Ar tonelico / GUST General

[Anonymous No.]

So long as they fill, new threads will be made.
Previously: >>7724141

Ar Tonelico For Lazy People Pack™:
http://www.mediafire.com/?5e2ttnrjtim3n4i

Contains torrents for the games along with the emulator installer and bios. Plugins are automatically included. Thanks to Anonymous for this.

Note: PCSX 0.9.9 r8404 is the latest verified build that does not have graphical issues. Newer downloads than what is in the lazy pack can be found here: http://pcsx2.net/downloads.php

AT2 Raki bug patch - http://www.mediafire.com/?bp8ydy03ml7r5xa
You shouldn't need this if you're using a new version (0.9.7+) of PCSX2. Thanks to anonymous for uploading this!


Latest Technical Data Compilation Room Issue:
http://artonelico.isisview.org/wiki/index.php/Ar_Portal_translation/Ar_Ciel_Technical_Data_Compilati
on_Room/Issue_14

Latest Toukousphere Translation can be found on the top of this page:
http://artonelico.isisview.org/wiki/index.php/Ar_Portal_translation/Toukousphere
April Fools TKS:
http://www.mediafire.com/?avpff50jo843a52

AT Visual Book (now available):
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781926778266/Ar-Tonelico-Visual-Book
Atelier Official Chronicle (now available):
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781926778204/Atelier-Series

AT2 Flash Cosmosphere:
http://ar-ciel.org/uploads/miz/tks/2avs/
Offline Version:
http://www.mediafire.com/?hpr7840pbe1wf7d

[Anonymous No.]

Now for the goodies.

Lossless albums:
AT - All: http://www.hongfire.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=116396&d=1240137696
AT2 - All: http://www.hongfire.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=108204&d=1232984269
AT3 - OST: http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=download&tid=112183
AT3 - Hymmnos albums: http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=download&tid=111040

Thanks to Yuyucow and Anonymous in previous threads for digging up the links. Foobar can play the .tta files but if you feel like converting them to .FLAC or whatever for your MP3 player/Media player of choice then Foobar also provides an easy convert tool. Takes about a minute to convert the albums over to FLAC.

mp3s of the full version of the songs in the AT1 Hymmnos Musical
http://www.mediafire.com/?qmirw7qf5vjf463

Utau Oka ~Ar=Ciel Ar=Dor~ http://www.mediafire.com/?cim8496yi6mmvmi

Expanded arrangements of AT1 and AT2 OP:
Utau Oka ~Salavec Rhaplanca~ http://www.mediafire.com/?69dlya322qa4wp7
Utau Oka ~EXEC_HARVESTASYA/.~ http://www.mediafire.com/?lc6b8mlr2i9l4bi

AT3 Artbook - http://www.mediafire.com/?jrm2mg22mkx

originspuke.jpg by Anonymous (We still need volunteers to color shureliapuke.jpg and tyriapuke.jpg):
http://www.mediafire.com/?onweglacei3zi

Install Point Vectors (SVG) by Anonymous
http://www.mediafire.com/?enad2p76f90qe00

[Anonymous No.]

Never die, Ar Tonelico threads.

[Anonymous No.]

Couldn't Shurelia generate a map of her tower herself to memorize?

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>>7773427
No, because you don't understand moe.

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>>7773427
what's the point in that? Shurelia can't use the location signal that the tower creates for her when she's not wearing her Linker suit. Even if she had a map, she wouldn't be able to figure out where she is unless she did things the old fashioned way.

Oh yeah, speaking of which, we're still waiting for a drawer to make a pic of Shurelia running away from Sasha (who's trying to fix her) while tripping and crying.

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I know this has probably been asked dozens of times already, but how do you get rid of the vertical lines in cut scenes?
Tried using the latest version of PCSX2 and the build in >>6640598, but neither of them worked

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Need some reason to play further on AT2, didnt get far at all (maybe 2-4 hours?) but got sidetracked by other games and VN's I wanted to play. How good does it get and its it worth my time?

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>>7773509
You...
Get out

[Anonymous No.]

As promised earlier, here is a vector of the Triangular Nuclear Loop.
I also fixed the Grand Bell logo to be more wallpaper-sized. You can find them both in the archive below.

There might be some delays in vectoring Saki and Finnel since I'm going to be pretty busy over the next week or so. Apologies in advance.

>>7773476
I assume you're using hardware rendering? Go to:
Config > Video (GS) > Plugin Settings
and check the box marked "Or use original PS2 resolution".

Miscellanious vectors:
http://www.mediafire.com/?vf2kca1u4wkk92w

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>>7773644
Thanks, that worked.

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>>7773509
It starts out pretty slow (especially if you're just coming off of AT1), but stick with it and you won't regret it.
Also jesus christ get the fuck out of these threads before you're spoiled silly.

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>>7773509
You play AT games for the music and setting but you stay for the music and setting. Those are the strong points of the games. Also even if you hate the heroines at first they become infinitely less shitty by phase 4.

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I bought all the games so far, but I still postponed it a few hours in AT1, and haven't got back to it yet. Still, I want to play them in order. I wonder what's wrong with me.

Still, is it me, or Europe got shafted big time with the AT3 DLCs? I think we only got the Ar Ru ones(of course, I have no idea of who Ar Ru is yet).

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Fuck it, can't find it on the archive, might as well ask here.

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Get the hell out of it untill it cools down and watch anime or play online games.

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>>7774365
>I have no idea of who Ar Ru is yet
Don't worry, she is of no concern unless you are a kiddie fiddler. Play them, it would be a waste not to do so and if you love any of the following a) music b) setting c) good story d) lovely heroines then pick it right back up.

>>7774377
>anime
That OVA was shit

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> Note: PCSX 0.9.9 r8404 is the latest verified build that does not have graphical issues. Newer downloads than what is in the lazy pack can be found here: http://pcsx2.net/downloads.php

I don't see any 0.9.9 versions there. Also what kind of graphical issues it's about? Veritical black lines in hardware renndering? Horizontal white strokes through letters? Portraits with black lines?

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reposting links for a rather good scan of visual book 3 (jp version)
http://www.mediafire.com/?h208avif5y6ak25
http://www.mediafire.com/?q9l0cxi5b62g34q
http://www.mediafire.com/?r1nnq83brlwoapk

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>>7774338
But can you say the same for AT3?

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>>7774477
No because Saki is always terrible and with AT3 you stay for Suzunomiya's voice and purging.

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>>7774365
I need 2 years for AT1. But only a week for AT2.
So maybe same for everyone.

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>>7774495
Suzunomiya alone made choosing her side worth it.

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In the last thread, it was mentioned that there are bad ends in AT2's phase 2. How do I go abouts triggering them? I completely missed them on my first play through.

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>>7774530

Not sure where you heard that, AT2 is the one game in the series with no bad or even "normal" ends. All roads lead to Metafalica no matter what choices you make.

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>>7774558

I was somewhat confused by the wording of >>7769467
never mind.

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Luca is a whore

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>>7774840
I'm sorry, but has Luca even engaged in sexual intercourse? Oh, that’s right. She hasn't even made contact with a man outside of dive therapy. In fact, it’s only therapy involving fields for soothing. Does not having a cliche tsundere personality make you a slut? Is that what you’re saying? Because if you’re saying that I can assure you that you’re wrong. Why would you make this topic when the game is already finished and we know for certain she is pure? Luca is a holy maiden now and she was been the purest maiden in Metafalss? Luca has to go up against one of the sluttiest reyvateils in Ar Ciel who just happened to have a lead because she was praying on Croix's innocence. But you know what? Cloche is still a whore. Luca is the best heroine in all three games, she has the best songs. Luca has already won Croix over, she would have done it sooner if it wasn't for her tragedy with her sister throwing her for a mental loop. Maybe you should shut the fuck up before you make retarded topics like this. You know why? Because you're going to be embarrassed when Luca is proven a better waifu than any other in AT2. Cloche tries to latch on to anyone who would have shown her a different and free life. Are you retarded? Are you autistic? You are a fucking idiot and you should never make a topic on this board again and I’m fucking serious. I almost have a feeling you’re the only guy making all these anti-Luca topics because you’re a faggot hater who doesn’t like a heroine because they’re canonically pure. Fuck you, be good at something in YOUR life and then maybe try to troll these fucking idiots on the board, like I give a fuck. It’s so easy to spot out your threads now, you’re a retard. Always doing stupid shit like this. Why don’t you try to be a good poster? Just for once? For once in your fucking life try not to make a topic like this. That’s just you, you’re always right at getting it wrong. Fuck you. You are nothing.

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>>7774843
>>7774840
Took you guys long enough.

[Anonymous No.]

Ok, so that's another box checked on the Standard Ar Tonelico Thread checklist

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>>7774365
you didint get shafted, the harvy DLC you have to actually search "ar tonelico qoga" in the store for it to show up, i have no idea why though but apparntly the DLC is on the disc itself

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>>7773644
Thank you very much, anon. Now I can die happy.

