Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist Of Memories & The Envisioned Land Review (PC) – Atelier Banger

It hasn’t been that long since the last entry of the Atelier series. The last one was Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & The Secret Key, released in March 2023. We are now at a brand new entry of the series with an entire new arc and character as the lead protagonist with Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & The Envisioned Land. This one is hoping to break new ground and capitalize on the popularity boost that Ryza gave the series.

Game Name: Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & The Envisioned Land
Platform(s): PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PC (Reviewed)
Developer(s): GUST Studios
Publisher(s): Koei Tecmo
Release Date: March 21sth 2025
Price: $59.99

In Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & The Envisioned Land, you are in the shoes of Yumia. An Alchemist who is part of the Aladiss investigation team. The goal is to find out what happened to the mighty empire that originally hailed from Aladiss. Yumia joins it in hopes of finding that Alchemy may not have had as big of a hand in its destruction as has been claimed. Ever since the empire’s destruction, Alchemy has been taboo and forbidden in society. Yumia’s mom was an alchemist who helped an incident in Yumia’s hometown but disappeared soon afterward. The town itself was almost destroyed, but many of its citizens went back to rebuild, and others joined the investigation team as well. It is up to the investigation team to find out Aladiss’s history.

Investigating Aladiss

Each region you explore in Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & The Envisioned Land has a lot to do. There are the story missions you will need to do to continue the main story, but there are also a lot of fetch side quests and companion quests. There are also lots of places to explore, like ruins or caves. Ruins and caves generally have stronger monsters than the field, but they have more treasure and rarer materials to find.

Yumia gets chosen to be on the investigation team because she is needed to traverse the manabound areas. These are areas of the region that have high fluctuations of mana. Spend too long in them, and it can deplete your health. Yumia has a little bottle filled with alchemic energy that can mitigate the mana completely. However, spending too long in the high fluctuations of mana will deplete the energy you have available for you, and then it will start depleting your health. Using her knowledge of mana and alchemy, Yumia can stabilize these manabound areas through mana pedestals you have to find.

One thing that is different here than in other Atelier games is having the ability to construct bases. When you get to a new region, you can find an area where the investigation team can camp. You can build bases here and construct them in any way you like, or you can use a preset catalogue option. You can make synthesis altars and containers at any of these bases, so you don’t need to go back to your Atelier to create objects or return your basket.

You can find places of strong mana to grab particles of essence. You can use these particles to recall recipes at the recall station. You unlock recipes by finding memory vials, whether in the story or just along the field. These vials hold memories of alchemists that help you figure out the ingredients needed to synthesize objects.

You can do advanced synthesis with the altars in the bases and the atelier or simple synthesis out in the field. Simple synthesis helps you create exploration gear like bullets, repair kits, zipline gloves, and healing bandages. This is a great quality of life enhancement. You don’t need to go back to a base to create healing items, you can just create them right in the field. This allows you to stay out in the field longer. Another added quality of life enhancement is in the size of the basket. You can carry a heck of a lot more out in the field. This lets you gather more things, and people like me who enjoy gathering everything don’t have to control themselves nearly as much to make progress in the story and exploration. Also, when you do need to put your ingredients away, you can just fast travel to the nearest base rather than going all the way to the Atelier.

Fast travel makes a return here and it is more helpful than ever. Atelier Ryza 3 introduced more open-zoned areas than linear maps. Atelier Yumia gives you basically open-world regions. You can go to so many places here and you can see so much of it. There is a ton of vertical awareness in these regions, too. You get a lot of good abilities that help you like double jumps and wall jump, and a bike that can jump on walls once upgraded helps you go to all sorts of areas of the region.

Combat in Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & The Envisioned Land has gone even more in the direction of action. Each character has skills mapped to one of the face buttons, and the more you level up, the more skills you learn. You can only have four close-range skills and four far-range skills for each character. You press a button to activate a skill, and if you press a button directly after the animation of the skill in combat, it combos into the next skill.

Enemies have weaknesses to physical attacks or magic attacks; the attacks you use have a simple fist for physical or a staff for magical. They also have weaknesses to elements. You can capitalize on their weaknesses with items that use that element. If you use an item they are weak to when they get stunned, you and a party member can multiply the damage that is dealt.

The Envisioned Land

Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories and The Envisioned Land is stunning. GUST Studios knocks the animations and the choreography of fight scenes out of the park. There are a lot of fight scenes and action sets that happen throughout the events of the game.

Textures on the grass, buildings, and fabrics are all high quality and beautiful. It is impressive to see how detailed this world is, with each region being as large as they are.

I played this game on PC, and for PC gaming, it was quite enjoyable. On my PC using a GPU of an NVIDIA RTX 4080 Super, I was able to get 120 fps at a 1440p resolution. My Laptop that housed an RTX 3060 got 60 FPS at a 1080p. When I tried it on my Steam Deck, however, things weren’t as good. The textures got downscaled, and even with low settings, the frame rate ranged from 15 FPS to 45 FPS. It is best to limit the game to 30 FPS on Steam Deck.

The Alchemist of Memories

The world-building and the characters are done well in Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & The Envisioned Land. The world is affected greatly by the positive as well as the negative effects of alchemists and how they have used alchemy. You learn a lot about the races and the people of Aladiss and why they fear and forbid alchemy. Yumia starts a bit more optimistic about the alchemy in Aladiss and her part in this world. She learns a lot of the hard truths of Aladiss and the evolution it has made. It challenges her worldview greatly and honestly, it adds a lot of depth not just to her but to the world of Aladiss.

Yumia is a fantastic character, and I was really touched by how much her cast of friends helped her out. This is a strong cast of party members that will stay with me even after I have finished the game. Lenja is the best girl, and nobody should harm her.

Atelier Yumia

I love Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & The Envisioned Land. The characters and the world are written well. There is a lot of exploration that is now streamlined that makes it more about the fun of exploration than it is about preparing for the exploration. Combat is fun, though it can feel a bit like a button masher with how often the cooldowns reset.

I would recommend this game to anyone who wants to try out the Atelier series as well as those who are veterans of the series.

Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land will launch on March 21st, 2025, for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. The demo will be available on all platforms on March 17th, 2025.

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