Atelier Marie Remake: The Alchemist of Salburg
Atelier Marie Remake: The Alchemist of Salburg (Japanese:マリーのアトリエ Remake ～ザールブルグの錬金術士～, Marī no Atorie Remake: Zāruburugu no Renkinjutsushi) is a remake of the 1st main entry in the Atelier series, Atelier Marie: The Alchemist of Salburg.
The game was released on July 13, 2023 for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch and Steam worldwide.
It is a full remake, with new 3D graphics and explorable locations. There are newly written events for all party members, even introducing backstories that had not been etablished previously within the Salburg games or its related media. The combat difficulty has also been greatly reduced, and the gameplay learning curve has been eased by the introduction of an interactive tutorial as well as guiding goal posts for the player to aim for each in-game year.
Plot
Marlone lives in Salburg a magic place where have a Alchemy academy and the plot works around Marlone having bad grades at Alchemy academy and the measure take by Ingrid is give her a temporary Atelier to work in the next 5 years to try do all the Assignments from her, she must impress the Academy with her skills.
Game starts with Schia Donnerstag her best friend helping her with the fight tutorial, and continues with the academy assignments, the Ending of plot going depend on your results on the Assignments.
Ingrid Academy Assignments
- First Year Assignments: Adventure with 4 Friends.
Marlone must do in 180 days atlast one fight with 4 characters.
- Second Year Assignments: Visit 5 Gathering Areas or more.
Marlone must do in 180 days is visit 5 different places.
- Third Year Assignments: Get 3000 Knowledge or more.
Marlone must do in 180 days get 3000 of knowledge with books and with synthetizes.
- Forth Year Assignments: Raise your Reputation to 300 or more.
Marlone must do in 180 days get 300 REP or more doing the works on Tabern and with her firends.
- Last Year Assignments: Visit 10 or more Areas on map.
Marlone must do in 180 days visit atlast 10 places on the map.
- Last Year Assignments #2: Craft a Rank-6 or more Item.
Marlone must do in 180 days a item that going make Ingrid proud and give her the opportunity to pass at the Academy test.
Gameplay
Atelier Marie Remake keeps the old style of game but change on the way of doing it, Marie must gather resources to Synthetize items, all actions on the game costs day(s) (works like a currency) in this case works like a strategy-turn game because every action, u must think before doing it because the management between crafting items for Sky Tavern to build your reputation on Salburg and get coins to pay the companions on adventures, gathering resources, fighting creatures and exploring the world.
Gathering
At the game you can gather by multiple ways, one of then is by going in the surroundings of Salburg, each area have their own kind of resources, each gathering action costs you 1 day, at the gathering attempts you have chance to trigger minigames on the game.
Simple Gathering
You can gather random materials of region with Simple Gathering System, clicking only "R" (or other set buttom).
Gathering by Fighting
Have specific resources you can only get by buying or fighting.
Gathering by Fairies
Fairies are passive friends that help u to gather more material in less time, but of course have costs, each fairy have their own rankings, bigger the rank bigger is the cost for the service.
Synthesis
Crafting system on this game work with synthetizing, u need to gather the right resources to craft the items u need, each synthetize asks for a quantity of time to be made and has a specific elements.
Doing alchemy costs MP and a amount of days in each synthetize, after is done you receive a amount of Fatigue (FTG) also u can get XP.
Crafting goes from Rank-1 to Rank-8, and the difficulty matches with the amount of resources and days to craft.
Fairies can also do crafting work for Marlone.
Combat
Combat system work as a turn-based RPG with timeline that is determined by SPD. Game have 4 elements:
- Fight
Fight system is compose by team and field options, with team system you can hire Salburg citizens to help on adventures and become friends with then.
Field Options: Each character can be positioned in back, middle and front-lane, each lane give a boost that can be used on fight for advantage.
- Items
Items on this game work as a active object to use on fights, since u are a alchemist u need to be creative and know how to use your resources at the best, 7 slots for store items to use on or outside fights.
- Drops
Each fight has a chance to give resources from the area you are in along with and special drops from the creature you are fighting.
- Equipment
There are 2 equipment slots, one for a main weapon and one for armor.
Marie can buy this equipment at the Weapon store.
