#atelier ryza: ever darkness and the secret hideout

[veebs-hates-video-games]

It might be time to quickly run through a few things I was playing at some point in the past year or two and meant to go back to but at this point have to acknowledge that if I haven't by now I'm probably not going to.

I guess let's start with the Switch since it's right here.

Bio Prototype does some really cool things I haven't seen much or at all in other bullet heaven games, and the flexibility to customize everything in a build goes far beyond most games in most genres. It's just a little jankier than I'd like, and it's not quite satisfying enough to play for me to really want to push past the few hours I already spent on it.

Dragon Quest XI S probably goes here too. I was really having a great time with the demo on Steam a few years ago, but having to replay like a dozen hours of stuff and it being fairly limited early on before it opens up has really killed my desire to play more of it. Maybe some day, but probably not.

Final Fantasy XII, Echoes of Wisdom, and Disco Elysium are also close to making this list, but I'm still pretending I'll finish them. Disco Elysium has the best chance of them of getting finished, especially if it runs better on the Switch 2 or I restart it with the PC version.

Might as well do the 3DS too while I'm here.

Fire Emblem Echoes is finally definitively going on this list. Everything about it is great except for actually playing it. I've tried going back to it a couple times, but I'm just not into the map design at all, and I'm not going to make it past where I stopped in act 4 before.

Project X Zone also gets to finally go on here. It's fun, and I was enjoying the nonsensical crossover, but it just keeps going and takes forever. There's like 40 chapters in the story, which is like if every paralogue in a Fire Emblem game was mandatory, but also each map feels like it takes twice as long, and at some point I just got burnt out on it. Might try the second one some day, but we'll see.

Shovel Knight sadly also goes here too. Great game, but it's been forever since I last touched it, and the mood keeps not striking me. After this long I think it's just not happening. Definitely made by people with a lot of experience with and love for old 8-bit platformers though, and it captures that really well.

And finally a random selection of PC games.

A Slug's Dream is a neat little puzzle game, and I like the ideas in it and the presentation, but I just kind of drifted away from it partway through and never went back. This will be a recurring theme in this section.

Puddle Knights: see above

Please Fix the Road: see above

Atelier Ryza has one of the worst-paced intros I've ever seen, then gets surprisingly good a few hours in, and now I can't bring myself to finish it right near the end. The in-game references are pretty decent, but after not playing for months and needing to do a full overhaul of all my gear, it not being willing to say specifically where I need to go and what I need to harvest or kill to get more of certain things has destroyed any motivation I have left. It's been like five months, silly game. A general location and a vibe isn't enough to go on.

Words Can Kill, Peglin, CATO: Buttered Cat, and The Knight Witch are all close to joining this list, but they can stay where they are for now I guess. I like what I've played of all of them, but I don't see myself finishing any of them at this rate.

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Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout Ryza (Reisalin Stout) 1/6 Scale Figure

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Atelier Ryza Anime Episode 1 Now Live on Crunchyroll

The Atelier Ryza series is a popular video game series developed by GUST. A few months ago, Gust announced that the first game in the Atelier Ryza series (also known as the “secret” series), Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness and the Secret Hideout was getting an animated tv series and would air in summer, 2023. Roll on July 1st, and the first episode now available to watch on select streaming…

[a-titty-ninja]

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Reisalin Stout : Summer Adventure [Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout] 1/7 scale from Claynel coming March 2025.

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Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout The Animation

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Ryza Stout // Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout

1/7 Scale by Alter

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[dragaorpg]

Jogos da série Atelier Ryza recebem atualizações em comemoração ao quinto aniversário da saga

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【限定販売】ライザのアトリエ ～常闇の女王と秘密の隠れ家～ ライザ(ライザリン・シュタウト) 1/6 フィギュア 💙

[veebs-hates-video-games]

Ok so what if I made a list of things I started at some point in the past like five years or so and haven't finished but am still pretending I'll get back to them eventually? Maybe that would be interesting to literally no one but me, which is good enough.

The Witcher 3 is one of my favorite games ever. I'm like 90 hours into it, have at least twice that left to go, and I haven't touched it in like three years. Like most of the rest of this first section the main problem is that it's on my computer, and being able to sit comfortably in a way that doesn't injure myself while also being able to see the screen isn't going well these days.

Tales of Berseria is also a lot of fun, but it has the computer problem. I need more Magilou because she's such a gremlin.

Final Fantasy 13-2 is definitely my favorite post-12 FF game and might even be the one I've had the most fun with since 6, 7, and 8. Alas, computer.

BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle is a very silly crossover that feels like it shouldn't exist. I keep saying I'll go back and finish the rest of the storylines, but computer and also I just haven't had a strong desire to yet. I did figure out that I can win fights using an old Guitar Hero guitar though, so that was fun.

Berserk and the Band of the Hawk is something I started after finally getting caught up on the manga after years and years, because I tend to like Warriors/Musou games when I'm in the right mood. It's decent but not amazing, which hasn't motivated me to get past the computer issue.

Xenoblade Chronicles X is technically also a computer thing because I was playing it in Cemu. It gets extra bonus points for being hard to see because the text and UI are so small, but also I managed to break my save file like 70 hours in and haven't gotten around to figuring out what's wrong with it yet. Everything seems fine except my character and the camera get loaded in different locations, and I could probably use the memory editor to reset my location and fix it, but it's not worth the trouble until I can see.

Boyfriend Dungeon is great and I already finished the base game right when it came out, and I've been meaning to go back and do the post-launch stuff they added later and still haven't.

Atelier Ryza finally got good like half a dozen hours in after one of the worst-paced intros I've ever seen, and I haven't worked up the fortitude to try playing more past there so far.

A Slug's Dream has some decent puzzles and I was enjoying it enough, but I totally forgot it even existed. Maybe some day.

Xenogears I also keep forgetting because it's in an emulator on my computer and not somewhere I remember to look to see what game I should play. It sort of bypasses the usual computer problem by being ancient and designed for 480i screens so everything is huge. I'll finish it one of these days.

Ok I think that's all the stuff on the computer. There are a couple others that I'm not including because I only made it like an hour into them before getting sidetracked, so I'll just start them over if I ever go back to them.

3DS next? 3DS next.

Fire Emblem Fates is what's currently in there I think. It's taken multiple years, but I've finished Birthright and most of Conquest. Some day I'll finish that one and then maybe do Revelation. Any year now...

Shadows of Valentia might come back around too. I've had enough of a break to at least partly get over how mediocre a lot of the maps are and how annoying certain enemy types are, and I do want to at least try to finish it for the sake of the story, just not while I'm in the middle of pretending to play Fates too.

Shadow Dragon deserves another chance too when I'm in a better frame of mind for it, I just don't know when that'll be.

Radiant Historia is amazing and I really need to get back to it and finish it, and I don't know why my brain keeps not letting me for the past couple years. One of these days it will though, and it'll be great.

Kid Icarus: Uprising is also pretty great, but it's physically painful for me to play. I keep saying I want to try to figure out some way to work around that, but it's been multiple years and I still haven't.

Shovel Knight is one I completely forgot I even have, but it was way better than I expected and I should give it another chance.

Project X Zone is another ridiculous crossover that feels like it shouldn't exist, and it's pretty fun sometimes too, but wow does it really drag sometimes with how long each level is and how many of them there are. I might be able to manage it in smaller chunks though.

Ok Switch gets to be in a separate post or I'm going to run out of tags.

[satoshi-mochida]

Koei Tecmo, Gust, and Aniplex have announced an anime adaptation of the original Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout game. It will air in summer 2023.

The adaptation’s staff includes:

-Original Work: Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout by Koei Tecmo

-Character Drafts: Toridamono

-Director: Ema Yuzuriha

-Series Organization: Yashichiro Takahashi

-Character Design: Tomoyuki Shitaya

-Music: Kazuki Yanagawa

-Production: LIDENFILMS

-Voice Cast

Reisalin “Ryza” Stout (voiced by Yuri Noguchi)

Klaudia Valentz (voiced by Hitomi Oowada)

Lent Marslink (voiced by Takuma Terashima)

Tao Mongarten (voiced by Yui Kondou)

Empel Vollmer (voiced by Hirofumi Nojima)

Lila Decyrus (Voiced by Haruka Terui)

Here is the key visual:

More information will be announced during the “Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key Launch and Anime Adapation! AJ Special Stage” at Anime Japan 2023 Green Stage on March 26 from 11:00 to 11:35 JST. A second stage event, “Atelier Ryza: The Four Voice Actors and the Anime Adaptation,” will be held at the Aniplex booth on the same date from 13:00 to 13:30 JST.

Watch the announcement trailer an an interview with Reisalin “Ryza” Stout voice actor Yuri Noguchi below. Visit the official website here.

Announce Trailer

Yuri Noguchi Interview 

[jaebird88]

I've been watching the Atlelier Ryza anime, and I can only hope this kid becomes a better character over the course of the show. Because right now, he's terribly one-note.

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Reisalin Stout : Dress ver [Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout] 1/7 scale from Wonderful Works coming October 2024.