Atelier Iris 2: The Azoth of Destiny (USA) PS2 ISO

Atelier Iris 2 is the 7th game in the Atelier main series and the 2nd game in the Iris trilogy.

In the second game, you go back in time before the “golden age of alchemy”. Due to mankind abusing the power of alchemy, it and Mana was sealed from the world into a small land called Eden to prevent it from happening once again. The lands beyond it has no alchemists and over time the people have truly forgotten and become oblivious to the existence of alchemy at all.

In this setting, we have two alchemy students named Felt and Viese Blanchimont who inhabit the land of Eden. One day, the floating islands in Eden suddenly disappeared and so Felt was tasked with going through the Belkhyde Gate into the lower region of Belkhyde to investigate the cause of it and find a solution to it if possible. Armed with the sealed legendary blade, the Azure Azoth, he sets forth into an unknown land.

Oh right, “Blanchimont”. Same last name as Iris, you will be meeting her as a child and, left with no caretaker, these two teens adopt her into their family. Well, this is before she became an alchemy grandmaster of legend.

The game has a sort of duology going on with its protagonists. Viese is a full fledged alchemist and performs all the regular synthesis related stuff while Felt is a swordsman alchemist who never quite finished his alchemy training so he prefers doing weapon synthesis. The two share bracelets that allow them to share their storage capacity, which is pretty convenient.

The game switches between the perspective of the two throughout the story. While Felt is down in the human world doing what young boys with magic swords do to powerless non-alchemists, Viese deals with contracting new Mana from the returning islands to be able to synthesize more stuff for Felt.

The alchemy system is the same as the previous game except you can do Weapon Synthesis to unlock more power from the Azure Azoth.

The battle system went through a drastic change from the first game. For one, you no longer use MP at all. Instead you have a refillable gauge on the top right that your whole party uses instead for their skills. Another thing is you have a “Time Gauge” that tells you exactly when each character’s turn occurs.

With that, we are introduced with Break Attacks, which bumps the enemy’s position back a little. If you do a Break Attack while your enemy is in the orange section of the bar, the enemy becomes stunned until he gets out of it and you can go ham on him with your powerful attacks.

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