Exhaustion, Atelier Annie

[cuddlefish]

House moving update: papers passed, furniture transported, money received, family safely living out in the country. The house no longer belongs to us, not the mouse poops that are actually thistle seed, not the water dripping down the basement walls that was totally mentioned in the agreement, not the furnace with the air that makes it make all kinds of noises when it turns on. All gone.

We stayed the last couple nights in a hotel, deciding to stay last night just because the new house was covered in heavy, wet snow, and possibly without power. The hotel was okay, better than I thought. It had a treadmill in the basement that I got to use! Laundry machines! Free tea in the lobby any time of day! It was pretty nice, but when I woke up today I felt like I weighed 5x as much. I spent 2 hours after I woke up trying to open my eyes so I wouldn't instantly fall asleep, and much more time feeling totally fuzzy and cloudy.

We stopped for lunch at the H-Mart, where I bought the fixings for yellowtail and daikon, and then slumped to our new home, exhausted and overwrought.

We got a cloud cake from H-Mart. They have the looks down, and it is wonderfully light and night, but it let me down a little because the whipped cream tastes like cool whip. Also, you can't get one with just strawberries so far as I know. :/ Picking out fruit cocktail displeases me.

I have played and finished Atelier Annie, as in I got all the endings. This is an amusing, cute, appealing, fun game.

Characters: everyone is very pretty, although I found myself less interested in this set as I was in Atelier Liese's characters. Possibly my favorite is Pepe, but Hans was cute too. As a constant reminder that men like lesbian tsundere, Fizz was Do Not Want for me.

I am irritated that the hikikomori daughter who won't get a job is a lazy idiot. WTF. What if she was a sensitive soul who just had no self-confidence? HUH?

Gameplay: Everything is so lovely and streamlined and easy to do. Attaching descriptions like "cute" or "gold" to various sugary foods is my hobby, and now I can do it as much as I want. Making a resort is fun, but I would have liked to be able to partake of the services I paid for in the form of shopping. I gave that mean girl all that candy! Can't she sell me some?!

I did not like the time limit. I wanted more time. Everything turned into a cycle where periodically I would see a dumb ending and then lose all my recipes, levels and fare items. D'oh. I kind of don't appreciate being punished like that just to play the game right.

Conclusion: It's fun! Play it!

I'm playing Atelier Lina right now and the reviews are right: the emphasis is on being a merchant. Don't know if want. Don't know what to DO, exactly---just keep gathering stuff to sell and make money? When do I get to alchemy my way into some big bux?

Comments

[narugami.livejournal.com]

What is an H-Mart???

Otsukare on your move~! *hugs* That does sound tiring. And stressful.

I really like the artist who does the designs for the DS Atelier games. Are you going to play Rorona?

[moumusu.livejournal.com]

H-Mart is a supermarket chain in the US that focuses mostly on Korean foods, but they carry just about everything I ever wanted from Japan, too. One of the great things is that their produce, even the kinda unusual stuff, is very fresh, abundant, pretty, and cheap even compared to normal supermarkets. Also, it's presented in a big supermarket-sized place that does not smell in the least of star anise or tiny dried shrimp, there's a food court with Korean, Japanese, Indian, and Chinese food, and they run the kind of asian bakery that makes really pretty whipped cream and sponge cakes.

Thank you. It wasn't as stressful as I think it could be because my parents are Superman TT_TT

This artist is seriously growing on me because they put together such complicated outfits for their characters, and their lines are clean, their colors are bright...I already own Rorona, so yeah. If I get more into Lina I might save Rorona for later. I hear it's a return to the good old days in a most wonderful way, and I have to space it out a little because they probably won't make another nice one like that for a few years.

I wonder what Ar Tonelico is like these days. I sort of abandoned it because I just wanted a party of magic singing chicks, and the hell with the hero :3 maybe it's different? I could try the first game.

[narugami.livejournal.com]

Hmm, that sounds fun!

The artist is a nice person, too - I emailed her and she sent me a nice reply back. ^^

Some of my friends are playing AT3 and they think it's amazing except that it's gone up on the ecchi scale quite a bit. So I guess it depends on how much you can take~ I still want to play Atelier Iris 3 (not really interested in 2).

[runan.livejournal.com]

Aawwwww, goodbye Robin's Old House. Hopefully the power's up and running in the new one.