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>>7773644

Thanks as always.

[Pcsx2 Anon !HA4uPbbw9o No.]

>>7774397

You can grab the latest SVN builds here: http://buildbot.orphis.net/pcsx2/

The graphics issues that's in the latest builds, but not r4804 is that when character images appear on the right side of the screen there's a black bar over their faces. (The best way to test this is to start a new game, then go to the first scene with Cloche and Leglius in the resort, and Cloche will have a bar over her face)

There's also small black lines that appear on all the sprites, but I haven't worked out which build & plugin combo fixes that yet.

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[Anonymous No.]

Just making Deai the notification sound for my android phone made my life happier.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKoW3UsihaI

[Anonymous No.]

So, I just started playing the undub of AT2 and the voices aren't playing. I got them to play for like, one scene (by switching to Japanese in the settings), but now I'm hearing nothing again. Any help?

[Anonymous No.]

You have to configure the settings for the voices to play.

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>>7777802

The settings within the game itself or PSCX2 settings? Like I said, the voices did end up working for like, one scene, but then they stopped again. T

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>>7773384
AT visual book finally turned up today. Only took the Royal air mail three weeks.

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>>7778652
I wish I was you. I have to save up my NEET pity scraps for Dark Souls and Totori.

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>>7774456
what format are those supposed to be in?

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This is probably a silly question, but like ... does Hyperdimension Neptunia get better lateron? IF joined my group and I've jumped islands for the first time and I already don't feel like continuing anymore.

Also, do you have to buy those DLC level packs in order to get past 99/199/etc or can you just grind all the way to 999?

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>>7777707
Not all scenes are voiced, and the undubber removed the English voice files to fit all of the Japanese ones on the disc.

Keep playing with the option set to Japanese and you'll hit a voiced scene soon enough.

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>>7778838
No, it doesn't get better at all. I have no idea why anyone would like to grind in that game after beating the final boss.

[ZUN !barYV1VtIA No.]

>>7778838
It stays exactly the same for the entire game.

Rie Tanaka as Nepu nepu is the only thing that kept me going. Even getting Black Heart and turning her into a k-on didn't help much.

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>>7779004
My heart jumped a bit.l

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>>7779004
I havent played it in a while but I'll go back for black heart. It's clear she wants nep nep's vag.

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>>7778838
pretty much stays the same the whole way through out (I liked 5pb and red's scenarios however) defiantly not the best rpg I've played this generation, but also by far not the worst (that goes to Agarest Senki for east, and Dragon Age II for west.)

you need the dlc packs to pass 999, but honestly everything including dlc dungeons are beatable at 99 with some smart play.

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>>7779083
>to pass to 999

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>>7779083
Just going to counterbalance the stench of the games in your post by reminding everyone that Dark Souls is out in about a month. And Deus Ex HR is already out.

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>>7778733
7zip split archive, just extract the first part and almost every zip program should unzip it

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Have you had your daily dose of EXEC_EP=NOVA/. today, /jp/?

I swear this shit is better than caffeine for waking up in the morning

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>>7779418
MFW that song was apparently originally meant to be used in the Infelsphere

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>>7779418
I dunno about Nova, but I've been listening to Cutypump for 15 minutes and now I want to break shit with my face. This is what Mute must have felt like for most of the game.

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We need to get someone to color this

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>>7779445

Mute is what happens when you listen to that song all the fucking time- regardless of how effeminate you may be, you become 7000% more MANLY.

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>>7779476
Please tell me the Hymmnos says 'No Fun Allowed'

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>>7779492
It does, albeit not in Hymmnos language, but rather just written with Hymmnos characters.

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One thing I've noticed is that when entering a level of the Cosmosphere or Infelsphere for the first time, there's some hymmnos text on the screen.,

Is there a page where that text has been translated?

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>>7779534
http://conlang.wikia.com/wiki/Hymmnos

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>>7779544

Got a new spring project then. Learn Hymmnos.

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>>7779550
You can help by translating some song anon.

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>>7779109
dark souls doesn't look that fun and DX3 seems to be hit or miss on older video cards. so meh.

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>>7779476

And the other origin pukes too.

[Kaji !!Jwt/1I/T6km No.]

Nice, my copy of the visual book arrived today. Interesting how they have a separate entry for Ar tonelico Qoga Tatsumi and Cocona, Tatsumi listed as 15, Cocona as 13

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>>7779974
Pretty sure Tatsumi's listed age in the Japanese version is 15, and 17 in the English release.

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>>7779974

That's how it has always been. She's supposed to be disguised so it's not a surprise that she's acting older than she really is, especially considering how mature she actually is.

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>>7779974

I find it interesting that that visual book (having a target audience of people who have finished AT3) doesn't spoil the fact that they're the same person but the one that came with the LE of the US release (which you'd think would have people who haven't finished the game in mind) spoils it outright.

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>>7780237
Well they do say on the first page of the LE book that it contains spoilers for the game, so I dunno!

[Anonymous No.]

My book finally arrives, and I'm going to be out of the country the rest of the week!

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>>7779004
Personally, I prefer Noire as Old Snake. I just got the platinum trophy yesterday. Since I had to play thru the game two times, and by the time I got around recruiting the goddesses I was around level 113, I never once used them in battle. Atleast I have 2 gami-rings, I guess, and a file with maxed shares, since I never died in new game +.

[Kaji !!Jwt/1I/T6km No.]

>>7780221
>>7780005

I know that's how it's supposed to be, it's just that I'm surprised they basically said "fuck you" to the american localization.
And I think Aquagon mentioned they got Tyria's age wrong, oh well.

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>>7780994
I have platinum too. you bothered with the level dlc? I so didn't.

I also had to replay once as well, I missed two monsters for book that only appeared in story dungeons. not like it takes long when you are level 99.

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HAAAX

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I'm probably being stupid or some such, but I've had a google, etc and can't find a normal answer...I'm going for a Platinum and just have the 100% Saki CS trophy left to go. I've just finished CS 9 on a New Game+ and the system data or whatever is telling me that I have 100% of Saki's CS done, yet I've no trophy.

Why is this? Not really keen on doing it all over again, but I'm afraid I might have to...

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>>7781312
Saki's CS LV1, there's a missable event at the hut. Also, some other missable event I can't recall right now, same as the hyuma you can only get if you clear her CS LV7 after going to Moocheriel for Arphage.

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>>7781319

Hmmm...I certainly did the LV1 missable stuff on this playthrough. Think I messed up the LV7 on this run and was hoping it would count the time I got it on the playthough before this one...Might have to reload and do the LV7 again...

God, I just want it to be over...

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Sakia Lumei is a slut

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>>7781064
hacking to take over towers? where have I heard this before?

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>>7779004
speaking of Nepu, MkII is out in japan isn't it? anyone know if it improved on the game like it was promising? or did we get peter molyfux'd?

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>>7782836
It was released on the 18th... Haven't heard much about it since so it's either luke warm or something will pop up in a day or two

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>>7782836

Reports say it's vastly improved over the first game but it's still a pretty niche title so lack of news is pretty common. Heck other than an article here and there I barely heard anything about Meruru either despite it being really good.

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>>7782836
Some people are actually playing it and posting comments on Gamefaqs boards.
Apparently it's leagues ahead in terms of combat gameplay, even tho overall, it's nothing that wasn't seen in other games before.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/995177-hyperdimension-neptunia/59701586

>>7781011
I got the 300 levels one, since I was approaching level 99. Even tho levels stop giving a lot of stat points(you'll gain no HP and AP, only item points, and exactly 1 point per level in all other stats), it does eventually stack up, and atleast it's always 9.999.999 exp to level, and never more(I.E. 1 shiva). You'll also get more item skills, but it's probably a bit pointless since you should curbstomp anything that isn't Shiva or the random monsters in that one DLC dungeon.

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>>7781332

Finally got my Platinum this evening. Quite a relief. Judging from that experience, I doubt I'll ever want to Platinum anything else in my life...

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>>7784498
That's how I felt after Nier.

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>>7784507

Nier wasn't so bad apart from some of the items needed were complete bullshit to get. I'm fine with actually playing a game to get a 100% clear but having to run back and forth just for a single harvest point over and over just isn't fun. Doesn't help that the game deletes your save file too..

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>>7784328
I still need to finish this game eventually. Platinum seems rather easy to obtain, as well, but oh man it's SOOOOO BAD.
Also
>more item points
That's like my dream.
>>7784498
Go Plat Atelier Rorona.
Call it preparation for Totori.

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>>7784522
>Go Plat Atelier Rorona.

Dear god no!
I worked like a dog to get the Astrid ending...

[Kaji !!Jwt/1I/T6km No.]

>>7784498
Then you probably never want to play Cross Edge
>>7784749
Nnngh.. don't remind me.. I only need ONE more trophy, the millionaire ending. Last time I tried I accidentally triggered all of that friggin' chef's flags so his ending got priority, haven't been able to touch the game since because the new game+ is a fucking joke, and restarting all over again is such a drag.

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>>7784814
Owch... I'm probably going to stockpile most of my cole over two runs and grab the millionaire ending last.

Although getting the Astrid end means working like a maniac for the first two years, oddly enough it was enjoyable. It felt like you were Rorona with all the pressure of keeping track of time, spamming out requests as quickly as possible and not burning through your wallet. Once I had the ending conditions nailed half way into the 3rd year, it was such a huge massive relief (especially given 3 of the 3rd year assignments were just lol easy) and really felt like an accomplishment.

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>>7784749
I take it Rorona is hard? I did nepu and almost done with AT3, rorona was going to be next.

[Anonymous No.]

Finished Mana Khemia in 66 hours. Am i bad player?

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>>7784522
A good 80% of the trophies are unmissable. The only things you can screw up in a single playthrough are:
1)Make a goddess(which one doesn't really matter) die too much, don't have enough stocks to unlock one of the goddesses'(can be any one of the three that aren't Nep) last event, which needs 60% stocks.
2)Miss a monster that only appears in a story dungeon.
3)Get true ending before normal/bad ending, since you need to get the final boss of normal/bad ending(it's the same for both, so you only need normal or bad.
Other than that, get a combo of 100(easy), resurrect 20 dead people with item skills(easy), watch every event(a bit time consuming if you don't skip, but it's events), get S in every dungeon (times are VERY VERY lax), meet every monster(and there's 4 tops per dungeon, with tons of repeats, you're likely to meet most without even trying), get true ending, and you're done.
Once you finish the game, you can literally go to landmass X, do every dungeon finding every monster and getting S rating in one run, max shares if you haven't yet to recruit/get last event(grind a 1-minute dungeon for a bit, at worst), move to next landmass in 1 hour tops, rinse and repeat until you get to Planeptune, get true ending, platinum.
If you are locked out, it's simple enough to do it in new game +, event/dungeon/monster completion carries over, stocks get reset, and you can skip all events and skim thru dungeons with endgame equipment/levels.

tl,dr: Yes, platinum is easy, there's a few missables but new game+ is a cakewalk.

So far I've only platinum'd Bayonetta, RE5, FFXIII(yay grinding for money!) and Neptunia. Next I'm trying for Way of The Samurai 3 that is a glorious game, then I'm starting Catherine and seeing how it is. I will never, ever, platinum Cross Edge(collect everything ever) or Trinity Universe(1.000.000 evaluation points grinded at 3k per dungeon). Or Star Ocean 4 and its 900 battle trophies. Or Yakuza 3 and its Minigame master.

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>>7786334
I still think that anyone who has achieved platinum for Star Ocean 4 is insane or legitimately autistic. The battle trophies alone require far more effort than getting platinum for other games.

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>>7785917
How to platinum Rorona:
1)Play and finish the game normally until you get tired of it, getting all the endings you really care about getting.
2)download save with all endings accessible from Gamefaqs.
3)view all other endings from that save.

That is, if you don't want to become mad from requirements, schedules, and random chance.

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>>7785917
Rorona isn't hard in the traditional sense. It's hard because unless you are using a guide it's unlikely you're going to know what you need to do if you are attempting the 'true' ending on your first attempt. Hence the suggestion that Rorona is at least a 2 playthrough game. First is to just kick back and enjoy the game and characters for what it is, then a second run to nail as many endings as possible.

There's a huge number of character events and special events which occur under certain timing conditions that you need to hit if you want to have enough time to get the 'true' ending.

The Astrid/'true' ending is 'difficult' only because it's so darn stressful for the first 2 years when you're trying as hard as possible to make sure you have enough time to complete all of the events. One of the character events for example knocks them out of the game for 80 days and they need to come back for you to check off the 'all clear'.

Most of the game is just pure common sense. Try to synth items in multiples where you don't waste parts of days, don't accept/attempt requests which cost too many days to synth or complete. Make every trip to gather materials as productive as possible and don't be afraid to burn some cash if you can save time.

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>>7786341
It wouldn't be so bad if
A)there weren't 900.
B)some of them didn't need multiple playthroughs in a game where one is pretty long.
C)they weren't mixed with 'kill 30000 monsters with a single character' with two characters, 'kill a bunch of super-time-consuming-to-kill monsters' with another character, and 'kill the ultimate boss with a character that can't really do much damage'.
But I guess that the fact that they're 900 means they have to be a bit of everything.

But personally, I think Yakuza 3 is pretty horrible too. You have to 'clear' all the minigames in the game, which are a lot(less in the west than in Japan, and thankfully that means no shogi), and for all of those that have a versus, it means beating the CPU at max level in all subgames. So you have to beat the CPU in Pool against an opponent that can bunk at 2 cm from the table and hit 10 holes in a row, or win all darts variants against an opponent that can do 3 triple-20 in a row quite easily. And then there's golf, bowling, karaoke(perfect all songs), etc.etc. It requires you to have a bunch of different skills, and all of them at perfect levels.

Thankfully, the sequel has no similar trophy.

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>>7786344
wait that actually works? I thought save importing disables trophies? it does for most games.

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>>7786426
Never going to plat that. I suck shit at pool irl, not even going to bother. Which is funny. I'm an ok shot with a rifle, but I can't play pool to save my life

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>>7784328

The screenshots certainly look interesting, especially stuff like the Steins;Gate and Totori spells(?).
Also, nepunepu with longer hair and DAT NOIRE. Can't go wrong with buying the game, can you?

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>>7786509
>Can't go wrong with buying the game, can you?

Until you play it. Then...remorse.

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By the way, as much as I like Neptune(still one of the guys who plat'd it), I think that never, ever, a console game was more worth of the title of 'otaku pandering shit', where shit is used in the sense of 'something'.
The citations and archetypes are laid very, very thick.
Also, it has the highest party concentration of Zettai Ryouikis and DEM LEGS I have ever seen.

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>>7786691
>Also, it has the highest party concentration of Zettai Ryouikis and DEM LEGS I have ever seen.

That and trying to figure out a way to design a nice set of combo strings are the only things keeping me interested in nep

[Anonymous No.]

If I had enough worthwhile content and money, I'd make an Ar Tonelico fansite and buy a russian domain name for it so it could be ar.ru

[ZUN !barYV1VtIA No.]

>>7786509
I think that's Black Heart's little sister. In MKII all the imoutos go to save their older sisters or something.

The main girl Nepgear (named after the Game Gear) is on the right and she's Neptune's little sister. Sega systems sure are moe moe.

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>>7786885
and White Heart's imoutos are a twin set.

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>>7786885
>>7786908

imokwiththat.jpg

[Anonymous No.]

All this talk of trophies makes me wish I had motivation to actually play stuff these days. I still need to play Disgaea 3, Atelier Rorona and Hyperdimension Neptunia but instead I sit here browsing instead. The massive influx of good games coming out does not help the situation either.

>>7786341

Honestly if anyone has 100%'d SO4 on the 360 they deserve a medal. The horrible dub mixed in with the disturbingly time consuming battle trophies makes it pretty much the only RPG I've given up on. There's only so many times I can hear "'Kay?" before I decide to stop playing altogether. Not even Reimi's ass could save that game.

>>7786344

Hmm, this could come in handy after all of the horror stories I've heard regarding some of the endings in Rorona. Thanks.

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>>7786908
Obviously, since they're the DS.

>>7786885
I wonder if it's ever addressed ingame that, if anything, Nepgear seems the older sister there.

Also, since the goddesses appear in HDD divinity mode in the trailers, I wonder if this is not based on true ending.

Have some HDD Nepgear. She seems to be a lot more airhead compared to the 'srs business' HDD Nep-Nep. It would be quite ironic if she was serious normally, and airhead in HDD.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7787105
Disgaea 3 actually showed quite a bit of effort from NISA, who put in trophies later, since they didn't exist in the original release of the game. It's the only game I know that actually updated the game with trophies. Well, they also went full jew mode with the DLCs, I have to admit. I don't really like where they're going with this, making cameos thing you pay for.

[Anonymous No.]

http://store.nisamerica.com/Games/Atelier-Totori-PS3-Premium-Set

Totori Preorder is open ... now the question is: to get the premium set or not?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7788428
You get the LE because you get it.

The real question is: Do you want the poster, or not?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7788437

Oh, I do want the poster (and the other additional stuff). I just haven't decided yet if they are worth additional $24 for intl. shipping and possible issues with customs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7788478
The other additional items come from shopping in any other store that stocks the LE, though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7788437
The poster would 'cost' me $20 in higher shipping from NISA's store vs getting the LE pack from Amazon since I am never again using First Class UPS posting

[Anonymous No.]

>>7788478

I know the feeling. I know that the AT3 'limited edition' version in the UK was rather shitty so I'm thinking of just importing this, especially since I have $5 credit on the NISA store. It's worth it for the poster.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7789018
Fuck it, now I'm getting it from NISA

[Anonymous No.]

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2011/08/18/neptunia-mk2-in-game-nude-filters-more-sexist-than-ever/

Yes yes...
>sankaku
but check it out will you.

I hope they don't use this as an excuse to keep this from the states.

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>>7789118

>Lolis
>Edit their textures to make them naked
>Run around as the little naked console girl

... shut up and take my money.jpg

[Anonymous No.]

>>7789118
>Yeah, definitely. We work very closely with Idea Factory and they make these RPGs with cross clashing games, the latest one is called Neptunia 2 which is coming out later this year in the US and maybe a little later in Europe.

http://jpgames.de/2011/08/jpgames-de-interview-mit-jack-niida-von-nis-america-2/

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>>7788428
>>7789353
Sigh.

Where'd I put my wallet?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7789362

That picture made me wanna slap somebody. Mostly because it sounds like some stupid shit those idiots would say.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7789362
Did IGN really say this?

[ZUN !barYV1VtIA No.]

>>7789381
I wouldn't be surprised. Their Rorona review was just a few paragraphs of asspain over the 2D girls and the English voice acting.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7788487
The problem never really happened to me (I'm an eurofag too), since yesterday I was happening to be browsing Amazon for Rune Factory Oceans, and it's released on september 28. Quick internet search, and there's no date for Europe. I say screw it, it's 49 dollars, I'll import it. Then, at checkout, I realized I was paying 27 dollars for 'shipping and handling',(and they kept 15 dollars for customs, but that's a good thing since it means that if stopped at customs, they just pay for it and I don't have to wait for the custom assholes to send me a letter, make me wait 2 weeks, open my package, and charge me for the letter too).
I thought to myself: I'm paying 27 dollars for shipping, maybe there's something else I can buy and make them ship at the same time. And bam, Totori was out on the 27. And so, I preordered the limited edition and it will probably arrive by the first days of october.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7789362
Let's not forget the ever so blatant lesbian pandering. Actually, I'm surprised Neptunia didn't get a higher rating like Rorona did, since the lesbian themes are pretty much everywhere there too. Even if Red, the most blatant example, is DLC, there's quite a bit everywhere.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7789018

What I was wondering is whether European branches of amazon usually get the LE version of NISA games. So far, neither .de nor .co.uk have anything listed other than the normal version, while you can even get the pre-order edition at amazon.com ...

[Anonymous No.]

>>7788428
>Softcover artbook

I'm disappoint, since the hardcover ones were great.

Ah well, at least the OST seems to be in a jewel case. That's something.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7789899

Nope. They'll only stock what the UK/EU branch gives them which, in most cases, is usually just basic stuff. AT3 from NISA for example had a hard back artbook, a soundtrack, a calendar and the game. From the UK it had a soft back artbook which was about half of the dimensions in size along with the soundtrack and game with no calendar. You're honestly better just getting it from the NISA store if you're wanting the extra goodies.

>>7789436

I swear I seen an EU release date floating around months ago but now it has disappeared completely from the Wiki. God damn, there's so many games coming out in the next couple of months, having to buy Rune Factory which I completely forgot about on top of that is not helping. Being a NEET is suffering.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7790120
Being European is suffering too. We get the occasional early release(actually, anyone who isn't LOLPIRATEAN is pretty mad at Xenoblade Chronicles having no NA release date), but most of the time we either get late release or no release at all. I'm looking at you, Mana Khemia 2 and Suikoden 3(and possibly many many more). Also, I live in Italy, not the UK, so it can actually be pretty difficult to get some games, since some get an european release, but aren't distributed in Italy(finding a copy of Star Ocean 3 or La Pucelle or Disgaea wasn't really easy). I still remember importing Breath of Fire about 15 years ago, when even finding a decent videogames shop was difficult.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7790009
Hey, the Atelier Official Chronicle and AT Visual Book were both softcover, whatever. I've learned not to expect too much from NISA LE artbooks anyway, they are just a nice addition and nothing more.

[Anonymous No.]

Tototototototori purchased with $5 NISA gift certificate!

I eagerly await not playing it until after I someday finish Rorona!

[Anonymous No.]

Oh wow. Late last night just before I went to bed I saw that the pre-order was up in this thread, bought the game, went to sleep, woke up, saw the thread again, went to buy the game, but realized I already did. What the fuck.

[Anonymous No.]

Totori pre-orders are open, you say? Oh well, didn't all my money anyway.

... I should probably start playing Rorona right about now, but I already have a huge backlog of games to catch up on (yet I keep buying more ;_;).

[Anonymous No.]

>>7790527
I_know_that_feel.jpg

...Resonance of Fate came up in the mail this morning, I finally had found it at a decent price. Backlog grows faster than I finish the games.

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>>7790615

Personally I got the new Agarest through the post yesterday since it was just released in Europe. I've also got Deus Ex to play. Then there's Red Orchestra 2, Dead Island, Space Marine, Battlefield 3, Ico & SotC, Dark Souls, Ace Combat Assault Horizon, Totori, Disgaea 4, Rune Factory and the MGS HD remakes all coming out within the next month or two. And that's on top of my already huge backlog.. ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

>>7790635
I have, let's see. Just counting this gen(since the PS2 backlog is FREAKING huge), Resonance of Fate to start(duh), Yakuza 4 at the end of first character, Rorona before the first assignment, Killzone 3 past the first set of missions, Dragon Age Origins in the middle of the game, Dragon Age 2 to start, AT3 to start, Catherine to start(probably the next one), Nier at the mechanical factory, White Knight Chronicles at 3 maps done, Disgaea 3 at chapter 3, and Cross Edge just before the first true ending trigger, for PS3. Currently I'm playing Way of The Samurai 3 as I said some posts ago. It's very very good and I paid it about 20€, new.

On 360, I have Infinite Undiscovery actually pretty far in the second disc and that I should probably finish, Star Ocean 4 after the mothership, Blue Dragon, Eternal Sonata, The Last Remnant not even started.

I even have a backlog of consoles. The Wii is still in its box.

Honestly tho, I did work on the backlog a bit over summer, and atleast I have some games that I did finish up to a satisfactory point(fuck you, Trinity Universe, that platinum's not worth my time). For a lot of the games that I quit in the middle, I think it's the sidequests that got me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7790885

For my backlog I have..

Xbox 360:
Infinite Undiscovery (Start)
The Last Remnant (Half way through it)
Star Ocean 4 (I stopped playing shortly before Fayze leaves the party)
Dead Rising 2 (Barely started)
Red Dead Redemption (Need to finish up)
Ace Combat 6 (Need to finish up the achievements)
Crackdown 2 (Barely started)
Catherine (Haven't started)

PS3:
MGS4 (Was doing a Big Boss Extreme Emblem playthrough but stopped about a quarter of a way in)
Disgaea 3 (Barely started)
Atelier Rorona (Barely started)
Hyperdimension Neptunia (Haven't started)
Agarest Zero (Haven't started)
AT3 (Need to finish my second playthrough to get Saki/Tilia/Cocona endings)
Trinity Universe (Barely started)
Demon's Souls (Need to finish up the trophies)
WKC 1+2 (Haven't started)

PC (Haven't started any of these):
Shogun 2
Deus Ex HR
Lost Planet 2
Amnesia
FEAR 3
Serious Sam 1+2
The Witcher 1+2
Crysis 2
Guild Wars (Need to start my HoM point grind for Guild Wars 2)

DS (Haven't started any of these):
The World Ends With You
Radiant Historia
Probably more that I'm forgetting

This is on top of stuff I play each day like L4D2, SC2 etc. I also tend to get all achievements/trophies so that makes it even worse. Then there's also the games I listed to add onto this list. Plus whatever else I forgot/missed. Fuck.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7790981
Crap, I forgot Demon's Souls. I barely got the first boss and was banging my head with the game just after that.

My backlog of portable games is... quite different. I mean, it grows a lot, but it's also the backlog that gets attacked more often, since I can play them wherever. When I have classes and I spend atleast 2 hours a day waiting for/on the bus, I just turn on the DS or the PSP and get on with that I'm currently playing. Allows me to tackle grindfests like Disgaea or Phantom Brave in relatively short times. By the way, TWEWY is the DS GOTYAY.

[Sudo !Tohsaka8ks No.]

I used to accumulate quite the backlog before I limited myself to playing one game at a time. I always finish everything I start, now. I'm up to 69 games completed so far this year.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7791059
That first boss was club-to-death-with-magic-staff-tier if you start as a noble. It even runs away and tries to hide from you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7791067
But then if you don't feel like playing that game you end up not doing anything.

I usually do 2 or 3 at a time for some variety, some games are quite long after all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7792126
I do the same, and those periods are what /jp/ is for!

[Anonymous No.]

>>7792126
Currently replaying AT1 and 3, Persona 4 and Suikoden V while doing my first playthrough of Suikoden IV and Deus Ex HR and will soon have Atelier Rorona . I'm playing maybe too many right now.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7789353
I have minimal experience with NIS America but I notice all their older games are out of stock.

Do you think they will restock the first neptunia around the time neptunia mk2 is released?
It seems reasonable to me and I'm curious if they've done something like that before.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7792276
You'll save money if you buy a copy off of e-bay or something right now, before mk2 drives the prices of the first up.

Actually, do yourself a favor and don't play the first one at all. There's almost no important plot whatsoever you'll miss out on, and plenty of over-reused dungeon layout #3 you'll save yourself from.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7792276
From what I hear, the NA version of the game has sold more than they expected to, but is out of print(and honestly, I can see them not risking printing more). So it's relatively rare, and you'd better grab a copy while you can, if you're really interested.
By the way, Neptunia has to have the easiest to get trophy EVER. You get it by starting the game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7792071
It was more getting to the boss than the boss itself. First level is freaking huge. Problem is, after that, I didn't wandered around a bit and was getting my ass kicked left and right.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7793037
One does not simply "walk" into the Blue Knight. I learned that the hard way.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7793037
Dodge-roll is the new Windmill.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7792276

They occasionally restock every now and again but you'd probably have more luck getting the game via Amazon/eBay or something.

[Anonymous No.]

Obligatory.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7796028
Needs more Tiliasmirk

[Anonymous No.]

Obligatory.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7796166
Can you actually download that DVD?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7796289
I recall seeing someone on /jp/ with a 720p copy of it when they posted their porn folder.
I've been looking for a download as well, albeit not very hard. Anyone here know of one?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7796298
Oh god I must have it

[Anonymous No.]

I don't know how exactly the game managed to do it, but after the initial "oh god, how am I ever gonna finish this?" phase, Neptunia is now actually creating some sort of fun while playing and makes me want to continue till the end.

I suppose getting Neptune Break and being able to finish most fights in the first combo round really did help make it more bearable. Or maybe it's just me wanting to finally get Noire into my party so that I can make her perfect (read: equip cat ears). Who knows?

And while we're at the topic: did anyone bother buying the character DLCs? Getting the 5pb one is somewhat tempting, but I suppose there would be no end to the remorse if I spent those EUR 4,- on it ...

[Anonymous No.]

>>7797557

Apparently 5pb and Red are quite good and add a number of cutscenes however they're also the most expensive. Will they be worth the money though? I doubt I'll personally play Neptunia again so I just didn't bother with the extra characters.

[Anonymous No.]

I do love how everyone complains how nepu was horrible, but nobody complains about Agarest Senki. I guess nobody played Agarest, cause if you played it nobody would have complained about nepu being dull at points. Agarest trumps it and then some.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7798058

I never played the original Agarest but I heard it was pretty mediocre. As in Cross Edge mediocre. I think most people only purchased it for the Aksys LE bundle anyway. Speaking of which how is Agarest Zero? I've heard it has improved a LOT on the original game but haven't heard anything about it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7798127
it looked like Senki with a graphics update, no gameplay update. so I'd wager its a solid "skip"

[Anonymous No.]

>>7798058
At least I beat Agarests true ending and had fun with it. Where as I didnt even get the true ending on Neptunia and couldent bother to play it over.
The way I see it Agarest was a more fun game with better characters and a surprisingly better story. Although that isn't saying Agarest was superb cause it was mediocre at best.
It was just a more quality game than Neptunia. Feel free to argue with my opinion because I know you are anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7797557
Well, if you've not finished the game, they're good addictions. They had a lot of new events each, I'd say about 15. The scenes have only 5pb and IF, or Red and IF respectively, and are better animated than the other scenes. No english voices, however, only the japanese ones(so no moving mouths either, if you're using english voices, but they do move if you're using japanese ones). Only exception is a scene in which Nisa appears for one panel, but saying nothing. As far as battle ability goes, Red has good weapons and is a decent physical character that can hit whole groups, but has nothing special and doesn't transform, so she's pretty useless later on. 5pb is more of a magical fighter, has can hit groups too, and has the only healing attack in the game(which is Tier 4 attack that costs 60 AP and will heal the front line to full). She's quite more useful for that reason alone.
By the way, if you want my opinion on DLCs in general, Nisa is a pretty good character to have, since she hits bosses very hard and is perfect for guard breaks. She's slow, but if she doesn't start frontline, it doesn't matter. Gust is pretty much an alternative to Compa in terms of healing, which much, much better staying power, but some of her heals are a bit tricky to use. I wouldn't waste money on other DLCs except the ones who give AP or HP to the characters you use, since past some level, those are the only stats that will not grow anymore, and 15 AP can mean a lot even later on, while 1500 hp on a goddess can mean a lot more survivability for keeping your stocks. By the way, I think they didn't release some of the final upgrades in Europe, like Green Heart's and White Heart's. I'd skip all costumes and processors unless you want a cosmetic change, maybe except the santa set. I'm not 100% sure, but I think that both the mail and devil processor parts are VERY bad. I wonder WTF where they smoking when they tried to(read: didn't) balance processors in general, really.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7798154
Nah man, we(I) respect your opinions. Personally I steered clear of Agarest only because the concept itself of the game didn't hit me as interesting. That and I live in Europe, so it's either buy the horrible Ghostlight version, or download from PSN where my european money is no good. Ironically, the other day I went to Gamestop, and they, very randomly, had an import copy of Agarest Zero. Why, of all things, they would have a copy of that, and Catherine(which made more sense, in my eyes), while they usually never import anything, is beyond me. Next thing I know, next week they'll be stocking Disgaea 4.

[Anonymous No.]

Cloche-sama

[Anonymous No.]

Finally finished Phase 3 of Melody of Elemia, was rather disappointed.

Went through all 5 levels of Shurelia's Binary Field only to find out that you don't actually get any of the costumes. Since it isn't her Cosmosphere, it makes sense, but they could've at least included them even if it didn't change her stats.
Didn't even realize that about a third of Shurelia's talk topics could be missed until 6 hours after I've cleared the Binary Field, and it turned out that her 'ending' was only a slight edit of Aurica's original one.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7798199

Are you sure it was an import? Agarest Zero was released last week in Europe from Ghostlight.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7799263
Yes, it had the NA rating on the box, and I actually looked at the back. Also, it was right beside Catherine, that was definitely an import(I bought it). The only other new import I saw there ever was BlazBlue Calamity Trigger more than a year ago. I see some in the used bin, like... a japanese copy of Genji, but I guess those can be blunders they make accepting them. IDK either, and the guys at the shop sure didn't, so it's probably some obscure company policy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7799253
On the bright side, it's only Shurelia. At least you have that stuff out of the way now. I did Misha first and then realized that there's no point in doing anyone else, as she's easily the best character with a much better story than the other two.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7799253

there's also the part where you don't unlock all of shurellia's spells through the cosmosphere, which you probably won't notice until you see shurellia an entire rank or two lower than the other heroines on the revy stat page.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7800418
I got lucky with that, was grinding inside the Plasma Bell and ended up defeating Kanade quite a few times for Genuine 100s

[Anonymous No.]

>>7801087

Same happened to me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7800375
Hahaha, Mishas path was shit and so is she.
Also are there any scans of the Visual book yet? I bought it myself but I really don't want to tear it apart to scan it.

[Anonymous No.]

Now that Totori's nearing I've finally been inspired to replay Rorona for the endings and CGs I missed my first time around. Hint: I missed all of the CGs because fucking stupid system data bullshit I mean really how does that even happen.

My pursuit of the pie ending has given me new appreciation for what a complete ditz Rorona is. Did she just create the philosopher's stone for the sole purpose of baking it into a pie? I think she did.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7801873
well... her goal is to create a pie only she would be able to make... so yeah I guess she did. After all, she did use an ultra-rare flower for another pie and experimented with pies that had sentience... oh dear god I love those events.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7803217
>experimented with pies that had sentience

so... She has a quiet, sadistic side to her?
I mean, That pie is going to be eaten, or jewed in an oven and then eaten.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7803323
believe it or not, that thought never came across her mind until it was pointed out to her. She just wanted to make a pie that contained the essence of life (lots of puni balls).
Needless to say, it fought back against the prospect of being eaten and jumped down Rorona's shirt while still very hot after just being baked. Cue an entrance of Astrid due to the squealing and Rorona frantically begging Astrid to rip her clothes off.....

[Anonymous No.]

>>7779476

[Anonymous No.]

>>7803616
/jp/ - Producing more content than any other project on the site.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7803616
Hooray! Now we can stop having nice things!

[Anonymous No.]

>>7803616
Great colouring... but is it necessary to put everything in bold caps? The capitalisation dots clutter up the hymmnos in places.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7804332

But then the effect would be lost.

[Anonymous No.]

If Mir was my dad things would be different around here.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7803616
You are a golden god

[Anonymous No.]

I am feeling like a boss now that I have the IPD warning siren + music as my ringtone. Recorded it straight from the game and promptly beat up the IPD that gave it to me, too

[Anonymous No.]

>>7805208
Wow, can I ask you to upload that? I'm kinda tempted to find some uses like spamming it in TF2 now.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7773644
So how do you go about making these?
I've been looking for vectors like this for the Suikoden runes and it's gotten to the point where I'm willing to try just doing it myself.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7805672
You start Photoshop/Illustrator, trace the original image with whatever tool you are comfortable with, and you're pretty much done. It's not like this stuff is rocket science. I'm rather amazed someone is wasting his time on this at all.

