Atelier Elkrone ~Dear for Otomate~ (PSP)

[miruki]

Another reason making me want the game badly: The heroine is voiced! (Which is normal for Atelier games, but rarely happens for otome games)

I've just listened to the voice samples at the official page, and Clemens is still my favourite of the bunch of dateables. The Alchemy looks legit to me as well, now I'm just wondering if there's gonna be any item gathering or if maybe obtaining items that you can't buy in the shops requires you to get to know the guys better so they'll give some to you.

I'm still plenty of curious for this game..can't wait for the 29th, hopefully there'll be more info across the internet when the game's released.

[machinemaiden]

Man I'm just happy this isn't a straight VN and has 'some' alchemy aspects to it. It's bumps it's chances from like ....0.1% to like 5% >.<

I'm still wishing beyond hope that it is localized (and Ciel nosurge) though and I can die happy. I'd be happy with a straight PSN release with japanese voices!

[Bokumono]

Please work on this title NIS! I would be forever grateful!! There are so many atelier fans! Even though its partially otome! There's more people interested in this series than you think! I know many willing to buy a psp just for the game. ^___^ I hope you all consider working on this title!
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[SpaceDrake]

Well, it's out, and, uh, the start it got in Japan probably won't help it's chances here: it sold under 10,000 copies in its opening week.

http://andriasang.com/con0pu/media_create_sales/

And I can't find reviews anywhere, so it seems the big gaming mags may not have even bothered to review it. Hm.

[shymel94]

Do otome games usually get reviewed in magazines?

[Daverost]

I saw release info in the weekly Play-Asia newsletter.

...I'd buy it, if I could read any of it.

[Pigeonpop]

I'm playing it right now. It's nothing like a traditional Atelier game in terms of gameplay(of course)but they did a great job at keeping the atmosphere of the main series.

If anyone has some questions or wants to me to post some screencaps just ask.

[DavidSh]

What is the gameplay like? Pure visual novel? Anything like the traditional Atelier alchemy systems? I presume no combat.

[Pigeonpop]

Pure visual novel. No combat whatsoever. I've come across synthesis five times so far and I've been playing for a few hours now. It's also completely impossible to screw up to the point where I don't know why it was added in the first place. When I come across it again I'll see if I can screencap it, but basically you just choose a set number of items to combine and press the O button. There's only one possible combination you can make each time you're prompted to synthesize, the game doesn't let you choose an incorrect combination and there's no time limit or penalty. So basically 0% failure rate.

I'm not saying it's bad or anything, but it really is pure visual novel and unless you have a decent understanding of Japanese there's no reason to get it. Not much for guys here either unless you like 2D men hitting on you.

As an otome game fan I'm loving it though. Everything looks gorgeous, the heroine is cute, the cast is pretty big, and like I said the game really has the atmosphere of the main Atelier series.

[SpaceDrake]

Pure visual novel. No combat whatsoever.[...]

Yeah, that's about what I expected. Which means, I suspect, that the chances of this coming over are very, very slim.

As an otome game fan I'm loving it though. Everything looks gorgeous, the heroine is cute, the cast is pretty big, and like I said the game really has the atmosphere of the main Atelier series.

Good to hear the atmosphere is right, at least, though I still can't get over the fact that the artist apparently didn't know how to draw Elie's cape and just copped out on her design. :V

EDIT: Actually, a question: is the game actually set IN Salburg? Or did they just plop Marie and Elie down in another town/setting for the heck of it?

[Pigeonpop]

Yeah it's pretty much a given we're never seeing this localized. Otome games in general just aren't big enough in the West(I doubt they will be for a long while)for smaller titles like this to make it over. Hakuoki was lucky.

I get the feeling Elie's design was changed purposely to fit in a bit more? It looks a fair bit different to her original design anyway you're right.

Nope it's not set in Salburg. I don't think I've even heard it mentioned so far so yeah it looks like they've just been thrown in here for the heck of it.

If anyone's interested in screenshots I'll post some in a sec. I couldn't take screens of the town map or synthesis screens though, so it'll just be cgs, pretty boys and nice bgs.

[Pigeonpop]

Ok, screenshots. I translated them since it felt a bit weird to leave them as they were(even though some of the lines look weird out of context, sorry about that. I was taking caps really randomly).

Spoiler:

If anyone is interested in one of the guys in particular I can come back and post some more screens of them when I'm done with their routes.

[shymel94]

Thank you for the screenshots!

[Alura--x--Uneii]

This is that male harem one right? xD

[DavidSh]

If anyone is interested in one of the guys in particular I can come back and post some more screens of them when I'm done with their routes.

Is there much with Hagel? Looking at IF's web site, I see he's there, under a different name (something Oyaji).