NeoCracker
04-06-2014, 04:42 PM
Welp, this is the 5th instalmant of the Atelier games on the PS3, and the fifth game using this particular formula of focusing more on your day to day grind as an alchemist rather then some massive plot, though there is definatley a story building up the whole time.
How does it hold up to the others? Pretty well. The battle system more reflects that of Mana Khemia with it's six man party, three in the front and three to switch in and out. However they seemed to have dropped the varying support abilities depending upon your position to the enemy. (For example in Ayesha, Lilca's Checkmate was a defnese that could only be used if she was facing an opponents side when activated. ect.) So it gains some ground and looses some at the same time.
I'm happy Item degradation has gone, and I like the inclusion of the field events! However There are some ingredients that are just insane to get. Let me explain the crazy one.
You need to go through the four screens of this one map, and on the last map activate the field change for rare items. After that, you have to travel back to the first part of the map. And assuming you didn't already grab all the ingredients, you will use a fertilizer thing on one of the spots and tehn grab it.
That is seemingly the only way to grab this item. So once again a few steps forward, a few steps back.
Writing in Ayesha, the last one and also taking place in this ones world, was quite a bit better as well.
And dammit, why have neither this game nor the last had Pamela? Her absence depresses me. :cry:
How does it hold up to the others? Pretty well. The battle system more reflects that of Mana Khemia with it's six man party, three in the front and three to switch in and out. However they seemed to have dropped the varying support abilities depending upon your position to the enemy. (For example in Ayesha, Lilca's Checkmate was a defnese that could only be used if she was facing an opponents side when activated. ect.) So it gains some ground and looses some at the same time.
I'm happy Item degradation has gone, and I like the inclusion of the field events! However There are some ingredients that are just insane to get. Let me explain the crazy one.
You need to go through the four screens of this one map, and on the last map activate the field change for rare items. After that, you have to travel back to the first part of the map. And assuming you didn't already grab all the ingredients, you will use a fertilizer thing on one of the spots and tehn grab it.
That is seemingly the only way to grab this item. So once again a few steps forward, a few steps back.
Writing in Ayesha, the last one and also taking place in this ones world, was quite a bit better as well.
And dammit, why have neither this game nor the last had Pamela? Her absence depresses me. :cry: