Florin Wrote:Welp, picked up Atelier Meruru today, since I finished my last game. My local EB had it on the cheap (I passed on the Alchemist of Dust, since it was full price and the PSP Mana Khemia, cause I lost my PSP charging cord, and all the reviews say they did a terrible job porting it anyway).
Terrible is kind of relative. It's not like "horrible bugs everywhere!" the way, say, the PS2 version of Arcana Heart 2 was. (*cries*) But the loading times... would not be so bad if it wasn't at least every time you got into a fight. The optional install to memory card helps some, and apparently it's not a problem at all if you've got a modded PSP and run the whole thing off the MS, but... in general, it's not as good of an experience as the PS2 version.
Quote:I've only played an hour or so, but I think it's interesting that Meruru is the student of Totori who is the student of Rorona. Gives a nice sense of continuity without screaming CAMEO!
I think that's sort of one of GUST's things too, since a *lot* of their games seem to have things that. Marie links to Elie, Elie links to Violet, Lilie links to Judie, Mana Khemia 1 to 2, each Arland game to the ones after it... And a lot of that's just from single-paragraph descriptions, so I'm probably missing things. The Ar tonelico games have characters who carry over too, although they're much more tightly connected in general than the mainline Atelier games.
-Morgan.