Tried and dropped Atelier Resleriana – Too sluggish and too stingy

I haven’t played any Atelier games in a while (last proper game was Firis in 2020 IIRC), but I still have a lot of love for the series. A lot of good memories, lots of fun times spent crafting and adventuring, good times. The more recent entries have just left me cold because the focus […]

Really, really final word on Atelier Online + a few tips

I hear “that garbage Atelier Online game” finally got released in English this week. It doesn’t mean much to me because I dropped it already, but I figure some people might make their way here wondering whether it’s worth playing or not. To them I say yeah… it’s worth a try, but don’t spend any […]

JRPGs that still need localization in 2020

After writing my “10th Anniversary” post, I scrolled through my list of posts and noticed a couple of Japanese games I really enjoyed but that still aren’t available in English (AFAIK). With the advent of Kickstarter and Steam and other similar platforms, I thought for sure that more old games would have been licensed and […]

Last word on that garbage Atelier Online game

You’ve got to know when to hold em, Know when to fold em, Know when to walk away, Know when to delete that useless Atelier Online game and run~🎵 My third and final post on the miserable experience known as Atelier Online: Alchemists of Braceir. I’ve mentioned before that the game likes to throw arbitrary […]

Update on Atelier Online – It’s growing on me, however…

As I said I would last time, I decided to move my Atelier Online: Alchemists of Braceir playing to an emulator to free up my smartphone for better uses. A reader suggested the Nox emulator, which I hadn’t heard of before. It didn’t take long to set up and hasn’t given me any trouble yet. […]