Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key Review (DocFlam)
my opinion after 24 hours:
Good:
- I'm pretty satisfied with the game so far overall, if you liked the first 2 it's mostly more of the same.
Bad, mostly minor nitpicks:
- Infrequently the translations/subtitles come off as extremely literal and in rare cases unintelligible word-salad; there are occasionally typos.
- Some of the crafting trait effects are still unclear as to what exactly they do and there's no early target dummy to test it yourself.
- If you use a controller you're going to see Xbox buttons regardless of which controller you're using.
- The camera distance during adventure resets to default after any area transition including battles.
- The breadth of idle chatter the group has during exploration is pretty limited and repeats itself fairly often.
- There's important info you can't review tutorials for or are never explained despite the robust in-game manual (key crafting uses regenerate when you go back to base; basic attacks in relation to Tactics level are never explained again after the first time).
- There are hundreds of loot chests and 90% of them seem absolutely worthless.