Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book
What has distinguished the Atelier series over the years is Gust’s ability to create JRPGs that, beyond conventional mechanics of exploration and turn-based combat, still manage to convey to the player feelings of relaxation and placidity rather than frenzy and hunt for the battle. Of course, their games are still plagued by busy work, flat and impersonal side-quests and an amount of grinding that, especially in this Atelier Sophie, will absorb far more hours than one could afford to spend in the name of completism and fun.
– Real player with 110.2 hrs in game
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TL;DR If you want an RPG with challenging combat dont buy this, the game is pretty easy even in the hardest difficulty, until you reach the last optional bosses, where its hard because the game doesnt tell you anything about what the bosses skills do or their effects nor about the traits you can use in your equipment
This is a good game, the textures of the environment range from pretty meh to good, but the character models are really pretty, some animations are kinda stiff though, the crafting system is a big part of the game and demands plenty of time, but its really well designed and fun.
– Real player with 87.2 hrs in game
Twilight Memoria
I’ve always been a diehard fan of the RPG that carries the ATB system. Just mention it like Final Fantasy V, VI, VII, VIII, IX they are all my favorites! So when I saw a new RPG maker game that carried this system, I was very enthusiastic.
This might be my serious review considering that I really support the indie game climate of the JRPG genre.
1. Opening
The first time I played, I felt a stutter in the map scrolling section in the village; it made my head quite dizzy I don’t know why; is this my VGA error? I don’t understand, but I tried to hold it and play again.
– Real player with 14.9 hrs in game
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JUST COMPLETED.
TL;DR 9/10 GAME.
This game is good but needs some fixing. Let me describe my playing experience below:
Twilight Memoria is an RPG game where you play as two children: Rucifar and Luna, in a fantasy world full of monsters. They play around their village and help other villagers with their monster-hunting and alchemy skills. They either hunt monsters, or craft items to use in battle or to aid them in their quests. It’s a heartwarming, everyday life type story where you are not in some big adventure or saving the world, but the game is still very challenging in the battle system and how you survive your quests. UPDATE: THE ENDING WILL STRIKE YOU IN UNEXPECTED WAYS. THIS IS GOOD.
– Real player with 12.2 hrs in game
Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky DX
I literally waited years for this game. I am so glad that they ported it to pc.
As true as I’m standing here, Escha and Logy are by far the best main characters of the Atelier series!
Don’t be afraid of the time limit. It is pretty generous in my opinion. You can do everything without having to worry!
A pretty special thing in this particular game is that you can choose between two main characters. The only thing which changes if you choose one over the other, is the point of view you see the story from, some soundtracks and a few events)
– Real player with 67.0 hrs in game
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Regardless of how good or bad the game is, this port is too bad.
-Your system data gets randomly “deleted”. Essentially means, all your global progress, like unlocking costumes, filling the extra mode with images and so on, will NOT work on the long run. This is a critical and known error where I have no idea how this gets so completely ignored.
-Vsync is broken. If you tab out of fullscreen, the game goes max fps. If you are in fullscreen, the game struggles actually keeping constant fps and fluctuates between 58 and 62, leading to choppy gameplay. This does NOT happen in windowed, but..
– Real player with 65.2 hrs in game
Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey / フィリスのアトリエ ～不思議な旅の錬金術士～
A really terrible port, you have to have a high end PC or something to run this well. If you have a potato, then don’t get this game at all, unless you like playing under 20 FPS.
Beyond that, Atelier Firis is the 2nd installment to the Mysterious set, taking place after Ateleir Sophie.
Quite a lot has changed from Sophie, first and foremost the timelimit returns, it’s not as bad as it sounds, the timelimit is very generous, you should be able to do the goal before you run out of time, unless you muck about wayyyyyy too much. The fields or maps are way bigger and more open, no longer do you stay in one place to do all your synthesizing needs, you set up camps and well, go on a journey and explore new areas.
– Real player with 468.6 hrs in game
Take everything you know and love about the Atelier games, and combine that with an open world over ten times the size of the previous games. The result is Atelier Firis, one of the most ambitious and largest Atelier games to date.
