Ar Tonelico 3

Even though she had the enemy assasin role she never really attacked the party. She has a cute scene outside of dive 'the uninstall'. But really is what mattered lol.

NISA Issues:
Once again, they show that they really don't give a fuck.

"Are you okay?"
"Am I okay? Feel these nipples!"

What the fuck NISA?! He didn't say that second part at all! There are also some parts where characters says things contrary to their personalities. Also, there are some word-wrapping issues, though thankfully the AT2 travesty of having nonsensical English and massive bugs has mostly been averted. The English dub still isn't that great. And the font with the drop shadow is terrible.

Teredere, Dorodere, Kiredere. I'm glad Google was able to tell me what these were. But there weren't many sources. This is why leaving things untranslated is generally a bad idea.


Non-NISA Issues:
This game makes me feel as if all the complaints about sexual content in AT1 and AT2 are retroactively justified. The previous iterations certainly had some sexual and fetishistic content, but this really goes much farther. Before there's just the crystal insertion parts, the various outfits, and certain parts of the Cosmospheres. Now it's in the battle system, the Hyuma system, and all over the place.

The battle system is really not well-managed. The AI for both allies and enemies is unbelievably dumb. Nothing like beating Akane (3rd time) by making her follow your level 70 leader character around until that 1M% Flipsphere. Doing multi-level Purges are unreliable, making that option useless. Also, it might be a good idea to not create a battle system that has the player looking at bars all the time. The vanguards act as punching bags most of the time. They have very little actual impact on the opponent's life. It's fitting for the setting, but not really that engaging. The controls can also be unresponsive at times.

Good job (sarcasm) taking out Shopkeeper Synthesis ... again. Why do you hate shopkeepers so much? You have them talk so damn much in the Atelier games. You have a bunch of old men, the catgirl, and a portrait-less Sasha. None of them get any personality.

Due to the multiple personae, Cosmospheres don't feel like they create as strong of a characterization as before. Things only start to get serious in Lv. 6 or so. Even if you assume the alternate personalities as "part" of the character, it doesn't amount to much.

The entire cast really isn't developed that much. And most of them are dumb. Aoto seems even more dumb than Lyner, yet he gets to be the one to restore the world? What a joke. Characters get paired together with little reason (although it is nice that the side characters did get their own romances). At least there's Cocona ...

... whose character has been damaged in this game. Her interest in V-Boarding came out of nowhere, but that's not the problem so much as her having Gengai as a mentor and possible romance with Aoto. She basically gets the same ending with Aoto as she did with Croix. This is the same girl who help Croix and Co. complete Metafalica?

Did not get Master of Unlocking. Fuck.

The good:
Krusche
Tyria semi-trolling people
Cocona taking off her clothes
Changing your Reyvateils' breasts persona
Everything else that I didn't mention specifically as being bad.