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I'm trying to find that ancient Atelier Manly boxart but I can't find it

>>16107687

Noted.

>>16107682

Yuri is fine. Especially when i play the girl.

>>16107691

Make sure to get the latest version as it had shit ui resolution and fried peoples cpus on release.

>>16107676

On the one hand, I'd generally recommend starting with the first game in one of the two series (Arland/Rorona, or Mysterious/Sophie). On the other, the first games in both series are by far the worst. Sophie has retardedly small maps that basically amount to exploring a single open field with a couple of wandering monsters, while Rorona is only slightly better and has an insanely basic alchemy system with no depth at all, though I honestly don't know if the series improves from there or not (mysterious does)

>>16107710

If the games are playable on their own is ok. If i will feel it is worth it i will fill the gaps later.

These games are stressful time management sims and you'll miss all the events unless you use a guide. At least that's my impression from playing Rorona. Cute girls or no cute girls, I wouldn't bother.

>>16107726

Actually i appreciate when the progression of time matter in games with RPG mechanics. This doesn't discourage me.

>>16107726

Mysterious games don't really give a fuck about time. Sophie has no time limits at all, Firis gives you a 1 year timer for the first half the game (which you will probably finish in 5 months), then unlimited. Lydie and Suelle I think only has a timer on one quest halfway through the game, they give you a month but you'll probably be done in a couple days

I'm not using a guide for Rorona so I don't know what I'm missing, but I doubt there are any miss-able town events that actually affect the story or gameplay except maybe in the last couple chapters.

>>16107733

>>16107676

Get Rorona anon

Get the Arland trilogy and if you like them play the older games.

Then play the news ones

>>16107686

Does no one have this image?

>>16107763

Don't bother replying anymore anon. He's a legendary sperg that will continue shitting up the thread for hours and hours.

>>16107739

Why the new games last?

Anyway i'm not even sure if i will play more than one game. So is kinda pointless talking to me in terms of "trilogies".

If what >>16107710 say is true then i should go for Firis or Lydie/Suelle (bonus point Suelle for being a gunner). And considering the design of the Arland saga kinda put me off especially Totori.

>>16107779

Firis is the best of Mysterious easily. The only major flaws are how recipes are unlocked (it can be really obtuse sometimes) and a general lack-of plot. I don't know anything about Totori or Mururu, I'm only halfway through Rorona.

>>16107786

>I'm only halfway through Rorona

Worth it?

>>16107718

So someone that had a gf for years that he now hates, is somehow lower on the totem pole than fag enablers? At what point is he wrong that everything made to appeal to fags is low grade trash?

>>16107853

It was a shitpost image

Why not try chronological order OP? Is there anything wrong with the earlier games, or are the mechanics that much different, for those who have played them?

I loved Atelier Sophie, but i cannot guarantee you will like it too, op. Pirate it to see if it's worth your time.

Sophie is a good place to jump into the series if youre interested in the newer games. sophie is generally linear, it explains itself well, and its story is self contained but expanded over the next few games (firis & sue+lydie).

>>16108773

Damn, that typeface is just even more painful. Also, it mentions Neptunia and Cross Edge aside "Ars Telonico" but doesn't mention Mana Khemia at all…

MK1 and 2 need to be added there, they're quite worth it.

>>16108773

>2015 Atelier chart when we still had daily generals for it Nep, Stalkan and EYE

Thanks, I had complety forgotten about it

I'm also depressed after realizing it's been 4 fucking years and the board has mutated

>>16108773

Just tells you where to start doesn't really tell you where to go afterwards. Though I did start on rorona last week and am enjoying it quite a bit so far.

>>16109313

Enjoy your stay.

>>16109313

4 years since 2015

It's been 5 years since the Gamergate Exodus and 6 years since the imageboard was created.

This imageboard is now at the same age cuckchan was in 2009.

>>16109332

>instead of that

>>16109332

4chan was already pretty garbage when I got there, I mostly used KC, ED and later on Masterchan before coming here.

