Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian (PS5) Review

As a relative newcomer to the franchise, and an expat of its mobile sibling, I welcomed the announcement of Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian, the second game in the Atelier family to release this year.

The lineage of this new entry in Gust’s long-running franchise is a little trickier to trace than usual. Instead of establishing its own world like most games in the series, The Red Alchemist & The White Guardian is set in the same region, Lantarna, as the mobile game Atelier Resleriana: Forgotten Alchemy and the Polar Night Liberator. This gacha-based game was originally conceived as a brand new story and a commemoration of Atelier‘s 25th, but its global version shut down back in January, after only a year of service.

Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian picks up around the time of a major event in the mobile game, where protagonists Resna and Valeria led a courageous effort to defeat a terrible beast.... Read more