Characters
Playable Characters
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She has a bright attitude and is non-judgmental of others, but is also short tempered and infamous for being bad at cleaning and staying on time. | |
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Schia is the childhood friend of Marie and born as the only daughter to a rich family. She is a gentle and caring person, and is always concerned about the well being of others. | |
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Enderk is the Commanding Officer of the Royal Guard, who is also regarded as the most powerful knight in the entire kingdom. Despite the mass popularity that he has gained, Enderk doesn't let the fame interfere with his work. He is a very modest and hard working individual. | |
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Kreis is the Salburg alchemy academy's top student during Marie's school time, and later goes on to study high end alchemy. He and Marie constantly argue, but despite this the two seem to consider each other as friends. | |
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Schwalbe is the leader of the organization of thieves that operate in Salburg and its surrounding countries. As a thief, he is naturally quick and silent. He is an unusually quiet individual, and carries his acts through in a cold and calculated manner. | |
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Natalie is a free spirited young woman who ran away from home to become an adventurer. | |
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A mysterious knight who is graceful with a rapier. | |
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She is a carefree individual who is able to stay calm and collected in any situation. Like most adventurers, she is focused on constantly improving her strengths and abilities. | |
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Ruven is a wandering adventurer for hire. Originally from the village of Vaisen, Ruven escaped his Kindgom of Shigsal after Shigsal and Domhaid waged war against one another. | |
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Although he is retired, he is far from relaxed. Unable to live down a live of excitement, Kugel became an adventurer. | |
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Hallesch became an adventurer, and now continues to train. He does not necessarily plan on returning to his dreams of knighthood, but still wants to help others. |
Non-Playable Characters
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Ingrid is strict and can be terrifying when angry, but cares deeply about her students and is ready to give even the most troublesome ones the help and support they need. She is a diligent researcher, and is ready to dedicate her entire life to science. She has no interest in getting married or starting a family. | |
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She is a friendly and gentle young woman who attracts the attention of many young men living in town. She is the only daughter of the tavern's owner Dio, and her overprotective father watches over her actions closely. | |
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For reasons unknown, Fairy names appear to always begin with the letter "P". Several fairies have demonstrated a sensitivity about their height. | |
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Like her brother Kreis, Aula shows high levels of intelligence and has a calm demeanor. She works at the academy's store where Marie can purchase new alchemy recipe books, tools and ingredients. | |
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Dio is the owner of Salburg's tavern, the Hasty Hideaway. He was once a seasoned adventurer who went on adventures with the blacksmith Bukiya no Oyaji. As he aged, he got tired of adventuring, and decided that he wanted to live a more relaxing life. This lead him to run the tavern with his only daughter Flea. | |
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The burly weapon shop master. He uses his own past experience as an adventurer to help others find the right weapon. Hair loss is a sore point. | |
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A prince of the Schigsal Kingdom's royal family and next in line to the throne. He often sneaks out to gawk at the strange sights of the city. | |
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An old fairy who dweels deep in the forest. Having lived in the forest since before Salburg was estabilished, he knows a great deal about the land. | |
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Drnie is the headmaster of the Salburg Academy. His skills in alchemy are the best in the entire kingdom, although it may not seem like it with his age. |
Music
The game will allow players to choose between using the original soundtrack from 1997 or new arrangements created for this game.
Development
Atelier Marie Remake: The Alchemist of Salburg was revealed on February 8th, 2023 in a Nintendo Direct [1].
The release date of July 13th, 2023 for Atelier Marie Remake is revealed in a special livestream dedicated to new info about the game and Atelier Ryza 3 [2].
Downloadable Content
Gallery
Illustration of Marie and Kreis
Atelier Marie Remake tapestry art made by the original illustrator and character designer, Kohime Ohse
Special art to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the original game
Art included in the Special Collection Box
Premium Box Packaging Artwork
Deluxe Soundtrack
Standard Soundtrack
Marie and My
Marie and Schia
Marie with Schia and Patett
Teacher Marlone
Hero Marlone
Alchemist Marlone
Schia waiting for Marlone letter
Best Friends
Illustration for Comiket 102
Illustration of Marie and Schia
Everyone Together Event
Trivia
- This game isn't the 25th game of series, is actually the A1, its a remake for modern consoles and PC.
References
External Links
- Announcement Trailer (Japanese)
- Official Website (Japan)
- Official Website (North America)
- Official Website (Europe)
- Official Website (Taiwan)