Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea DX

Хорошая игра, но не без вопросов... Для начала, тут не ограничения по времени. Далее, собраны многие персонажи из прошлых Дасковских игр (включая Клиффа, который будет доводить до приступов бешенства своим хамским поведением). Симпатичные герои и довольно большой мир. Мне очень симпатичен умирающий мир Даска, поэтому играл я с удовольствием. Свободная камеру, которую, наконец-то!, можно вращать! А вот из минусов... Бронебойные сюжетные боссы, которые берутся из воздуха и опционально воскрешаются при перезапуске игры. В первой и последней главе тебе совершенно не поясняют, что нужно делать и куда идти, поэтому по началу я 5 часов плутал по миру, не понимая, чего от меня хотят, а в последней два часа пытался убить опционального босса, потому что было непонятно, куда идти. Поэтому игра, конечно, хорошая, но не без нюансов...

Oh my god. I usually would not recommend the Atelier games because their translation isn't particularly good, but this is a whole new level of bad. I am utterly flabbergasted by how awful the localization is. I genuinely cannot recommend this at all. It's on par with the bad localization of the Arland series where a character's name was rewritten into being an STD joke and a young boy's (Gino) character being altered by making him say utterly gross things that he's never said. Genuinely, what kind of a tribal princess - one that is polite, soft-spoken, and formal - uses the word "pissed" to describe someone being very upset? It's extremely infuriating that a character driven game has to receive this treatment. Thoroughly disappointing.

Probably my least favorite of the PS3 era games. While it was an interesting conclusion to the arc (I would like a 4th game, like we got with Lulua), this game was way too easy. I played on the difficulty above normal that's meant for veterans, and the only time I had to put any thought into combat was during a few boss fights. This is mostly because your charge gauge fills after one or two attacks which makes you melt enemies you otherwise were chipping damage off of. This includes bosses. If the gauge always started at 0 it wouldn't be an issue. The unfun difficulty also applies to alchemy. Once you unlock a few synthesis features, you almost never have to think about what you're doing. While it could be a pain, I actually like that in past titles you sometimes had to synthesis custom items to make more custom items to make the right item or weapon you needed. Unless you are going for the extra bosses that are harder than the final boss, you'll never need to do this. I'm also not a fan of a single play through being as long as it is when to get the true ending you have to play both characters. Granted, the New Game + feature makes the second play through more brief, but it's still too long. I wonder if this is because this is one of the first game where they removed the time limit? Honestly, I wish we had the time limit. I should probably also mention that for this game you'll want to use the Atelier Sync Fix mod on github. It fixes a lot of issues that never should have been in the game. Honestly, you want it for a LOT of the Atelier games. I hate talking smack about any Atelier game, but the fact is that this one is a mixed bag. Even though I enjoyed the characters, story, and music I had a lot of frustrations with it. If you want to finish up the Dusk arc by all means play it to solve the mystery. If not skip it.