Atelier Meruru ~The Apprentice of Arland~ DX

I played this back in the day on my PSVita, this is arguably the best atelier game of all times!

Finally unlocked the platinum trophy after spamming slash with Masked G for half an hour

( full review with screenshots: https://gaming-parrot.com/post/atelier-meruru-review-craft-me-a-village/ ) Note: Although listed as unsupported for Steak Deck, this runs perfectly other than needing mouse controls to launch. If anything, it actually runs better than on regular PC if you have a monitor over 60Hz. The map controls will be almost unusable in that case because the sensitivity is tied to framerate. Atelier Meruru is the final game of the Arland trilogy. The plot follows Meruru, princess of the kingdom of Arls, who has decided to become an alchemist rather than do anything princess-y. Her father agrees to this as long as she uses alchemy to advance the kingdom, which is how Gust justified this being a very light city building game. Every task you complete awards development points and population, and development points can be spent to build facilities that give passive bonuses and more population. Your goal is to hit certain population milestones at the end of each year. Just like with Rorona, the time limits in Atelier Meruru are so forgiving that you can basically just ignore them if you're not going for 100%. If you are trying to get the best endings, the ti…

Good Game.

the time limit felt brutal despite it not being too different from rorona n totori, maybe i just have bad time management. loved the events between rufus n sterk

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