Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland (2011) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland

Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland is a Japanese role-playing video game developed by Gust. It is the third and final game in the Arland series and a direct sequel to Atelier Totori: The Adventurer of…

90 23 June 2011

What Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland is

Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Gust and released in 2011. It is available on PlayStation 3 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Meruru is the princess of Arls, a little kingdom situated in the far north of the Arland republic. After her father and Gio, the leader of Arland, discussed the merging of the two lands, she met Totori, the now-graduated alchemist. Dazzled by the power of alchemy, and with a desire to help her country prosper, she forced herself on Totori as her first student. Her father initially disapproves of this decision, but agrees following a suggestion from Rufus. He gives Meruru a directive to use her alchemy to improve the kingdom, with several intermediate goals which must be met within specific time periods in order to be allowed to continue her alchemy work. Later, Rorona joins the two, but she…

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Atelier series

Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland is the 30th of 85 entries we hold in the Atelier series. It arrived 12 months after Atelier Totori: The Adventurer of Arland. The next entry was Atelier Marie & Elie: The Alchemist of Salburg in 2012. Its critic score of 90 is 18 points above the series average of 72. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.

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How it was received

Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 22 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland launched on 23 June 2011, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, Infamous 2, Alice: Madness Returns and F.E.A.R. 3. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, Infamous 2, Alice: Madness Returns, F.E.A.R. 3.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer