When comparing Valiant Hearts: The Great War vs Siralim 2, the Slant community recommends Valiant Hearts: The Great War for most people. In the question“What are the best PS4 (PlayStation 4) games?” Valiant Hearts: The Great War is ranked 91st while Siralim 2 is ranked 197th. 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 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 Hundreds of creatures to fight and capture
There are hundreds of creatures in the game, with their special abilities, strengths and weaknesses, that you will fight and capture.
Pro Deep game mechanics
Craft powerful artifacts, learn new spells, customize your monsters, team them up strategically, breed them, capture creatures, complete quests, gain the favors of gods, upgrade your castle, complete challenges, find rare treasures, collect resources, etc.
Pro Tactical combat
Fight monsters in tactical battles with up to 6 monsters in your team, cast spells, buff your team, debuff the enemies, exploit your monsters' special abilities, and the synergies between your monsters to win.
Pro Randomized loot
Loot have randomized additional properties, similar to the loot in Diablo.
Pro Create the perfect creatures, and the perfect teams
Customize your creatures with a great variety of spell gems and equipment, level them, breed them, and exploit the synergies between monsters to create the perfect teams.
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 Can get grindy
Summoning monsters, customizing, empowering, and breeding them, finding the perfect loot, may require you to grind.