In less than a month on March 10th 2017, Koei Tecmo will launch Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Steam. This JRPG is the second title in Gust’s Mysterious line of Atelier games, which began with Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book in 2016.
Koei Tecmo have today released additional details about the battle system of Atelier Firis, in addition to a new batch of screenshots (below) which highlight these systems, in addition to some of the characters protagonist Firis will meet during her journey.
In battle, each character will be able to use their own assortment of standard and special attacks in addition to items – this of which is pretty standard for any RPG. It will be possible however to chain abilities to defeat enemies more swiftly. Chaining abilities fills the Linkage Gauge, which leads to the party being able to perform Chain Burst attacks. Performing a Chain Burst attack will see all party members interlink their moves to deal devastating attacks – concluding with a finishing blow.
A more significant change to the traditional Atelier battle system is that each character will be able to equip two types of sub-weapons, in addition to their main weapon. Each sub-weapon class is set to come with a “different skill effect and different types of damage”.
Developed by Gust and published by Koei Tecmo, Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey will be available for purchase from March 10th 2017 via the PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and PC (via Steam).
