Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings DX

This is my favourite one

The 6th Atelier game I've played and comes a close to the Mysterious Trilogy. [h1]Story Telling[/h1] The story follows a very simple loop. Get reputation -> Take rank up exam -> Explore a painting -> Repeat. We get a few returning characters to play with from Firis and Sophie while also closing out a lot of arcs of the previous characters this game. It's the finale after all. Firis has become an even greater blast as it seems like all of the endings were canon in the previous games. I find the new main cast characters, aside from Lydie and Suelle who are brimming with personality and teasing everyone [strike]these brats[/strike], are overall less interesting compared to the previous 2 titles. In the overworld, you can only control Lydie or Suelle. You can swap them out at the Atelier and I find has no impact in the story on who you control. There are 4 different endings. I only achieved the normal ending, I want to go for the true ending, but I'm getting conflicting information on how to achieve it where I might have to NG+ due to missing some earlier requirements. 3/5 [h1]Combat[/h1] Combat has taken a dive. The positive thing is that, on hard difficulty, enemies don't just 2…

Compare to Sophie 1 , This is the hardest game to get all achievement in the series Pros : Lydie has good QOL on battle , story is fun as always , beautiful scene , The early game monsters stat are proper to their level and difficulty , new Crafting technique which arguably better or worse Assemble most of character in the series , made me feel nostalgia and they have theirs problem solve in most of them. There are 5 endings and 3 of them can be hard to acquired ( painting and True ending ) i got only shop and both of normal end Cons : The quest is not clear what to do with some of them has no tracking , some finished but not trigger event such as Shop ending Super grinding achievement not fun at all unable to obtain some of them due to no record tracking and bug ?? 5 ending with 1 can be missable but I miss 2 of them instead and here is why , The painting ending never show up although already craft brush and painting world item after having 12 painting (10+2 from DLC ) The true ending need 11/12 max gauge item delivery quest and to see all character talking event which some of them will talk after you find all 10 of painting ? then the talking event never show up agai…

Sadly, Atelier Lydie & Suelle becomes the second game in this long-running franchise to bore me to the point of giving up. Which is a shame, because I mostly greatly enjoy/love this series. While Lydie and Suelle are fun protagonists, and the battle system is a solid upgrade from the last two titles, the rest of the game falls apart. From the terrible "mission" structure and ranking, to the lifeless, dull areas to explore, to the worst part being the backtracking and revisiting places without being able to just instantly travel to the specific location in a set area (Who the ♥♥♥♥ thought this was a good idea?), to the plot feeling so lifeless and weakly put together that it just serves to bring back every old character without giving us a core story to grab onto. Overall, this just feels like a lackluster game. And while I feel like games like Sophie [Note: Assuming you meant Sophie here!] also felt lackluster, this feels downright tedious to get through, to the point that I finally just had to drop it. Sadly, a major disappointment. A 5/10.

3rd game of "Mysterious" series and it's so damn good Massive gameplay improvement after Firis and the returning character's stories are so well done

This is my favorite Atelier game and I don't think it's particularly close.