Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book DX

差点梦回A14入坑全系列时的感动，个人眼里全系列仅次于黄昏大地的存在，确实很赞成一种观点：A14是全系列最高的山最长的河，可是由于其极高的难度反而不适合新手入坑；相对来说，A17既足够优秀又对新人友好，简直是入坑炼金工坊系列的不二之选。

I had watched someone else play this game years ago, and since then, the itch to mess with potions has increased, so I picked this game up to try it out (I basically forgot everything except random story and plot bits). Overall, i love and enjoy this game, and I can't wait to eventually get to the next game in the mysterious arc. While it might seem below I have more gripes than pros, the many gripes are greatly outweighed by just how fun the potion system is once you truly understand it, and get enough going to make some broken traits (for example, there is a trait that trivializes every battle. Personally don't plan to use it but it might be useful for certain farming.) Pros: - The potioning feels so GOOD when you get a max'ed out result, and then seeing Sophie stand there as she commits war crimes with a nuke is great. - On death, you get sent back to base with a portion of your inventory discarded, but no game over. I'll accept it. - The story is cute, her friends are fun, the town is wholesome. There's enough yapping to keep you busy for a while. - Bless refills. Cons: - Lots of the information you need to git gud isn't actually told to you that well (i.e. potioning), so you have to either make assumptions or watch a few guides to truly understand how to work it well. - To discover new potions, you have to accomplish some sort of task, like make a potion with an effect or go somewhere. The issue lies in that there's a few hints that were not right due to translation errors, or are too broad to really be of much help ("Talk to lady who does x" means go talk to a random NPC somewhere at this very specific time). They could have given a bit more context "Talk to lady doing x under the moon" would have at least been a better start. - English dub isn't really there (I think i saw mention that only 20% of the lines are dubbed in english) so you are better off playing with the JP voices anyway. -Some quests require you to collect random specific items from other quests, which are also useable, so if you aren't careful, you might end up in a situation where you accidently used it, and won't get it again until very late game. Just why. Other: - Keyboard/Mouse is not good. Don't try it. Just use a controller. - Plays perfectly on Steam deck - Plays well on desktop if you do a bit of tinkering (just has a few graphical cuts if you don't)