a simultaneous PC launch” but that’s the brave new future we live in.

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