Koei Tecmo And Gust Announcing New Atelier Game Next Week

I feel like Atelier might as well be oversaturated at this point with just how many of them they’ve made, kinda like picross, just the same thing over and over, but well, if people enjoy playing them, I guess they’ll keep making ‘em! Didn’t really get into it when I played the first Ryza but I figure I’ll give it a second chance sometime to win me over.

Atelier Warriors.

I wonder if they will manage to create another character like Ryza who instantly became a favorite and pushed the series to it's biggest success yet because of her build. Well at least we're now moving on from her.

They need to chill seriously!
I hope they lose the open world of Ryza 3, I dropped that game really fast despite loving the other two.

Interested to see if they can top her design/personality.

Too many. Love the series but lost interest due to the many redundant entries

They're really going for it, I don't know whether it's good to put out so many games in such a short time, so as not to make it CoD quality.

@Takoda I hope you'll find it enjoyable, it's a great series! I started with Rorona and Totori, but the first I passed was Sophie, which I would recommend for beginners. I know it's pretty risky buying a different game from a franchise you don't know you'll like, though.

@Cordyceps Is it really, though? I'm not saying it's not, I just didn't see it like that. we had XV, XVI, and many spinoffs, but spinoffs feel "less obligatory", like, you can play the ones that you like but you wont' lose much by skipping them in terms of overall franchise perception

@Princess_Lilly There are over a 100 different final fantasy games. that's oversaturation. Especially when most of them are throwaway titles they had to slap the brand on to make them palatable.

I wonder if KOEI TECMO want to make Atelier game with male character as main protagonist, not the ecchi / hentai looking girls all the time.

@Anti-Matter It is not hentai by far, not even by western standards.

I do agree that a male Atelier character would be interesting, but in japan these games are aimed at towards female audience, just because we in the west think otherwise doesn’t change that.

People think way too much with their western mind with these games. However from my knowledge Japan has also the wrong picture about western games.

I have a feeling it may be Atelier Marie 2, would make sense that they remade the first game if this was the case. Hopefully whatever it is they keep the open world design and no time limits.

@Cordyceps over 100? That's a bit over exaggerating. There are loads of games that have loads of entries including spin offs. Look at games like Zelda, Mario, Pokémon, Fire Emblem, Assassin's Creed, Atelier, Dragon Quest, Resident Evil, Monster Hunter etc they all have tonnes of main games and spin offs to their name, it's not just final fantasy which you seem to have a problem with based on your comment history.

@UltimateOtaku91 Google said it's at 105 last time I checked. I'm not reading the rest of your deflection.

My point is back in the day, Final fantasy games used to drop every year. And nobody complained, but now when some other smaller company does it, It's oversaturation.
The scales for Final Fantasy are always lopsided.
Like the excuses for final fantasy 15 being in development hell, but the impatience with silk song, which is like 3 people and an indie project.

@Takoda yeah, feel the same.
I did play Atelier Sophie and the first Ryza and I liked them both, and I always had the idea of getting into the series... but when I saw 1 or more title every year, for the past 15 years, I feel overwhelmed and I just can't find the will to do it.

@Cordyceps Nobody cares when half of those titles are rythm game, mobile gatcha games, or silly little games like that.

For the Atelier series they're almost all mainline series.

But I'm sure you already know that, but for some reason decided to ignore it.

@GoldenSunRM Yeah, because that point is irrelevant. You're saying those games can just be ignored so my point is moot because "they don't count"

And I'll reiterate, FF mainline used to drop yearly w/o fuss. It's just normal for them to take forever now, So it's an issue when other companies can actually stay on track with development?

hold on thigh 😎

@Takoda I dunno what you mean by the same thing over and over.

Every Atelier game reinvents itself both mechanically and narratively. The Ryza games don't play anything like the Dusk games, which don't play anything like the Mysterious games, while every story except Ryza following a fresh pair of eyes, unknowing what happened halfway across the world.

@DreamlandGem Alright I can appreciate and respect a good call out. Enjoy the rest of your day. 🙃

I started with Ryza, I bought all 3 since the first one is so much fun. I also already bought (and am playing) Sophie 2.
I like that these are relax games, you can just play them and have a conversation with your family at the same time.
For me, they can produce as much as they like, if they are good quality I will buy them.

PS I like the fact that the main protagonist is a girl, it kind of defines the series

They kinda make a new Atelier game every year. I'm not surprised by this output. But I think it's gonna be a new protagonist, Ryza got a whole trilogy and most protagonists only get 1 spotlight

I'm glad I have no interest in these. I feel like you'd have to spend a small fortune to get them all at the rate they pump them out.

This is some truly electri-thigh-ing news!

I started my first Atelier game (Ryza 1) last week — and so far it's a lot of fun! the crafting system is enjoyable and very moreish, and I like how brisk and breezy the actual plot is — you can basically fast travel along and it plays out almost like a visual novel.

@Takoda - I usually don't count ports in that, cayse basically Nintendo fans are playing catch up and they deserve that accessibility. Otherwise the comment should hold water on Nintendo and all their Zelda releases on Switch. But no one dares touch that.

When I put my legs together there is no space in between them.

@Princess_Lilly Sophie, huh? Might look into that one, or Rorona, that one looked nice too. I want to give the series a serious try so the suggestions are welcome, thanks!

@Cordyceps yeah, but all those games came out in 20 years or so, they weren't releasing them left and right. Some of them were also really good, like Chocobo Racing or Chocobo Tales.

@Takoda Rorona and Totori are great too, but they have time limits that you need to follow. I don't know if you can actually fail if you know what you're doing, I chickened out in the middle of Totori playthrough, too terrified to play further so as not to have to start over again. I was a silly person.

I think it ultimately comes to which character resonates with you most, in my case at least.

@Cashews Well, not with that attitude!

I like Escha and Logy as it had both the male a female leads. It was neat seeing both sides of the story although I think they could have made the paths a bit more tailored to each character. As for Ryza, I like aspects of all three of them. I wasn't a huge fan of the open world in 3 but it did have the most options for movement. Overall I would say the atelier games are fairly conservative for the most part. Relationships are mostly friendships, nothing is really shocking, and they just make for fun light hearted games. I'd like another Escha/Logy type game but I'm fine with the current state too.