Wasted 26 hours, 17 minutes and 40 seconds on Atelier Ayesha Plus (spoilers)

My final save file reads 36:17:40 and I reckon about 10 of those hours were actually fun. The rest was dreck. Atelier Ayesha seems to divide people into those who think it’s the best thing ever and a great introduction to the Atelier series and those who think it’s disappointing and the beginning of the […]

Atelier Ayesha Plus – Midgame report (spoilers)

As promised, I’m back at the end of Year 2 of Atelier Ayesha Plus for an update of my progress. Actually I’m a little beyond that and into Year 3, July 7th IIRC. Just finished saving Ayesha’s sister Nio. But somehow the game is still continuing, barreling forward without any motivation on my part. The […]

Put Tokyo Xanadu eX+ on hold and started Atelier Ayesha Plus

…but I don’t like Atelier Ayesha Plus so far. Even though it’s only December of year 1, it’s quite boring. In this game, Ayesha’s sole reason for doing alchemy is to track down her sister, so the joy of doing alchemy for its own sake is non-existent. My great joy in Atelier games, reduced to […]

Atelier Meruru Plus, I finished you! (spoilers)

And straight away I declare Shin Rorona no Atelier the best of the trilogy by simple virtue of the fact that it let me watch all the endings I qualified for in a single playthrough without forcing me to replay. In Atelier Meruru Plus I’m sure I unlocked an ending for getting 100,000 people in […]

Atelier Meruru Plus, I choose you!

I couldn’t decide what to play after “dropping” Dragon Quest VII last week, so I tried three different games on the VITA. Lord of Apocalypse – Another in a line of Monster Hunter-like games for people who are too scared to actually play Monster Hunter. A couple of years ago I tried one (Frontier Gate […]