[Anonymous No.]

Does anyone know if this is a new album, a compilation of both discs or if I'm being trolled?

[Anonymous No.]

>弊社ではPS3をメインに開発を進めていましたが、SCE（Sony ComputerEntertainment）様より携帯コンシューマ機PS Vitaが発表され、それぞれのハードに別タイトルを開発する運びとなりまし
た。
You all probably saw it coming, but Atelier series all but confirmed on Vita too

[Anonymous No.]

>>7806090

New entries or ports of previous games?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7806100
doesn't say, just that they're developing for Vita too

[Anonymous No.]

>>7806100
I think they'll just go with ports first, to test the waters.

Don't think GUST can afford wasting time on a new entry exclusive to a new portable that might bomb.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7806106

Especially considering that they've finally started getting really good with their engine on the PS3.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7806106
>>7806205

Given how close they are in power it's possible that they'll put their games out for both platforms at once.

[Anonymous No.]

I guess I'll make an iso of mine.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7806534
i love you anon

[Anonymous No.]

Thanks so much.

[Anonymous No.]

I can imagine Rorona and Vio ultimate teamup to make a glorious carrot pie. I can't be the only one.

[Anonymous No.]

http://www.mediafire.com/?5qlyjzzjzjllif2
http://www.mediafire.com/?654c83b8zpxwij6
http://www.mediafire.com/?l3z72k9uxmo3ycz
http://www.mediafire.com/?xbztxdubgo1udyc
http://www.mediafire.com/?u3s3ae1ynzbt79f
http://www.mediafire.com/?3shzxm5ye4op7pp
http://www.mediafire.com/?xuv67txppednjvt
http://www.mediafire.com/?bj39xcf643fuija

[Anonymous No.]

>>7807050

Thanks for that.

[Anonymous No.]

everywhere....3-d model clipping....dear god....

[Anonymous No.]

>>7805720
>So how do you go about making these?

They're mostly hand-made, partly because I dislike the "bloat" that other programs add and partly because I wanted to learn more about the SVG format. I only use Inkscape to draw Bézier curves.
I start by enlarging the image to 1000px then apply a 2-4px Gaussian blur depending on the original resolution. The focal point is always a circle, so I compute the center point to center the image. I then set it as the background of my SVG template.

After that, as >>7805672 wrote, it's not rocket science. These images are mostly composed of simple geometric shapes and paths. I use grouping to duplicate repeated sections.
Surely it would be easier to just eyeball it in Illustrator, but my OCD prevents that. It may be a waste of time, but I still enjoy doing it. I'm glad that it makes others are happy as well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7807050
Thread starter guy, please add this to the next thread's header as I feel it is culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant and demanding preservation for future generations.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7807531
newfag here, can you guys tell me what it is exactly?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7807557
Gravy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7807557

AT3 fan disc.
Also includes a 'making of' segment, which includes an "in depth" demonstration of how they made the breast physics/motion with the 3-d software with the AT3 girls rpishly commenting/etc. all along the way.

[Anonymous No.]

luca is a whore and a slut

[Anonymous No.]

>>7807590
I see, thanks
>>7807630
umm...>>7774843

[Anonymous No.]

>>7807531
If I'm in the position to start the thread again, I'll add it into the goodies section. I've also got half a mind to do the usual 'Luca is a slut' copy pasta routine as well just to get it out of the way...

[ZUN !barYV1VtIA No.]

>>preorder Disgaea 4 with the all figures and stuff
>>get package in mail today
>>open box
>>there's two copies of the Disgaea 4 game for some reason (the version with the artbook)
>>no figures

Made me lol but that's the first time I got a messed up order from NISA.

>>7801873
>>7803217
I love the pies man. Anon told me that in Totori the Chims (the mini-Homs) are fueled by pie too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7807662
This anon again...

I'm in the process of collating all of the Mediafire stuff into a single organised Mediafire share folder. Any objections from the original content owners (Vectors and the like) if I collate their stuff into the one collection?

If I have the time and there's interest in the effort, I might look into grabbing the hongfire stuff, flacc'ing the stuff and reuploading to Mediafire as well just to have everything in one place.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7807727
>the Chims (the mini-Homs) are fueled by pie too

Oh yes... the NISA translated site (http://www.nisamerica.com/games/atelier-totori/)) specifically states that they work for pie. No pie, no work. Trust Rorona to ensure that her homonculi share her passion.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7807762

that sounds like a brilliant idea.

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[Anonymous No.]

>>7808195
that thing reminds me to complete mana khemia 1 sometime

[Anonymous No.]

>>7807727
Doesn't D4 come out in like a week?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7808195
Bloody Muppy. One of the more useful support defend actions but can barely earn his spot as a combatant. All of its innate skills are fire based damage, very little variety and the support attack is pretty bleh. Nikki couldn't hold her spot on my team as well because her innate skills relied on delayed attacks. Something I disliked when my strategy was to burn the MP pool as quickly as possible to maximise the regeneration and to support attack/defend as often as possible to keep everyone cycling in and out.

Jessica only made the team because she had a heal that created additional cards so she could be swapped out again and her on the spot synthesis were surprisingly effective. Roxis earned his keep in a very big way against a boss which created a huge crap load of attack cards. Erase those cards, problem solved.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7807050
Thanks a lot, I've been looking for this.

Also, Amazon.uk dispatched my AT3 visual book. Which I pre-ordered back in, like, April. It'll be nice to finally have it, though I guess I still have to wait for Royal Mail to deliver it to Sweden.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7809794
Thanks for posting that, made me check my email and lo and behold they sent mine too! which I ordered like a week ago

[Anonymous No.]

>>7807630
I'm sorry, but has Luca even engaged in sexual intercourse? Oh, that’s right. She hasn't even made contact with a man outside of dive therapy. In fact, it’s only therapy involving fields for soothing. Does not having a cliche tsundere personality make you a slut? Is that what you’re saying? Because if you’re saying that I can assure you that you’re wrong. Why would you make this topic when the game is already finished and we know for certain she is pure? Luca is a holy maiden now and she was been the purest maiden in Metafalss? Luca has to go up against one of the sluttiest reyvateils in Ar Ciel who just happened to have a lead because she was praying on Croix's innocence. But you know what? Cloche is still a whore. Luca is the best heroine in all three games, she has the best songs. Luca has already won Croix over, she would have done it sooner if it wasn't for her tragedy with her sister throwing her for a mental loop. Maybe you should shut the fuck up before you make retarded topics like this. You know why? Because you're going to be embarrassed when Luca is proven a better waifu than any other in AT2. Cloche tries to latch on to anyone who would have shown her a different and free life. Are you retarded? Are you autistic? You are a fucking idiot and you should never make a topic on this board again and I’m fucking serious. I almost have a feeling you’re the only guy making all these anti-Luca topics because you’re a faggot hater who doesn’t like a heroine because they’re canonically pure. Fuck you, be good at something in YOUR life and then maybe try to troll these fucking idiots on the board, like I give a fuck. It’s so easy to spot out your threads now, you’re a retard. Always doing stupid shit like this. Why don’t you try to be a good poster? Just for once? For once in your fucking life try not to make a topic like this. That’s just you, you’re always right at getting it wrong. Fuck you. You are nothing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7809794
>AT3
What do you mean only AT3, is there another?

[Anonymous No.]

Finally got AT3.

I'm still not sure whether Finnel's cosmosphere is best or the worst in the series. It's nice that they try to do something different than "normal girl with self-esteem issues" for a standard heroine, but... did it have to be THAT fucked up?

Now if you'd excuse me, I have a bath full of brain bleach waiting for me.

[Anonymous No.]

I could never decide whether to consider dive therapy as basically prostitution or not.
On the one hand, we've got all this innuendo related to diving which makes it seem like it should only be done consensually, lights off, for the sole purpose of paradigm shifting etc.
On the other hand, it doesn't seem that different from having a virtual machine sandbox on my computer, and it's not like my computer is prostituting itself every time I use Java.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7810070
Every time you use Java, God kills a loli.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7810070
Physiotherapy is also prostitution. Imagine touching strangers like that.

[ReVerseTruth !PSoD7gmcJA No.]

Is there actually a proper undub of AT1? I searched snesorama and the epforums and obviously google but any links I found only replaced fmv speak and then had problems on top of that ( not to mention they were all down )

[Anonymous No.]

>>7810171
You mean apart from the one linked in the first post?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7810171
Doesn't the usual english version have the Japanese track intact?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7810171
Wait, what's the issue with isos that undub the fmvs? Just change the spoken language to Japanese, and you're golden.
I swear you're making it harder for yourself than you should.

[ReVerseTruth !PSoD7gmcJA No.]

>>7810203
I just read contradicting reports on the us version of AT1 but the version I have seems to actually have the japanese stuff intact. nvm the question then

[Anonymous No.]

