Atelier Meruru: Difference between revisions

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* [[Anti Frustration Feature]]: The menus have more navigations that enable players to check for ongoing requests and where to find certain kinds of materials and enemies, making schedule-balancing much more convenient

* [[Badass Cape]]: Initial players never fail to notice or mention Meruru's rainbow linen side cape. And it shows, because she is possibly the most combat oriented alchemist in the trilogy (by having decent attack power after levelling up a few times)

* [[Downloadable Content]]: Rufus, [[Spell My Name With an "S"|Fwana/Hanna]] and [[Cute Ghost Girl|Pamela]] are downloadable as party members for a price each. A post-game [[Bonus Dungeon]] can be downloaded for free, while a set of remixed BGM ([[Beyond the Impossible|from nearly]] ''[[Beyond the Impossible|every previous game in the franchise]]'') can be downloaded and set to play during certain events in place of the standard OST, for a price.

* [[Every Thing Is Better With Princesses]]: Oh, everything will certainly get better with Meruru's newfound life goal of alchemy. {{spoiler|Should everything get to the point of 'Best', the people will erect a statue of HER in honor}}

* [[Item Caddy]]: And now, you can have Totori as your partner, along with {{spoiler|Rorona}} who also fills this role, {{spoiler|making this game the first to have three consecutive protagonist alchemists in a single adventuring party}}, all of which can use brought items

* [[Genki Girl]]: Meruru, pretty much.

* [[Merlin Sickness]]: {{spoiler|The fate that befell Rorona, causing her to be cast in this game as a child. Some fans don't take this well, mainly because of [[Word of God|the development team]] partly responsible for having decided that this is the way to go for her. In game, Astrid is responsible for having messed up the plan to make a regression potion that can reverse her age back to [[Cake Eater|the ideal age of 14]], but instead she got about 8. Not only that, Rorona's memories got messed up. Fortunately her alchemic skills (which remained) are still a help for Meruru}}

* [[Multiple Endings]]: Like the two games before this, what you achieve in game can determine the ending which you'll get, based on a number of factors. A bit of [[Guide Dang It|guide reading]] is in order

* [[Only Known By Their Nickname]]: You can count the amount of characters who have shortened forms of their real names, with the latest addition of Meruru

* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: Meruru's charm and main point of being. Instead of going by her father's aim of letting the nation get peacefully absorbed into Arland's border, Meruru later wants to use alchemy to bolster Arls condition. Throughout the game, her efforts will be rewarded by the sight of the map becoming crowded with representation of Arls' growth

* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: Due to the large carry-over of cast, a number of examples from [[Atelier Rorona|previous]] [[Atelier Totori|games]] apply here as well. Two new examples for ''Meruru'', however, are Meruru's father and "the young shop owner" - the former was "Dessie Horstna Arls" (デジエ　ホルストナ　アールス). As this was a bit feminine for a man, a bit of kana-interpretation alchemy transformed it into '''Dessier Hahlsner Arls'''.<ref>A trailing "e" or "a" sound can be interpreted as a light "er" or "ar" in romanization of Japanese.</ref> More problematic was the latter, though, as "Fwana/Juana Olsys" (フアナ　オルシズ). There've been several ways given of spelling her name and neither really matches the given katakana. NISA ended up saying "pike it" and called her '''Hanna Olses'''.

** An interesting quasi-example is Mimi; in the promotional material for Meruru, she was called "Mimi Houlier von Schwarzlank". ''This wasn't even consistent with the spelling Gust gave in Japan's version of Atelier Totori''. NISA, naturally, opted to keep the spelling consistent between English versions as "Mimi Houllier von Schwarzlang".

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