| Lionheart Plays: Atelier Sophie - The Alchemist Of The Mysterious Book |

Viewer: "Hey Lionheart, what is Atelier Sophie? Why are you interested in this title/franchise?"

Lionheart; Hey, I'll be happy to answer these questions :)

Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist Of The Mysterious Book, is a 2015 Japanese Role-Playing-Game developed by Gust Co. for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita. It's the 17th main game from the Atelier series. That what google says XD

Ok, in all seriousness, Atelier Sophie is an alchemy based role-playing game, and the 17th installment in it's franchise. Usually in Atelier games, you are given a strict time limit, a number of days if you will.. To complete quests and story related assignments. For Example; say a shop keeper has sent you into the mountains to find a rare herb or defeat an enemy that's making traveling from town to town dangerous. This would be your assignment (along w/ other quests you could do) and you'd be given a time limit (45 days for sake of argument) to complete these tasks. Most things you do, take away from that time. Example; if you move around the world map (think of it like a chessboard), each area you go pass will consume one day. So if are asked to go visit the mountains, just making it there might take up 5 - 10 days away from your 45 day time limit. Other tasks like making items necessary for completing your quest, gong to collect materials and then coming back to make new items, and grinding enemies.. would also consume time, making players have to strategically decide what's important and whats not. In the past, players have been turned off by this, and often feel like they aren't able to truly enjoy the game because everything is RUSH RUSH RUSH!! But dread not ladies and gentlemen, I am happy to tell you that Atelier Sophie will be breaking the mold by not adding this core feature into the game. Players will be free to take there time and enjoy the beautiful scenery, grind enemies, master the game's battle system at your own past, and whatever else there will be to do.

As far as why I am interested in this franchise? Well.. I can show you better than I can tell you, take a look at this.

Viewer: "Interesting trailer.. But I'm curious, how has your personal experiences been w/ this series? What are things you like, and naturally, what are things you dislike?"

Lionheart; Hmm.. To be honest, I don't ever recall disliking anything about any of the atelier games that I have played in the past. That's just how good of a series this is, in my personal opinion. As far as things that I like, I'll give you a list.

1.  The characters: each individual story related character, and even some of the store clerks or other npcs usually have so much personality and flare. When these character interact w/ one another, I am always on the edge of my sit waiting to see and hear whats about to happen. Also, there hasn't been a time when this series has thrown me a character that I disliked using or wished they weren't relevant to the story.
2. The battle system: Atelier games gives you a turn based combat system, but the character and enemy attack animations are great in my opinion. The character models look great, and I read in an interview for this title that bringing this title to the PS4 has allowed GUST to really bring to life the characters expressions and movements. The main character is an alchemist, so you can best believe she will fight using alchemy. Bombs, barrels, healing potions, items that can tear the veil between space and time to smack the.... well, you know what I mean. And the other characters have there own special feats as well ;)
3. The time limit: yes lol, I was fond of that. You go on this grand adventure to become the world's best alchemist, you battle these amazing creatures, you visit lush beautiful terrains.. but you are on a timer, lol. You cannot spend to many days focusing on perfecting your alchemy, you cannot spend to many days collecting resources for your alchemy, and you cannot spend to many days out visiting new places or testing your might against the different beast this wilderness throws at you. Everything you do matters, and effects the outcome of the game (well up until now anyway).
4. The alchemy system: alchemy is love, alchemy is life :D & if you want to see what I mean you'll just have to subscribe to my YouTube Channel and watch my playthrough ;) 

(Lionheart's YouTube Channel)

And lastly the music, I always enjoy listening to the music in the Atelier games. Here, you have a listen as well

Viewer: "You seem to really care for this franchise, and guess what? I'll be watching your playthrough every step of the way! I cannot wait to see what this game has to offer, and I might even get it myself after watching your playthrough if not when it releases tomorrow on June 7th, 2016. Thank you Mr. Lionheart!"

Lionheart: Anytime, and thank you for stopping by to chat w/ me. I'm glad you'll be watching this playthrough, it's means a lot! I'll be seeing you early tomorrow afternoon when my uploads go live!

Take care !! <3