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Bad end guy here, I'm slightly confused. Ar Ru was spreading antibodies throughout Sol Cluster (and eventually the world) but this was completely ignored in the ending of the bad end, it just focused on Finnel and Saki dying then everyone living a happy life like nothing happened.. Where the fuck did the antibodies go?

Obligatory Tilia~.jpg also.

Oh good.

mfw no one really cares about Arpeggio.
More people need to read it.

>>7140846
I read it, but... I dunno, best thing in it was Shurelia. It just all felt so small-scale compared to the stories of the games. I also didn't really like any of the characters.
Well, that's just my opinion, bu judging from how much people (don't) talk about it...
Maybe most just don't know it exists.

Just got my copy of Ar Tonelico 3 10mins earlier. Today is gonna be a great day.

This is a silly question, but which sections are the DLCs located under in the PSN? Asian PS3 account here.

>>7140872

I don't think many people know about it. Personally I rather enjoyed it but as you say it just can't compare to the scale of the games.

>Finally get US PSN code from Best Buy
>Scroll new stuff to get to Parasite Eve
>See link to AT3 DLCs
>Check if there's anything new
>There's DLC packs to change the personality of the final boss to Tsundere, Dorodere, Ultra Masochist, Pure and Innocent.
>MFW

By the way, wouldn't saying who the final boss is right there on the DLC count a spoiler?

>>7142413
>greentext
>MFW
Get the fuck out.

>>7142413

She's the final boss in the normal end, but not the true end.

>>7142426
Sort of like O2 in Kirby 64

>>7142413
She's perfect just the way she is.

>Watching the credits
>Total Command: Akira Tsuchiya

I'm glad, it just wouldn't have been the same without TOTAL COMMAND.

>>7142413

She's only the last boss in the normal end which ends at phase 3. The true route continues on from there so the real last boss is different.

I have a question about Luphan

Is he the same Ayatane from AT 1 and 2? Or did Mir base her mind guardian off him?

>>7142595
IIRC, the person Mir based her mind guardian was killed in the same event that made her start her revolt. And that was what? Several hundred years before the current events?

>>7142595

Not the same one.

Phase 3 spoiler: his name is actually Ayatane, but his last name is different from the first Ayatane. They also have different voice actors in both languages.

>>7142595
I remember reading that Mir met one scientist who didn't view her as just a thing but as an actual living being, while everyone else still wasn't. When he later... vanished, I think, she used his image as the abse for Ayatane.
I couldn't find the passage on the Ar Tonelico Wiki right now, but I'm pretty sure I read it there some weeks ago.

>mfw Cocona's clothes didn't rip even when she broke the sound barrier in AT2

I still think loli with gigantic sword looks better than her current one. It's even better with that aircraft sound

Slowly making my way through AT2, and Reisha just died.
Didn't expect it, but oh boy, it felt so damn good.
Bitch had it coming.

Also, Luca is proving to be awesome(see picture) but I kinda wish I didn't chose her route - her and Cloche are so gay for each other I don't even need my goggles to see it. Guess I could've went for Jacqli(even if her whole character feels like its entirely built around various kinds of fanservice) after all.
Oh well, next playthrough then.

Still waiting for my copy, but I noticed theres a bunch of DLC for at3. Is it worth buying?

>>7142743

Not sure as I haven't played through it myself, but I know that none of it becomes relevant until late game so you have plenty of time to decide.

Also, at present installing the DLC triggers a bug that makes it impossible to get 100% cosmosphere completion for one of the characters, so there's another reason for you to wait on grabbing it.

>>7142743
The Elemia Island one?

Fuck yes, it is. 3D Ar-Ru hugging. Best 6$ I've spent in my whole life.

However, there's a bug, so if you install it before going through Tyria CS' first level, you miss out on a Hyuma. Here's NISA's response to that, by the way:


Hello there,

Thank you very much for emailing us.
Here is what you can do.

1. unlock Hyuma 44 first, then download the DLC.

If you already have the DLC, you can uninstall the game system and then
install it again.
You should unlock the Hyuma 44, then re-download the DLC. (once you purchase
it you should be able to download it again free.)

This should work.
Please let us know if there are any additional questions!

Best regards,

Customer Support Staff

NIS America, Inc

>>7142709
's because her clothes back then were made by Sincere. No one in Sol Cluster could duplicate it.

First playthrough hard mode fight with Ar Ru before phase 4:

>"Bye bye"
>Character(s) gets one shot
>Revive
>Repeat ad nauseam

This was possibly the most ridiculous battle I've experienced so far.

>>7142709

I like her model with her hair down but the whole SUPERMOVES = NO CLOTHES kind of puts me off. I'm fine with purging since your reyvateil is generally ignored but seeing your vanguards run around in swimwear against massive tower guardians and such just looks plain silly.

>>7142743

One DLC is Ar Ru being extremely moe which includes a hug scene that has probably claimed the lives of thousands of people. The other DLC is Harve-sama having different personalities. They're only English voiced though apparently which is a shame since I've been playing with Japanese voices.

>>7142732

They're gay for each other regardless of what route you take. This just makes the transition into choosing Jakuri that much easier.

>>7142595

They're different, Ayatane is just a popular Teru name, if I recall correctly.

>>7142938
>Ibut seeing your vanguards run around in swimwear against massive tower guardians and such just looks plain silly.

You're up to the third game in this series and you're just now complaining about how silly it is?

Do any of the vanguards play particularly better under manual control than the others? I see a lot of videos of people manually controlling Cocona and I'm not sure if it's just personal preference on their part or if she's a better person to be behind the wheel of than Aoto for some reason.

>>7142956
She does the most damage, so I'm sure that's one reason people play her.
She also has 2 quick specials, one knocking the enemy back and one blowing her back for building beat, and most importantly, it's a girl.

I controlled Doc though, since Aoto sucks at building beat and Doc never did much damage anyway. In hard its not like the vanguards can do any amount of decent damage when you can triple purge ~10s in and end it 5-10s later.

>>7142968

Triple purge in 10 seconds? Am I missing something? Very rarely do I see that many beats in such a short time, especially at level 1. I usually get the needed 15 or so beats around 30 seconds in.

>>7142950

Neither AT1 or AT2 had your vanguards wearing swimsuits. There's a reason given for purging in AT3 but when it comes to the supermoves you're just told "I get hot while doing it" for Gojo and the wind apparently blows away Cocona's clothes before she even builds up momentum. Aoto doesn't even give a reason, he just goes from fully clothed in the little cutscene to a pair of shorts and a massive drill out of nowhere.

>>7143092
If you use a special, it only takes 6 beat ups to triple purge. 4 for double. The attack has to land though, if you just see 'beat up' it doesn't do anything.

Why is Jaqli so moe?

>>7143129
>The attack has to land though, if you just see 'beat up' it doesn't do anything.

So when I spam attack on a red line and see a bunch of 'beat up' messages none of those extra ones count?

Wow /jp/, AT1 is incredibly fun. Thanks to the ones that made the GUST general threads, I'm really enjoying this game!

>>7143544
You're in for a treat with the second one that. It's improved in pretty much every aspect.

>>7143571
I actually liked the first one more than the second, myself.

>Ayatane boss fight

What the fuck, is that Bahamut from FFX?

>MEGA FLARE

Oh you, Gust.

>>7143129

Ah, thank you.

>>7143265

Mother virus catching a cold? Interesting..

Has anyone found "アル・ルゥとネ!" from C79?
Delicious Aruru doujin

Anyone has the purge scenes collection? I've downloaded this one http://www.mediafire.com/?mifx4522jtm and it has an error when extracing it.

The answers in the thread are mostly right, but let me tie it together and add a bit.

