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Atelier Series Sales are Strong in both Europe and Americas – says producers of the series.

Posted by Shaun Player on Oct 31, 2018
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It has been an interesting time for KOEI Tecmo, with them seeing a stronger release output in the West – especially with the Atelier Series. In an interview with Miketendo64 (who we also reported on for Warriors Orochi 4), some interesting information has come to light about the series and it’s place in the Western market.

With the Atelier Arland Trilogy coming this December, as well as Nelke & the Legendary Alchemists and Atelier Lulua ~The Scion of Arland~ coming first half of 2019, it’s to no surprise that the Atelier Series must be selling well for these continued releases. Producers Junzo Hosoi and Keisuke Kikuchi remarked how the games are selling well on both PS4 and Nintendo Switch in the west.

“As sales numbers in North America and Europe were similar on PlayStation 4 and Switch versions, it seems this title could reach players new to the Atelier series.”

They also discussed the possibility of Nelke & the Legendary Alchemists becoming it’s own series of games, even though it is primarily a spin-off.

“We have developed this title while thinking about making a series out of it if it is successful. Adding in further instalment’s characters from future Atelier series games will allow fresh and exciting possibilities.”

There was also some interesting insights into the creation of a new series within the Atelier realms, with the producers elaborating a fair amount.

“The theme of the Atelier series is true-to-life “growing up” as well as how one’s perception of their surrounding changes along with this growth.

As such, we think of a central idea for each title such as “friendship” or “family” and build our story around it.

In this title [Nelke & the Legendary Alchemists], various alchemists will appear and we wanted them to cooperate with the protagonist by having them aim for common goals, hence this concept of searching for ancient legacies.”

The producers and Miketendo64 go into much more detail, mainly focused on the two upcoming titles arriving next year. You can check out the full interview here!

Are you glad the Atelier Series is doing well in the West? Are you excited for these two new titles coming in 2019? Let us know in those comments!

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An interesting interview from Miketendo64.com with Producer Masaki Furusawa!

Posted by Shaun Player on Oct 21, 2018
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In the wake of the release of Warriors Orochi 4, the folks over at Miketendo64.com had an interview with the games producer Masaki Furusawa, and some interesting bits of information has come to light. We’ll highlight some here, but for the full interview we’ll have it linked at the bottom.

There was a lot of talk focused on KOEI Tecmo’s Switch version of the game and their support specifically for the console. A question brought up was about the possibility of Nintendo exclusive characters featuring in Warriors Orochi 4 from such titles as Hyrule Warriors and/or Fire Emblem Warriors. Furusawa had this to say:

“Yes, we thought about it. However, as we focused on delving deeply into the DW and SW cast, including an ‘incomplete’ cast of these other games would be disrespectful towards the fans, so we decided not to do so.”

Furusawa-san also went on to discuss possible other franchises they would like to collaborate with to give the ol’ Warriors treatment.

“Again, as a personal opinion, I think that there would be potential for the ‘Ys’ and ‘Xeno’ series to be adapted, because, just as you mentioned, they feature characters having a strong impact, and would therefore, meld well with the Warriors series.”

Naturally the Xeno series would be Nintendo exclusive while Ys has recently been a series published by NIS America.

Lastly we’ll highlight a comment made about future support for Warriors Orochi 4 across all platforms including content updates and DLC. Furusawa-san has some promising information to share:

“As regularly released items, we will mainly provide content that is expected by players. Other than DLC, we plan on continually updating this title in order to allow players to enjoy it as long as possible. As for the release of new content, we plan on maintaining a pace of about one release per month.”

So it is interesting to see what Furusawa-san has to say on these things, and there is much more interesting information in the full interview which you can read here! Warriors Orochi 4 is out now on PS4, XB1, NS and PC via Steam.

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