Ryza was my first game in this series. Really love an in-depth magic crafting/brewing system. And the relatively light, slice-of-life quests at the beginning of the game were exactly what I needed at the time.
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Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy |OT| Ryza the Tomb Raider
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Daaaaamn it. I forgot about this T_T. I dont know if I want to start it with The Medium right around the corner and I'm still in the middle of Hitman 3. Arrrrggggg
Looking forward to impressions and reviews, I own the first one but didn't ever launch it for some reason.
Oh boy, i'm going through it currently and yep you're crazy haha.
Starting from CS3 they're basically using plot points and characters from all the games in the series, it's wild. I feel like even people who started with cold steel 1 are missing soooo many references, worlduilding, plot points and characters. Story wise, It probably feels like starting Kingdom Hearts with KH3.
I wish you good luck.
That said, I would still very highly recommend to atleast start with CS3 if you want to skip the rest, you're going to miss a shitton of important stuff, CS4 is a direct sequel to CS3 and CS3 ends very abruptly, you're going to basically miss half of the story and won't know anyone or anything that happened / why any of this is happening etc.
CS3 is really a must play before CS4 imo, CS3 and 4 are basically one game cut in two. Also CS3 is the better game, and it looks exactly the same graphics wise, same gameplay, same protagonists, etc. Really no reason not to start with it imo, unless you're really insanely crazy, if that's the case, my bad, and good luck !
Oh boy, i'm going through it currently and yep you're crazy haha.
Starting from CS3 they're basically using plot points and characters from all the games in the series, it's wild. I feel like even people who started with cold steel 1 are missing soooo many references, worlduilding, plot points and characters. Story wise, It probably feels like starting Kingdom Hearts with KH3.
I wish you good luck.
That said, I would still very highly recommend to atleast start with CS3 if you want to skip the rest, you're going to miss a shitton of important stuff, CS4 is a direct sequel to CS3 and CS3 ends very abruptly, you're going to basically miss half of the story and won't know anyone or anything that happened / why any of this is happening etc.
CS3 is really a must play before CS4 imo, CS3 and 4 are basically one game cut in two. Also CS3 is the better game, and it looks exactly the same graphics wise, same gameplay, same protagonists, etc. Really no reason not to start with it imo, unless you're really insanely crazy, if that's the case, my bad, and good luck !
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lol, yeah too many games to play and not enough time. It took me 2 months to finish YS8 lol
I literally just beat it a few hours ago, I don't get the impression that you would really need to play the first game besides understanding the characters a bit more in context of each other. Nothing really happens, its more of a slice of life story.
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It feels like Season 2 of a slice of life anime, but there are a number of callbacks to events, people, and places that do have some more weight when you know what they are. That said, it's not like a second game in a Trails series so people should be generally fine starting with this one if they want.
I was thinking of getting back into the Atelier games with Ryza, but when it was announced with real-time combat I held off. Will hold off on this one, as well.
Not sure why they get away from turn-based. But when (if) they go back to it, I will give it a try again.
Not sure why they get away from turn-based. But when (if) they go back to it, I will give it a try again.
I've never played one of these before. Up for and RPG right now. Trying to decide on ps5 vs switch. Being able to play handheld would be a plus. My wife can watch crap on tv and I can play on my switch. Though I bet it would look real nice on ps5...
Do you think this will review well? Tempted to grab it on pc since gmg has it for 45 dollars that ends soon.
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It's 4K. It is absolutely not a solid 60 FPS. I was just coming into this thread to post that this is the first game to give me motion sickness due to the framerate bobbing all over the place in a very, very long time. I had to set the PS5 to 1080p to make it smooth. I really couldn't take it anymore.
Yikes, not being a solid 60fps is a major bummer.
Might just have pulled me towards the Switch version with that. Glad I waited for more impressions to start rolling in.
Tokyo Mirage Sessions is a big example of this. The characters say stuff during battle but there's no way of knowing what they're saying unless you know Japanese. It was really annoying not knowing what Ryza says during alchemy sessions.
Same. I'm gonna wait a bit to get this cause I'm not quite ready for a new video game right now lol
I tried this and it changed nothing that I could tell. Exactly the same running through town. Maybe I have to reboot the game entirely idk
I closed the game completely before changing resolutions. It's a massive difference.
Yeah that did it. If you try to change the resolution with the game running it just keeps the same frame rate. Now it's perfectly acceptable.
Here's my review of the game! I thought it was really good and improves on almost everything about the original
Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy Review: More of What You Love (escapistmagazine.com)
Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy Review: More of What You Love (escapistmagazine.com)
If we're posting reviews, here's mine - I think it makes the argument that Gust deserves a longer dev time for whatever their next project ends up being; not because it's disappointing, but for the opposite reasoning. It's such an impressive follow-up within the time budget they had, I can't help but want to see what Gust could deliver if they had a full development cycle.
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Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends and the Secret Fairy Review | RPG Site
Atelier Ryza 2 expands upon the first games formula in some smart ways, and improves upon nearly every aspect of its design.
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Likewise, my review is live now. I thought the first game was just ok, nothing special but I thought Ryza 2 was better in every way. The music especially was really good!
I think it's just their way of working. We are just used to delays by Square and Atlus.If we're posting reviews, here's mine - I think it makes the argument that Gust deserves a longer dev time for whatever their next project ends up being; not because it's disappointing, but for the opposite reasoning. It's such an impressive follow-up within the time budget they had, I can't help but want to see what Gust could deliver if they had a full development cycle.
Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends and the Secret Fairy Review | RPG Site
Atelier Ryza 2 expands upon the first games formula in some smart ways, and improves upon nearly every aspect of its design.
What is the PS4 version at? If you're dropping the resolution of PS5 version down, might be better to just have the more powerful hardware on the PS4 version?
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Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy | Review Thread
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Looking to grab this later today. I think I'm going for the Switch version even though I have a PS5 - I have the first game on Switch and I have a pile of Switch eshop bucks to burn. Unless impressions suggest the Switch version is running really poorly, which I haven't seen so far.
The PS5 version performs better than the PS4 version on PS5. Smoother framerate (at 1080p), and much faster loading.
Yeah, what a bummer. I was wondering about this too - here's the link if anyone wants to monitor how long it takes. https://greenmangaming.zendesk.com/...-Lost-Legends-the-Secret-Fairy-Launch-Details
Does this support ultrawide on PC?
I'm really interested in this game but I don't know if I'll get it when it doesn't support UW.
I'm really interested in this game but I don't know if I'll get it when it doesn't support UW.
Yeah, I was wondering about this too. The ini shenanigans worked last time, but I wonder if the UI is stretched.
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Performance has been great for me on pc with i7-6700k, 16gb ram, and a 1080ti. Only had a couple drops here and there in particularly foggy areas and some chaos in combat as I littered the place with more effects than the game knew what to do with, but even then it was a drop to maybe 40~45 for a few seconds.
I was actually really looking forward to this because I assumed it would have a dub unlike the first. Found out like 2 days ago it wouldn't. Fuckin lame.