When Mir was imprisoned in the second age, a man posing as Silver Horn research staff called Ayatane Michitaka tried to free her but died in the attempt. He was actually a Teru from Harvestasya - they wanted her help in creating Reyvatelia, so they were going to bail her out and use relay satellites so she could go to the Third Tower. Ironically, Mir is later interested in going to Harvestasya in order to create a world where everyone can live in peace together.

This Ayatane made such an impression on Mir that he eventually became her Mind Guardian; the Ayatane from AT1 is also based on him, but this was a conscious decision.

Now, Lufan's real name is Ayatane Kureha Kirinami. In Clusternia, the Teru are known as youke, and Ayatane is the name of one of the Youke families. (They are specifically one of the Calamity Youke - i.e., the Teru clans involved in the Grathnode Inferia.) The Ayatane family are known as the Munof clan in Sol Ciel - their middle name is Pel, and they have the power of premonition. In Toukousphere 90, it's mentioned that his name in Sol Ciel would be Kureha Pel Kirinami.

>>7144347

Try using something like 7zip to get the file extracted anyway and see if it works?

Thank god Jacqli wasn't in AT3, she would probably destroy everything since she loves being naked.

On the other hand, I miss her recklessness.

>>7144692
I got the impression that she wasn't reckless as much as she was just so supremely confident in her capabilities.

Considering how she's as powerful if not moreso than an Origin, yeah.. she has the qualifications to be so.

Still playing through AT2, but been slowing down a bit since another game has eaten up my free time lately.
In AT1 there's a choice to continue the game into Phase 3 or end it there, and from what I understand there's a boss fight in AT3 where if you don't beat it in 7 minutes, then you can't move on to the next phase.
Is there anything similar in AT2 that I should be aware of?

>>7144939

No. AT2 is strangely devoid of incomplete/bad ends, despite the fact there are several moments in the game where a bad end could occur.

>>7144939
Nope.

In terms of endings, there are two lock-out junctions. The first is in the major decision in P1, which locks out one of the two main reyvateils and the second lockout is simply accepting a reyvateil as a partner in their L5 Cosmospheres, which will lock out the last remaining reyvateil.

Speaking of lock outs, Cloche is weaker than any other reyvateil who is locked out from the higher level cosmospheres since her L3 has been deleted, which then means less costumes, and song magic before the L5 decision time.

>>7145006
She makes up for it with replekia

>>7144692

I love her far more than I should... Too bad she's just a game character.

>>7140964

Is Tilia playable?

>>7145072
>Is Tilia playable?

Yes.

I've been playing ATQ for close to fifteen hours since I got it the day before yesterday (I'm right where you've rescued Saki from Archia Think Tank near the beginning of phase 2) and the few gripes I have with the game at this point are far outweighed by everything that's absolutely great about it; Finnel's cosmosphere in particular has been pretty much the best thing ever so far.

I find it quite refreshing to be hyped as fuck for a game and not ending up with something that's mediocre or worse.

>>7145501
FINNE part of the Cosmosphere was really awesome, complete with leveling, 8bit music and everything. I love playing Finnel's cosmosphere.

>>7145558

Admit it, you just want her "freshly baked log".

>>7144692
>Jakuri purge.

>>7146222
That would have been the pinnacle of AT3, or maybe even the whole point.
Stop Jakuri from purging and destroying the world!

Why is Soma so delicious?

>>7146222
This is the only thing I'll ever ask for, yet it will never happen... ;_;

I just bought my copy. (I'm living in France.)
It was the only one copy in the shop.... The soundtrack was in it and they gave me the Official Visual Book, untranslated.
The only thing translated is the booklet inside and the box and the box itself.
I guess that those living in the U.S. had the Official Visual Book too....
No calendar......;_;

>>7146306
Because she has a lot of the qualities that make Mir the best girl in the series. That vaguely evil exterior with a tendency to troll everyone around her hides a sad girl who desperately needs a hug. Plus dat see-through dress. I went into the game expecting to ignore all the other heroines and just go straight for Tilia since the 3rd reyvateil is always the best, but now I wish I could kick Finnel and the other personae out of the body and just keep Soma all to myself. And I can now properly appreciate the scrumptious Soma doujinshi I got from Inudrill at C79.

I just finished Finnel's true end. If I go through and play the other girls' routes would there be any differences other than some dialog and the ending scene?

>>7145028
>replakia
I refuse to use replakia.
It is quite literally a "win game" button.

Different anon, but the point still stands.

>scrumptious Soma doujinshi I got from Inudrill at C79.
WORDS CANNOT DESCRIBE MY JEALOUSY

>would there be any differences
There are a couple of scenes here and there that are route specific (during which Saki and Finnel event CGs that are fairly similar), and there are some route specific talk events and (I think) CS events, but beside that and the ending, I think that's it. I haven't bothered completing multiple routes yet, so I can't say 100%, but that's what I've heard of.

Oh, Saki and Finnel have special ending songs, kind of like what happens with Kokorogatari in AT2. (The credits song is the same in each case, and I hope you haven't been spoiled on it, because Jeeeeesuuuuuuuuuus. Those goosebumps and the shiver up my spine when I heard Rrha ki ra tie yor ini en nha!. And I knew it was coming.)

>>7146876
By the end of the game, most bosses were almost dead just because of my vanguards attacking by the time I was ready to unleash my replaika'd fusion songs anyway. Still it's nice to overkill to such an extent

Why is Misha oh so much better than Aurica? I'm so glad she's back.

>>7146887

Kokorogatari is love, the vocalists really sound great together. I'm still on Finnel's route so I've only heard her ending song when I quickly finished her normal route but it's really nice. I really like AT games with their credits, they usually give you a nice song and some nice background imagery and hers is no different. That and I was trying to spot TOTAL COMMAND because it makes me laugh every single time.

Also god damn, I've only had Ar Ru for a short time and she's already trying to make me fuck her and Tilia. I wish you could dive into the personas.. ;_;

>>7146876

I used Replakia for the music.

>>7147589
The DLC is Ar Ru's binary sphere dive, so you get your wish for her at least.

>>7147602
I used Replakia to try to delude myself into thinking that all those hours I spent recruiting IPDs wasn't a complete waste.

>>7146888

Ain't nothing more awesome than tossing a Replakia-charged Phantasmagoria right in the Big Bad's face for 500k damage.

>>7147792

You have a harem of lesbian IPDs wanting to nibble you, seems like a good enough reason as any.

>>7148174

AT2 made me realize that Ar Tonelico is one of the few JRPGs with yuribait. Not even JRPGs you THINK would have yuribait don't have yuribait. Like Persona 3 Portable. Sooo much missed opportunities there.

>>7148207
AT is everything-bait, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

BUENO.jpg the rpg the visual novel the game.

Perhaps Ar tonelico Qoga will quench the thirst of many wanting to play a console JRPG, but the game is filled with debilitating flaws. Almost everything that Ar tonelico Qoga provides has been done before in a JRPG; the lack of original content and presence of overused content doesn't leave much to praise. It also appears that this will be the last Ar tonelico entry and I think that's a good thing, for I fear what kind of game we would get if they tried to top the sexual antics of this one. I'm no prude when it comes to sexual content in RPGs, but this game takes it a step too far and it's very unappealing. The narrative is always going for the easy, dirty joke when it doesn't need to be there - it even ruins a lot of touching scenes in the game. Additionally, the longwinded random battles are bound to turn many off. As a fan of the series, I was hoping it would go out with a bang, not a fizzle. The potential is here to be the console JRPG many were looking for, but it's plagued with horrible design choices. Still, underneath all the filth is a touching story that's worth experiencing if you've been following the series from the beginning. Who knows, maybe it'll be easy to overlook the flaws for those who desperately want to be playing RPGs on a console. However, for me it's straightforward - Ar tonelico Qoga is disappointing.

