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While in many respects the Arland games had brought the Atelier series back to its roots, they also very much had their own distinctive sense of identity. In order to move on to a new subseries, there would need to be some sort of noticeable “shift”.
That was the challengeย Gust was faced with after the success ofย Ateliers Rorona, Totori andย Meruru;ย how to follow that up with something that still felt like Atelier,ย but which also distinguished itself from the pastel-coloured, distinctly “comfy” games that had come before? And with the new generation of fans who might have joined the series in the HD era, how to ensure that no-one went away feeling like the series had dropped something important to its core identity?
We got our answer in 2012 with the release ofย Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Duskย — which ended up being the first installment in one of the most fondly regardedย Atelierย subseries of all time. So I guess they didย somethingย right. Let’s take a first look!
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