Honestly same haha hope you enjoy it! :)

Haha yeah the lack of time limit is pretty nice :D enjoy Lulua if you try it ^_^

Mysterious trilogy also doesn't have time limit. Firis only has time limit at the beginning, but after passing alchemy exam you are free to do whateve you want without time limit. Lydie and Suelle also had small time limit at one time later in game. it's just "synthesize one item in 20 days" so it was fairly easy. I haven't played arland games because I don't like time limits. Also Atelier Ryza which is newest atelier game don't have time limit neither.

@@JRPGJungle Hey I mentioned in your Ryza review that I am playing this game now I think I getting to the end of it based on my AlchemyRiddle progress. I will admit, being a completionist, I've used a Walkthrough for help at times, but for the most part I am doing this completely blind. I am finding the main storyline fascinating. I literally had to do a double take when Pamela showed up. This is only the 2nd Atelier game I've played and Mana Khemia had a ghost char named Pamela also who loved teddy bears. So I do have a question for you- Is there always a Pamela char in the Atelier games? Because it's reminding me of chars like Cid of FF franchise. But here are the list of other things I enjoy and well dislike about Lulua- Dislike- I mentioned the inventory limit. Another thing is I don't like how only Alchemists can use items in battle. I feel it limits me on whole I can have in my party. Like I really miss playing with certain chars at this point in the game. I also don't like how I don't know my friendship lvls are with non-playable chars. I can see that with playable chars, but not others. One tiny nickpick- I didn't know the game could show you when a char event was happening by pressing a button to show the town map area where you can teleport within the town. It wish it had told me that, but if it did, then I totally forgot how. I also notice a lack of ability to 'skip scenes'. While I know this isn't a factor now since it's my first playthrough, but in the future I do like having the ability to skip through scenes. Also, I wish like in Mana Khemia, you had the ability to take out weaker foes with just one hit. And this is more of personal preference, but I wish there was more romance in the game. Sure there were a few moments, but nothing concrete. It's one of the main reasons why I didn't continue looking into the Atelier series. But yeah this is more of a subjective opinion rather then a criticism. Likes- Lack of time limit. Also, the fact that the at nighttime, the enemies aren't hard or super fast like they were in Mana Khemia. Another thing I think got improved, was the ability to Restock the items I used it battle. Omg, it's a lifesaver! The alchemy part itself is easier to use then in Mana Khemia also because I can see what kind of effects happen and it's not always a guessing game. Easy to play. I am not a fan of hard games and while this game has had it's few challenging moments so far, it has been too hard. Of course I am not done with the game yet and there can always be a major difficulty spike coming up. It's happened in every JRPG I've played so I am pretty sure it'll happen here too lol. I am nearing the end of Ch. 9 though and all of my chars though are around lvl 90 and I've already maxed out my alchemist lvl too so I think I am good lol. Now the hard will be to decide which Atelier game I prefer. I am going to wait until I finish Lulua before I give my final verdict. So far I think I still prefer Mana Khemia because I enjoyed the gameplay there more, but I do think Lulua has the better cast of chars though.

Atelier Rorona has a time limit, but it's very forgiving, for the most part, especially once you unlock Hom, who can gather for you. The only time it got stressful for me was in the overtime segment of the DX version, and that's only cause I didn't spend enough time synthesizing to be able to make good enough gear and weapons to get past the first level of end game areas (only possible because the rest of the game was so easy). I highly recommend this game to ease you into the time limit entries. Also, while not having interrupts, having items that activate when you get low on health are a thing in Rorona, so you can actually try to adjust how much damage you take in order to get those activations more often. It's how I beat one of the post game bosses despite lacking almost any of the post game exclusive abilities

Well compared to the original Arland Trilogy, most long-time fans consider Escha & Logy's time limit so lenient that it might as well not be there...

It's gonna be so good! I'm so excited :D so many Atelier things this year!!

@@JRPGJungle I know right, can't wait for your review when the game comes out hehe

Thank you! :) hope you enjoy it :)

Really happy to hear that :) I hope you enjoy all of them when you get to them ^__^ thank you for watching~ :D

I recommend it :D

@@JRPGJungle nice, will definitely check it out! its interesting how the atelier series has grown in audience reach over the last decade or so- maybe being available on more platforms including pc might have something to do with it- not sure if its a good or bad thing necessarily but i hope gust continues to give us excellent games 😊

also what accent do you have? i can hear a slight australian in there

That's exactly what I'm doing, I bought the Arland Trilogy and finished Rorona a few weeks ago. I'm playing Totori right now, 4hrs in and it's amazing seeing characters from Rorona, can't imagine playing Lulua after finishing the whole trilogy!

Glad to hear you're enjoying it! And the artist Mel Kishida did do Blue Reflection as well, so yeah, they do look a little similar (especially the colour palette :3) And yes, totally agree with you on the Season pass, even if how good the game is has probably sucked me into buying it >< lol but I hope you keep enjoying the full game :)

@@JRPGJungle That explains the similarities. I need to finish BR at some point too.

I feel pretty lucky! haha Thanks to the Arland collection, I was able to go into Lulua with it fresh in my mind and totally hyped, so yeah. I'm pretty happy :) then they'll keep that hype going with Atelier Ryza soon too hopefully! ^__^

The timed limits is why I pretty much gave up the series completely Mana Khemia 2 in 2008 was the LAST game I played on the PS2.

The newest one Atelier Ryza I think is a great place to start! The synthesis system is very visual which makes it easier and it's either standalone or the start of its own trilogy so you won't be lost in the story :)

I first impression’d the Japanese demo a while ago, this is a review on the full game :)

JRPG Jungle oh my bad, a lot of these kinda bleed together for me(especially you and Valkyrieaurora)

I can get that (and I'll take it since I like her content a lot haha)

JRPG Jungle perhaps a jrpg jungle and ValkyrieAurora collaboration at some point?

esta super barato, en steam me costo 20 lukas

A que barato en steam , pero yo lo comprare para ps4 , esperando un tiempo terminara valiendo 15 mil. Mientras pasa los meses tengo varios juegos nuevos y otros sin pasar

I'm Australian haha but my accent has always been a little mixed due to consuming a lot of US material and now I also work with a lot of Americans and people from other places in my day job so yeah :3

Meh, the Iris games are really generic & linear without anything much that makes them feels distinct & unique while the first Mana Khemia game are just dumbed down Utawarerumono with magical highschool drama instead of war & politics, the second Mana Khemia game are a complete joke by comparison. They could probably challenge the bigger series JRPG in an alternate universe where those big series are something like Neptunia, Agarest, and Mind Zero. Gust tried many new things with each new instalments to find whatever worked for them but this series will always be niche, that's why they're sticking to the slice of life formula of the original Atelier games since the old fanbase loves them and look, they have Atelier Sophie & Atelier Ryza as their best selling games! Also new & old fans alike hates KT's DLC practice, and this goes without saying but the only reason why your prefered Atelier games doesn't have paid DLCs are because afaik the PS2 doesn't support any kind of DLC, there's no guarantee that those games will be free from any paid DLC if they were to be released nowadays but at least you realized that you're the only one who thinks that way.