>>7148575
It's funny how obvious it is that a girl wrote this.

Btw, you can get the .pkg for Ar Tonelico Qoga here

http://psx-scene.com/forums/f187/collection-signed-ps3-pkgs-3-41-3-55-188-pkgs-3-20-2011-a-79937/

I wonder how many people in /jp/ use CFW

>>7148649
I do, didn't need to use .pkg though. Transferring a 20gb game twice is fun...

>>7148655
>didn't need to use .pkg though

Can you elaborate ? I though the .pkg is like a crack for the ps3 file that we FTP from computer

I'm using kmeaw 3.55

I knew all you cocksuckers would just pirate this instead of buy it like you said you would.

>>7148683

Personally I like to support publishers who actually bother to localise JRPGs like Tales of, Gust games etc. I got the NA calendar edition and the UK premium edition.

>>7148683

>>7148679
It booted fine after mounting it in multiman. Only games I've had to use a pkg for so far is Tales of vesperia.

>>7148683
I know you're just being a shitty troll, but I realized this picture would be fucking awesome so I decided to post it anyway. I forgot to include the Enterbrain 4koma book, and side Tilia/Cocona/light novels should be here in a week or two. This is just for AT3 by the way.

However, I'd love to see a disc rip of the JP version for asset extraction, since all the audio is Sofdec. Well, I guess I'll grab the EN too for EN dialogue, but... (not all of the JP audio is in NISA's version for some reason- they probably didn't want to/couldn't afford a total dub, and didn't want there being scenes voiced in one but not the other.)

Why support NISA when they can't even make a real translation? Time to dive fo sho, dicknose. NISA is the /b/ of translators.

>>7148743
Oh, come on. ATQ's translation so far has been pretty good, ignoring some bugs here and there.

Now you're just relentlessly bitching.

>>7148743
You sonuva...

Any germanfags got their game yet? I ordered it directly from NISA to get the calendar and shit but somehow USPS is taking forever. Status is still at "Electronic Shipping Info Received".

>>7148791
Ask your local office to see if they have it.

USPS won't update the info, happened to me. Not in Germany, but guess it'd still be relevant info.

When can I use Soma? I need her in MY VEINS.

>>7148822
Around the middle part of the game, when you redo Finnel's Cosmosphere. Lv5 of it if I remember correctly.

For me I started using Soma at Clustania.

There can never be enough Kiredere.

I wish to be smothered with Soma's sweaty dress after she has spent a long, exhausting day in her assassin costume.

>>7149021
http://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=715468

This is my fetish

Jesus christ, I'm in phase 3 and Finnel's grating screaming voice and Aoto's constant shouting are starting to get on my nerves. Fuck you shirou stop shouting so much. what a noisy bunch

>>7148738
ATQ is missing some japanese audio? Or are you talking about AT2?

>>7149086
Can't say I enjoyed Phase 3 myself. The huge amount of backtracking annoys me.

>>7149097

For a chibi those hips aren't too bad.

>>7149092
ATQ is missing audio. Any time you you hit triangle to go to the text log and see a speaker icon, that line was supposed to be voiced.

I don't remember how much is missing audio... actually, I don't remember if any JP audio is missing or not (I'm playing EN copy in EN). There are definitely unvoiced lines in EN, though - for example, the marriage square in Finnel CS3 was all voiced originally. (I very clearly remember cracking up at the PAPAAAAAAAAAAAAA!) Someone who's beaten the game (or is at that scene) could go see if that scene is voiced with JP voices on in NISA's version. I seem to recall hearing conflicting info about thath scene...

>>7149086
I was playing the dub for awhile but Aoto's increasingly frequent angry shouting eventually broke me. I then learned that incessant angry shouting is annoying in any language.

>>7149206
I'm pretty sure I remember reading somewhere that ATQ has all the Japanese audio, and it's only the dub that is missing some. The part about the dub is true for pretty much every NISA game, though

>>7149208
I sure it's just Shirou
I didn't mind it when Lyner and Croix were shouting because they weren't acting like a retard

>>7149260
Never before have I seen "Lyner" and "not acting like a retard" in the same sentence. This confuses me.

>>7149260
If it makes you happy he cries later on.

>>7149290

Ar Tonelico seems to like their drills. Croix had a GIGA DRILL BREAKUH super move...

>>7149298
You mean infinity thrust?

Maximum peneTRATION!!

Oh the implications.

>>7149298
Well it's like they say I guess:
"Drills are a man's romance!"
While we're on that, Ar Tonelico seriously lack drill-hairs, I wanted Cloche to have more drill hair with her student look.

>>7149298
That was spear attack, not a drill. You should have said the Japanese love themselves some rough penetration.

>>7148683
I did buy it, I just run it off the Hard drive as the game runs much smoother (especially when starting a random battle)

>>7149287
He was the guy who managed to quell Mir's hatred

>>7149350
>managed to quell Mir's hatred
>Mir's hatred
>can't stop thinking about hatesex with Mir
>just can't stop thinking about Mir in general

Wha..what has she done to me??

>>7149313

I loved the way his voice got deep there.

>>7149333

I know, but the animation made it look like it turned into a drill.

>>7148771

There's a noticeable increase in translation QA fails in the later parts of the game (typos, text not matching voice, etc.) but it doesn't even approach the level of what AT2 had.

>>7146887

Yeah, the back half of the true end credits gave me quite the nerdgasm.

>>7149463
AT1 was the same (though AT3 seems better at the start, minus my usual issues with dub voice acting).

Going off what was said a thread or two ago about phases in Quoga being a "wait, it's over, but nothing happened?" thing as opposed to 1 and 2 where phases tended to have their own epic climaxes, after finishing it it feels like while 1/2 spread out their HOLY SHIT EPIC parts (ie anything where a track on a hymnos concert CD is involved) somewhat evenly across the story, Quoga back-loads them. So you get two and a half phases of nothing particularly interesting happening followed by one and a half phases of HOLY SHIT THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME.

Sexy.

Who's idea was it to have the MYU boss fight? That was a rude shock. What was its purpose?

>>7149680
Did people actually have trouble with it? On my first play through I got it the first time and I had barely grinded (Just finished the bar every time I was in an area). Hell on the play through to get the bad end, Aoto and Gojo on AI got it down to 1/2 life before it timed out, that was without any reyvateil support or COCONA~.

>>7149693
Got it on second try, read that it led to an early end if you don't defeat it. That came out of nowhere, seriously.

>>7149708
If you don't, you still can get 2 good endings (Saki and Finnel normal ends). Losing also leads to the only bad end but still, it doesn't matter if get one the first time through as your clear data from your first ending can start there and you can continue to a better end then.

MYU wasn't difficult moreso that it just had too much HP. I got it on my first playthrough by spamming Flipspheres. The Ar Ru fights were worse.

MYU taught me the value of ultra supermoves. I completely forgot they existed and hadn't used them at all up to that point. I noticed the SUPERMOVE EXECUTION button was selectable, and suddenly everyone was in their underwear and the giant robot was dead.

So what was MYU's purpose? I thought it might have importance since it has that Ar Tonelico ver1 attack.

>>7149747

To think shy, quiet Aurica was hiding a femdom sex fiend within.

>>7149778
If Aurica was actually that way the majority of the time I would've liked her a lot more. Unfortunately, she was great in her cosmosphere but intolerable outside of it.

