Atelier Annie: Alchemists of Sera Island
The second Atelier game for the Nintendo DS and the first to be released in North America. The game focuses more on gathering materials and item creation than on fighting monsters.
Atelier Annie: Alchemists of Sera Island is an adventure developed by Gust, released 12 March 2009 on Nintendo DS.
What Atelier Annie: Alchemists of Sera Island is
Atelier Annie: Alchemists of Sera Island is an adventure game developed by Gust and released in 2009. It is available on Nintendo DS only. It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Annie, the main character, is a lazy girl who hates to work hard and sits around the house all day. Finally, while Annie is asleep, her grandfather sends her off to Sera Island, where she is going to participate in a resort development project. The next morning, she wakes to find herself in an unfamiliar room where a little boy is staring at her. "My name is Pepe. I'm going to teach you alchemy." Pepe tells Annie that she must participate in a resort development project by using alchemy, which she's never done before. However, she also discovers a bit of good news. That is, the person who contributes the most to the project will win the title of Meister and will be betrothed to the Prince…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Atelier series
Atelier Annie: Alchemists of Sera Island is the 25th of 85 entries we hold in the Atelier series. The next entry was Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland in 2009. Its critic score of 65 is 7 points below the series average of 72. The highest-rated entry is Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland at 90.
How it was received
Atelier Annie: Alchemists of Sera Island holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 2 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Atelier Annie: Alchemists of Sera Island launched on 12 March 2009, within three weeks of Resident Evil 5, Killzone 2, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars and Empire: Total War. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Resident Evil 5, Killzone 2, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Empire: Total War.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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