When comparing Valiant Hearts: The Great War vs Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, the Slant community recommends Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 for most people. In the question“What are the best PS4 (PlayStation 4) games?” Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 is ranked 65th while Valiant Hearts: The Great War is ranked 91st. The most important reason people chose Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 is:
While the online multiplayer is the largest draw for many people, the amount of single player content is pretty staggering.
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Pros
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.
Pro Packed with both online and offline content
While the online multiplayer is the largest draw for many people, the amount of single player content is pretty staggering.
Pro The combat is definitely unique among fighting games
The fighting in Xenoverse 2 is different from most other fighting games. It relies less on cancelling animations and reaction times, and more on predicting the moves that your enemy is going to use on you in order to set yourself up for a strong combo. It also is unique in that you can prioritize short, medium, or long-range attacks and have them all be completely viable playstyles.
Pro Incredible customization of characters
Nearly every detail of a character can be customized - height, weight, race, what types of attacks he uses and what power ups/transformations he has.
This is probably the main draw to the game (other than the great combat), as building and perfecting your own custom character is incredibly satisfying.
As you progress through the game, you'll unlock even more cosmetic looks as well as attacks you can use. It's one of the things that makes story mode as fun as it is.
Cons
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.
Con The game can get laggy at times
Since it's an online fighter, lag can be a pretty severe handicap. However, there have been multiple patches that aimed at combating the lag problem, and the game is more stable than ever.