>>7149733

Do you instantly purge to level 4 or something? I got around 150k burst, if I recall correctly, and one shot it on normal with Soma's flipshere. My Cocona was standing there doing absolutely nothing for the entire fight other than putting the initial 6 supermoves on the boss for a 3 level purge. I was actually trying to get the bad end and accidentally killed him..

The Ar Ru fights though? See >>7142938. Not really a big deal but it would be nice for a boss fight to consist of actual fighting instead of spending 90% of time in the menus spamming healing items.

>>7148743

I was one of the initial people calling them out for their retarded localisation but after playing through the game it isn't THAT bad. It's just that the start of the game consists of Aoto throwing bros left and right then it's followed up with a dive shop NPC saying FO SHO. Once you get past this you'll encounter the occasional bro here and a handful of typos but otherwise it seems fine to me.

>>7149313

This fucking talk topic.. Seeing Finnel and Cocona discuss, in detail no less, the pros and cons of penetration.. glorious. Truly glorious.

Ar Ru's finger pointing is killing me.

Fucking shit.

I am missing some of Saki's talk topics and I'm near the end of her true end.

Fuck...is there any 100% guides for this shit? I've spent so much time farming DP and going all out on Saki and exploring/re-exploring places. I have no idea what I've missed.

I thought I would the remaining talk topics from the CS but I did not.

I want to start on Finnel but I know I wont until I am done with this shit.

>>7150302
Try gamefaqs.

>>7150302

The previous thread had a mediafire link to a talk topics guide. I'm not sure if it has been updated since then but it helped me out a little.

>>7150302
Do you need a 100% cleared cosmosphere to view the true ending?

>>7150317
No, you do get a trophy for it I guess, but that's it.

>>7150317
No. From what I remember. You need to have at least 2 hearts on Saki, beat MYU within 7mins, stop Saki's song, confess to Saki in the CS, and have a baby with Saki to get her true ending.

>>7150307
Found one in the board section but I dunno if I'm screwed since 1 of the 8 that I am missing is in phase 2 -_-.

>>7150312
Hope I find it for my playthrough with Finnel missing talk topics kinda sucks.

>>7150332
>many steps
All that for a trophy? Looks like I'm screw since I took Finnel route and missed out a few things here and there. So much for "play as you like for the first run".

>>7150346
All I mention was Saki's true ending.

It's probably the same with Finnel's. 2 hearts on finnel, beat myu within the time limit, confess to finnel in the CS, stop saki's song. Though not sure what you do with her in the CS.

As for Tyria I have no idea.

I have questions about AT3.
How long is the game, approximatively?
Also, how many purges scenes is there during the normal playthrough?

>>7150332
>>7150346

If you give a girl three heart points clearing their CS isn't necessary, though I don't know why you wouldn't.

>>7150378

My first run was around 45 hours.

Hey, in which phase Cocona appears? And Ar Ru?

>>7150449
Cocona... I believe late in phase 2, though it might have been early in phase 3. Ar Ru is in phase 4.

>>7150465
Okay, thanks.

>>7150465

Late phase 2. It's basically the last thing that happens before you go to Clustania.

>>7150811
Yeah, just couldn't quite remember which phase that happened in, since they're not really divided up as distinctly as in earlier games.

Is there any picture of Saki with little chipmunk's teeth?

>>7150346

Who cares about a trophy? It's ridiculously easy to get onto the true ending. MYU can die within a minute or two though it's nice to drag it out to listen to the song and stopping Saki is as simple as mashing X during that scene. 2 or 3 hearts on a heroine is also easy because.. you're required to have those by that time anyway. And that's your true ending unlocked. Simple. It doesn't matter if you missed talk topics or whatever, you can just unlock those on a NG+ playthrough.

>>7150982
This. Also, I'd recommend unless you're completely sure you're going for a certain heroine's route, that you get two hearts on one, and one on the other. If you put all three onto one, you're locked onto her ending, and thus cannot get Tyria's, if you decide you want to later. If you go 2:1 you can do either Tyria's route or the heroine with two hearts, or Cocona's if you like.

>>7150449
Cocona's appearance comes with the first animation cutscene. and it's done by the persona 3 guy again. you can tell from DEM RED COLOR FLASHES

>>7151002
You can't get True Endings with 2:1, though, can you?

>>7151002

Bad idea if you intend on going for the girl's normal end, though, as you don't get the normal end trophy and an extra scene at the end unless you have three heart points for a girl.

>>7151015

You can, you just have to max out their cosmospheres, whereas with 3:0 you're locked in no matter what (though you should still max their cosmospheres even if you're 3:0ing, obviously.) And I don't think there are any major scenes you miss in the true end path with a 2:1 split (there's exactly one story scene from the start of phase 4 to when you kill the final boss that seemed to care about route choice at all in Finnel's case.)

...is Aurica's ending AT1's canon ending?

>>7151002

Well you're mostly correct. Save before the third heart piece (there's a save point right before the scene..) this allows you to then dump 3 hearts into one heroine for her normal end (for the extra scene - it takes a very short amount of time to get from here to the scene with the decision to stop her) then you can reload and go 2:1 which allows a heroines true ending, Cocona's ending or Tilia's true/normal ending.

>>7151015

You can, they confess to you in their cosmosphere or you can not let them confess and just go with Cocona for a neutral ending.

>>7151026

IIRC nothing in 2/3 nullifies/canonizes any 1/2 ending except maybe Cocona.

It was a sign of how much of a goddamned nerd I had become that I was capable of identifying Cloche's Japanese voice actress without looking her name up or even playing the game with the Japanese voice track.

>>7151037
Well for AT1 it's either Shurelia or Misha since Misha is still in there, in Aurica's ending she goes travel with Jack.

In AT2 I'd say Jacqli's ending is the one that make the most sense, close all plot lines and is the most satisfying.

>>7151055
My vote goes to Misha's, Shurelia's was so shoehorned at the end.

>>7151037
It's just that I just went through Jacqli and Spica having a fight in AT2, and Spica mentions going back to get another partner who would stay with her forever and help take over the world - specifically mentioning Misha and Shurelia, with no suggestion that either of them wouldn't do it because they're partnered with Lyner.
But Aurica is suspiciously missing from that conversation.
>>7151054
Anyone who watched anime for something like a year could probably do the same, Miyuki Sawashiro is a rather prolific voice actress.
If you at least had recognized Saten-san, then you'd have a reason to be worried.

>>7151025
You miss out on the 3rd Saki/Finnel Trophy/CG if you don't have 3 hearts on their True routes.

>>7151037
It's just that I just went through Jacqli and Spica having a fight in AT2, and Spica mentions going back to get another partner who would stay with her forever and help take over the world - specifically mentioning Misha and Shurelia, with no suggestion that either of them wouldn't do it because they're partnered with Lyner.
But Aurica is suspiciously missing from that conversation.
>>7151054
If you had recognized Saten-san, then you'd have a reason to be worried.

>>7151096
>If you had recognized Saten-san, then you'd have a reason to be worried.
She was pretty recognizable

>>7151096
She may think that Aurica is a bland bitch and traveling with her would be a chore?

>>7151127
Good to know even the game thinks the same.
Fire>ice reyvateils in every game.

>>7151055

Travel? You mean like what she does if you pick Shurelia over her? Because all she does is travel around the different towns in Sol Ciel to sing.

>>7151127

Image related.

Probably a question best asked elsewhere but does the hymmnos in the intro mean anything? Also is there any real reason why NISA changed ARPHAGE to ALFAGE?

>>7151339
Do you mean the sung Hymmnos? If so yes, there are several translated videos on youtube

>>7151339
Same reason they changed Katena to Katene, probably! (captcha is relevant: hatedn Difference)

>>7151593
At least it's not as bad as Mana Khemia, which went and changed pretty much all of the names into things that sounded completely different, even though they included dual voice tracks. I don't mind so much if the changed name still plausibly sounds at least somewhat like the old one.

