Interview by Matt S. Three Atelier titles in a single year is a lot. Even to me, an avid fan that has never given less than 4.5/5 for any entry in the series. I love them because they’re wholesome, charming, “comfort food” experiences, and while I came to the party…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. The impossible has happened. We’re living the dream. In 2019 we’ll be playing not one, nor two, but THREE brand new Atelier games. Following hot on the heels of earlier hits Atelier Nelke and Atelier Lulua, Koei Tecmo has announced that Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness &…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. So we’ve got yet another Atelier game – two in the first half of 2019 is crazy. But I’m not complaining. Atelier is my favourite series, bar none, and Lulua is the most perfect example of why I love it so much. In this video I…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Atelier is pure comfort. Gust releases new titles in this series at a truly astounding rate, and Atelier Lulua is actually the second to land in the first half of 2019 alone. It doesn’t matter how frequently these things get churned out though, because they always…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. To celebrate 25 years of Atelier, the teams at Gust and Koei Tecmo decided to do something very different with Nelke & the Legendary Alchemists, and eschew the series traditional JRPG structure and design for a light-hearted city building simulation instead. Talk about a dramatic change!…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Koei Tecmo has finally given us a release date for Atelier Lulua, the fourth game in the ongoing Arland sub-series within the franchise. It launches on May 21 in North America, and May 24 in Europe and Australia. Atelier Lulua will actually be the second Atelier…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Good work, Gust. Give the people what they want! The Atelier Arland trilogy – Rorona, Totori, Meruru – is surely up there with the most popular games that this long-running series has thrown up over the years. Thanks to the impeccable sense of the adorable by…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. Atelier is special to me. I discovered it relatively late – Atelier Rorona on the Sony PlayStation 3 was my first (and I am ever so happy that I’ll have that particular title on my Nintendo Switch soon enough), but I fell in love with the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. What a lovely bit of news to usher in the weekend. Koei Tecmo has announced that it is bringing the Atelier all-stars mashup, Nelke & the Legendary Alchemists: Ateliers of the New World to the west. It’s going to land in “Winter”, meaning either just in…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. The three Atelier Arland titles – Rorona, Totori and Meruru – were my first Atelier games ever. Before these three (originally released on PlayStation 3), Atelier games were in such short supply in Australia that I didn’t even know the series existed. And soon, you’ll be…
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