>>16109338

Atelier Rorona is 10 years old

Why is the trilogy so expensive on steam?? $90 for 3 old games, what were they thinking??

>>16107676

Hey it's the game I used to jailbreak my Vita

>>16114444

The French Atelier Traduction guys are pretty damn good, but they prioritize their FR translations first.

It's thanks to them that many things in the AT2 retranslation were possible, so it's just a matter of time for the other Ateliers to get some love.

>>16114444

Most games have terrible localizations. Learn Japanese instead of waiting for someone to fix them all.

>>16114444

They are busy with translating Ciel nosurge to English nowadays.

>>16114444

Are we talking bugs or translation issues? I've been playing them in Japanese anyway so the latter isn't much of an issue.

>>16114424

no

>>16107676

Any of the ones with a time limit; so for PC that's Arland. The Atelier games with time limits can also be split into long-form and short-form and you may like one and not the other. Personally I think the long-form games (Totori, Ayesha and a bunch of the older untranslated Japanese titles) are better than the short form (Rorona, Meruru and countless others) games which have you constantly running errands.

>>16115485

In my limited experience, the time limit games lack any real challenging content that would force you to really master the crafting portion of the game. You generally win based on monster grinding alone, which seems odd since you would think the time limit would limit grinding, but it really limits crafting more especially if you spend your field time efficiently. The unlimited games have more post-game content that requires well-crafted equipment and items.

>>16107696

>fried peoples cpus

What is with this series, is it cursed? There was a DC Atelier game that initially shipped with some viral infected screensaver. https://archive.fo/eOk7l

>>16115496

I've never heard this opinion before. The games without time-limits are considerably easier and most don't even have a post-game. I think you're talking out of your ass.

>>16115732

I haven't played many of the limited ones yet, so that's where "my limited experience" comes from. The Mysterous series however all three games have post-game shit that require good item builds.

>>16115496

What are you talking about? Time management is part of the challenge of the time limit games. The games that lack time limits are stupid easy and they're the most lacking in content. Sophie was broken from not limiting you, sometimes I would get stuck because events required to open new areas and move the story along would "build up" and I would have to go in and out of several areas over and over again to catch them up. Firis was so bad I didn't even realize I was already doing "post game" because the game itself was arguably pointless.

>>16115801

None.

>>16115801

>>16115952

For the vanilla games? None, the plus versions? Only one was released and it somehow looks and runs worse than the vita port.

>>16115952

Well, this is confusing.

I guess I'll have to bite the bullet to find out.

>>16116042

>Only one was released and it somehow looks and runs worse than the vita port

You mean the Rorona Plus?

>>16116234

>I guess I'll have to bite the bullet to find out.

Or you could just look up gameplay videos.

>>16108773

Can anons confirm the trilogy is the ideal entrypoint? Also seriously, the Neptunia games are related?

where i can find the games for me to pirate on pc?

>>16124952

There was also a NISA character and a Red character, but they're gone too.

>>16125217

Red did better. Gust and Nisa show up only in the first 2 games while Red manages to be in Re;birth 2 as a support, and DLC in Re;birth 3. Sage because not totally on-topic but those infographics really need to be superceded.

>>16116234

Yes rorona plus, play the arland plus trilogy on vita if you can, it's almost like these games were tailor made for it.

If you don't have a vita there's also the arland DX rerelease for PC, it contains the three games and all their DLC in a single package, no extra content over the vita versions though, iirc it also got a switch port in case you have one of those.

>>16125217

>>16125226

NiSA or NiS? I can't see them making a character for the localizer.

>>16125307

did you think that don't forget you're here forever was a fucking joke?

>>16127824

Well, technically NIS. But in the localized versions, her name is "Nisa".

>>16128033

>Translation Statuses are:

>HDN, HDN Mk2 and Victory: NISA cancer.

What a surprise.

>>16115801

If we're talking the NA versions, NISA localizations for all of them except Ayesha. And with Ayesha Kekmo apparently thought they didn't need dual audio at first, so it only has a dub (the Vita re-release has dual audio though).