The Atelier series is an old one. How old? Well, its newest title will be its nineteenth entry and will also mark the series’ twentieth anniversary. This of course begs the question of what exactly these games are all about. The short version is that they center around the item vendors in most RPGs who happily offer their wares to both townsperson and gallant hero alike. Games in this series explore the everyday lives of these characters; exploring where they get their ingredients and revealing how they create the products they sell. It’s the original item-crafting RPG series and one that doesn’t have an inconsiderable following considering how long it’s lasted.
Atelier Mysterious Trilogy Deluxe Pack, which includes Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book DX, Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey DX, and Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings DX, just gets its launch trailer, celebrating its release today for PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC.
"2018 has been packed full of incredible RPGs of many varieties so here are the best ones within 9 unique categories." - A.J. Maciejewski from Video Chums
I think he was making fun of a previous RPG of the year award given to Detroit from another site.
It almost made it but didn't quite outrank any of the games that we ended up choosing. Incredible game, though!
It is funny for me that pokemon won a prize and not octopath. Pokemon is a really bad jrpg....
Perhaps that's why it won "Casual RPG of the Year"?
Octopath isn't a casual RPG.
Because it's a generic JRPG that get's rather repetitive and boring really quick. I'm at 15 hours and SLOGGING through it. I know several people who quit around that mark too.
The complete lack of interaction between characters and their chapter settings is really unfortunate.
The combat and world are pretty nice though. For what that's worth.
Exactly. It's the most overrated RPG of the year. Maybe they should have had a category for that.
Odd that Dragon Quest 11 didn’t make the cut. Did the author not play it? It’s quite good.
The author of the article didn't decide which games would receive awards. The whole staff did. We reviewed DQXI and weren't blown away by it: https://videochums.com/revi...
That is the most anemic list one could possibly conjure. Many of those suck. DQXI and Octopath are well above. Not to mention Torna the Golden Country.
Dragon Quest 11 was easily the best RPG this year, and it's not even on the list.
Not only that, it didn't even have any real competition. Valkyria Chronicles 4 was the closest, but still a distant 2nd.
by Solid Jack:
"Having already conducted one Atelier related interview earlier this year (Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings,) with plenty more on the way, we were given the chance to interview the producers of Nelke & the Legendary Alchemists: Ateliers of the New World and by god we took it! Here's how we got on!"
