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
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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
Smoke and Sacrifice
I bought this game in a pack with The Flame in the Flood two years ago. I played an hour of TFitF, and never even installed Smoke and Sacrifice. I decided to finally try it a few weeks ago, and I was sucked into a very unique survival/crafting adventure. This is a great game that fans of the genre should definitely try. As I write this review, it’s on sale for a mere $3 USD. Don’t hesitate if you have any interest at all!
This game is centered around its involved storyline, and the point of the game is to push the plot forward rather than merely survive and go up a crafting tech tree. There aren’t any traditional survival game mechanics like hunger, temperature, etc., but the crafting system is exactly what we expect out of a survival/crafting game, so I think this game still merits classification as “Survival/Crafting.”
– Real player with 21.9 hrs in game
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Smoke and Sacrifice looks charming, there’s no doubt about it. It’s smoothly delivered too, with very few annoying glitches or bugs. I occasionally got snagged on terrain or objects, but I didn’t once experience a game breaking bug or annoying glitch during my 19.1 hours of playing.
So it’s well executed and polished. However, this charm soon faded for me. Before I spent my £20 I read several reviews, all enthusing about the story, the steampunk setting, the ‘survival’ experience and how it was reminiscent of true survival classics like Don’t Starve for example.
– Real player with 19.1 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
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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 Rorona ~The Alchemist of Arland~ DX - ロロナのアトリエ ～アーランドの錬金術士～ DX
Overall Rating:
7/10
Gameplay:
7/10
• Atelier Rorona is the first game of the Arland series. It opens the Arland trilogy with a great story that could have been dark but lightens it with character and game designs. The game includes multiple endings depending on character interactions and story progression. It also includes characters from the second and third game, Atelier Totori and Atelier Meruru, into it’s post-game.
• Compared to other Atelier series, Atelier Rorona has a simplistic yet effective alchemy mechanism. The organization of the entire process brings addictive content streamlined for both new and veteran players.
– Real player with 442.6 hrs in game
Also known as Atelier Rorona Plus, this game is a remastered version of the original Atelier Rorona released way back in 2009.
The remaster improves on all aspects of the game in significant and tangible ways; the 3D models are touched up, the music is remixed, an events gallery is added to the main menu, side characters can now be recruited into your party and they come with flashy new abilities, and more!
Although the high-level gameplay loop is pretty stale (fight, gather, craft, repeat) for today’s standards, the game gets heavily carried by the pristine writing and solid characters. Each one of the side characters has a decent number of events that either showcase their unique character and personality, or see them grow and change through their interactions with Rorona.
– Real player with 98.0 hrs in game
Amber’s Magic Shop
Amber’s Magic Shop is an interesting story about dark elf girl becoming master alchemist and finding her love. Game has visual novel mode with crafting being fully cut out and plot feels to remain relatively solid in it (game will politely ask if player wants heroine to succeed or fail at creating story related potions).
Timewise the game is divided into two parts:
1. Teenager stage when Amber is learning the craft - this part is more concentrated on visual novel component of the game since there are a lot of characters to meet and get to know;
– Real player with 41.5 hrs in game
I’ve had this game for a while and I keep coming back to it, so I finally decided to leave a review! I want to preface this by saying that I do play this game on ‘Visual Novel mode’ as crafting isn’t really my thing, so my experience of it is really only the story rather than the other gameplay elements. However, I find the story really engaging, I enjoy learning more about the world of Aravorn through the eyes of so many diverse and different characters and I LOVE how your decisions shape the story.
– Real player with 35.5 hrs in game
AREAZ
It may be in early development but i think this game has a lot of great possibilities. Interested to see what they do with it. So far I have really enjoyed it.
– Real player with 29.1 hrs in game
Only played a short time so far. I recommend this game to people who appreciate a little bit of realism. Some complain how you only have an inventory of 10 items, I reckon that’s great, finally a game where you have to choose what you need to have, to complete the tasks required to survive. Excellent game in my book, I look forward to spending many hours playing it, 9/10 in my opinion. I hope the developer doesn’t create an enormous character inventory to please a few. THIS IS THE SURVIVAL GAME I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR. My 1st review was at 44 minutes, as promised, I will be playing this game for hours to come, I absolutely love it.
– Real player with 21.2 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
Farmer’s Fairy Tale
I like the style of game. It’s quite relaxing, with no rush to complete main quests. The “timers” on certain quests is only for the extra reward and not essential to the storyline quests. The graphics are nice, the conversations and flow of the story are quite funny (in a somewhat lame kind of way). The game was a little buggy at first, but the upjers team responded to me quite fast and were very helpful to solve the problem.
– Real player with 204.9 hrs in game
I had added this game to my wishlist before it came out because it had looked so interesting. After I took the leap of faith in buying it, spending almost an hour non-stop on it, I am very pleased with this game! I was like, “FINALLY”, a game that I can do my own relaxed farming but still have objectives. Not to mention the storyline, graphics, and game sounds are not too shabby at all. They put thought into it and you can zoom in and out of the world, making the control gameplay very easy to handle. It feels like stardew valley with the concept of adding items adds energy, eat food get energy, as well as my time at portia by gathering materials and then having to craft objects. Doesn’t take a long time to get materials. I can already tell I am going to be wasting a good portion of my life on this game. Great job Farmer’s Fairy Tale!
– Real player with 188.1 hrs in game
Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy
First off, would like to give a rundown on this game to help others understand what they are buying.
1. Game is subtitles only. Yes, can be annoying having to read everything the characters say, but the voice acting is nice and the dialogue is great even if you don’t understand Japanese.
2. This game is story intensive. Majority of gameplay will be split between reading the massive amount of cutscenes, exploring the world and crafting your equipment. Combat doesn’t take up much of your game time. Difficulty can be increased, but combat is not exactly the major point of this game. Think of this like the old flash storyboard games but with full 3d environment exploration with combat sprinkled in.
– Real player with 98.7 hrs in game
Initially, I liked this game. After finishing this game however, I was left with an inexplicable urge to squeeze small white flying animals that squeak. The characters in this game are so uninteresting that I just began to skip cut scenes because I couldn’t care less about them. How they managed to ruin the main gang I have no idea, but they are BAD. The new characters are even worse, especially the blacksmith. Gameplay wise, I respect Gust changing how items are used, and the combat is far better than Ryza. Crafting is way better and craft, gather, combat formula persists, though alchemy is still pretty easy. The ruin discovery was neat, I was interested in the beginning, but in the end, I just brute forced through the “puzzles”.
– Real player with 75.1 hrs in game