For a total newcomer. I don't even really know what the series is about.

Can anyone check if there is a builtin option? Dust DX and Ryza don't have it and I cannot enable it thru my graphics driver (using Linux), so it looks really bad without hacking.

I've been meaning to play this series for a very long time but always got distracted and never started. I picked up a 3pack of Atelier games last week on sale on Switch and started Sophie because it downloaded first. So far I'm enjoying it but I am seeing things that seem to reference past games. Now I have a friend who's really into crafting both irl and in games. I want to recommend this game to him but I'm not sure if it's the best entry point since I kinda picked randomly. So what are the good entry ...

Given the price of the DX trilogy just wanted to ask what the differences were and if getting them was worth it currently if you own their original formats. Cheers.

...Also, what the heck is the "adventurer's rank"? I can't even see anything in the game talking about it and I'm not sure how to get the achievement for it.