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[[Atlus]] is a videogame company that was founded in 1986. While not necessarily having the name-recognition of some larger companies, they have a huge number of quality products, both as a developer and a publisher, and often both at once. The Japanese HQ portion of the company is both a publisher and developer, the North American branch serves as a publisher and localization company that publishes more games than just what its parent company Atlus Japan develops and publishes; in the list of games below said games are listed with Atlus being the North American publisher.
For the record, a good number of their internally developed<ref>Games published by Atlus USA but not developed by its parent company may not have this trait</ref> 21st-century games are [[Nintendo Hard|freakin']] ''[[Nintendo Hard|hard]],'' though good design means they usually avoid [[Fake Difficulty]]. Their American branch is also famous for the translation of their games: [[Woolseyism]] and [[Superlative Dubbing]] abound in games they publish. Atlus is also famous for first exposing North America to [[Nippon Ichi Software]], having published ''[[Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure]]'' back in the [[
Currently holds the dubious title of "[[That One Boss/Atlus|That One Company]]", due to their joy at [[Cold-Blooded Torture|making gamers suffer.]] And we [[Too Kinky to Torture|like it]], dammit. Funnily enough, even some games they merely published and not developed can be [[Nintendo Hard]], like ''[[Demon's Souls]]'' and the ''[[Disgaea]]'' games.
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=== Some of their titles (including externally developed games localized by Atlus USA) include: ===
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* ''[[Arcana Heart]]'' (Publisher, first game)
* ''[[Baroque (video game)|Baroque]]'' (Publisher)<sup>2</sup>
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* ''[[The Dark Spire]]'' (North American Publisher)
* ''[[Demon's Souls]]'' (North American Publisher)<sup>1</sup>
* ''[[Dept. Heaven]]'' series (Publisher)<sup>2</sup>
** ''[[Riviera: The Promised Land]]''
** ''[[Yggdra Union]]''
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* ''[[Master of the Monster Lair]]'' (Publisher)
** ''[[My World, My Way]]'' (Publisher)
* ''[[Ogre Battle]]'' (Publisher, [[
* ''[[Odin Sphere]]'' (Publisher)
* ''[[Power Instinct]]'' (Publisher and developer for most games; ''Matrimelee'' was published by [[SNK|SNK Playmore]])
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