I see a lot of negative reviews on this being a result of the gacha being too stingy to get their preferred waifus from other parts of the Atelier franchise. I come to this particular game with no attachment to the Atelier franchise. I have played some of the Atelier games on the PS3 and Switch, but I never got super into them. They are cozy but unmemorable to me, and I didn't retain any knowledge or feelings about the characters. So not being able to get characters I like from the console games does not bother me at all -- though I do concur that the amount of pulls you get as a F2P does seem like a lot less than other successful gacha games. I feel my lack of Atelier attachment lets me be more objective than other players.

This is an extremely well done gacha game. It could easily be a Switch title without gacha mechanics. The voice acting is good (for a weeb garbage series), the soundtrack is solid, the cutscene animations are well done. There's a few exceptions on the animation front -- the marketing creatives on the gacha screen and musical intros are horrifically low resolution MPEGs and I'm running an WFHD ultrawide. They look like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ trash. But otherwise things are good.

If I have one complaint about this game, it is with the inconsistency of the breast jiggle physics. Resna's modest cups jiggle as if her bra did not exist, which is great. They seem to jiggle even when they shouldn't. Sometimes when she stands still after a bit of movement I see them in a low resonant vibration, as if her breasts are some sort of low-output perpetual motion engine. I mean they have really amped these puppies up. These tiny tits defy Newtonian physics. In contrast, huge honkers do not jiggle enough. Marie has these fantastic tits on display and there is an extremely meager amount of jiggle. They barely move. Even if she's rocking bolt-ons they should jiggle more than this. I get that they are going for moe over lewdness, but that's no excuse to dampen the jiggling on big tits. The stony inertia of these melons is off-putting when contrasted with the fantastic hypermotion of the smaller sized young teens. Please, Koei, let those fleshbags flop. You have to fix this.

I whaled and they announced two console games. Clearly, the money is going somewhere productive.

3 hrs playing following quest + daily, capped level and grow board for 5 party members. my party power is 4k but the quest locked and i need to clear a dungeon that have rec party power 6k, wth where do i grind that? 0_o