Valkyrie Profile: Renes is part of a great series of extremely diverse games across multiple genres. Most of the other games in the series are actually prequels to Lenneth, but the plot his points hinted at in that seminal work are still plentiful and will be recalled in later released games.
We’ve done some research committees, drawn different threads on different characters and events, and put together a list of the coolest references across timelines and reboots. Not only that, but there are also out-of-series games that have paid homage to this legendary JRPG over the years, and some of the cases presented here may surprise you.
Ten Mithra’s identity is finally revealed in Valkyrie Profile Silmeria
One of the best artifacts to find in Valkyrie Profile: Reneth is an item called Mithra’s Holy Water, a consumable that can basically take down any undead boss in one shot. However, nothing is really known about the holy water of Mithra. There is no in-game lore explaining who the Mithra are or why their water is “holy”.
However, in “Valkyrie Profile 2 Silmeria”, you can add a character named Mithra to your party. Mithra is a powerful mage who disguises his affinity for water and uses a spell called Tidal Wave, which happens to be his Soul Crush ability.
9 “Seraphic Gate” and “Nibelung Valesti” appear as expanded content for “Valkyrie Elysium”
Seraphic Gate is an extremely difficult bonus dungeon that appears in Valkyrie Profile Renes. Launching at the end of 2022, Valkyrie Elysium is a reboot of the series that includes echoes of the Valkyrie Profile games, but a completely different game in a different genre.
That said, a free update released a few months after the game’s debut added the Seraphic Gate to Elysium as a gauntlet of sorts. Not only that, but at the end of this gauntlet, Renes’ signature attack in Valkyrie Profile, the Nibelung, a powerful version of his Valesti is unlocked.
8 Silmeria can be seen frozen in Valkyrie Profile: Renes
One of the most eventful quests in Valkyrie Profile: Renes is an adventure to Brahms’ castle. In the background of Brahms’ throne room, you can see a group of people who look a lot like Renes.
This figure is actually Silmeria, Renes, the protagonist of the title prequel to Valkyrie Profile. The tragic story of Silmeria’s doomed relationship with Brahms is her one of Silmeria’s focal points, and the glimpse into Silmeria’s fate here becomes especially powerful when you play both games.
7 You can reassemble your old crew in Valkyrie Anatomia
Valkyrie Anatomy is a mobile game that expands on the world of Valkyrie Profile and was the series’ first release in over a decade. In the game, you play as the reincarnation of Reneth, who collects a slew of new Einheryar, including guest characters from other video game works such as Final Fantasy, Nier, and even Fullmetal Alchemist.
However, if you complete certain quests, face certain enemies, and find certain artifacts in Valkyrie Anatomy, Valkyrie Profile: Old Einheryar of Renes can be summoned to your side. Nearly 20 years later, it was great to see old faces like Arngrim and Lezard again.
6 Reneth’s memory erasure explained in Valkyrie Profile Pledge Feather
Renes begins her life in Valkyrie Profile as a girl named Platinum in a poor little village in the mountains. She is then awakened as a Valkyrie by Freya and recalled on a mission to gather great warriors for Asgard. However, how Renes, who has no memory of being a goddess, became platinum is one of the game’s great mysteries.
In the Covenant of the Plume this is finally explained. In her one of the game’s endings, the protagonist Wilfred confronts Renes and defeats her. However, before Renes can be utterly destroyed, Freya descends on Midgard, claiming her soul so that she can one day be reborn into another vessel, but with her memories intact.
Five Genevieve mentions Valkyrie Profile List: Renes
Genevieve is Reneth, one of Valkyrie Profile’s most formidable foes, and she gains this power because she is one of the oldest beings in Midgard. Proof of this is the mention she made when she met Renes in the Heavenly Castle.
The undead specifically summoned Reneth’s armor, stating that it had “changed color”. Valkyrie Profile: If you’re only playing Renes, this line will seem puzzling, but any gamer who’s played Valkyrie Profile: Silmeria knows that this brings back the encounter between Genevieve and Hristo. . This is a “Dark Valkyrie” aimed at hunting down rogue Silmeria. She sided with humans and abandoned her pious traditions.
Four Recreate iconic scenes in the Exist Archive
Developed by many members of the former Valkyrie Profile development team and released in 2015, Exist Archive was touted as the “spiritual successor” to Valkyrie Profile. Although the game has a very similar combat system and world layout, there are significant differences from a narrative and aesthetic point of view.
However, an eerie memory sequence involves the main character, Mayura, waking up in a field of flowers with no memory of her previous life. Valkyrie Profile: Renes players will immediately recognize this scene in the game’s prologue and Platinum’s backstory.
3 Renes makes a cameo in ‘Radiata Stories’
Radiata Stories is a JRPG released for PlayStation 2 in 2005. Developed by Tri-Ace. Tri-Ace is the same studio that created Valkyrie Profile under the Enix brand before merging with Square. The game’s most touted feature is his mind boggling cast of 175 adoptable characters (eat your heart’s content, Suikoden!), all with unique personalities and combat abilities. .
One such character is a familiar face from Tri-Ace’s previous possessions, and Reneth (known simply as “Valkyrie” in the game) is encountered in the Corridors of Warp and befriended. I can. Both dungeons and combat are some of the biggest challenges in the game, so you’ve earned this reward well.
2 Freya appears as a super boss in Star Ocean Till the End of Time
Star Ocean and Valkyrie Profile have always been tri-Ace’s biggest JRPG creations. Both games share a bit of his DNA, with each series showcasing its own active flashy combat and a great soundtrack by Motoi Sakuraba. However, the similarities stop there, as the respective settings of Norse mythology and his sci-fi series in the distant future couldn’t be more similar.
However, that doesn’t stop the games from invading each other’s worlds from time to time. Star Ocean 3’s Endgame begins a marathon of terrifying dungeons and dangerous bosses. Nothing compares to Freya. Freya is able to bring down an entire party with his familiar but deadly ethereal strike.
1 A very subtle nod to Valkyrie Profile is hidden in Tales of Arise
Believe it or not, tri-Ace and Namco Tales Studios shared a lot more than just the soundtrack by Motoi Sakuraba. Both were in the same studio in the late 80’s and early 90’s. The original organization was called Wolf Team, and the last game under that handle in 1995 was Tales of Phantasia, the first Tales game released for the Super Nintendo. Initially, the studio pitched the Tales concept to Enix as a potential publisher, but eventually Namco decided to develop the project under its own logo, splitting the studio and half joining Enix to form Tri-Ace. was formed, and the other half became the current one. Now known as Namco Tales Studios.
The two studios have been separate for decades, but disagreements still linger from time to time. In 2021 Tales of Arise, the player’s party will face a character named Ganaberto Valkyris. Spooky surnames aside, Ganabert at one point says, “…imprint this decree on your soul,” which is of course from Valkyrie Profile: Renes. The game that Renes mentions every time he uses a Soul Crush attack is “Nibelung Valesti”.