VGChartz's Thomas Froehlicher: "While entertaining enough as an RPG, Atelier Lydie & Suelle is overshadowed by its revolutionary predecessor and can't match its overall experience. The shallower content and lack of variety makes it a bitter entry for series fans, and the emphasis on story doesn't make up for this. The flurry of late DLC also shows a lack of care towards the final episode of the Mysterious trilogy. True, the game system is solid, combat is great and the soundtrack is nice, but I expected more from a title marking the 20th anniversary of the series."
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!"
Atelier has a lot of good ideas packed into a game stuck two generations back. I wish they'd slow down on releases and spend more than 6 months developing each sequel.