Though I do wonder why they changed some names in game, but left them untouched in cutscenes and the like when they are spelled out.

I live in the UK and I bought the calendar edition from the NISA store. They gave me a tracking number but my game has been in Irvine, California for roughly 2 weeks now, do I have reason to be worried?

>>7151690
You might not get the game for a few more weeks. I bought Atelier Rorona from NISA store and it took a month before it showed up and I live in Canada.

Do you need to clear all the Talk matters to see a true ending?

>>7151748

Nope. There's no trophy for getting them all, either.

>captcha: Rg-Veda unizk

Am I the only one who does some sick grinds every time I see a guardrail?

Am I the only one who jumps to make a battle happens when I land?

>>7151828
My brother!

>>7151504

No, during the video there's hymmnos text all over the video, I was just curious as to what it meant.

>>7151690

Hm, probably not. Mine said the same and it arrived on the 19th but I had it pre-ordered the day it went up so maybe that's why I got it early. The cheapest delivery option (which I chose) said it'd take 2-3 weeks to ship internationally so give it another week or so.

>>7151828

I do this. Jump spamming everywhere is the only way to get around.

>>7152041
hymmno-dict.com had some of that before it went down. IIRC the text on those "panes of glass" were lyrics from various songs throughout the series. I don't remember what the text that went scrolling by was, and I don't feel like freeze-framing the thing over and over to try to read it (too lazy/much other stuff to do).

I really miss that site. They tried to catalog, like, every single piece of Hymmnos text used anywhere in the franchise, and they were doing a damned good job of it, too... but it just suddenly disappeared last April. It was pretty old - it was featured in one of the early Toukouspheres IIRC.

Playing AT1 for the first time.

Are the two routes radically different in story?

>>7152210
They both follow the same storyline. There is a section where the party splits to complete two objectives at once, so which girl you picked will determine which part of that you see, but the story is largely the same.

>>7151755

Geez Gust. You think people would want SOME kind of reward for getting 100% Talk Topics. Well, I guess the conversations are kind of a reward.

>>7152280
There's always bragging rights.

>>7152210

What >>7152263 said. They also visit different dungeons. Personally I prefer Aurica's route if only because she had better dungeons. That, and for some reason the shortcuts in that dungeon leading to where Misha sung are closed off in Misha's route...

Um, please don't spoiler too much, but... is there a possibility for a Jacqli route in AT2? Because I just got her along, and I'm already stuck with Airhead McWhinybitch. And by god, I'd drop her like a hot coal for Jacqli.

>>7152299
Yes, as long as you don't go past level 5 of that heroine's cosmosphere. (At the end of level 5 you'll be given a choice on whether or not to lock yourself to that route in order to go farther, or stop there.)

>>7152308
FUCK.
SHIT.
FLYING DOUBLE-ASSED MONGOLOID COCKSURFER THERAPY BITCH AND HER ASS-BACKWARDS WILES CHEATING ME OUT OF MY JACQLI ROUTE.

Loading game so hard...

>>7152335
Why did you even pick Luca's path in the first place?

>>7152335
Imagine how I felt when I discovered there was no Cynthia route.

>>7152335
Yet another reason to hate Luca.

>>7152348
The thing about Cloche and the whole IPD debacle put me in a difficult situation when Luca GTFO'd, and in the end I decided the pain of being on the same side with Laude and Alfman outweighed her perks.

Finnel's cosmosphere levels are just so awesome, especially the last two. Getting my waifu (dat voice..), losing Momoko, getting a golden shower from Soma, Momoko appearing again telling me Finnel's weak spot and still being a massive S for Finnel, Soma confessing in a talk topic afterwards

Well that was definately a unique experience. I'm certainly glad I chose Finnel for my first playthrough.

>>7152280

What the heck do you want? A Blue Peter badge? You're supposed to get talk topics because you enjoy them, that's reason enough.

>>7152193

Ah, thanks for clearing that up.

>>7152335

You are warned before you go any further than level 5 you know...

>>7152461
What's wrong with being on Alfman's side? Alfman was great. He even gives Croix a hard time for sticking with Cloche after everything he's seen.

>>7152466
>You are warned before you go any further than level 5 you know...

I didn't even consider the possibility of a Jacqli route yet back then. It felt inconceivable to me for the best character in the game series this far to be valid, too, all things considered.

Hell, in AT1 I'd have gladly tossed the bitches and Bromanced Jack.

>>7152598
Can't you remember you got a Shurelia end in AT1?
It was evident.

>>7152604
Yeah, but in AT1 there was nothing you could do before the possibility was evident to lock yourself out of it. I made the same mistake in AT2, because I thought it would be the same way.

>>7152466
>Soma confessing in a talk topic afterwards

That and (optional boss spoiler) Akane blushing as she calls you master after you beat her three times. The game is taunting me. They know I want them, so they tease me so. Fuck you, Gust.

>>7152638
How do you fight Akane

>>7152644
She's at the beginning of the Clustania District, but I'm not sure how far along in the story you need to be for her to show up.

>>7152210

Most of phase 2 in AT1 and phase 2 + the last part of phase 1 changes based on which girl you choose, but past the story is basically the same regardless of your choice.

>>7152672
>>7152644

It's fairly late in the game when you can do it. I want to say it's around the time you go to Ku to reset Harvestasha's personality, but I'm not 100% on that.

You can fight her three times for three different bonus pictures, though. She's also absurdly strong, so I'd recommend not bothering with her until you're on a New Game +

>>7152711
I was wondering why I didn't have those CGs, and I don't think I'll have a problem as I'm going to be on my 3rd from Phase 1 playthrough and everyone is 95.

>>7152461

I liked the whole "you're the bad guys but I'm going to stay by your side anyway because I love you" angle, personally. That's half the reason why I stuck with Cloche. The other half being DELICIOUS TSUNDERE, of course.

>>7152564
I liked the name "Ahogeman Omega" better.

>>7152711

>absurdly strong

Excellent, time to see if I can fight her on hard mode once I'm done resetting shitframe's personality.

>>7152895

...Riversia Protocol? Really? What is wrong with Rebirthia? Also what the fuck is up with the translation with the scene with Akane? You can clearly hear that they're just saying "Please go out with me" yet they make it "John... I always see you running around in your jockstrap... if you don't mind, would you like to go steady?".. I don't mind the occasional bro being thrown out but that's just plain fucking retarded.

fuck myu is kicking my ass. I can't even get him to half hp in the 7min. I must be severely under leveled ;_;

>>7152995

Unless you've been routinely running from battles there's no way you could be underleveled, at least character level-wise. Really, you just need to have dived deep enough to be able to use the flipsphere. Having ultimate supermoves also helps, but is far from mandatory. Just purge three times, dick around until you have an obnoxiously huge charge, purge again, repeat until boss is dead.

>>7152995

Purge to level 3 (Have decent hyumas equipped on your reyvateil too) and just let your burst build up. A handful of supermoves will take him down or even a single flipsphere when you have decent burst (100k or so is good enough, I'd say).

>>7152895

Holy fuck, everything was going well, I pulled out a 250k flipshere that killed her antibody and dropped a nice chunk of her health.. then suddenly she just randomly one shots all of my vanguards out of nowhere. I think I'll keep my distance next time since that was rather silly, I didn't even have time to react after the flipshere ended before all 3 characters with full health (4k or so each) just dropped.

>>7152348
>>7152362
Oh boy, here we go again.

>>7153152
They're endenmic, pay them no mind.

