gamespot score:7.0(good)
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my score:7.9
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(+)Pros:- has a cast of entertainning and funny characters,- comedic plot that provides humour almost all the time,- managing a resort island and watching your profits rise in your charts is satisfying, - like most atelier games alchemy is important and addicting,- juggling for time to manage your resort facilities is challenging.
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(-)cons:- battle is too simple and boring, - you cant lose( literally),- may not appeal to some atelier fans.
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gameplay time:20-30 hours( average)
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Ahh the atelier series. Its one of NIS's more accomplished titles, and here's one of them, the 1st one to hit DS im sure. Atelier annie is an atelier game that takes a new turn, a pretty different approach, its really quite different compared to other atelier games, still its pretty good, though it turned out to be a lesser RPG game and more like some sort of resort management kinda thing....anyway,here you go.
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The plot in this game is pbviously a joke plot, just see the opening. Annie is a normal lazy ass girl who just lazes at home all day and sleeps her ass off. Her only dream is to get married and get stinking rich...as if that would happen if she stays at home all day and sleeps. Well apparently her parents started to worry for her, so they consulted annie's grandfather, a famous alchemist. Well he's got an idea, so he takes it into action. Ordering 2 of his minions, he asks them to wait for annie to fall asleep, and take her bed and carry it aaaalllllllllll the way to a foreign island, known as sera island. Amazing how she could remain asleep, being carried over 100 miles away from home....so yeah she was sent there to take part in an facility management alchemy contest to turn sera island into a resort island...she has to work hard...and overcome her laziness.
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In atelier annie, there is a actually quite of variety to do here. Actually its mostly 3 things. Being an atelier game, of course, you have alchemy, one of the game's 3 main aspects. You go around the wilderness, or shops, to purchase items used in an alchemy fusion, then make the shit you want, which will then be submitted as an item for the alchemy contest or for quest submission. Next is of course battle, being an RPG and all, I'll more into this later. Lastly, probably the biggest thing in this game, is resort management. Yeah, its exactly what it means, you manage the facilities of a to-be resort island.
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.Atelier annie is a fun game with a great character cast, everyone is extremely funny. From gillian who is always slacking off on guard duty, to kilbert and beautrix always mocking each other. Who could of course 4get the main heroine annie and the retarded fairy pepe, they crack me up. Anyway, the process of the game is quite simple, you have to make sera island a successful tourist attraction in the period of 2 years. To do this you have to win contests and get tons and tons of money, and use them to build and upgrade facilities, which include a bakery, a hotel, a park and many more. Then from these facilities you gain even mor eprofit depending on its popularity. Of course to increase your individual facilities' popularities you have to do requests from the poeple in charge in the respective areas, these may be alchemy requests, most of the time. An after each month, your sales reports are counted, and you receive profit from your monthly sales from each of your facilities, which you will use to build even more facilities, to complete your ultimate tourist death trap.
.For an atelier game, its pretty different from the rest, so fans of the original game may not get appealed by the whole resort thing. Also, for an atelier game, the battle is overly simple, its damn obvious they didnt focus on fighting this time. Battle sprites are like tiny chibi versions of the characters (not appealing at all), and fighting is....unimpressive. Its kinda boring, even the enemies dont look cool at all, even the "bosses". Oh yea theres also no real way to lose, since battle is so wtf simple, and even if you die you practically dun get game over. The only challenge in this game is time management for your facilities.
.Happy gaming.
