When comparing The Last Door: Collector's Ed vs Valiant Hearts: The Great War, the Slant community recommends Valiant Hearts: The Great War for most people. In the question“What are the best point and click adventure games for Android?” Valiant Hearts: The Great War is ranked 9th while The Last Door: Collector's Ed is ranked 19th. The most important reason people chose Valiant Hearts: The Great War is:
Valiant Hearts tells a story about war, but you're not the one spreading death and misery. Your character simply journeys through battlefields, trenches, and various other locations. You meet other characters and solve puzzles along the way. This is quite refreshing because most modern titles about war always have a gun toting player character.
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Pros
Pro Intuitive puzzles
While not being too easy the puzzles in The Last Door remain challenging enough.
Pro Fantastic pixel grapics
Pixel graphics at times seems like the easy/lazy choice as many feel they are easy to do, luckily The Last Door uses them in such a detailed manner that the game shows a large amount of polish and attention to detail.
Pro A game about war where you don't kill anyone
Valiant Hearts tells a story about war, but you're not the one spreading death and misery. Your character simply journeys through battlefields, trenches, and various other locations. You meet other characters and solve puzzles along the way. This is quite refreshing because most modern titles about war always have a gun toting player character.
Pro Simple but satisfying puzzles
The puzzles in Valiant Hearts aren't exactly the most difficult, but they'll often require a little more thought than you initially believe.
One type of the puzzles you'll have to solve is fixing a pipe system. You just have to turn sections of the pipe system until it all fits together.
Even solving something so simple is very satisfying and leaves you with a feeling of achievement.
Pro Striking artistic style
The style of Valiant Hearts appeals to most aesthetics. It's simple and clean, allowing you to spot even the tiniest details in character designs and backgrounds. You'd occasionally spot interesting things like a flute attached to a soldiers backpack. Or even spot a very detailed Cathedral in the spaces between the rubble.
The colors are very dim and blend quite well, giving you the sombre feeling of war. There are no random mashups of colors or effects like in many recent games.
Cons
Con Letterboxed on sides
The Last Door is a 4:3 game which means there are black bars on both sides of the game.
Con Needed items can blend into background
Sometimes the items a player needs to progress seem hidden as they blend in to the background too much.
Con Short
Valiant Hearts takes about 6 hours to complete and there's not much to do afterwards. While the collectibles give this game some replay value, not many players will be interested in finding them.
Con Historical facts may become annoying
There are historical fact boxes that will pop up during gameplay. They are optional, but can be annoying because they disrupt the flow of the gameplay.