VH: The Dogs of War - It's out! :D
Nov. 6th, 2014 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yuuagoI was going to do something productive tonight, but then the new VH comic strip came out.
It's cute! But sad! And it's only available for the mobile version, from what I can tell. So I'll talk a little bit about the contents, since console/computer players won't be able to read the strip. But I'll cut it.
So, like the title suggests, the story is about Walt and how he came to be a dog medic. We're also introduced to Walt's sister, Cassie (kind of an odd name I think, doesn't sound very German, but eh). And we also find out the name of Walt's handler; Dr. Hans Weiss. (Interestingly, there's a VH fanwiki floating around on the internet that, prior to this release, gave his name as Andreas, as well as a few other details about him. I have no idea where they got that name from, and that aside, as far as I can tell, the other details are also 100% fanon, because the game doesn't give evidence for it at all.)
Anyway. The plot is basically: Walt and Cassie were raised on a farm near Cologne. A year before the start of the war, the two of them helped rescue a drowning soldier from a nearby river. This same incident is when the dogs met Hans, who was luckily nearby and quick on the scene to treat the man - and quick to befriend the dogs afterward.
Because of Cassie and Walt's heroic actions, they were taken into military service a few days after this incident. Then, a year later, the war broke out, and of course they had to serve. Cassie became a messenger dog, and Walt, as we already know, was put into medical service. At this same time, Hans was drafted for his services - and the casualty dog who was assigned to him was none other than Walt.
I won't go into detail about the rest because I can't think of a good way to describe it, but - messenger dogs had a very risky job, and Cassie was no exception. The human characters in Valiant Hearts aren't the only ones with sadness and loss in their lives; Walt has just as much as the rest.
I took some screencaps while going through the comic, and put together a photoset. I posted it to tumblr but I'm adding one extra image here because I liked it and because it shows a bit more about how the strip is formatted. It's basically exactly like a comic strip, really, but with music/sound (no dialogue voiceover, unlike the actual game). ...I decided to go with the old photoset dimensions because I have no idea wtf to do with the new ones right now.
It's cute! But sad! And it's only available for the mobile version, from what I can tell. So I'll talk a little bit about the contents, since console/computer players won't be able to read the strip. But I'll cut it.
So, like the title suggests, the story is about Walt and how he came to be a dog medic. We're also introduced to Walt's sister, Cassie (kind of an odd name I think, doesn't sound very German, but eh). And we also find out the name of Walt's handler; Dr. Hans Weiss. (Interestingly, there's a VH fanwiki floating around on the internet that, prior to this release, gave his name as Andreas, as well as a few other details about him. I have no idea where they got that name from, and that aside, as far as I can tell, the other details are also 100% fanon, because the game doesn't give evidence for it at all.)
Anyway. The plot is basically: Walt and Cassie were raised on a farm near Cologne. A year before the start of the war, the two of them helped rescue a drowning soldier from a nearby river. This same incident is when the dogs met Hans, who was luckily nearby and quick on the scene to treat the man - and quick to befriend the dogs afterward.
Because of Cassie and Walt's heroic actions, they were taken into military service a few days after this incident. Then, a year later, the war broke out, and of course they had to serve. Cassie became a messenger dog, and Walt, as we already know, was put into medical service. At this same time, Hans was drafted for his services - and the casualty dog who was assigned to him was none other than Walt.
I won't go into detail about the rest because I can't think of a good way to describe it, but - messenger dogs had a very risky job, and Cassie was no exception. The human characters in Valiant Hearts aren't the only ones with sadness and loss in their lives; Walt has just as much as the rest.
I took some screencaps while going through the comic, and put together a photoset. I posted it to tumblr but I'm adding one extra image here because I liked it and because it shows a bit more about how the strip is formatted. It's basically exactly like a comic strip, really, but with music/sound (no dialogue voiceover, unlike the actual game). ...I decided to go with the old photoset dimensions because I have no idea wtf to do with the new ones right now.
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.