Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land

This game is underrated by veterans who played older games from this franchise, my experience starts from Ryza series. I played Yumia more than enoush to say that its not really a bad game at all, to say more, i feel its quite opposite though not everyone might like some changes in comparison to older games. Im not a type of person to write poems or essays telling every single details, but i think its enough to point out strong and weak sides of the game. + I like open world, its exploration and mats gathering, you simply slowly wander and collect things you want. + Story, Lore, Characters, World i enjoy them too, maybe they fall short to Ryza games, but the gap is not large to call Yumia failure, mediocre or average game. + Alchemy has some simplifications but its still a thing i enjoy the most in this game, i spent countless hours creating items + Visuals are beautiful, giving a proper impression you are exploring typical high-fantasy anime world. +/- Music is still enjoyable but Ryza had much better soundtrack. +/- The game is much more forgiving in comparison to Ryza, where neglecting alchemy could result being suppressed by opponents sooner or later as you had no enough c…

Really hard to recommend this game yet I would want to... Being a different step in the Atelier series, and not for everyone, I really liked how the game feels and how I experienced it. The characters also contribute to a good experience, until... The game has many bugs and performance issues that several times made me consider quitting the game. It was pure patience that got me to 100% the game, but in the end I cannot recommend it in its current state.

When all said and done and the credits rolled, I can say that I like this game. I will recommend this to a newcomer to the series. 8/10 I enjoyed the characters. They are stereotypical, but FUN and ENGAGING. They don't talk philosophy, they don't yap endlessly much like other JRPGs. They're the main reason I keep playing this game. Shoutout to the VA - they did a great great job bringing out the personalities. Story is fairly bland. I do like the theme of dealing with loss though. Never thought that stuff would show up in Atelier, but it's a welcoming surprise. Alchemy gameplay is definitely dumbed down from previous games... but it's still Atelier. Still need to farm material for high quality, then spend hours to craft gears and "bombs" with perfect stats. Then spend more hours to breed good traits. Then use that perfect item to one shot the bosses. Typical Atelier stuff. Now, for the things I hate, I hate it to the core. Who thought farming traits via randomly spawned dungeons was a good thing? And the combat was a hot pile of JANKY mess. The damn thing was so janky and unresponsive that it wasn't even funny. Sorry but if someone ragequitted early on because of this, I'd be …

This was my first Atelier game. The series had always been somewhere in the back of my mind, but Yumia's premise finally got me to give it a try: an expedition exploring the ruins of a fallen civilization, with an underdog heroine practicing forbidden alchemy. Unfortunately, my first hours were rough. The open world is filled with activities I didn't care much for, I never really clicked with the combat, and synthesis felt largely unnecessary in a game this easy. The art direction is also a mixed bag, with some genuinely pretty locations alongside some borderline ugly ones. Despite all that, Yumia eventually grew on me. The game thankfully lets you minimize your time with most of the things you don't enjoy, and that allowed me to focus on what did work for me: exploring the ruins, an endearing cast, a heartfelt story and some good music. None of it is groundbreaking—the story is a very familiar anime coming-of-age adventure, complete with the tropes and character archetypes you'd expect—but it worked. By the end, I was smiling at an ending I could see coming from miles away and thinking, "Yeah, I had a good time with these people." I do wish Koei Tecmo would consider bringing Eng…

how disappointing. its like a great game is here, but this is only for hardcore fans and I'm not sure if I'm quite there. its weird that this isn't live action or closer to FF7 quality. if it was id adore it, but its almost as bad as Xenoblade 2. ALMOST. still much better, but a shame that free to plays like Neverness To Evenness are miles ahead. i want to love it, but i know it could have been so much better.

This game is a bit too ambitious for its own good. It feels like they wanted to tell a story, & then halfway through development remembered they have to make a game along with it. Some of the most frustrating issues I've had include: - it crashes a LOT & I've fallen through the map a couple times?? - the game is incredibly hand-holdy at the beginning but after the first region tells you next to nothing about some things that are important for gameplay, such as not explaining certain combat mechanics & making a lot of the game inaccessible without bullets that you have to 100% PIONEERING PROGRESS for. - tying into the last point, why is there no way to make your own markers? I'd be fine w having to return to areas later IF I could at least mark them on the map, but the only "marking" you can do is tracking an existing item like a question mark. If you've already discovered it, too bad! Almost all open world games let you place some kind of your own marker, so I think this is a ridiculous oversight. - the building is clunky & unintuitive. like it just does not work at all, held together by two sticks & a dream. I dread base building more than anything else & video games are suppo…