Man it's gonna be really depressing watching this game flop hard. Almost zero marketing, and Valkyria Revolution left a bad taste in the mouths of many who played it. I've seen so many people mention that they had no idea this game even existed. It's really sad that it took a decade for Sega to greenlight a proper sequel to VC1, but this really should've happened way back then. Perhaps VC would've been a more successful franchise if they had ridden on the success of VC1 by building momentum and developing a worthy sequel immediately after.
It's actually kind of a miracle this game even exists. I thought for sure the series was dead after VC3, and then I thought it was really dead after VR. But VC4, despite it's critical success, is looking like a bomb-a-roony. Hopefully it has more success in the West than it has in Japan, but there's barely any talk about this game, and it's releasing during the busiest time of the year. Since I kinda accepted years ago that VC was probably dead, I'm just gonna be happy with the fact that by some work of god, I got a worthy sequel to VC1. If there's no future for the franchise, so be it. Then again this is the 3rd time I thought the series is buried, so there could be a VC5, but I just don't see how.
What's funny is that VC1 continues to sell with all of it's ports, and has gotten more exposure to the West over the years. So for the life of me, I can't figure out why Sega didn't properly market this game. Why push for VC1 to get more ports and exposure, just to slip VC4 under the radar?
