Koei Tecmo officially released “Atelier Sophie 2 ~The Magical Magician of Unbelievable Dreams”, which was previously exhausted due to grades, at the Tokyo Game Show on (2) today. This work is also the relaunch of the Arland series. After “Lulua’s Atelier of Alchemy”, the old series of works were restarted again.
It’s a bit surprising that the Taiwanese media got the chance to play the game ahead of time. It’s really rare to be able to play the game before the game’s first release. In addition to the official information released this time, the following will also contain some thoughts about our demo clips.
“Atelier Sophie 2” is the first work in the “Atelier Sophie” series that has the highest sales volume in the “Atelier Sophie” series. “Atelier Sophie~The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book~” is the second generation this time. A generation will be continued on the timeline of the story, and will be before the second “Atelier Felice” in the “Unbelievable” series.
The story tells that Sophie leaves his hometown of Kilchurn. Bell, embarked on a journey with his partner Pravda, and found a tree exactly the same as Pravda’s dream. Just as the two were approaching and wanted to investigate in detail, suddenly an incredible whirlpool sucked them in and was sucked in by the whirlpool…
Sophie came to a world called “Edwig” and began to search for the lost Pravda. I learned that there was an alchemist named “Prafta” who was operating an alchemy workshop outside the village. Sophie went there immediately, but the strange girl appeared in front of her…
In addition to this second “Prafta”, this time also announced another new character “Rami Jieer” (CV: Takahashi Li Yi), she is responsible for leading the village in “Edwig” “Loytyr” and promised to help Sophie find Pravda.
This time, “Atelier Sophie 2” uses the new technology of “Atelier Lysa 2”, so it is more lovely in terms of the vividness and liveliness of the characters, while the original painting and voice actors remain the same line-up.
The battle in this game consists of a “turn-based battle” composed of 6 people, plus 2 teams of 3 forwards and 3 defenders, and the “multiple cooperative turn-based combat” where the forwards and guards are switched for coordinated attacks, and exploring Zero-reading directly enters the battle “Seamless Unfolding Combat”, etc., which fully enhances the rhythm of the game.
In addition, a variety of combat performances are used in this work, such as the nirvana “double trigger” cast by any two characters from the team members, etc., so that the battle screen and special effects are also upgraded to a higher level.
In actual play, the battle of “Atelier Sophie 2” is indeed different from the previous works. The main attack and command will still be placed on the three forwards, while the defenders will assist in the attack. Appears, but the elements in this part are heavy. In addition, the two-person magnificent tactics really add to the entire battle.
Next is the part of the alchemy. First of all, the collection system this time is a bit similar to “Lysha’s Alchemy Workshop 2”, that is, you can see what materials can be collected from the raw materials before the collection, and before each map enters , You can also see the monsters and materials that will appear in the area.
As for the Alchemy project, the same as the previous one, as long as certain conditions are met, the formula can be “understood”. The blending of this work uses the familiar “panel blending” in the “incredible” series. That is, put the materials in the grid in the panel to create new props, a system with a puzzle nature. As long as you put the appropriate material in each grid, you can play a variety of effects.
If you have played “Atelier Sophie”, you can understand at a glance what this alchemy system is playing, but unlike the first generation, it is easy to encounter a material in a generation and eat a lot of grids. Distressed for Card Grid.
But in this demo, you can see that most of the materials don’t eat grids very much. But on the other hand, the bingo system was also introduced this time, so how to arrange the positions of the materials is still a science. However, the biggest advantage of this change is that there is no issue of the order of the materials.
However, the official revealed that this game has 2 types of panels, and players can choose the normal panel or the inverted panel that is more difficult to blend for blending. Although the surface of the inverted panel is more complicated, as long as the materials can be configured smoothly, good props that are difficult to obtain in the general panel can be blended.
The official has announced that there will be archive linkage, early stage, and physical special codes. In addition, several versions have been released. In addition to the general version, there are special editions and collectors editions. The digital version includes regular, digital deluxe, and digital deluxe editions+ There are three season tickets. “Sophie’s Atelier 2” is expected to be released on PS4 and Nintendo Switch on February 24, 2022, and on Steam on February 25.
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