After all, while Luca has her flaws and imperfections, only the the most shallow would hate a someone because she was a multidimensional character with depth and humanity.

>>7152598
You do know aside from Luca, Cloche and Jacqli end there's a Cocona end, right?

>>7153203
but cocona grew up and isnt cute anymore
woe is me

>>7153203

WHOOOO LIKES SHORT SHORTS?

>>7153237
>Cocona [...] cute

I like the way her English voice in AT2 says "I'll help EVERYONNNNNE" in her super move. She's so adorably trying hard to kick ass. And she does.

>>7153012
purged 3 times, waited till 500,000% and unleashed it did a total of 110,000. Flipbook at 300,000% did about 90k ;_;

>>7153239

I LIKE SHORT SHORTS.

>>7153203
RESTARTING GAME FUCK YEAR

>>7153348
>Small tits
>Pubes

Little Cocona is growing up. ;_;

>>7153270
I don't remember how much hp it has, but I beat it on hard mode with lower to mid 40's for my levels.
Do you have the supermoves? I remember 3x supermoves and a 500k% purge did the trick.

You can always just knock it down to easy if you need to.

As for the optional boss in hard mode, you don't want to stand in front of her. If she uses the non-ougi type special it will kill you, unless you abuse the fact that items freeze time to heal up. Ougi type move is weak though, it didn't even kill the spoiler Reyvatail with her sub 3k hp.
The easiest way is to probably use supermoves and maybe a flipsphere to kill the add first, since its weak to physical and the fight becomes much easier with only 1 boss. Then just kite the boss around until its time to unload a crazy song. There is little point in trying to melee her since you are basically doing scratch level damage even with attack up and triple purge. Note that even if you want to end it with 1 flipsphere, you are probably better off using the supermoves on the add, since it is strong vs song magic.

Just got the 100 save Trophy in phase 2 before the Nyamo scene.

I knew I saved obsessively, but god damn.

>>7153465

I didn't get mine unitl phase 4. It was funny because I got it from a save that I had made less than five minutes after the previous save.

>>7153438

Well girls generally have their growth spurts early so at the tender age of 13 she has probably grown as much as she can so she'll be deliciously flat for life. The pubic hair is quite fappable, you can't deny it.

>>7153270
Purge 3 times, the use the 3 ultra super moves or whatever they are called, finish it with flipsphere. Also if your flipsphere is doing low damage you probably are not hitting X with the beats. I hit it for around 140k and it was only charged to about 25,000%

>>7153465
>>7153479

I'm usually the same but I don't know why but I've barely been saving with AT3. It's probably the fact that it saves twice each time that I just can't be bothered having to wait the extra few seconds but I generally go around 4-5 hours before saving, unless there's a key event coming up (heart point, MYU fight, Saki decision being the main ones).

>>7153465
I just got it in phase 4 of my third from Phase 1 playthrough.

Why is Ar Ru the best?

>>7154580
Just because.

Does anyone else have that urge to replay Mir's Cosmosphere over and over again? Especially level 8, because absolutely pure and innocent Mir is so incredibly cute?

>>7154580
She has the best purge

So why the fuck is Ar Ru's mind guardian a pregnant mermaid?

>>7155321
Why not?

>Zeta wants cat ear plushie with an ocarina
>Sake wants smart looking girl that tells boring joke
>Togasaki Ria
Them references man, them references.

>>7155321
Sea, pregnant woman motifs probably meant mother, as in mother earth.

>Tilia puts treasure chests in the tower so people would visit
HAHAHA, OH WOW.

>>7155656

I also liked how they pointed out how weird it was that Clustania had weapon and dive shops.

If you unlock a CG in the cosmosphere, for example the one which costs 8k DP in Saki's level 4 cosmosphere, and you load back after getting it, do you still get the CG in the extras?

>>7155730

I would guess that as long as you save the system data (which happens automatically when you save anything) it would still be there. So get it, save to another file, and then reload your old file.

>>7155730
Yes but you can't get the 100% in the cosmosphere trophy, to get those you have to do every event in the same playthrough (newgame+ counts as a different save).

>Finnel Z. Tokita
>outgoing transfer student from another country
>pilots Unit 02

Saki's cosmosphere was just about the last place I expected blatant Evengelion references, but I guess the more you know...

>Enter Tilia's room
>Get accused of stealing her panties, get called a pervert then get kicked out of her binary field

They're onto me.. ;_;

>>7155656

Shurelia did too.

Yay! Finally my two AT3 copies arrived!
Also, no OST. Isn't that awesome?

>>7156098
Didn't receive the e-mail from NISA?

>Dear Valued Customer,

>First of all, we would like to thank you for purchasing the Premium Edition of Ar tonelico™ Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel through the NISA Online Store. We truly appreciate your continued support.

>It has come to our attention that some of the Premium boxes did not contain the advertised soundtrack CD. It appears that the CDs were inadvertently left out of some of the boxes during the assembly process at Sony’s manufacturing facility. This issue should not affect very many of the customers who ordered from the NISA Online Store, but we ask that you please check your Premium Box upon arrival. We are very sorry if you were one of the few customers who find that their CD is missing and would like to assure you that we are in communication with Sony to make sure that the missing CDs get shipped out as soon as possible.
>If you did not receive your soundtrack CD, please use this claim form (http://nisamerica.com/games/atq/ost_replace.php)) to request a copy of the soundtrack. We will forward your information ASAP to Sony for fulfillment.

>Please note that it will take roughly 1-2 weeks to receive your CD from the date of your claim form submission. Also, the soundtrack CD will be shipped to you directly from Sony DADC in Terre Haute, IN, so please be aware that the sender address will NOT be NIS America, Inc.
>Thanks again for all of your support!

>Sincerely,

>NIS America, Inc.

>(714) 540-1122

>support@nisamerica.com (OST replacement inquiries)

>store@nisamerica.com (Online Store specific inquiries only)

I just noticed that there are some extra (silly) pictures if you press select during a cosmosphere scene.

>>7156120

It's for if your parents walk in during one of the more awkward-looking scenes.

There's a trophy for pulling it up 100 times.

>>7156098
>two AT3 copies
Autism.

>>7156116
Yes. I've just requested the OST via that form.
Funny how both games are missing this thing.
Oh well, let's see what happens next.

>>7156133

No, NISA fucked up the shipping for some people, so they went ahead and sent them a second copy for free. I presume that's why he has two.

>>7156130
>Nothing, Ma!

Oh god, I'm laughing so hard.

>>7156133
>Dear Valued Customer,

Your Ar tonelico Qoga order was one of a small number of orders that our warehouse shipped out as USPS First Class International (our most affordable shipping method), instead of the USPS Express International (our fastest USPS shipping method) method you selected. You may have already noticed this when you checked your tracking information. We understand that having your order shipped as quickly and carefully as possible is extremely important to you, so we have already re-shipped your item(s) with the proper shipping method. I am extremely sorry for the mix-up with your shipping and if you were one of the few people who receive a copy without an OST. Both of these errors were out of our hands and we are doing our best to rectify them, so we hope you won’t hold these issues against our Online Store or company in general.

>You will be receiving two duplicate shipments of the item(s) you ordered, which you are free to keep. If you decide you’d like to return one of the shipments, we ask that you only do so if it can be returned at little to no cost for you. For example, if you live in a country that will return refused items Internationally, you could refuse the second shipment. We can reimburse you for reasonable return shipping costs, but would rather have you just keep the items than have either of us pay to send them back.

>We are currently working on getting tracking numbers for your second shipment and will surely send you more information as we receive it.

>Again, I sincerely apologize for the shipping mistake and any inconvenience it has caused you. Thank you so much for your support! If you have any questions regarding your order or shipments, please let me know. I am currently receiving a lot of support inquiries on my personal e-mail address, Robert@nisamerica.com, but I will do my best to get back to you quickly.

