Atelier Iris 3
- Quest system that allows the players to choose which quest to play
- You can battle enemies on the field- no more random encounter
- Customizable job classes
- Combine and make your own original items and weapons
Product Description
Atelier Iris 3-Grand Phantasm tells the tale of two young adventurers, Edge and Iris. They accidentally learn a fragment of a magical book that can grant any wish, once all 8 pieces are brought back together. On their quest to find all the pieces, the
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This review was written by my son, James Shea
The third AI game to be translated and brought over from Japan, Atelier Iris 3 retains many of the gameplay conventions and stylistic types used in the previous sports meeting. But, compared to previous sports meeting in the series, it is in fact reduced in quality in many ways.
The game centers around a central city. Quests are accepted at the guild, and then the characters go owing to a portico to reach a smaller sub-world (the “afterworld”). Doing these quests is what advances the plot. There are rules for these afterworlds, though; there is only so much time that can be spent in one. After this time is spent, the party is automatically ejected from the afterworld. Thus, it is necessary to plot wisely. On the afterworld map, enemies show up as colored blobs – red for hard, silver for medium, and blue for simple. Time spent in fights counts as time in the world, so fights must be completed quickly.
There are three characters (a large reduction from AI’s previous sports meeting) – a swordsman, an alchemist, and another girl who joins later on. Their talents are simplified, lacking the diversity of earlier installments. Besides the regular use of magic and items, the only different gameplay element is the burst chain – racking up hits gives you the game’s version of a Limit Break, where your skill and strength are at most.
Like in previous sports meeting, alchemy is used to construct new items using elemental spirits. But, it has been scaled down from earlier sports meeting. For one thing, items in the game field can no longer be turned into elemental points (one of my favorite parts of the first PS2 AI game). Secondly, the general types of items that can be made has been reduced.
Tale-and-writing-wise, this game has gone way downhill. Even though the first AI was honestly standard for an RPG, the characters were at least endearing. In AI3, the main characters are one temperamental guy and two perky girls, and none are particularly charming. The graphics seem to have dropped in quality, and most resembles Ragnarok Online (losing a lot of the small details that made the earlier sports meeting more like Disgaea or a similar series). The sound is excellent, but repetitive, and quality is quickly overshadowed by how much you’ll hear it.
As a game, this is a major step down from the earlier Atelier Iris sports meeting. It feels a lot less vibrant and real, and seems more like the setting for an MMO than a game in itself.
Rating: 5/10.
Rating: 3 / 5
Atelier Iris 3 offers many things we’ve seen plenty of times before in plenty of other RPG’s, so chances are the game will be feeling familiar to you even though you’ve never played it before. You play as Edge (not “the” Edge) as you go about recruiting new members into your party and take on the usual assortment of RPG baddies in the usual assortment of RPG areas that populate the underwhelming tale of the game. Despite the by and large blandness of Atelier Iris 3, it’s Edge and the rest of the main characters that offer the most engaging aspects of the game, and offer some very amusing dialogue as well. The game does offer a bit of challenge when it comes to it’s “alterworlds” (or dungeons) that you only have a limited amount of time to explore. The largest downsides of Atelier Iris 3 is that the turn based combat is dull and dull, and it offers absolutely not anything new to the concept either. All things considering, there’s not anything really terrible about Atelier Iris 3, but there’s not anything really excellent about it either. If you’re looking for a new RPG to tide you over until something better comes by the side of, Atelier Iris 3 is worth a look, and you could always do worse as far as RPG’s go. Then again, you could always do better as well.
Rating: 3 / 5
I did not play AI1 or AI2, but I’ve played many other RPGs and SRPGs in the past. Like the other reviewers, I would rate this game average. It’s not terrible at all, but certainly not special.
My favorite character is in fact an NPC that you don’t get to play directly. The characters that you get to play have very limited character development. For myself, the tale is everything in a game. These kinds of sports meeting usually require a large amount of time to end. I expect the tale to keep you intrigued and motivated until the end. Unfortunately, AI3 did not accomplish that for me. An average game.
Rating: 3 / 5
I just finished this game, and as a newcomer to this series it was a small disappointing I mean you spend all this time doing quest for a mediocore ending to say the least. I got both the normal ending which was a joke and the right ending which you had to do 64 different quest before you got the 1 quest that would give you the right ending, which wasn’t much better then the normal ending. The quests become repetive…some you keep doing over and over again. One of the things I noticed while I was playing this game was that some of the quest monsters were harder to beat then the actual bosses. Another thing I didn’t care for is the at the start of the game you get these gorgeous animation cut scenes, but during the game there are no cut screens everything is done in game format….even the ending is done in game format…come on how lame is that you spend 50 hours on a game the least you should get out of it is a few excellent cut screens. all and all the game was alright and if you don’t mind repetiveness and have 50 hours to kill go ahead and pick up the game…..just don’t expect much out of it
Rating: 4 / 5
To be honest, I only heard of this series a few months ago (heck, I finally beat the first one just before I got my hands on this one). But for anyone who has played the first, this is an enjoyable continuation to the series. My only complaint would be that the game is rather small (9 chapters all told, but all done in 35 hours). Other than that, the game is very enjoyable. The combat system works well, and the different forms that you get mixes things up a bit. A excellent solid game when it all boils down.
Rating: 5 / 5