Atelier Lydie & Suelle': The Alchemist and the Myterious Paintings looks like an efficient and long RPG with some good mechanics but will clearly fail to impress or surprise you (except if we talk about its expensive DLC), as its lacks novelty. If you're a true fan, you'll get what you want. If you're not familiar with the series, you could give it...
Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings2017
Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings
2017 Koei Tecmo Europe75Good
Playtime
LongIt typically takes about 60 hours to finish the game.
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Details
- Launch
- December 21, 2017
- Developer
- Gust
- Publisher
- Koei Tecmo Europe
Overview
The 19th main game in the Atelier franchise and third game in the Mysterious game trilogy. The game features two main characters and changes some of the previous game's systems. A new crafting feature, called Enchanting Agents, was added to the Synthesis system. 6 characters participate in combat, each attacker can have a support characters to help out, and you can now craft items while in combat.
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Reception
Press72
Players90
GoodExcellent- Metacritic74from 24 reviews
- OpenCritic70from 34 reviews
Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings is one of the weakest games in the series. There are a number of interesting elements, but it's not enough - the gameplay is too dull.
With its bland story and uninteresting characters, this is a series that is in a dire need of a substantive reboot.
If you love the Atelier series, want to play with some cute girls or simply enjoy anime/manga tropes, odds are this will be a winner. However, if you're hoping for a combat driven or deeper experience, elements of that are certainly here, it just requires a fair amount of time invested. If that doesn't sound bad, give it a go, otherwise you might want...
19th Atelier game, celebrating 20th anniversary of the series, gave up an open world but cute twin sisters make up for this omission. All in all, it's a good old alchemic series from Gust, for which fans have been waiting.