Atelier Firis is the 18th game in the long running Atelier series, and the second game in the Mysterious trilogy. Firis, an energetic girl, hopes to take and pass the alchemist’s license exam in order to fulfill her dream of traveling outside. Atelier Firis is by far the largest Atelier world in the entire series. In the previous installment, Atelier Sophie, the main character, Sophie, lives in Kirchen Bell. Sophie explores various fields around Kirchen Bell to harvest materials, and once she finishes gathering materials, she returns to her atelier back in Kirchen Bell. Now, in Atelier Firis, your atelier travels with you in the form of a tent! Gathering materials and exploring the world has never been easier.
– Real player with 200.6 hrs in game
Atelier Lulua ~The Scion of Arland~ / ルルアのアトリエ ～アーランドの錬金術士４～
A good entry of the series with probably the most powerful, yet also annoying, synthesis system.
As a series' fan you can easily pick this up and have fun. I had my doubts, revisiting Arland after so much time, but they nicely merged Arland and the new Atelier mechanics and created something that felt familiar, yet also like a more recent Atelier. Gotta say, they did very well.
If you aren’t a fan of the series yet, there are better choices to go into the series. (i.e. Atelier Totori) That said, there are also much worse games to choose, as this is pretty good and flows relatively nicely, as far as gameplay goes. You might feel fairly lost with some characters though, and why Lulua fangirls so much. In the end, it is the fourth entry in a sub-series of Atelier.
– Real player with 126.3 hrs in game
I am going to start by saying that I was not fond of Lulua (the character not the game). She was just an energetic positive ball of fluff for the entire game and her only character development at all was her skill in alchemy and her confidence at using alchemy.
I compared it to Rorona, Totori and Meruru. Rorona and Meruru also remain balls of fluff but their characters were more interesting to me. I cannot entirely explain why I did not like Lulua. I learned to tolerate her so I could enjoy Sterk, Rorona, Meruru, Totori and the world again.
– Real player with 109.5 hrs in game
Atelier Lydie & Suelle ~The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings~
Now that im near the end of this game, well i think i am, who knows, I decided to write a review for this game.
Now i am a simple man, i see lolis, i buy.
But boy oh boy, i got more than what i expected.
Overall the story is fantastic, honestly they have a way of making weak characters. Instead of everything being rosy, this game has some really impactful story. At times you will laugh, other times you will get angry, and in many instances you will be on the verge of tears. I dont rally want to talk much about the story since i feel that it might give a bit of a spoil overall the whole game, so you can nitpick what you can find through the store page pictures and video and description.
– Real player with 158.6 hrs in game
Well, well, well… It’s that time once again. It’s time to review another Atelier game from the Mysterious series. This time, I will be going through Atelier Lydie & Suelle.
In short, Atelier Lydie & Suelle was a lovely game experience. I had a lovely time playing this game and had a great experience while doing so as well. I actually enjoyed Atelier Lydie & Suelle more than the other Atelier games from the “Mysterious” series, which I wasn’t anticipating. I wasn’t going in this game with high expectations, because of the numerous rumors about Atelier Lydie & Suelle being an MP4 simulator with WAY TOO MANY cutscenes side missions. Surprisingly, it wasn’t as I expected! The cutscenes and side missions were actually enjoyable to do, unlike Atelier Firis.
– Real player with 154.3 hrs in game
Atelier Meruru ~The Apprentice of Arland~ DX - メルルのアトリエ ～アーランドの錬金術士３～ DX
Overall Rating:
7/10
Gameplay:
7/10
• Atelier Meruru is the third game of the Arland series. While the game brings back characters from the previous titles, Atelier Rorona and Atelier Totori, it presents side stories and cutscenes for fan service rather than developing the main storyline.
• While still simplistic, the addition of quality of life features brings a complete feel to the game. The organization features missing from Atelier Totori were reintroduced, bringing a cleaner process. Synthesizing requested items can be done on the request page.
– Real player with 439.5 hrs in game
OK lets start with the basic even if i not recomend totori, I suggest buy all arland games and after play totori enter the the best one of the first trilogy (the last is more newer…). Now this game fix a lot of totori problems in terms alchemy, more easy look for the item you want and no so weird events… in my blind run i got a lot of events. The time part is not so bad but get bad endings are hard too hard… actually platinum game without guide on second run seems hard, still cause game not have much problems you will had fun playing a third time even.
