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# Valiant Hearts is a very French kind of war game
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/valiant-hearts/
- Published: 2014-06-12T18:27:19.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:51:19.000Z
- Description: The bittersweet side of war.
- Author: Jason Johnson
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

“We decided to create a game about war, not a war game,” [says Paul Tumelaire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx5MwIeqFbA&ref=killscreen.com), the top dog on *Valiant Hearts*, Ubisoft Montpellier’s superbly animated World War I game. The distinction is an important one, as games put you behind the crosshairs of bandolier-strapped killing machines all the time, but rarely consider how war is more than obliterating empty, avatar bodies. They rarely stray from the macho theme.

But *Valiant Hearts* is cartoony, a very mature cartoony, and not in a “rated M” sort of way. The game looks to have more in common with pivotal works of French animation like *Persepolis* and *Triplets of Belleville* than the footage of *Far Cry 4* certainly blasting on a nearby big screen, inspired by tearjerking letters sent from soldiers at war. This is a game to make you feel things. On top of that, the game oozes French-ness, a good thing for a hand-drawn game, as we’ve seen from previous beautiful efforts from Ubisoft, like *Rayman Legends* and *Child of Light*.

It’s coming to Xboxes, PlayStations, and PCs on the 25th, so give it a peek.