Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland DX

Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland DX

released on Sep 20, 2018

Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland DX

released on Sep 20, 2018

The third game in the Atelier Arland trilogy and 13th game in the main Atelier franchise The Arland trilogy is the 5th set of games in the Atelier franchise. This is a port of the 2013 Vita enhanced version, known as Atelier Meruru Plus internationally, with all DLC included.


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Definitely my favorite of the Arland trilogy. I liked that it felt the most like It had the coolest 'gimmick' (growing your kingdom), and was as far as I know, it wasn't easy to miss events to progress the story. It had my favorite characters of the trilogy, and while I think it was a bit weird literally every character from the last two games eventually came to Arls, it was fun in a fanservicey way. It was worth getting through Totori for this game, in my opinion!

I'm not sure how to feel about this game on the whole, though obviously I enjoyed it a lot. The game has far more quality of life features than Totori, a better new game + system, an improved alchemy system that's easier to make effective items with, and superior production methods that become available at an earlier time. On the other hand, the world has been downsized heavily, and while the game is technically longer at 5 years to the end instead of 4, it feels much shorter and less grand due to the lesser game world. The story progression doesn't reach quite the same highs as Totori either, taking the game back to Rorona's almost purely grounded approach. Interesting in its own way, but I did feel that Totori had a good balance between the mundane and the epic. The game is also a bit easier than Totori, with less stressful time limits and generally easier bosses. If I got stomped by a boss, it didn't take too much improvement to my loadouts to come back and return the favor, with the only one taking a bit more than that being the Wyvern. Still, if you like the series and are more interested in the time management driven games, this is definitely one of the better ones and worth checking out.

About as enjoyable as Totori was, but I felt even more restricted by the time mechanic. Again, the characters were the main focus and fun.

the early bosses were some high difficulty spikes (mainly cause they all fucking heal themselves for some reason) but ouggggg this game is so good absolutely the best of the original arland trilogy

the last of the classic arland trilogy !! admittedly played it much later than the first 2 !! really liked the art and characters a lot!! though all the requests and ranks somehow rushed me more than totori haha -👑

This game fucks dude it has everything I'd ever want in a game
>Rorona except she's a loli now bc nobody wants to see her in her 30s
>Absolutely no story whatsoever
>Sterk but this time he's basically a butler and argues about stupid shit with the real Sterk
>Meruru
>Mimi and Totori being gay cg (real)
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DAGljC4dcU

Need more jrpgs with no dumbass story about killing god or saving the world, dumb bitches doing alchemy is the real deal