>Thank you,

>Robert Saunders

u jelly?

>>7156157
You're giving one back, right? If not, you just went full autism.

>>7156192
hahaha, you wish
I'm selling it.

>>7156213
You realize that you bought one and stole one? Nice support of the industry. You might as well pirate it, it's less hypocrit.

>>7156222
sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how butthurt you are

>>7156213
>ELMA panties

Awww.

>>7156232
Nice job proving how mentally challenged you are.

>>7156222

If you think getting a free copy because of the company's error and not sending it back when the company specifically says "you don't have to send it back to us, in fact please don't if it's just going to cost you money" is theft, you've got some fucked-up definition of theft.

Yeah, the hardcore moralfag thing to do would be to send it back no matter what, but there's a big difference between not doing so and piracy.

Shit, I wouldn't be surprised if NISA made more money from sending him two LE copies for the price of one after he bought from them directly than they do from a single sale of the standard game from Gamestop/Best Buy.

>>7156239
Your delicious tears only make my cock harder.

>Milfeulle is my Waifu !iS.Yuri/S.
>u jelly?
>Being a general faggot despite the fact that NISA were kind enough to send him an extra copy so he could get it on time

Since when did you become such a raging faggot?

>>7156246
I don't know, for me it's just a matter of principles. Different cultures, I guess.

>>7156247

Ignoring the minor argument for a minute, I just want to say "dat butt" and all that. And that personally I prefer these kinds, small/normal sized and cute and squeezable, rather than those huge, in-your-face ones that tend to show up in ass pics.

What do Suzunomia's attacks say?

>>7156379
What, they let japanese?
They say something like "We"ll show up in Toukousphere soon."

>>7156379
>>7156382
Worst attack by the way... They could have changed.

>>7156382

Yeah, her attacks still come as huge Japanese text but there's a big difference between simple text editing and changing an entire animation sequence 4 times so it's to be expected.

Also is there a final armour piece for Cocona or Gojo? Just seems strange that there's a final weapon for all 3 and Aoto gets a final armour piece but the other two don't.

>>7156574
They have final accessories, ?Glasses? and ?Stuffed Animal?

>>7156612

Yeah, I've already given them the Gerrogo and Perv Glasses. I just thought they'd have an armour piece too.. oh well.

Well,i just finished AT3 Tyrias true end and holy crap,I hnnnng so hard.THE PERFECT WIFE.

Now all my real life standards are utterly crushed.Now i cant choose who is the best - Mir or Tyria ;_;

And did anybody else feel dissapointed on how everything was wrapped up ? If we get a sequel than the end is fine but if this is the final game, I'm lacking a conclusion to it. We get totally nothing on the AT1 and AT2 cast. Still,the credit roll was nicely done.

>>7156690

Someone in an older thread said that AT1's ending felt more like a "final end" due to the song and how everyone got together to sing about, well, togetherness and how the world is saved and such.

Seeing as I haven't played Qoga I can't really agree or disagree with either of you yet. But AT1's end was indeed very nice.

So I'm in the Cocona end right now, is there any difference if I pick one choice or the other? I don't want to fuck this up.

>>7156700

Which girl you give 2 points to and which girl you give 1 point to doesn't matter, no. Just don't lock in any of the Reyvatails via the cosmosphere.

>>7156723
No I mean I'm IN her ending as I'm in the scene after the credits, there is a choice.

Am I the only person who liked Lyner?

>>7156794

He was okay. He managed to sweet talk a homicidal maniac into not raging anymore, after all. But I think they played up the "Idiot Hero" angle on him way too much at times.

>>7156690
Thing is, the people of AT1 and AT2 already solved their problems, you see.

AT3 was just dealing with the planet itself.

Though the credits song was awesome, I must admit I would've still liked to see the older cast at the end. Hell, an extra CG could've worked out.

>>7156698
It's more like singing for peace on the world. Phantasmagoria is still my favorite credits song, even after Ec Tisia.

AT3 wraps things up as in: Okay, you win. HURR WAIT HERE HAVE ANOTHER BOSS

Alright, NOW you win. See the land recovering and now, have a suggestive CG featuring your waifu.

NG+? Y/N

>>7156794

My only issue with Lyner was that he was excessively dense to the heroines' advances, which was solely because they didn't give you the final choice of who he winds up with until the absolute last goddamned minute.

Croix > Lyner > Aoto, I'd say.

>>7156816

>Thing is, the people of AT1 and AT2 already solved their problems, you see.

>AT3 was just dealing with the planet itself.

That's not necessarily true, if AT1 or AT2 never happened then the planet would have died regardless of what the AT3 cast would do so I'd say that all of the games focus on saving the planet in some way whether you realise it or not. I certainly agree with Phantasmagoria though, it was such a pleasant end to the game. Ec Tisia is great in a FUCK YEAH kind of way with all of the Singing Hills rolled into one but it just didn't have the same feeling that Phantasmagoria had.

Just finished Elemia Island DLC

..............There are no words to describe what I saw at the end.

I think I need a hug /jp/

Well I finally finished Finnel's true route (first playthrough on hard mode) and all I can say is Phase 4 is possibly one of the greatest things I've ever seen. The last few hours of the game is just so great, especially what with cutscenes all over the place, METHOD_HYMELLI/., the unique camera during the massive antibody fight, the last fight with Ciela with the awesome changing music and backgrounds, Ec Tisia with Ar Ciel healing the clips of AT1-3 etc. I just wish XP could come with us. ;_; Image so very related right now.

Also I couldn't help but laugh at the very last scene:

Aoto why did you start to like me?
I always wanted to protect you.
>Because you've got a flat chest.

>>7157114
In Saki's route is:

Aoto, why do you like me?

>Because of your big breasts

Oh, Gust.

>>7157093
Agreed. It makes me want to go grind extra DP just to buy more hugs.

>>7157114

Having a look at the extra menu I think I didn't do too badly for playing on Hard with no guides. Missed 2 talk topics for Finnel otherwise I fully completed her (I'll grab them in my next playthrough). Managed to synth all weapons/items without a problem, got the extra CGs from Akane and I also got around 70% of Tilia and Saki's talk topics too without even trying. I also got that chest trophy too which made me laugh since I wasn't even trying to get it. Time to NG+ and faceroll my way through the other routes now since my characters were level 85 or so with their best items.

Also zooming in on Harvestasya in the character profile menu yields some rather delicious results. And some of these dislikes are quite funny.. Tilia dislikes Shurelia, Cocona dislikes 'anything sticky' and Ar Ru dislikes stripping.

>>7157227
>Ar Ru dislikes stripping

Yet her purges are the most delicious.

recaptcha: included essevell

>MAXIMUM PENETRATION

Finally got around to playing Qoga after picking it up at release and kind of just shoving it to the side for some other things.

I'm enjoying it far more than I thought I would.

Where is this from?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYDY7z_yKpw&feature=related

harvestasha breaking screen.mkv

Is Akane's VA, setsumi from Narcissu? dat whispery voice

>>7158383

I believe it's from the Yokkora DVD but I ain't entirely sure about that.

>>7158383
It was suggested by someone in Toukousphere issue 100. Probably from one of the bonus CDs.

Are those Toukousphere thingies worth a read, by the way? And, uh, should I put them off until I finish AT2 properly, in terms of spoilers?

>>7158758
You shouldn't touch them at all until you finish AT3, if possible. Toukoushpere is very informative though, definitely worth your time.

>>7158764
Hmm. I guess I'll have to start filling the piggy bank for a PS3 and a TV. It'll be a long while though...

