That's possible. Though honestly I'm not so sure. I think Fire Emblem was already widely successful on the 3DS, and I think Three Houses mostly sold better because it was a Switch game in an ever-increasingly popular franchise. Although i'm biased because I think the art in the 3DS games (especially Valentia) is just better.
You can find numbers for Japanese sales here. Doesn't seem to have been updated to include Lulua.
This is where I'm at. I'm really interested in trying the updated gameplay, but they lost me by going further with the sexualization. Sucks because there aren't any other games like this. At least I have a big backlog of Atelier games to go through.
Thanks for that! It's helpful to see how the series has performed over the course of its life.
Yeah that was where my eyes were immediately drawn lol. Atelier is usually frilly and cutesy clothing designs.
Mostly the Battle system
Yeah, it's a really nice series. It's usually better to start with the start of a new story arc like Ryza releasing next month in the west.
Yeah, they're very consistently good, lower-stakes JRPGs. The dusk trilogy will get a rerelease on Switch and PS4 soon-ish, and one of those is among the best JRPGs of last gen:
Lol honestly though at least for me the Atelier games always interested me and all this marketing for this onefinally made me choose to buy it when it comes out in the US.
https://www.koeitecmo.co.jp/e/ir/library/presentation/
*google search*
I think I might get this one instead just for Hidari and stay if I enjoy the gameplay. Hopefully Riza's cast is good beyond the designs being sexualized. I actually like the protagonist's look and the problematic one isn't even on the cover, soooo crossing fingers. If they had a boob physics toggle it'd be nicer, but I don't really know if any game has that. I would have used it in Senran Kagura Deep Crimsom for sure...Yeah, they're very consistently good, lower-stakes JRPGs. The dusk trilogy will get a rerelease on Switch and PS4 soon-ish, and one of those is among the best JRPGs of last gen:
You get Hidari character designs in them:
Yeah I think it is very hard to claim that the main character design had no impact when it came to generating interest. Hell I'd argue it had tremendous impact on interest. There's just very few alternatives to consider such a massive and insane sales performance gap between this entry and the most recent ones before.
Aha, it's basically dead. It didn't sell very well and the team behind it made Lulua.
Damn, I didn't play it yet, but I've heard quite a few people saying the story begs for a sequel.
On that note, how are the Japanese review outlets scoring this game so far ? From what others have said the Atelier series overall scores in the mid 70s as far as metacritic aggregate goes
Review Score: 65
I highly doubt that this is going to score lower than Lulua based on everything is doing.
Not always
The plus versions of those are all high 70s to 80 :P
Unfortunately not; the series stopped having English dubs at Lydie & Suelle and have been Japanese only since :/
I stand corrected.
I'm guessing it has saved them money too and was easily justified with interest in the west being so low seemingly.
