5. Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland (PS3)
This is definitely not a game for everyone. This game has twelve assignments. Each one is done over the span of three in-game months, and each deals with alchemizing a number of items to fulfill a request. Rorona can also do adventuring with two companions who come along and bring their own skills and abilities to help defeat the monsters around the areas so Rorona can collect items. The game's graphics are fairly simplistic for the PS3, the music really doesn't improve until late in the game, and the voice acting is the same usual actors you see in every game, and one or two are just terrible. There is a ridiculous amount of endings: 14 of them, and going through the game without a guide is almost impossible if you're trying to get a specific ending (especially the Astrid ending). Nevertheless, I enjoyed the game and got the platinum. Had to reload a specific save about ten times to get different endings, and another save twice. It was an interesting challenge, at least.
4. Jeanne d'Arc (PSP)
I'm glad I started this before I got hooked on Valkyria Chronicles, because SRPGs are boring me right now. While it's a very simplistic SRPG, it manages to make itself interesting by adding special gems to gain extra turns, using a skill system that's entirely customizable, and having a story built on history, which I have been interested in for a while. There's a few ways that the game can be entirely broken, and I used that to great effect on the last battle. This game was even stranger for me as I was watching Fate/zero at the same time as playing this, which made Gilles de Rais' appearance in the game much more... creepy then it really should have been.
3. Professor Layton and the Unwound Future (DS)
Still the best Layton game, in both puzzles and story. The story is completely out of left field and there is little to no chance that anyone will guess the usual Layton twist to the story here, and the ending unlike the two previous games in the trilogy is a melancholy one. There's no extra RPG mode in this one, but the puzzles here are more interesting and the story will keep you hooked until the end. Though you don't need t play the previous games in the trilogy, it's best to do so to get a complete view on the characters and puzzles.
Soundtrack Links
Cyclone (Atelier Rorona):
Theme of the Last Time Travel (Professor Layton):
And that's everything from the last topic posted. #4 either later today or tomorrow.
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