Now that they hit the bottom, how can they turn things around?
Bring back Mana Khemia Bring back time limits to AtelierBring back flat protagonists Put Kishida Mel back in Atelier's art directionKill off Blue Shitfection for goodMaybe make Sophie 3
>>738028556>MORE sequelsok very nice look forward to atelier ryza XIII
>>738029075I'll allow it if we get Totori 2.
>>738028401Just bring back time limits and make the girls cute again
aren't they owned by Koei Tecmo and isn't that a publicly traded company? they're never bringing back time limits if so, because you can only increase revenue compared to the previous quarter by pandering to an increasingly casual audience, or by chasing whales. and they've already made 2 failed gacha games for the franchise, no?
>>738028401More bikinis
>>738028556As good as Mana Khemia was, both games sold awfully because they weren't what people wanted from Atelier. Bringing it back wouldn't turn anything around unfortunately.
>>738028401Gust has continuously gotten worse every year since after Sophie 1 and especially since after Ryza 1. There's plenty of devs that I simply don't care about but Gust is probably the only one that I actually "hate". The KT acquisition and Ryza permanently fucked them up, you can't give a niche dev that kind of money without completely screwing them up. If they wanted to attempt to get me to ever care about them again, I'd need to see a 100% flat loli protag but that alone might not still be enough. I'd really want something more like TotoMimi again but that's fully impossible.
>>738030171I feel like they simply couldn't gather the resources to produce games on modern gen consoles. Not that the ps2 era games were lookers or anything but they at least functioned fairly well. I don't think I've played a single game from Mysterious onwards that hasn't had some kind of killer jank in zones or ugly assets thrown in your face.I suppose a good start would be rereleasing more of the old games? Maybe in a better format than whatever the fuck that Marie reboot was supposed to be. I've never actually had the chance to play Mana Khemia and the only Iris game I've played is 2. I'm sure there's a lot to enjoy from the ps1 games or with the Carrot hoe's game.
>>738028401>Reduce the budgets of their games>Bring Atelier back to its roots>Hire someone who knows how to balance an RPG>Shift some focus to new or neglected IPs>Uncensor Blue Reflection Quartet>>738029602That is related to one of the issues they're facing right now. Their games are selling as good or better than ever, but the production times and costs have been increasing sharply, so they're desperately searching for ways to appeal to a wider audience.>>738030171They have pretty steadily gone from a developer I watched closely to one I don't give a shit about.
>>738028401Night of Azure 3.
>>738030171Blue Refleciton 3 but they make it more magical girly precure-esque but still with the same yuri level, trust the vision
>>738028556>Bring back time limits to AtelierThe biggest trvke that I haven't seen brought up in years. What's the point if you remove half of the gameplay (time and resource management)
>>738031765I think sophie caused them to shift away from timelimitfaggotry and towards puzzlefaggotry, where the other half of the game is playing the puzzle of the alchemy crafting system rather than managing time and resources.I haven't actually played the dusk games though so maybe one of them started it.
Time limits are for niggersJust make alchemy even more complicated and autisticKeep the open world if you really have toAlso keep the storylines about cute girls doing cute things and not furries practising eugenics or whatever the fuck Yumia was doing
>>738028401Bring back Akiko Shikata
>>738032180Alchemy tetris is perfect.I wish there was a time killing mobile game solely based on that aspect of the mysterious saga
>>738028401they already dead to me since ArTonelico 3. I even buy a fat PS3 back then just to play it.
Ar Tonelico is their only good IP where did all that creativity go
>>738030994This is the only one I want. Yuri-overtones + comfy grind was surprisingly effective
>>738033558Well AT was never really their IP.
>>738028401Atelier Ayesha 2
All the other stuff aside, what happened to their games having a bunch of great vocalBGM tracks? Ayesha/E&L/Shallie all had great ones.
>>738036627It's been a while since a Gust game had a lot of good tracks. This is the only track post-Mysterious that I like.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1i2lpspZTw
>>738032646Tonelico-likes are dead, just let it go bro
>>738029075BASED
Nights of Azure 3, and everyone yuri kisses each other.
>>738028401Every JRPG dev is in the middle of serious decline.Just port old games to modern systems.
>>738028401New EXA_PICO franchise game.
>>738028556i just want another song magic game but it's been so long that it'd suck probably. the creator would be embarrassed by now and cuck out to avoid criticism. take me back to 2009 please
>>738033961They made the Nosurge to continue in that universe while owning it though, even if it meant they couldn't directly depict the time era of Ar Tonelico. Ar Nosurge was good but noting since, though.
