I played the demo for Metaphor: ReFantazio (my thoughts are in the demo thread, in short, I think it could be a big hit) and finished Atelier Ayesha. Ayesha has my favorite story of the Atelier games so far–I’ve only played the Arland games otherwise–but I wasn’t big on either the alchemy or the combat. Felt like I barely was required to spend any time in front of the cauldron. This was also the tightest time limit for me so far although I did still have a few months to spare. I’m ready to leave the timers behind, but I’m probably not jumping to Escha & Logy and beyond for a little bit yet.
Instead, the plan for October is more Metaphor, and maybe giving Unicorn Overlord another shot since it’s our game of the month in my JRPG Discord. Beyond that, not sure. Maybe I’ll try to get a little farther in Ys IX: Monstrum Nox since Ys X is coming out this month.
A question about Atelier games, how much do I need to farm?
Like I started alchemy, did the tutorial, then got some recipes, also bought couple of books that got me more recipes, but now I don’t have any materials. And all those dozen or so require different kind of materials. So, I should just go and start farming? For my main quest item, I needed some ore, got that, but I also have 10+ other recipes, which requires other stuff.
Maybe it will become clear when I play some more, but I just started and felt a bit confused about that.
Which are you playing? I’ve only played five games in the series so far, and the amount of farming required varies a lot from game to game.
Chances are that at the start, it’s a good idea to do your early recipes so that you’ll get alchemy XP or have alchemy materials made that you’ll end up using later.
I played the demo for Metaphor: ReFantazio (my thoughts are in the demo thread, in short, I think it could be a big hit) and finished Atelier Ayesha. Ayesha has my favorite story of the Atelier games so far–I’ve only played the Arland games otherwise–but I wasn’t big on either the alchemy or the combat. Felt like I barely was required to spend any time in front of the cauldron. This was also the tightest time limit for me so far although I did still have a few months to spare. I’m ready to leave the timers behind, but I’m probably not jumping to Escha & Logy and beyond for a little bit yet.
Instead, the plan for October is more Metaphor, and maybe giving Unicorn Overlord another shot since it’s our game of the month in my JRPG Discord. Beyond that, not sure. Maybe I’ll try to get a little farther in Ys IX: Monstrum Nox since Ys X is coming out this month.
A question about Atelier games, how much do I need to farm?
Like I started alchemy, did the tutorial, then got some recipes, also bought couple of books that got me more recipes, but now I don’t have any materials. And all those dozen or so require different kind of materials. So, I should just go and start farming? For my main quest item, I needed some ore, got that, but I also have 10+ other recipes, which requires other stuff.
Maybe it will become clear when I play some more, but I just started and felt a bit confused about that.
Which are you playing? I’ve only played five games in the series so far, and the amount of farming required varies a lot from game to game.
Chances are that at the start, it’s a good idea to do your early recipes so that you’ll get alchemy XP or have alchemy materials made that you’ll end up using later.
Atelier Ryza, the first one.
Ah, okay, unfortunately I’m several games behind that point.
Hehe, no worries. I played a bit more and seem to be getting the hang of it.