![]() ![]() Sure, you still fight battles to go get ingredients and perform some monster slaying quests but the whole thing is focused on rather easy battles you need to go through to perform alchemy in your atelier to make a living helping villagers and triggering events and raising flags for endings. Instead of exploring the whole world and fighting evil antagonists and vicious monsters in a classic J-RPG fashion like before, you now casually go about doing errands for friendly NPCs in a peaceful little village as a clumsy apprentice alchemist. While you pretty much had to save the world from alchemic disasters or villains back in the days, the series took on a much more casual and friendly approach. Storywise, the series has also changed a lot since the PS2 era. ![]() While it has always been at the center of the stories and worlds of the Atelier games, alchemy has started to become more and more important and the alchemy crafting system has evolved and changed with every single game, becoming more complex and adding new customization possibilities (too many for someone like me not too much into crafting but that’s objectively a good thing so i’m not gonna complain too much about it xD). ![]() ![]() Graphics got better and better, battle systems evolved back towards what they were like in the old days, even the OSTs got better each time in my opinion, bringing back some epicness in battles. It’s always the same but evolves (in a good way) with each episode. Similarly, even the games of each arc have little continuity between them, however, I do suggest you start at the first game of an arc at the least.Ever since the series took a new turn with Atelier Rorona on ps3, mixing the RPG elements of Atelier Iris and the less known scenario/craft only ateliers in Japan such as Atelier Marie, the basic recipe for these games hasn’t changed much. Last but not least, keep in mind that different arcs / series have almost zero relation & reference to each other, so story-wise it’s safe to start with any of them. Only after the Arland Quadrilogy are all the games easily available on multiple platforms, in both physical & digital versions, so I definitely suggest you start from there! Keep in mind that the first two series, Salburg & Gramnad, have never been released officially in English (but some fan translations are available), while the following two, Iris & Mana Khemia barely did. Not anymore though, since I’m sure the categorization below will give you the fastest answer to your Atelier questions, and clear any confusion once and for all! Getting into the Atelier series is not the easiest task to undertake – unless you don’t care about playing them in any order that is! With more than two dozen mainline games, split into multiple arcs, even understanding where each one belongs may prove to be a hassle. ![]()
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