>>7807050

Many thanks for the upload, this was quite glorious.

Saki>> *excitedly explains how awesome the breast physics are*
Finnel>> Oh? Well ... it doesn't concern me, so whatever ...

[Anonymous No.]

>>7810234

AFAIR the only thing the version posted in OP is missing is the JP dub for the movies. There aren't that many though, so it's not that bad.

[Kaji !!Jwt/1I/T6km No.]

>>7807050
You sir, are a god

[Anonymous No.]

>>7810006
Yeah, I meant the AT Visual Book.

Not that'd I'd mind a translated AT3 artbook, though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7782836

Why does this look like she's going bottomless?

[Anonymous No.]

After having Atelier Rorona since October 2010 and being on and off it, I FINALLY beat it this week. Damn. This game can be pretty tedious. I got the Adventurer Ending first (what I was aiming for all this time), then used the same save to get Cordelia's ending. I attempted to get Lionela's ending, only to realize later that I have to have "normal ending" stats to get hers and it's too late to lower my trust rating below 80. I can't get any other ending in fact, since my assignment score is too high and I missed an event with Gio.

On my second playthrough, I'm just going to go straight for Astrid Ending and not care too much about other endings; I'll just watch those on youtube or something. It's way too time-consuming to platinum this game. After I get Astrid Ending, I'll finally be prepped for Atelier Totori.

Also, what did you all think of the endings? Any you particularly liked? I personally thought the Adventurer Ending was pretty cool, especially the CG. Cordelia's ending was cute if only to see Cordelia wearing glasses.

>>7801873
>Now that Totori's nearing I've finally been inspired to replay Rorona for the endings and CGs I missed my first time around. Hint: I missed all of the CGs because fucking stupid system data bullshit I mean really how does that even happen.

Oh god, so it wasn't just me. I was wondering what happened to all the CGs I've seen throughout the game. What the hell is with that? The only CGs in the gallery were some generic ones and the two endings I got.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7807050

Dat ass and dem hips. What lacks in the front, they make up for in the back. I think I'll make that my new motto for DFC girls.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7807762
That's fine with me. It makes sense to keep everything in one place.

Also, Saki should be done in less than 24 hours.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7811463
>Oh god, so it wasn't just me. I was wondering what happened to all the CGs I've seen throughout the game. What the hell is with that? The only CGs in the gallery were some generic ones and the two endings I got.

The system data save file keeps track of which images you've unlocked, but the only times the game saves the system data is when you beat the game or when you make a change to the system settings (volume, language), so when you get to the end the only images you have is whatever you've seen since you most recent load. If you're going to play again and you want the CGs you see along the way to show up the gallery, just change the volume each time you get an image.

And if you're going to go for Astrid's ending it really wouldn't be too much trouble to get the rest of the character endings since you have to trigger all of the character flags anyway. I mean, yeah, it's much less trouble to just watch them YouTube, but I'm just sayin'.

[Anonymous No.]

Goddamn MYU. Are you actually supposed to beat it on the first run?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7811847
>And if you're going to go for Astrid's ending it really wouldn't be too much trouble to get the rest of the character endings since you have to trigger all of the character flags anyway. I mean, yeah, it's much less trouble to just watch them YouTube, but I'm just sayin'.

Yeah, I know. But it's done through trust and assignment score manipulation, not to mention triggering/not triggering the flags in the right time. That's a lot of trouble and I just want to move on from this game already, especially when my backlog is already fat.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7812216
Yes you are. It's a little difficult but doable.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7812216

Yeah. He has a shitload of HP and defense but he's still beatable. He's a lot easier on subsequent playthroughs, of course.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7807762
This anon... again...

The AT2 drama CDs are taking a while to get (actually, there doesn't seem to be any seeders on the torrent. Period). I've got rips of the hymmnos concerts and OSTs and the Claire and Spica drama CDs (I actually own a copy of them) all rar'd up and ready to be uploaded over the next few days due to my crappy internet connection. In any case, I'll be leaving the links to the original torrents of the stuff in the opening posts... assuming of course that I'm around when a new thread is made...

[Anonymous No.]

>>7812252
>>7812238
"Shitload" is an understatement. Oh well, time for some level grinding.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7812528
Let me tell you this: There are AT music batch torrents on Bakabt, both in FLAC and V0 MP3. Why not download from there if speed is your concern?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7812613
Download is not the problem. I already own most of the CDs. Upload is.

The whole point is to get FLAC rips of all the CDs (OST, Drama, Hymmnos Concerts and Musicals) up on MediaFire in one spot so that you don't have to run all over the place, grabbing torrents and praying that it's seeded or copy/pasting a zillion links.

Besides, this thread still has a few days left to run its course so it's not going to matter much if it does take me a little while to upload. Getting all of the music CDs up on MediaFire isn't a priority, but it would be 'nice' to have in the end. Condensing all of the current links to little bits and pieces is of greater concern.

[ZUN !barYV1VtIA No.]

>>7807727
>>We sincerely apologize for the incorrect shipment of your order. When we send the figure box to you we will include a packaging with postage, which you can use to return the extra premium edition you received.

Damn I gotta return the thing? You're lucky I love you NISA.

>>7809484
They shipped Disgaea 4 out early if you order from them directly.

[Anonymous No.]

Someone needs to translate Toukousphere 122 and the final Toukousphere. I NEED CLOSURE

[Anonymous No.]

That's it, I'm joining ＡＫＩ団。

[Anonymous No.]

>>7812680
But everything ever released related to AT is already on Bakabt, in FLAC, and knowing Bakabt, it will still be seeded even when Mediafire one day decides to shit all over its userbase and delete everything.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7812847
fair enough, the BakaBT torrents are highly unlikely to be unseeded whereas the hongfire ones have flatlined and need the messy tta or ape conversion. I'll update the torrent links to the BakaBT torrents.

I'll still eventually get direct download options on MediaFire for the various CDs for those who have a particular aversion or inability to grab torrents.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7812839
I'd be fine with just a translation of one of the messages + its reply from 122; the one near the top where Cynthia is the first one to reply followed by Croix in blue.

because its the message I sent in

[Anonymous No.]

>>7812887
My general impression of the reply is that it was very very very quickly lost in the usual silliness that comes when Cynthia talks about her eternally one way love relationship with Croix.

It also only recently occurred to me why the GUST website links back to www.salburg.com for most of its contents... the first Atelier games were the Salburg series.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7812868
For the Hongfire ones, just open them in textpad and change FILE "HUCD-10013.wav" WAVE to FILE "HUCD-10013.tta" WAVE

[Anonymous No.]

>>7812844
Tell me more about this "ＡＫＩ団" and why I have a strange wish to join as well.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm unsure if there are any Saki fans present, but here you go! Another one for the mediafire folder (>>7812528).

Last but not least is Finnel, then I'll post the finalized archive.

Install points (SVG + PNG):
http://www.mediafire.com/?b5zqj3tv33bj0m0

[Anonymous No.]

>>7814505
>posting install ports on a blue board
reported

[Anonymous No.]

>>7814680

No nipples or vagOOO, it's worksafe. moot agreed, don't bother him about it.

[Kaji !!Jwt/1I/T6km No.]

>>7814505
Do the other personalities have their own install ports or do they share that one install port? ( or is there simply no art of them? ).
If any such art exist, could you do an Ar Ru install port too?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7817010

They have different install ports Check his archive to see all of them ones he has done all of which are placed on different parts of their body, all completely unique.

[Anonymous No.]

Got my Visual Book today, shit is awesome!

Gotta love seeing high quality versions of the ingame character art

[Kaji !!Jwt/1I/T6km No.]

>>7817037
I know he already did a lot of them, I have all the ones he's done saved. But he just said "last but not least, Finnel" so I was wondering whether he was not doing the other personalities of Saki, Finnel and Tyria

[Anonymous No.]

Are the PSP Ateliers any good?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7812839
I've started on 122, but the past couple of weeks have been crappy busy. I'll grab the XML for the toukou matters - I've got a flight to catch tonight, during which I'll have nothing to do but that, thankfully.

>>7812887
Really? Sweet. None of my posts got taken, though I only ever made one or two. Well, here's a little service then. (Oh, Flute, you stalwart of the League of Rare Characters, it took me a second to remember your name just now... what a week.)

I'm from England, and I love Ar tonelico.
I discovered the games only a few months ago, but they're already my favorite series! I finally beat 3 the other day.
I love Cynthia!
My apology for my poor Japanese, I am still studying.
(I wish we had agepan in Britain)

Cynthia: Wow, I'm even really popular overseas. Go me!
I'm not just Kuu-kun's wife for show, y'know?

Croix: You never were my wife anyway.

Ar Ru: Can't you at least be lovey-dovey with Cynthia once at the end?
Lady Cloche worked so hard to do that for you, so you ought to be nice to Cynthia, too.

Soraneko: If that's the case, I think Senpai should be lovey-dovey for me, too.
Even though I know she always in inside when she's pretending to hard to get.

