Valkyria Chronicles is set in a fictitious continent reminiscent of 1930s Europe - divided in two and ruled by the Empire and the Federation. The Empire has set its sights on invading a small neutral country called Gallia, which is situated in the middle of the two great empires. The game follows a hero named Welkin and his fellow soldiers of the Federation's 7th Platoon as they engage in a series of epic battles.

Built upon the new "CANVAS" engine, developed internally by Sega Game Studios Japan, Valkyria Chronicles' stunning 3D graphics resemble a watercolor painting in motion, taking full advantage of the processing capabilities of the Playstation 3. The power of the Playstation 3 also allows the development team to exploit the full potential of this new engine, giving players many different stunning environments to explore. A new type of tactical battle mechanic has been specifically designed for Valkyria Chronicles. Known as "BLiTZ," this gives players freedom to strategically move around the environment and attack enemies using real-time controls, something never before seen in the tactical role-playing game genre. The new "CANVAS" engine technology, the "BLiTZ" battle concept and an epic storyline offers players hours of exciting gameplay.

• The friendship with the fellow soldier and love. An epic human drama
• under the war. The story begins at a small country called Duchy of Gallia between Empire and Federation who claimed it's neutral position was invaded by Empire without warning. When the country nearly faced to the fall of the capital, the farraginous voluntary army stands against the massive army of Empire! Valkrja is the RPG that represents "the greatness of hustling for living" and "preciousness of deep bound between humans" generated through the dramas under the war and it's ultimate state.
• Hand-written illustrations are moving as 3D graphic. An epoch-making graphic presentation system, "GANVAS"! Hand-written watercolor illustrations are moving in the screen! The new system enables the warm graphic that have never seen in the previous video games. The system produce the unique game world with the intentionally misaligned outline of the objects and characters, their color that protruded from the outline, the shadow with diagonal line which makes the picture looks written by hand and sound effect appeared by the graphic letter like the cartoon. Player can freely explore this world full of unique graphic representation.
• The system enables the tactical action RPG, "BLiTZ." "BLiTZ" is the turn based battle system which blends the tactical features and action features. The player can move the character of the platoon in it's turn to beat the enemy platoons like tactical games but BLiTZ enables to include more action features in this battle. Pull down the various field with the full of strategic missions like the snipe from roof, latency and search the enemy by exploiting both "Command mode" and "Action mode". The expected fun factors for the RPG, raising the characters and forming the original platoon are also available.