As we all know, I was scheduled to play Atelier Lydie & Scumbag after finishing Atelier Firis, in order to round off the Mysterious series of games. But for various reasons I am shelving it for the meantime and will return after I’ve finished Atelier Lulua and maybe Ryza and maybe replayed one or two other games.
So I tried Atelier Lulua ~The Scion of Arland~ for an hour last night and… nothing really happened. Yeah, it’s only the first hour and nothing much is supposed to happen, but still it was extremely bland. Long introductions of Lulua, Arklys and Fellsgalaxen, as is common for the Arland series – that took around 10 minutes of the total time. Then gathering, walking around, fighting once or twice, synthesized one Craft, got to meet Lulua’s mentor Piana, then just like that the hour was over.
I suppose it’s a good thing. Even though I didn’t particularly enjoy that first hour, when it was over I felt like it wasn’t nearly enough and I wanted to play for another hour. None of the characters turned me off, the battle system is nothing new, and for some reason I really like the font they used for everything. Why the font? I dunno, but I liked it. The alchemy system was a bit confusing, but I may get used to it as I keep playing. Or I might be confused all the way and still muddle through somehow, you never know. It’s too early to tell.
I don’t understand a single thing I just read
Because of the early experience with Lydie & Scumbag, I was little apprehensive when there was a scene about giving Father Benon a piece of their minds. I thought it would end up with them giving him a piece of their feet instead, but luckily Lulua is seems to have a normal brain and to be fairly well brought up. Guess I’ve got nothing to worry about.
Another scruffy, ineffectual father figure? Someone at Gust has daddy issues!
Since Atelier Lulua is the game I feel the most like continuing, once I’m done with Tokyo Xanadu eX+ (which is going swimmingly), I’ll jump back into it and then decide where to go from there. See ya.
Whoah! This is a cool blog. I spent a bit of time going through your old entries, you’re a quirky dude! Glad I found this, keep it up 🙌
Thank you very much for reading!