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Nelke & the Legendary Alchemists: Ateliers of the New World is coming to West this Winter[PS4/NS/PC]
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The official PR doesn't mention Xbox One at all, seems it's a mistake from the Twitter guy. The mistake could be from the PR, but that is less likely I think.
No Xbox logo on the website either.
http://www.koeitecmoamerica.com/nelke/
No Xbox logo on the website either.
http://www.koeitecmoamerica.com/nelke/
I wonder which Atelier character is Phil Spencer's favourite one.
Amazing that it's happening.
Last game with a Vita version developed too, will be good for the future of the series. Looking forward to this one, different gameplay from the recent trilogy.
Edit: it's not for X1 in the end? Phil pls
Amazing that it's happening.
Last game with a Vita version developed too, will be good for the future of the series. Looking forward to this one, different gameplay from the recent trilogy.
Edit: it's not for X1 in the end? Phil pls
also RIP community manager
I'm really hoping this gets a dub because there are so many characters in this whose dub voices I loved but seeing as L&S didn't have one I'm not optimistic.
The Arland arc was done in 2011, there have been two full arcs since then.
The Arland arc was done in 2011, there have been two full arcs since then.
This a celebration game like MHX or EOX. Spinoff with most main characters throughout the whole series.
Edit and yeah there's down building and different gameplay elements.
This isn't a remaster, this is a new game featuring many old characters from different Atelier games.
There's several Atelier games that came out before the PS2 Ateliers, but none were localized.
Oh snap am I confusing this with something else lol?
Edit: didn't they announce a remaster collection couple of days ago? I am probably confusing it with that ;/
They just announced remasters of some PS3/Vita games this week, and this spinoff includes PS2 characters. Might have mixed both?
You're thinking of the newly announced PS4 and Switch re-releases of the Arland Trilogy (Atelier Rorona DX, Atelier Totori DX, and Atelier Meruru DX), which were PS3-era titles. Those haven't been announced for the west. They're also not remasters, just straight ports + DLC included.
You might be confusing this with the recently-announced ports of the Arland trilogy (Rorona, Totori, Meruru, originally all on PS3/Vita) to PS4/Switch, which haven't been officially confirmed for localization yet but are almost certainly going to be localized.
That seems like a relatively quick turnaround, though I don't remember when the Japanese version was supposed to come out (and indeed missed the full announcement with the new alchemist and title). Curious to see how this plays.
Gematsu has some gameplay details and character bios from the Japanese version in case anyone else is catching up like me. I can't decide if the return to 2D character portraits is an intentional nod to previous games or just cost-cutting. And yeah, to allay people's fears, there are a bunch of PS2-era characters in here.
Gematsu has some gameplay details and character bios from the Japanese version in case anyone else is catching up like me. I can't decide if the return to 2D character portraits is an intentional nod to previous games or just cost-cutting. And yeah, to allay people's fears, there are a bunch of PS2-era characters in here.
"new town building focus" I'm curious but I need more info. The stuff from gematsu sounds neat.
I might be in for PC, KT has been getting better with ports lately too.
Though I haven't actually played the 3rd mysterious game yet, so maybe that first.
I might be in for PC, KT has been getting better with ports lately too.
Though I haven't actually played the 3rd mysterious game yet, so maybe that first.
Sophie runs fine. Firis runs worse but still fine, however Firis has a bunch of graphical bugs.
Yep that's it then
I will still get this though and will get those other remasters in ps4 if not on pc assuming they come to the west.
Are the stories related to each game or can you start anywhere in the series?
New to the series, haven't gotten the chance to try them out
The only game in the series that's on Switch at the moment is Lydie&Suelle.
Atelier is a franchise that's been doing annual releases since before it was cool and managed to keep it from going too stale by rebooting itself every three games or so, keeping the core concepts of being crafting-focused and some of the recurring characters/monsters but completely changing up the story/setting. It's generally recommended to use the first game of a given sub-series as a starting point, but none of the games are so dependent on continuity that you'll be completely lost if you start in game 2 or 3 in a series. The "modern" games are:
Arland- Rorona, Totori, Meruru (PS3/Vita only, recently announced ports for PS4/Switch which will probably come to the US next year with a PC version as well)
Dusk- Ayesha, Escha&Logy, Shallie (PS3/Vita only, will probably get the same treatment as the Arland games eventually)
Mysterious- Sophie, Firis, Lydie&Suelle (PS4/PC, L&S also has a Switch version)
Nelke is probably just a one-off game to celebrate the series' anniversary and we'll get the first game of a new trilogy next year.
So yeah, Rorona Plus/Ayesha/Sophie are the "ideal" starting points but in all honesty you can probably jump in anywhere and be fine.
This is probably noooot getting a dub. I guess I don't care too much because I haven't played any of these games since Totori, but it's a shame because if they dubbed a modern one I'd jump in. I have Atelier Firis sitting in my game collection untouched because the third game isn't dubbed. \o/ Probably going to sell it at some point. Or trade it in somewhere.
They've dubbed all of them except for the most recent, Lydie & Suelle. KT hasn't been dubbing their GUST games lately though, so I doubt this one will have it.
Even if it's cost-cutting, I much prefer it. The 3D models in the games are pretty good, but the art is just way more expressive.
Bit worried about how battles are going to play out in this, and simplified synthesis sucks, but it's hard to say no to Sterk (and hopefully Esty) returning.
It's usually arc of 3 games. While some are just references, some are a bit more than that.
It's not a big problem to skip one, but the stories are related.
The recent arc that just finished was Sophie/Girls/Lydie & Suelle (with the latter being on Switch, and all 3 on PC).
I'm holding out hope that the Xbox version isn't a mistake. But is being announced later on the Xbox page as digital only and twitter just jumped the gun.
Rorona Plus is the version you want there- unlike all of the other "Plus" games which were largely just Vita ports with all of the PS3 DLC included Rorona Plus is actually a significant improvement on the original release's gameplay, hence it being on both Vita and PS3. The Switch/PS4 ports will also be based on the Plus version too, of course.
Excellent to get confirmation it's coming over.
I really wish they'd get back to dubbing more of their damned games, I think I remember I even put it in one of their surveys or feedback things last year.
Agreed. It really sucks that it probably won't. The games are good and deserve to get an English voice acting option again. I really liked the previous dubs for the series. I'd much rather wait a little longer and get one.
I really wish they'd get back to dubbing more of their damned games, I think I remember I even put it in one of their surveys or feedback things last year.
Yeah.
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They've had Blue Reflection (which seriously under-performed), Nights of Azure (where the second one seriously under-performed), and Augmented Reality Girls Trinary (a mobile game / cross media project that is shutting down soon, roughly a year and a half after it launched).
They've tried, but honestly, most of the games have been pretty mediocre, or straight up bad in the case of NoA2, so I don't see what they can do.
