Today Tecmo Koei and Gust released a new large batch of screenshots of the upcoming JRPG Atelier Sophie: Alchemist of the Mysterious Book, coming to Japanese store shelves on September 25th for PS4, PS3 and PS Vita.
Alexx Aplin from BagoGames writes: There is so much to Atelier Sophie: Alchemist of the Mysterious Book that part of the fun is discovering its inner workings. In some ways, I feel that Atelier Sophie devolved from the Dusk series, but overall I find that as a previous fan of the series it is a very fun, interesting successor to the series as a whole. If you are new to the series, Atelier Sophie will easily capture your attention, while easing you into alchemy and everything the game has to offer.
With that being said, there is plenty of difficulty and content for both new players and series veterans to sink their teeth into. I was very pleased with Atelier Sophie, and it fits perfectly in my Steam Library.
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From DigitallyDownloaded.net: "I don’t see many people talking about the PlayStation 4 as one of the best JRPG machines ever created. That might change with the double whammy of Final Fantasy XV and Persona 5 coming over the next few months, but for now if you were to listen to some people, you’d think that the console doesn’t have many good JRPGs on it at all.
"The PlayStation 4 has an excellent line up of JRPGs to suit every taste, and so this week we’re going to list our favourite JRPGs on the system. Indeed, this line up shows why this is one of our favourite consoles for the genre ever. And that’s before we have Persona 5."
Jrpgs of the past were the golden age of the genre. Rpg's of today are going the GTA route. Turned based was the way
If nothing else.
No stylish combat games (Devil May Cry, Bayonetta), no proper new survival horror games, no car combat games (where the hell is a new Twisted Metal, Sony ?), no hell of a lot more genres that were once present on the PS2 and were trying to get through on the PS3.
All the new generation has is First-Person horror, First-Person action, First-Person shooters, First-Person VR gimmick bullshit and JRPGs which are trying to go away from the traditional turn-based combat, a whole lot of free-to-play stuff (mostly shooters or mobas)... Oh, and GTA clones, can't forget those ! The best time to be a gamer my ass.
Just half of the mentioned games are what I would describe as an jrpg though.
As great as games like Disgaea 5 are, they are definite not jrpg's.
That's a very good list of games. :)
For me, the place to go for traditional and non-traditional JRPGS would be the 3DS and Vita though.
nice
Seriously..
l enjoyed the ps3 trilogy however the new spin that takes place on the vita...l dunno man, the characters seemed so flat, no attempts of character building was made l couldn't finish it :<
hopefully they remembered how to make the atelier games as good as they were again ^ ^
Excited for Atelier Sophie. Really liked Shallie
Ooooooh, PS4 version. Any news about Western release?