Atelier Totori Adventures

[Tatsujin]

NIS America publishing Atelier Totori Adventures in the US and Europe this fall.

The game takes place five years after Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland, and sees Rorona back in the picture as a seasoned alchemist and a mentor to Totori.

Totori has left her home, the fishing village of Alanyaon, to look for her mother. Expect plenty of different endings and a continued emphasis on item synthesis.

[Ramnator]

"Chim is a homunculus Rorona made for Totori. She’s fueled by pie."

Awesomesauce.

[Havoc10K]

"Chim is a homunculus Rorona made for Totori. She’s fueled by pie."

Awesomesauce.

MMM Pie
raw power-core

[ph4zr]

^^powered by pie? Does it get any better than that?

After seeing a bunch of booru pics, I badly wanted to try this franchise. But, dangit, this means I need to shell out for a PS3.

Do you need to have played the earlier (JP only) releases to get the games? I know with a lot of series, Tales+FF, for example, you don't. But it sounds like this series has some consistency to it. ... It might be worth digging out my PS2 to try the older installments.
/Wiki has this horrible habit of spoiling the entire plot when all you care about is "this game picks up where ... left off".

[Havoc10K]

personally I don't think you need to, as with every new the story usually gets reminded, some events are simply said to happen, in Atelier Iris every game was different Iris, in this one you simply follow a new (cute) apprentice to alchemy, and, powered by pie, if everything was this good, there would be no evil

this is a good reason to start collecting money for PS3 (among a few other titles)

[ph4zr]

I see. Well, if it references back to old events, I really should play the first games. I hate "sequel spoilers" that basically tell you what happened in the last game. Ex., Series A has a sequel with a certain plot, so you know that the protagonists of the first installment don't die, et cetera, or that faction B won the war.

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As for the PS3, I have plenty of reasons to get one, I just haven't been gaming enough to care lately. Typically I buy 8-10 games a year, play 5 of them, and maybe complete 1-2—and they're usually RPGs. Vesperia has been pretty friggin' entertaining, though, so I might look into the PS3 again if it has more JRPGs, or especially if I pick up earlier Atelier installments and like them.
Inappropriate jab: assuming PSN can get its act together properly. Games these days seem to be crippled if they can't get their patches. /facepalm

Kinda miffed the PS3 version of Vesperia isn't out in NA. Apparently it got a buff which ticked off a bunch of people. Dub is kinda laughable, but maybe that's just typical VG VAing at work. VAing in Records of The Agarest War didn't seem much better even in Japanese.

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No, there would still be evil. It would just be a bunch of cute* lolis with nekomimi fighting over the valuable resources used to make pie. There would probably even be a small demon furball spouting pseudo-science trying to get the lolis to fight each other in order to prolong the life of the universe, which is now powered by pie.
*I might get called on redundancy, otherwise.

[Havoc10K]

don't drag madoka into a world of Pie !
you evil ... thing !

Pie is gonna get you, you will see, you will die of PIE!

[tomoya-kun]

I can't wait for this. Rorona was the best.