>>7157114

Yeah, like I said before in one of the threads (maybe this one? Too lazy to ctrl-f,) 1/2 spread out their epic moments (ie anything involving something from a hymnos concert CD) across the game somewhat evenly, with each phase having its own awesome climax, while 3 stuffs it all into the last phase and a half.

So while the game can be a little weak in the first half or so compared to the first halves of its predecessors, once you get to the Rinkernator you're exposed to a pretty constant stream of epic for the remainder of the game.

>>7157114

There's a third option if you scroll down- "Because I like bullying you."

>>7155661

If you read the encyclopedia entries (sorry, I forget what they're actually called, but it's in the menus) about Clustanian Dive Shops, it says they're basically giant vibrator factories. Reyvateils go there and plug in to remote anonymous cleansed partners.

It turned me on.

>>7159713

Yeah, but every Clustanian citizen had their own dive pod which connected to the dive pods in the slave district, thus making a "public" dive facility unnecessary.

>>7159894
What about those that prefer using a vibrat... err dive machine in public?

>>7159713

That's what the slave district is for. I wish I could be brainwashed and used as a remote sex toy. ;_;

>>7159583

Huh? There was only 2 options for me on the screen, are you sure you're not referring to another option where that choice is present? I'm pretty sure I seen it in her final cosmosphere level or something.

>>7159952

The window only shows two choices at a time, but you can press down again and it will scroll to a third choice.

No idea why they didn't just make the choice menu three options high.

>>7159958

God damn it, now I need to re-do the entire ending again just because you've gotten me curious now. Good thing the Ciela music is nice to listen to.

>>7159958
At first I thought to myself, there is no way in hell this is true.
Then before I realized it I started up my ps3 and was loading into the game.

"I like to bully you around"
Aoto: heh heh heh
Finnel: Don't laugh like that! It's creepy
Aoto: The reason I do it is because... it's fun to tease you!
Finnel: What!? Why is that!?
Aoto: Ever since I met you, my favorite hobby has been to tease you! I love your reactions.
Finnel: Th-that's... so mean!
Aoto: I know. But, who fell in love with that meanie?
Finnel: ...I-I did...
Aoto: That's right! So, I'll tease you more than ever now. Get ready for that.
Finnel: *sigh*
Aoto: Haha, I'm just kidding.
Finnel: huh?
Aoto: You always take everything so seriously. I like that. You're so cute.
Finnel: Oh, so you were kidding again...
Aoto: Hey, why are you so relaxed?
Finnel: Huh? All of my tension just melted away all of a sudden...
Aoto: You're weird.
Finnel: Aoto... it's okay, as long as it's you.
Aoto: Huh? What do you mean?
Finnel: It's okay for you to bully me, but... only you, okay?
Aoto: Huh? What are you talking about!?
Finnel: When you bully me like that, your eyes look so strong, and... It makes my heart race. So... I'm actually...always looking forward to being teased by you... So... well... I like you.
Aoto: ... Do you know how idiotic you sound!?
Finnel: ...hehehe. I like your dirty mouth, too!

I guess I trust /jp/ more than gust.

Done with Finnel Normal/True, it didn't strike me as epic or something, maybe I'll need to replay Saki's to see it.

I'm glad to see deeper Cosmospheres are as screwed up as those in the previous titles.

>>7160575
I thought it was worth it just for Song of the Revolving star. Love the lyrics

Also, why the fuck did EXEC_Z, one of my favourite songs, had to be sung by one of the most annoying characters in the series, next to raphael. Talk about a boner killer

>>7161043
>Richa
>Not awesome
Fuck you

Is the entirety of Phase 2 in AT2 just Infelsphere?

>>7161085
How the fuck was she even awesome?!

So, I just got back from a 1 day ban because I used the D word in /v/, even though I wasn't trying to get them (I was complaining about them). Seems this thread kinda exploded since I "left."

>>7161561

Almost. Once you're done with Gaea there's just a not-long dungeon and then after some stuff goes down you'll enter Phase 3 when you return to Pastalia.

>>7161818 here

That is, assuming I remember correctly.

Also, new thread?

>>7161664
>D word
Wait, nothing comes to mind. What's that? Doubles?

>>7161561
You get one of the best hymm scenes in the series.
"I will test you..."
Exec_Sphilia

>>7161858

Right. I guess since you were able to say it it's not banned in /jp/.

>>7161821
Make it once this 404. Also adding this AT3 talk topic guide might be a good idea.
http://www.mediafire.com/?4m6guv1td9ca69d

I just played through ATQ in front of some friends.
Long story short, friends wanted to see the "new game you just bought" and wouldn't take "I don't really feel like it" for an answer.

It was fine for a while, since I turned off the purges, and they seemed to like the graphics and battle system. Then I got the dive scene with Finnel.
Cue "diving virginity", half-naked insect girls, whipping noises. blatant masochistic tendencies and a gamut of other awkward shit.

>change harvestasha 's personality
>can't find the way down

Felt like an idiot when the world map exit is right by the ladder

And any idea where I'm supposed to go now to get Tyria to remember that song?

>>7162590

You need to clear 2 levels of her binary field for you to remember the rest of Rebirthia (this is why it sounds distorted in the tower).

I finally went to Gamestop and picked up Qoga, Deathsmiles Deluxe Edition, and Experience 112(which isn't really /jp/ material but bear with me). I'm actually waiting a bit to play Qoga until I'm done with Ar Tonelico 2. So many games to play, so little time.

>>7162607
Oh, thanks a lot. That's a first. Went back to V21 and nothing happened too.

Btw, is there any way to rip the flipsphere movies? Particularly the one with Soma and her delicious red lips

I wonder why Qoga got a M rating in the US, but only a 12+ by PEGI in Europe (with warnings on the sexual themes, among others). I guess in Europe they only care for full frontal nudity and innuendo is okay? Rorona also has a 12+ rating with a warning for sexual themes (so there's no way in hell they weren't aware of the Yuri subtext. Or just the Yuri text, there isn't a lot of sublety). FFXIII got 16+, however. Maybe because... characters are nude when in crystal form? I don't get it at all.

>>7162671
Because Rorona was more suggestive, including delicious swimsuits and drunkard rape.

Also, got Qoga today, played a little, and now am parting ways with it for a while. ;_;

>>7162671
For Qoga:
http://www.pegi.info/en/index/global_id/505/?searchString=ar+tonelico+qoga

Final Fantasy XIII
http://www.pegi.info/en/index/global_id/505/?searchString=final+fantasy+xiii&agecategories=&
genre=&organisations=&platforms=&countries=&submit=Search#searchresults

Looks like PEGI looks at the realism of the violence and sexual themes. Since Qoga's character designs are cartoonish, they gave the 12+, while ESRB looks at the game's content. But I think ESRB's M rating is a bit too much.

>>7162724

Well, you know how American parents are. Better to play it safe and give it an M rating so they can release it uncensored than give it a T rating and possibly have to edit/cut some stuff out.

Momoko is awesome.

>>7162912
I want Momoko to be my mind guardian.

How does picking heroines work in AT3, and how many are there? Asking here because most FAQs and stuff are likely to spoil me too much.

Also, any references to AT1/AT2 to look forward to?

>>7163057
There are three places in the game where you have to choose to worry about either Finnel or Saki, and whoever you pick gets a heart point. 3 or 2 heart points will allow you get that girl's end, and you need to split them up 2:1 for the third Reyvateil's ending.

There are recurring characters from both AT1 and AT2, some significant plot points that tie into the previous games, as well as a few cutesy references here and there.

Some Hyumas have AT1 funbuns and previous characters' air accessories.

>>7163075
Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

New thread:

>>7163559