I'll be honest, I was trying my damnedest not to be excited for this game, but dang it, Gust, I can't stay mad.
(Qoga means 'End' in Reyvateil, I believe. It's still a stupid title.)
~Details~
The finale of the Ar Tonelico trilogy, PS3 exclusive, hits the US sometime in March.
The third game in the series takes place in Ar Ciel; a world of multiple towers.
Only here, Reyvateils rule, and they seek to wipe out humanity, and put the Reyvateils in charge, to the point that they actively assault and destroy human settlements.
The protagonist is fighting against the Reyvateils, only they aren't all on the same side...
~Media~http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMQNJnRjA2E
The voice acting sounds decent, except for the protagonist. The music should be phenomenal, like usual.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT9tZfif5qg&feature=related
And much like always, pure guilty pleasure.
~Cast~Aoto - The Protagonist
A young steeplejack(whatever that is) apprentice.
Trope: Burning Justice!
Saki - Reyvateli #1
A mysterious Reyvateil, created to fulfill a grand purpose to alter the world's fate.
Trope: Positive Thinking!
Finnel - Reyvateil #2
A rare pure-blooded Beta-type Reyvateil, also works as a waitress, burdened with a secret dark duty.
Trope: See Ar Tonelico 2.
Traitor who becomes remorseful afterwards, calling it now.
Reyvateil #3 - ???
(TBA, you know it'll have one who makes you want to kick those two to the curb.)
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~Website~http://nisamerica.com/games/atq/~Packaging~
(First M-Rated NIS America title ever.)
~Obtuse True Ending Requirements!~
Warning about activating the Final Phase
About halfway through Phase 3 there will be a boss fight against something/someone known as M.Y.U.. This fight must be completed within 6 minutes and 40 seconds, otherwise you cannot go to the final phase in that file. You will have to start a NG+, and if you wish to redistribute your heart points the same way you must restart from the beginning of Phase 2. If your team runs away then you have failed to defeat it in time. If they do not and you stay in the location you fought the boss then you have defeated it in time and are on the path to the final phase.
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Battle system doesn't look that great to be honest.
Also it comes out March 15th and it's $60. It's $70 if you want to order it from Rosenqueen with their exclusive calendar.
And thank god for limited random battles. Whoever at Gust came up with that deserves a medal.
Also wow, Saki's outfit really hides her chest. She looked completely different in those few scenes from the trailer that had her without that fluffy coat. Boy oh boy I can't wait for her to be all shy about it and have all kinds of zany misunderstandings with Aoto, or for Finnel to be all jealous and then Saki starts blushing and getting nervous! Never change anime. Never change.
I think it's Flonne.
That was about three months ago. Any advice on paths-of-no-return from there?
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Saki is Cristina 'Noel Vermillion' Vee.
I hated Luca. She had a really easy-to-hate character.
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I've been wanting a jrpg on the PS3 anyway. Hopefully this will provide the fix.
Also, considering I've never played Arf Tunnelingo I or II, how fucking clueless about the story will I be, on a scale from 1 to George W Bush?
Not to mention the games aren't about plot, their about listening to chicks bitch for hours so they can learn stronger magic spells.
(That's actually a lot more fun than it sounds)
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consider this bought
EDIT: and it fights like tales, kinda?
DAMN this shit's off tha hook
But-but that was the part that made the least sense!
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Anyone know if Europe is getting anything close to the edition NIS America is doing? I don't recall getting anything of the like for Atelier Rorona over here.
... ... ... ... Forget I asked that question.
(Can't wait for this.)
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I'm a little sad that it sounds like they're really pushing the titties out there even harder this time, but at least this tower sounds interesting, and the main character seems like he'll be less of a snooze than Croix was.
AT1's, now he was a bore.
Did we play the same game?
I at least liked that Lyner developed somewhat over the course of the game, even if he could barely be said to have a personality.
I'm not one to argue a good thing
Let's take these titties in stride now, come on
Is there a good comprehensive walkthrough out there that I can use to catch up?
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Pretty sure it's the main selling point for a significant portion of the target audience.
it's something the rest of us are ashamed of
Now I just wish that mechanic would be in a game that took itself a bit more seriously, or was a bit more mature in how it handled things, but oh well.
Honestly just having a real romantic relationship in an RPG helps the story have impact, as opposed to most JRPGs which have, at best, super-subtle and sanitized relationships between the protagonist and potential romantic interests.
A party member being taken away, or having some horrible thing happen to them is rough. Your girlfriend having it happen is far worse.
It's the crystal insertion that gets well-over-borderline disturbing.
And if a game ever gives me a girlfriend I always immediately start looking for a way to kill her off.
I really like some of the themes the games touch on, I just wish it could be done in less of an "OMG I TOUCHED A BOOB" sort of way.
(I'm sure there's more, but it's significant there.)
I'll admit it, I'm a big fan of the previous two games and all their little quirks. (Except the slowdown during battle which made it damn impossible to block certain attacks... and the last boss freezes.)
Regardless of how childish the Cosmospheres might have been at times, the actual story told within them was usually pretty srs bznz. Misha's comes to mind right off the bat.
Heavily considering preordering this directly from NIS... choices, choices...