lydie and suelle thoughts:
pretty enjoyable cast or crazies save for mathias who's just annoying
the twins had a really good dynamic going and are definitely the best iteration of the modern "two main characters" style atelier games
lucia was the funniest and i'm still totally baffled on how she was dlc considering she appears in most cutscenes?? i can only imagine the funny ilmeria cutscenes i missed because her dlc isn't uploaded
sophie and plachta's whole arc is probably the most consistent "returning alchemist" arc and her literally marrying placha was very good
alt was also pretty ok and wrapped up most of the sophie stuff neatly despite not being too big of a character
the story was also nice, i liked it posting too much more about it is probably spoilers but the amount of variety in painting worlds was good
alchemy was a bit simple but vastly improved over sophie, more animations would have been nice though
music was also good and that ties into there being a lot of painting world variety because each one has 2 versions of soundtracks, my favorites:
http://puu.sh/B0wPv/42f3220282.mp3 http://puu.sh/B0wQ6/81cfbea78b.mp3i was worried about how the series would turn out after how mediocre sophie was for me but they really managed to turn it around