From time to time I dabble within the occasional cell sport, however over the previous couple of years few video games have made a robust sufficient impression to maintain my consideration. There hasn’t been something “new and shiny” out recently both. At least that was the case till I stumbled upon Atelier Resleriana: Forgotten Alchemy and the Polar Night Liberator. Now, if that identify sounds acquainted that’s as a result of this sport is aside of the Atelier sequence of JRPG (Japanese position taking part in video games) console video games which have been round for over 25 years. The newest iteration of the sequence, Atelier Ryza even obtained an anime adaptation of its story within the Summer 2023 season.
Although I had heard of the Atelier sequence, I knew subsequent to nothing about it apart from the fandom’s obsession for Ryza, the titular character from Atelier Ryza, and her thighs… That, and the sequence is beloved by its followers. It additionally has some completely attractive and detailed splash artwork and animations, so I made a decision it was value it to present it a shot.
I downloaded and performed this cell sport from the Google Play retailer on my Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, so I used to be taking part in it from one of the best telephone you can probably play it on, spec-wise. It wasn’t till after I began taking part in it that I found this sport additionally has a PC model, which might be downloaded by means of Steam. Even if you happen to don’t have the newest cell phone, it is best to be capable to benefit from the sport’s lovely animation and VFX on virtually any PC.
The Story of Atelier Resleriana
In Atelier Resleriana, we observe the adventures of Resna, a younger alchemist as she works her method towards turning into a full-fledged alchemist. She embarks on a quest to find the World’s End, a place the place a giant mass of mana stays, hoping to return alchemy to the world. Resna is a fairly endearing character. She’s motivated, very bubbly and pleasant, but in addition has a naivety to her that you simply’d anticipate from a rookie alchemist rising up in a small city. The second fundamental character is Valeria, a mysterious adventurer who doesn’t actually know the place she is or have any reminiscences of her previous. The one factor Valeria does know is she has these random desires of a lady unknown to her, however who we all know to be Resna.
So far, I’m roughly half method by means of the third of the 4 at present obtainable chapters, however there may be closely implied to be a robust connection that can convey Resna and Valeria’s destinies collectively. This might be apparent, provided that “Resleriana” is a mixture of Resna and Valeria’s names. The method each ladies are depicted within the promos and in-game moments in the course of the gacha animations present them very shut collectively, which appears to indicate some potential romance or emotions between the 2. Who is aware of? Maybe it’s simply the yuri/GL fan in me studying an excessive amount of into issues.
As for the story itself, the preliminary chapters revolve round Resna rising as an alchemist, assembly new mates (which followers of the sequence will acknowledge as essential characters from earlier Atelier video games), and attempting to find supplies that each alchemist wants. This material-gathering is extra than simply as secondary gameplay, as these things are essential for crafting gadgets. Players are given missions to seek out these supplies to assist Resna’s progress as an alchemist, and because the supplies turn into tougher and harder to seek out, the extra Resna might want to depend on new and outdated mates to assist her out.
The artistic staff behind this sport are additionally a massive a part of its attraction to players. Takahiro was tasked with the story writing and world constructing of this sport. Fans may know them as the author behind well-liked sequence like Akame ga Kill, Chained Soldier, Yuki Yuna is a Hero, and lots of extra.
The solid is stuffed with well-known voice actors, together with Daisuke Ono (Jotaro Kujo from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Erwin Smith from Attack on Titan), Marina Inoue (Denji from Chainsaw Man, Armin Arlert from Attack on Titan), and Kaito Ishikawa (Tobio Kageyama from Haikyuu!, Genos from One-Punch Man).
The Gameplay and Gacha Systems
At the core of any sport is the way it performs, and Atelier Resleriana does an admirable job of paying homage to its predecessors whereas additionally including new parts to the sport to spice issues up, to make it distinctive. The fight is fairly straight-forward because it follows a conventional turn-based RPG format, with each character having totally different roles and parts which have their very own strengths and weaknesses.
One factor that did impress me with this sport is how essential it was that your staff contains characters with a number of strengths and skills. Too usually, gamers can energy by means of nearly all of the sport simply by loading up their staff with probably the most highly effective characters, and neglecting supporting characters. In Atelier Resleriana, you want to truly put thought into how you place collectively your staff, primarily based round what sort of enemies you can be going through, and take the right gadgets alongside that can assist you. Otherwise, the sport can truly be fairly difficult. At this stage of my gameplay, it doesn’t appear to be gamers are at a extreme drawback in the event that they don’t have the rarest or strongest characters drawn from the gacha system.
That brings me to the one factor that Atelier Resleriana does with its gacha that I notably love. When taking part in gacha video games, there may be nothing that grinds my gears greater than the sport builders deliberately creating unusable, commonplace characters that serve no function apart from being “fodder” to stage up characters or to water down the character pool to make uncommon, high-powered characters tougher to acquire. In this sport, there may be none of that, as even the simply obtainable characters might be helpful in sure circumstances attributable to their position or component. The gacha system on this sport is similar to video games like Blue Archive. The sport additionally doesn’t pressure it down your throats that you simply want to continually spend cash simply to have the power to progress by means of the sport.
Given the sequence is about alchemists and the examine of alchemy, crafting is one other key facet to the sport. This provides you the gadgets you want to make your characters stronger. Depending on which characters you employ the secondary attributes for, the gadgets can change, which is a good departure from many gacha video games that tie essential gadgets to a secondary foreign money or paid gacha system. This permits for a good diploma of customizability to your staff, which could be very a lot needed as the sport progresses into tougher difficulties.
So far, I’ve been actually having fun with this sport and discovering what it has to supply. From the primary time I performed till now it’s been an entertaining expertise. I’ll positively proceed to play, and I hope I’ve persuaded you to present it a shot too!
TITLE: Atelier Resleriana: Forgotten Alchemy and the Polar Night Liberator
GENRE: Turn-based, Adventure, JRPG, Crafting, Female Protagonist(s)
AGE RATING: T (Teen)
RELEASE DATE: 24 Jan, 2024
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