Luca: ...you two are going to keep it up right until the end, aren't you?
I guess you two are the only ones who aren't totally going to lose their character, huh?

Meimei: I think it'd be more accurate to say they'd already lost it from the beginning, don't you?

Falss: Not at all. Lyra really isn't any different than she was in the games, right?

Radolf: Well, that's because Lyra's still a child.
Sasha's the same, too; it's proof that they wouldn't do that to kids.

Flute: And we adults have changed quite a bit instead.

Jack: And you're a great example of that.
I guess most people wouldn't realize since you don't show up much, though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7817968
Thanks a lot, that really brought a smile to my face

[Anonymous No.]

So with the Toukousphere ending it's really the end of Ar Tonelico? It makes me sad somehow, they just can't throw away such a good game setting like that after just three titles.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7818189
In the interview in the visual book, right at the very end he says there are still many more tales to come from the world of Ar Ciel, such as what happens now that the sea of death is gone, and in toukousphere Tyria mentions that repairing Ar Tonelico to get rid of the blastline is 'the next big challenge we all face'

So this is the end of the main trilogy, but it's not likely the end for Ar Ciel.

[Anonymous No.]

I wonder what GUST has got planned for the coming months.
I know they have that all-male Atelier game, but aside from that has anything else been mentioned?

I guess we'll see what comes out of TGS.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7817564
I'm not sure if the other personalities have different install ports or not. I assume they don't.
Likewise, I'm not aware of any official art containing Ar_Ru's install port. I'll vector it if it exists, but google didn't turn up anything.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7817968
Poor Sincere.

[Anonymous No.]

Away for a week and this thread still here. Currently playing Mana Khemia 2. After this i'll try Grand Phantasm and after that i'm ready to buy PS3.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7817968

>the end

Why must you remind me? ;_;

>>7817214

Mine arrived too, Udon certainly did a nice job.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7819836
Raze's route right?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7820019
Yes. I'm not into girl as main character.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7820019

On the subject of Mana Khemia 2, I heard there's a glitch that occurs during a quest if you play Raze's route and then the girl's. Is it true?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7820037
I liked Raze's route, Ulrika was a little too country bumpkin for me. Too bad you can't get Reicher or the Archer girl as party members in the game.

[Mush !lYtRBoeK.2 No.]

>>7820051
Back when I played it, I recalled there was a glitch. I forgot what, but it was linked to Ulrika's route, when it was played second. Which is why you should play hers first.

Strangely, I didn't like Mana Khemia 2. I loved Mana Khemia though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7820051
IIRC the UFO quest monster in the early parts of the game will cause a crash if you play Ulrika's route after Raze's.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7820076
>>7820093

So if I were to play the game myself (haven't played it but do know a few things about it... including Gust's patented glitches) I should play Ulrika's first, then? Well that kinda stinks then, because I would have wanted to play Raze's first since, A) I'm a guy myself, and B) Raze's scenario is how the story is "meant" to go, I bet?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7820076
i think Mana khemia better than Mana khemia 2

[Anonymous No.]

>>7820101
>A) I'm a guy myself

[Anonymous No.]

>>7820101
Yeah, Raze is how the story is meant to go, and Puniyo's end is how the story is meant to end.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7820129

What's that for? It's easier for me to immerse myself when playing a male character than a female character. Plus, if there are multiple ends with different characters I'd prefer to be "dating" girls than guys.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7818189
Would you rather is have 13 titles, half of which are shit like a certain ironically named series.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7820138
Taste detected.

[‮ suomynonA‪‪‪‮‪‪‬‬‬‬‬ No.]

>>7820121

[Anonymous No.]

>>7820101
Uruka's route goes more in depth story-wise but Raze's route is still better simply because the characters in that route are actually good.

[Anomynous No.]

>>7820788
Ideally, I'd like a series to give me exactly as much as I want, rather than leaving me wanting more or feeling that I've had too much.

As it stands with AT, I feel like there's too much about the world left unanswered. The series you mentioned is an odd example to pick, given that the majority of them are self contained; playing 1 of them or playing 15 of them makes no difference since they're (mostly) related by title only. Thus you can play the good ones and skip the shit ones and not be missing a thing, whereas in an actual series, skipping sections leaves a diminished understanding for the overall arc of the plot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7821274
Yeah, comparing to Final Fantasy really doesn't hold up because each final fantasy by itself is a completely seperate game. AT games build up on each other and are all set in the same setting/world/timeframe.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm curious as to why there is no English voices in this version?
My original version has the option to choose from both, not that I used it but..

[Anonymous No.]

>>7822004
In order to fit the english voices on the AT2 disc and still keep some japanese voiceover they decided to cut almost 70% of the voice acting total from the game. The version in the torrent is the undub which has a LOT more voice acting but it's all japanese.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7822019
Ah, awesome.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7822019
Actually, there's a lot of space on the disc which is taken up by dummy data (Hibernation was repeated multiple times)

There's a substantial difference in the quality of the voiced and unvoiced dialogue. The suspicion is that a lot of the voiced segments were cut because they simply ran out of time/budget and the jpn dialogue was trimmed to match.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7822067
It's still embarassing. I'm playing with the english voices right now and I've gone through the entirety of phase 2 without a single piece of voiced dialogue except in the cosmospheres

[Anonymous No.]

If I download undubbed version, will my save files work? I don't want to spend 10 hours again on 1.5 phases again

[Anonymous No.]

>>7822110
Save files between undub/dubbed NTSC are interchangeable, it's the same game just with altered files on the disc.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7822067
> there's a lot of space on the disc which is taken up by dummy data (Hibernation was repeated multiple times)

Just because data is repeated doesn't mean it's dummy data. Often data on console discs is repeated multiple times to decrease load times significantly. (Like, minutes down to seconds.)

[Anonymous No.]

>>7822133
I can see how that works, since Hibernation keeps playing for a long long time in a lot of areas it seems sensible to have a "copy" of the song for each area you pass through so the disc doesn't have to swap back and forth the whole time to keep loading the song into memory.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7822152
...No, that's not how it works at all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7821222

Still, that whole Raze->Ulrika bug makes it undesirable to play Raze's route first, unless there's a patch to fix it if you play it on the emulator.

[Kaji !!Jwt/1I/T6km No.]

>>7823440
Specifically, the bug is that when you play Raze's route first, and then go into Ulrika's route, there will be a quest boss in the beginning, a UFO pot or something. The game has a chance to lock up whenever his turn comes up ( because he has like 3 out of 4 moves that lock up the game ). So you can get around that bug by simply beating him before he gets his turn ( either by kicking the shit out of him or using delaying attacks ).
There's also a bug in Raze's route far into the game when you're fighting alongside Puniyo when somehow a character who's not even playable shows up as an option in the special attack choices, click that character and the game freezes. There's another glitch in the third storyline when having Ulrika as visible character when accepting quests where the game randomly locks up.
So yeah, annoying as that UFO pot glitch is, you CAN overcome it with a bit of planning

[Anonymous No.]

>>7823512
I did Raze's then Ulruka's and was blissfully ignorant of it. I was probably just lucky, but with the god armor and accessories that carry over, you should be able to beat almost everything through the first 50% of the second runs without them even getting a turn regardless.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7823512
>>7823548

I see. I'll keep this in mind.

Since I'm going to finish Atelier Rorona with Astrid Ending sometime soon, I feel like playing a similar game. Can you guys tell me how time management and befriending are done in Mana Khemia 1 and 2, compared to Rorona?

[Anonymous No.]

Isn't it sad, Esty?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7823621
Mana Khemia 1 and 2 have virtually no time management. The only critical part would be getting as high marks as possible in the assignments to buy as many 'free time' slots as possible so that you can do all the character events. To equate it in Rorona terms, you'll want to get 10 stars or close to 10 stars as possible with every assignment so that you have the option to finish all the character events or take up job requests for more cash.

Except for certain timed assignments, you are free to spend as much time as you want grinding, gathering materials, synthesising a storm, completing as much of your Grow Book as possible and fine tuning your equipment to the point where every one of your party members has their own optimally tuned set without worrying about time.

Unlike Rorona (which I think is kinda unique in this regard), base ingredients don't have their own innate traits which then transfer into the items. In MK, the traits on items appear depending on the Ether/quality level of the item with advanced items that require synthetised items inheriting pre-existing traits.

If anything, the MK series is incredibly soft management and synthesis wise and are a nice way to introduce people to the Atelier series.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7823738
Nobody likes christmas cake.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7823738
I would be her husbando ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

>>7823738
I don't know what it is, but the Arland series NPCs just seem to have so much 'life' behind them. Although they aren't fleshed out directly with background events or quests, it's just the personality quirks that pop up in your interactions with them or here-say from others that just makes them feel so... real...

Oh and the thread is close to the bump limit...

[Anonymous No.]

>>7823892

cancel that, thread IS at the bump limit. New thread: >>7823909

[Anonymous No.]

They need to get some games for iPod up in this bitch.