Chill laid back JRPG yeah its cutsie but if you know anything about atelier the Cuteness is a facade of what the game is about which is a stupidly indepth and crazy alchemy system that is insanely hard to master but very easy to pick up at the baseline level.

there is no timelimits like older ateliers but music and combat is on point. Sophie herself is a likeable MC shes tends to be smart and very comptent she does a good job driving the game foward.

Im not much of an atelier fan in general but this is a solid JRPG with fun areas to explore and really solid QOL/mechenics. yes its a sequel but you can easily get by without playing sophie 1 (which is honestly pretty meh anyways) there is a summery at the start of the game for the first game that will get you by fine.

the story itself isnt super indepth or complicated go into this expecting enjoyable turn based combat fantastic music nice exploration indepth alchemy and an otherwise laid back game with heavily editable difficulty.