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GAME: Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy

Hey, HypeTrain. Myles here. I rebooted my copy and after looking in a wiki I immediately found the fast travel option. You were right - I overlooked it,

It's pretty normal that ANN won't have a reviewer touch a direct sequel anime if they didn't watch the immediate preceding season. Not sure why they would have someone who didn't play the first Ryza (or any Atelier games period) review Ryza 2. Bizarre.

Not really as much as people might think this it’s not mandatory that in order to review a new entry or take on a long running property you have to have experienced a preceding entry.

gridsleep wrote:

Why isn't she wearing any pants?

Because she's wearing shorts? Albeit incredibly short ones.

Levonr wrote:

I think I heard the Atelier games were selling bad, so they were desperate & made heroine thicc Now this series is selling well apparently.

I get that you're joking, but thicc thighs aside, they also scrapped the widely-despised calendar mechanic in favor of a more accessible pace, ditched the worst of the moe pandering to better appeal to the series' sizable female fanbase, and brought in a successful LN author to give the character writing much-needed depth. Not sure if he came back for the sequel or not, though.

Gem-Bug wrote:

Because she's wearing shorts? Albeit incredibly short ones.

And uncomfortably tight-looking, with how she's squeezed into them! It looks like a prime environment for yeast infections to develop, too.

gridsleep wrote:

Why isn't she wearing any pants?

Because she's wearing shorts? Albeit incredibly short ones.

I get that you're joking, but thicc thighs aside, they also scrapped the widely-despised calendar mechanic in favor of a more accessible pace, ditched the worst of the moe pandering to better appeal to the series' sizable female fanbase, and brought in a successful LN author to give the character writing much-needed depth. Not sure if he came back for the sequel or not, though.

What's weird for me is that while they may have left the moe behind, they seem to have substituted it for bog-standard fanservice; the designs remind me of Xenoblade Chronicle 2's worst tendencies. As someone who's a fan of the Dusk trilogy, it sucks that I'll have to slog through some bizarrely grotesque character designs to get at Ryza's promising story. It's like, every entry but Dusk feels like it was made to target a male audience in a way that feels at odds with its family friendly, laid-back, slice-of-life atmosphere, and it's very frustrating as a female player.

@whiskeyii

I honestly think without ryza's design being how it is, it wouldn't have even gotten a fraction of those sales that they got with her current design.

Those thighs brought the series back from an impending doom, and as it sold particularly well in the west and in japan, they'll probably continue going down this route.

Like hey, if something sells like hot potatoes why go with the current to get as much money as possible, as ya can see they did it the first time to have the same set of main mc's in an aterlie sequel.

That's the power of thicc thighs which is the current trend, the moe more friendly artstyle and direction on the other hand flopped and didn't give the numbers to warrant any future installation.

Without thicc Ryza I believe the franchise would have died, any I'll personally am really enjoying the direction this franchise is taking.

'm not opposed to thick thighs but giving your character thighs like that but also having a gap at the top is pure cowardice. If you love thick thighs, you have to live without the thigh gap. That's just how it is.

I'm not opposed to thick thighs but giving your character thighs like that but also having a gap at the top is pure cowardice. If you love thick thighs, you have to live without the thigh gap. That's just how it is.