Atelier Sophie 2: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Dream

Sophie is the cutest, couldn't complain

Atelier at its best, imo. Extraordinarily polished mechanics, battles, music, though of course you really should play the first one so you care about any of these characters.

This is the best game I've played so far in the Atelier series. It's quite fun overall. Nice story that isn't too dark. The alchemy system is great. My biggest complaint is the camera panning is jerky, especially around edges and walls. Somehow, it's even jerkier than earlier Atelier games. My second biggest complaint is that the anti-aliasing is low quality and results in very visible shimmering and jagged edges. You can get mitigate this by playing at a higher resolution if you have a good enough GPU, so it ended up not bothering me too much.

Upper end atelier game with slightly less interesting main characters than side characters. The crafting system is solid, not the best in the series but well done. I would argue most atelier games are worth 40 dollars but this one is a genuine 60 dollar game, I still got it on sale because I almost have to but it is worth full price.

This is a sleeper of a game to get started. i am 35 minutes in and 28 of that was cut scenes. i mean maybe it is awesome but i want some control besides run from point a to point b inside town before the 30 minute mark.

Alette