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Background As I sit here questioning my life choices, checking off another hundred missable items, save points, and bestiary entries along the route to platinuming Tales of Vesperia, I wondered if all these repetitious spreadsheets I use to gray out items I’ve found might be of use to the greater gaming community. So I cleaned ..

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There are a number of full walkthroughs out there, like one up on GameFaqs and on Steam, and there are also several specifically regarding the big missable-fest of the “Good Listener” trophy… but all of them either require following a full guide or spoiling way ahead of time. Thus, as I went thru the game, ..

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Overview NOTE: Everything in this guide is for the remake version of the game, not the original, though there is a lot of overlap This is the first game in the Atelier series, or at least a remake of it. It all started here. Mythological rent stabilization the game. This is a much simpler interface ..

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Note that deliberately failing synthesis is NOT a critical feature of Atelier Totori, unlike it was in Rorona, but the Failure system is in place and can be used. Turn it on if you want those recipe chains, but Supplements are all but useless in this game due to the way the Cost Point system ..

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Totori is a sequel to Atelier Rorona, and is followed by Ateliers Meruru and Lulua. Gust really liked their ablaut reduplication in the naming scheme for Arland, didn’t they? It follows the adventure of Totori, the apprentice to Rorona from the previous game, and is a bit more free-form in structure than Rorona. While the ..

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Table of Contents Overview Contrasting with Rorona DX, let’s go over some overview points first. I’d read through the Rorona Guide just as background, and quite honestly I’d play Rorona before this one, as Totori is way more finicky and weird and it will help to have one game under your belt first. Firstly, this ..

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Table of Contents Synthesis Time is precious so save it every way you can. If a recipe takes 0.2 days to do, then do 5 at once, it’s the same amount of time but you will use those extras later. Partial days are thrown away and rounded up to 1. Synthesizing takes MP, when you ..

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