Valkyrie Sky takes shmups to the next level

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Valkyrie Sky takes MMORPGs to the next level with its offering of online play, questing, grinding among numerous things. Players of this vertical scroll shooting game can enjoy the tension, game interface and a sense of achievement. Above all, Valkyrie Sky will open beta coming very soon.

For those people who are bored with average same old MMO type of games, Valkyrie Sky is a fun and nice new game for you. Valkyrie Sky is a perfect game for all fans of Tohou, Raiden and Galaga. The game play offer many surprises with some nice twist to it. It’s certainly not repetitious and players’ control skills have dramatic effects on battle results.

Pick from four main characters having three sets of jobs each. Every job has four skills which maybe a combination of some quite very useful while some utterly insignificant. The type class highly recommended for players who are new to this game is to select Knight and Mage type classes. Both classes are simple to use. Knight is great for parties along with their interest in a front line that will protect them bullets.

Next stop is the skill system. There is a system in game type similar to a fusion system where skills on a box can be arranged to form passive skills. These passive skills prove to be helpful since some of them provide normal attacks extra chances to shoot more bullets. Get to change jobs ingame anytime you want as long as you have certain requirements stats and money to pay the gold fee. Maximize the skill fusion system by changing jobs. Note that once you switch jobs you can’t raise the skills of your previous job but you can add those skills on the fusion chart. The quests are all found in one area making it so easy.

Shortly after making your character, a short tutorial is enabled which you can view or skip. There isn’t so much found in the tutorial besides knowing how to play.

Before you begin your mission, you must face a couple of quests inside the Council area on the upper left side of the starting town. You can keep on talking to these guys until you reach level two. Hold down right click or space bar after completing all your quests and see your character fly up to the world map. The world map has different icons on the map. Look for the skull maps which are dungeon maps and can only be unlocked by reaching certain levels.

Upon reaching a skull map, you can them hook up with your friends found in that area. On the other hand, if they aren’t on the same channel as you press “P” to display the players menu type the name of your friends before clicking the button next to where you typed your friend’s name. When you are next to your friends, just click on his name on the “P” players menu to auto invite him to join the party. The default controls are Z for normal attack while A, S, D, F are for your skills. Arrow keys enable you to move around the map, X for berserk mode and space bar for bomb or special power up.

Be aware that the first two areas may be “boring-to-death” zones. Have patience to wait until you get to the fourth and fifth areas where the fun begins. Anticipate for bullets and monsters appearing from every corner. You may find the game too easy at this point so try soloing them without dying.

Valkyrie Sky is practically lag-free when playing with others gamers around the globe. Yolim Communications did a superb job with the lag system in this game that you don’t have to worry about dying to bullets in lag. They tapped in a sync system to sync players in the room.

Let’s move on to the not so cool part in this game. You end up wasting stamina each time you begin a stage and the costs of each stage differs depending on the time of the day. Say, it costs you as much as life insurance when you stat stages at night. It’s wise not to do stages at night not unless you have stored a lot of food. You can only replenish stamina by cooking meals or monsters dropping food at the end of stages. Go fishing to cook food and fish the main ingredient while the rest of the salt and spices are easily obtained from your average dungeon NPC.

The Auction House system makes things easier more especially with shopping. The blacksmith is always in town for your item crafting needs. You don’t need to master Korean language to fully play and know the game. It is pretty simple and easy to play after you get the hang of it, though it could be better when its resolution is higher.

Keep your eyes open when Valkyrie Sky comes in Open Beta very soon!

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