I finally took the time to finish #atelier Yumia—sad ending, but cute. I would like to see future instalments going in that direction. I loved how kawaii Isla is! She is a great sidekick! 🩵✨
Now, back to the #ryza world with Atelier Ryza 2 🪄
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Just finished Atelier Yumia. To put it shortly, I don't like it very much. Maybe my most disliked Atelier game since Firis, although for completely different reasons.
The alchemy system is bad. They are kind of continuing in the direction of making it so that the recipes are so free-form, that they are barely recipes. Late game, you can pretty much just slap your highest quality ingredients blindly into any slot and you'll end up with maxed items (ignoring equipment.)
Furthermore, they decided to introduce leveling recipes in order to unlock more effects (rather than using ingredients wisely.) The materials required come from unmarked spots in the environment. You occasionally have a blue path revealed that will lead you to these spots. I'm not sure why they put this extra step in, it doesn't really add anything. It's just kind of annoying?
On the plus side, the game on normal is pretty trivial. You probably don't really need to do that much alchemy in order to beat the game.
I will say, the exploration part of it was pretty good, at least. And at least the PC port felt somewhat competent as far as the Atelier series goes.
Here's the third post apocalyptic utopia. I wanted to play Logy's route, but you know. Time limit.
Wait wait wait
What do you me Escha&Logy is meant to be EschaとLogy and it's a pun on Eschatology in a post apocalyptic utopia
Because I always called Escha as "Esha" (like Sacha), and Logy with a hard g like I thought it's short for Logan.
Escha was slightly sad that Logy opted to go back to Central instead of stay locally as an alchemist.
Everyone failed to recognise that for the four years he's been there, Escha lived at home in her orchard. It's implied Logy lived in the office on the couch.
Just to clarify: the battles are not bad, necessarily. Just generic, and solidly midtier by 2010s turn based JRPG turn standard, with a kinda terrible UI.
The crafting is almost godtier but with two competing priorities:
1. Players would like to trial and error with various base ingredients, unlock them slowly and widely, until we get to the point of learning to perform alchemy well.
2. A particularly irritating time limit makes 1 impossible, it rushes us, and we just figured fuck this shit guide please.
So basically pissed all over its strongest point.
I had enough of Atelier Escha now. Near end of the game, the bosses just straight out cheat. Self heal to full after an hour of chipping away HP, game gives the party a very strict linear turn based UI just so the boss skips turns and shoving 4 or 5 attacks in one turn, communicated by UI as a single turn etc.
The battles are solidly the weakest aspect of this series, and the devs can't tell the difference between tedious versus fun.
I have decided that Atelier Dusk series is the most spiritually Taoist series. As in the characters make bombs, poisons, and lollies out of the same cauldron.
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