– Real player with 132.6 hrs in game
Atelier Totori ~The Adventurer of Arland~ DX - トトリのアトリエ ～アーランドの錬金術士２～ DX
Overall Rating:
7/10
Gameplay:
6.5/10
• Atelier Totori is the second game of the Arland series. It brings a story that does well in character development. It also brings back characters from Atelier Rorona and brings a comedic relief to its story.
• Multiple quality of life aspects during alchemy found in Atelier Rorona are missing in Atelier Totori. Alchemy level during synthesis and component names are lacking. Additionally, the organization of components is subpar compared to Atelier Rorona.
– Real player with 433.3 hrs in game
Unless you’re really into JRPGs and you speak Japanese, you likely found this game on your steam recommendations and never would have imagined it’s part of a series with more entries then Call Of Duty and even most yearly sports games. This is the 12th of 25, not including 3 spin offs, with 26 on its way in a few months. And with the possible exception of Nelke and the Legendary Alchemists (which is rather polarizing, but which I love and have 100s of hours in) this is probably the most common answer your going to get for “worst game in the series”
– Real player with 161.4 hrs in game
Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout
Summary: in my personal opinion, no doubt to be the most amazing atelier game within the franchise, the one and only; also happen to be the best one for the new comers to be introduced to this series.
I’ve played previous atelier game recently and own every atelier game on steam( hadn’t got chance to play them all due to lack of free time), I will compare Ryza to Lydie & Suelle I’ve played recently to prove my statements why Ryza is a true enhanced atelier version and more like an ultimate experience among its ancestors. My perspective will from a new comers’ view since this review will likely to service my friends who put Ryza on wishlists but haven’t played any atelier games at all. Hopefully help them out in a way or two.
– Real player with 110.6 hrs in game
A Cheap Attempt to reinvent the Series (And not well done)
Before going into my review i would like to state two things, the game is actually a decent game overall, i would personally give it a neutral score if it was a option and additionally, the review is written but a long standing Atelier fan.
As some know, Ryza was Gusts idea of moving Atelier to appeal to new crowds, this involved adding a new live based battle system (personally i feel it failed but can see how this did appeal to new fans) and making the game more accessible (more on this below). A few problems became apparent before even booting the game, first off, you are now charged as extra dlc for character stories, this have always been a part of the Atelier experience, now you no longer will receive character events during the game but can pay a fee for them (they ain’t even cheap considering you must buy them separately), this is KT/Gusts idea of cashing in on the modern scummy tactics of shaking every penny out of gamers, the icing to the cake here is the extra dlc isn’t even voiced, you are literally paying for text!!! Oh speaking of not being voiced, another change you notice is now almost any event happening outside the main story is no longer voiced, even when it relates to the story, in short they cut about 60% of voice acting out of the game to save that sweet cash whilst charging extra for everything, yes its another example of removed content.
– Real player with 86.6 hrs in game
Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk DX
This is my first JRPG game, though I did play Skyrim and MMORPGs in the past.
It’s also one of the very few games I played without a guide, no tips, no online references apart from the in-game manual.
I don’t have any knowledge of the mechanics of the game when I started.
I managed to complete the main storyline in 76 hours, or more like 70 if you discount the idling time.
Part of this long playtime could be attributed to me listening to all the spoken dialogues.
It actually took me a couple of hours before even entering my first battle.
– Real player with 135.7 hrs in game
Yeah.
After playing Sophie and falling in love with, i tried Ryza. And i really dont like the path the overall design was going. So, i tried to go back and play older atelier games. This is how i got into Ayesha.
To be honest, this game gives me somewhat mixed feelings. The setting is great, the companions and people you encounter in your path to become an alchemist are fine and overall presentation of the game, including the intro, videos, art and the OST are amazing.
Its kind of hard to put in words what the game does to not click for me. First, it all start with Ayesha. And to put in context, after finished Ayesha i am currently playing Rorona and they are somewhat the same, but Rorona is way more charming, cute and interesting. Theres a dialog in the beginning of the game in which two caracters talk about Rorona that says that being somewhat dumb and innocent is important to acomplish amazing things, this that only genius and dumbs are capable of. So, that clicks on me because its totally true. Normal people would look into a hard task or skill and think: “Nah… whatever. Doesnt worth the trouble.” while genius and dumb people will do it, for different reasons.
– Real player with 134.4 hrs in game