Atelier Meruru coming to America in May.

#1 Edited by Icemael (6099 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

http://www.siliconera.com/2012/01/13/atelier-meruru-the-apprentice-of-arland-will-master-alchemy-in-may/

NIS America shortened the gap between the Western and Japanese releases for the Atelier series. Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland will be available in May, less than a year after the game’s debut in Japan.

Official site: http://nisamerica.com/games/atelier-meruru/

This might be the first Atelier game I buy. The videos I've seen make the battles seem much more exciting than in previous games, if only on an aesthetic level.

#2 Posted by BabyChooChoo (3575 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Huge fan of the series, NIS, and jrpgs in general so color me excited because I just lost another $60 this year.

#3 Posted by Contrarian (1143 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

Still only have the first of the PS3 games, but any time they translate a JRPG it can only be a good thing.

My dream is that they include English subtitles from scratch in all Japanese games so we can just import what we like. I don't need English voices and the masses can just wait for the fully translated version.

#4 Posted by Neonie (178 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

I think I am just going to start with this game. I have no problem no playing previous games in a series.

#5 Posted by Sparky_Buzzsaw (4907 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

That's good news. I have one of those games somewhere around here for the PS2, but I've never gotten into it. I'm still working on Disgaea 4, but another NIS game isn't a bad thing.

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#6 Posted by valahuir (10 posts) - 1 year, 21 days ago

@Neonie: They don't follow directly anyway, I doubt you'll miss anything detrimental to the plot having missed the prior instalment, Totori after all only had a few nods at Rorona (for example the charicter Rorona made a comback and talks to another returning charicter Sterk about when she started her workshop)

As such I don't see them doing a U-turn and maiking the plot inaccessable to new players. I'm fairly sure they learned from Ar tonilico 2 (also made by the same developers) where if you hadn't played one a lot of the vocabulary ment little.

But being a fan of the series I've already got mine ordered from Nisa themselves, even though that means importing it to Jolly ol' Blighty.

... Yes I'm impatent shush.

#7 Posted by Neonie (178 posts) - 1 year, 21 days ago

@valahuir: Thanks, though I should mention I actually picked up and enjoyed both Rorona and Totori, so I know I'll enjoy this one too :D

#8 Posted by Bocam (3129 posts) - 1 year, 21 days ago

I can't wait to be the little girl again

Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland

The final game of the Arland Alchemist trilogy and another entry in the long running Atelier franchise. Atelier Meruru revolves around Meruru's quest to develop the Arls Kingdom to match Arland's prestigious status with the use of alchemy.

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