Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key DX

While I personally preferred Ryza 2, this game is still solid. tl;dr score: 8/10 They definitely fixed a lot of the smaller nagging issues I had with Ryza 2, but simultaneously introduced a few new ones as far as I'm concerned. My biggest complaint is that there are way too many systems at play, that it gets daunting to use them all. I'm all for giving the players room to be creative on how they want to play the game, but considering how the battles play out at a pretty fast pace, it's easy to trend towards a couple and then forget the rest. The worst offender for this in this iteration is everything related to keys. The keys really should not have use in the field, in battle, and for opening barriers while also having RNG when you create them and also being consumable. I find myself almost never using them for field effects because then I can't use them for opening barriers and supply points. And you can't carry all of your keys with you, either. You can only affix a certain amount of keys onto your keychain and can only swap in ones you've farmed while you're in a town, so it's not like you can farm 200 keys and not worry about it. My recommendations: - Don't use more than one…

I'd say... so-so. Overall okay, but disappointing after Ryza 2. The crafting, gameplay, characters, etc, are all back and more, with the same positives as before. You liked it before, you'll like it here. However, some choices were questionable... -open world big for the sake of being big. It's too big, empty, and useless. You find the same ingredients and enemies all over and you just waste time. Every big zone would be better if it was smaller, maybe half or a third of the size. It gains nothing from being this big. -tying to the open world, they put chests everywhere to try and reward exploration, but the rewards are completely useless, even for a casual playthrough. Only low-level materials with bad trait and quality that you can already gather in the fields. No unique mid or late game ingredient you could use once or twice, no nice trait on a early game item, etc. Heck, not even a weapon you could use if you were playing on easy and not crafting much in the early game. Just useless junk. And there are hundreds of those chests. Maybe they didn't want to break the game ? But the game can already be broken in the first zone, even earlier than in Ryza 2. Also, what's the point…

genuinely beautiful game to look at, "massive" improvement from previous games, in terms of UI, graphics, and reisalin models having completed all 3 games, this series genuinely has been such a treat, super refreshing game through and through, very easy to get lost in the world with beautiful sceneries and seeing the maturing of the casts and their relationship feels very sweet while they tackle their own personal problems the series thread the fine line of characters maturing without being overly pretentious while still mostly down to earth, which is a quality i dont find in most games i gotta say though, what does sardonica has to do with the plot dawg?? boring ass city

I did enjoy the game to some degree mainly because i like the atelier franchise. I think out of the 3 ryza games, ryza 1 was the best. I notice a big issue with these trilogies that use the same protagonists like ryza 123, instead of changing the protagonists like sophie, firis, l&s. The overall game tone is too similar and the game awkwardly forces the scale of events to get larger. also too many similar world makes the game less dynamic and honestly kinda boring at some point. like yes each ryza games introduce new mechanics and systems but that isnt enough for me. i really wish the future atelier games use the previous system like the myserious series where each game is actually fresh and dynamic instead of copy pasting the majority of the stuff for 3 separate games. theres a lot more i wanted to talk about but by the time i finished this game i felt like im so done with the ryza series i forgot what i was going to talk about lol anyways its decent but i really wish for higher quality games in the future.

Mostly fine but sometimes this game is (probably unintentionally) very good.

Great game with fun combat, an interesting story that escalates nicely and of course the awesome synthesis crafting system. But most importantly, this is the perfect send off for the group of friends you've come to know and love over 3 games and however many years. If you're a Ryza fan then it's definitely a recommend from me.