March 8, 2015

Valiant Hearts: The Great War

Date played: March 7th
Platform: PS4
Session fun rating: 8/10

I played through a good portion of Chapter 2, mainly starring Anna, the lady who saved our asses with her taxi cab in the first chapter. Her chapter begins in her home in Paris. Early in the war, taxis were asked to contribute to the French war effort by transporting troops to the front lines. Anna, restless, goes outside to help and ends up driving a taxi to the battlefront.

She has some nurse training and many of her levels focus on healing and rescuing both civilians and military people. In fact, she is so devoted to her art, she even saves some German soldiers. There's a mini game when she nurses people that is very simple rhythm game. I healed many people on the front lines as Anna. Hell, I even sawed off a man's wounded leg...

She eventually learned that her father, the scientist, had been captured by the Germans and was held on the dirigible. At the end of Chapter 1, our team had managed to take out the dirigible. Anna scoured the wreckage to find her father, but instead she found Karl, trapped under the wreck. She saved him and learned that her father had been taken away by the baron in an airplane.
Anna explores the wreckage of the zeppelin
Meanwhile, Emile and Freddy were charged with desertion, but sent back to the front lines. Now equipped with a shovel instead of a ladle, Emile is stationed in the trenches. He decides to write a letter to his daughter, but must find ink and a feather. The feather wasn't too hard, I lured a pigeon with some bread. The ink though, that was a lot of work.

Step 1-Find a dirty sock on some barb wire.
Step 2-Wait for the dishwashers to be away from the water basins.
Step 3-Pick up the clean sock from the water basins.
Step 4-Dry the wet sock by putting on the stove top.
Step 5-Trade the sock for the ink with the sockless man.

I love this game...