Right here we’re once more! As partial to the Atelier collection I’m being handled neatly through Gust and Koei Tecmo, as a result of now not most effective did we get Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Reminiscences & the Envisioned Land previous this 12 months, we get every other sport in Atelier Resleriana: The Crimson Alchemist & the White Parent this 12 months. Is Gust spreading themselves too skinny? Or are we simply fortunate sufficient to get every other just right Atelier sport?
Atelier Resleriana takes position within the the town of Hallfein, in the past a a hit the town that has entered onerous instances because of an enormous tragedy a number of years prior. You play as two twin protagonists, Rias and Slade, who’re each operating to revive the city in addition to in finding out what took place the ones years in the past.
If the title Atelier Resleriana sounds acquainted to you, it’s as it’s additionally the title of a cell gacha sport that has since close down. Whilst Atelier Resleriana: The Crimson Alchemist & the White Parent is technically a sequel to Atelier Resleriana: Forgotten Alchemy and the Polar Evening Liberator (the cell sport) you don’t want any type of prior wisdom or revel in within the cell sport. And when you aren’t partial to cell gacha sport mechanics, you’re in success! Atelier Resleriana: The Crimson Alchemist & The White Parent (referred to simply as Atelier Resleriana from right here on out to avoid wasting us all a bit of time) is a typical JRPG and not using a gacha mechanics or loose to play components.
What the console sport does raise over from the cell sport are references to earlier video games within the collection. Atelier Resleriana is an enormous crossover from the former video games within the Atelier collection, with each primary celebration participants and characters you run into being from earlier video games, defined as being vacationers from different worlds. Whilst wisdom of the remainder of the Atelier collection isn’t vital to play Atelier Resleriana, it is extremely amusing to look simply how a long way this is going in rewarding fanatics of the collection. I used to be more than happy, as an example, to look Totori from Atelier Totori display up (considered one of my favourite video games within the collection) and point out occasions from her sport and interactions together with her mentor, Rorona. Considered one of your celebration participants could also be considered one of my private favourite facet characters, Willbell from the Nightfall subseries. There was once even stuff I felt like I used to be lacking, as partial to the collection – the primary personality who joins your celebration is Raze from Mana Khemia 2, a fan favourite subseries from the PS2 that I haven’t had a possibility to play. That is extremely rewarding to fanatics, however shouldn’t be one thing to stay you from taking part in Atelier Resleriana.
Some other facet of Atelier Resleriana that can be acquainted to current fanatics is the gameplay, each with the gameplay loop and struggle. The gameplay loop is vintage Atelier, the place you discover the arena to get fabrics, use the ones fabrics in alchemy to synthesize pieces, after which use the ones pieces in struggle. On the other hand, Atelier Resleriana provides a brand new twist with a the town and store control mechanic, the place you promote pieces in a store to each become profitable and in addition increase the city. Then you’ll be able to additional construction with making an investment the cash you’ve earned in addition to pieces you’ve amassed and crafted. I at all times love the Atelier gameplay loop, and the additions right here paintings neatly, feeling like a herbal extension of vintage Atelier gameplay. The struggle could also be again to vintage Atelier, returning to show primarily based struggle. Whilst probably the most actual time struggle of the Ryza/Secret video games and Yumia has been just right, I feel flip primarily based works significantly better with the remainder of the methods, and it feels nice right here. I additionally love the alchemy device on this sport, which comes to you selecting out the pieces for use in synthesis (with quite a lot of strengths and characteristics) however then additionally having the ability to morph recipes if the use of explicit substances which lets you uncover new pieces. It’s an overly amusing device which has lead me to spend an excellent period of time messing with alchemy to look what number of pieces I will uncover.
The sport additionally appears to be like and sounds nice, with a couple of caveats. The nature designs and fashions are probably the most easiest within the Atelier franchise, which is particularly thrilling given all the legacy characters integrated into the sport. That being mentioned, probably the most textures are in reality tough and really feel virtually shockingly misplaced. If the workforce needed to spend its time on something I’m happy the nature fashions got precedence, however probably the most environmental textures may now not really feel misplaced on a sport from a couple of console generations in the past. I discovered it simple to recover from beautiful briefly nevertheless it’s a little jarring. The track is superb too, and in addition references earlier video games – I heard a track from Atelier Ayesha that straight away felt nostalgic.
Atelier Resleriana is in numerous tactics a love letter to the remainder of the collection. Whilst Atelier Yumia was once having a look ahead, Atelier Resleriana presentations that Gust is greater than prepared to appear again on the issues that made the collection loved within the first position. Whilst I in reality loved my time with Atelier Yumia, I feel Atelier Resleriana can be my favourite Atelier sport of the 12 months. This can be a evaluate in development because of the reality I’m now not fairly performed with the sport and will’t discuss to the finished tale, however I feel the gameplay and characters display simply why such a lot of fanatics like myself have fallen in love with the Atelier collection. It contains vintage Atelier gameplay with fan favourite characters whilst nonetheless together with contemporary gameplay concepts. Whilst this was once indisputably made with current fanatics of the collection in thoughts, Atelier Resleriana is one thing that new fanatics too can recognize as neatly.
