ATELIER RESLERIANA THE RED ALCHEMIST & THE WHITE GUARDIAN REVIEW

I was given a PS5 code from Publisher, Developer Koei Tecmo Games @koeitecmoeurope

This is released in the UK on the 26/9/2025 and in the UK is priced at £49.99.

INTRODUCTION

The story of two protagonists as they rebuild their hometown and seek the hidden truth. Engage in timeline-based command battles and enjoy the easy-to-learn yet deeply engaging synthesis. Plus, take on shop management, explore random dungeons, and more!

FEATURES

STORY

The town of Hallfein once rested on the border between three provinces, prospering thanks to mining and trade.
However, a mysterious tragedy struck the peaceful town, and most of its residents completely vanished.
Hallfein became a restricted area, and access was forbidden to all except investigators from the capital.

Years passed, and the restrictions were eventually lifted, after which plans to restore the town were put together. Taking this opportunity, a young man and young woman follow their hearts and return to Hallfein after being forced to leave it so long ago; the young woman wanting to restore the shop previously run by her missing grandfather, and the young man hoping to learn more about the items left to him by his departed father. They both also seek to learn why the town’s residents vanished that day.

The two will meet and set out on a journey in search of the truth together. However, neither could imagine just what would await them on that journey.

The town of Hallfein was once situated at the border of three provinces, and thrived due to mining and trade. However, a mysterious disaster struck the town, causing most of its residents to disappear and leading to it becoming a restricted area.

FIELD

Freely roam around the Lantarna mainland while enjoying battles and gathering materials! Players can enjoy their adventure while taking in scenery like never before, experiencing the passage of time from day to night and changes in weather. Switch between Rias and Slade anytime, each bringing their own unique field actions to the adventure!

Combat

Engage in thrilling battles with a highly strategic Timeline Command Battle system!
Up to three party members can be placed on both the front and back rows. Enjoy fighting as one united force, and utilize new elements such as Multi-actions , Item Mix, and Link Attacks to add even more excitement to battles.

Synthesis

Create your own unique items using the simple yet intricate “Gift Color Synthesis”!
In this simple system, items can be made by adding ingredients according to the recipes. By linking the Gift Colors of ingredients, their traits will be carried over to the finished product. Players can also unlock new recipes by adding specific ingredients to certain recipes.
Additionally, each recipe has three arrangement slots where extra ingredients can be added, boosting the effects of the finished product.

Town Development & Shop Management

Sell items created through synthesis or found while exploring! Help boost the town’s restoration activities by selling a variety of items, and then invest the profits and resources earned from the shop to develop the town further. As the town starts to bustle once again, reference books containing new synthesis recipes will be made available, and the story will develop!

Dimensional Paths

In the multi-floor dungeon Dimensional Paths, the map layout and monsters change with every challenge. The higher the difficulty, the more valuable ingredients you can obtain. Powerful enemies and treasure chests may also yield rare equipment known as Starpearls. Venture into the Dimensional Paths in pursuit of premium synthesis ingredients and coveted Starpearls!

FAN ART

Story is fun and interesting.

Characters that you meet on your adventures are cool as all have own look and own personality to them.

Enemies are cool as alot of variety to them as all have own look and own attacks to avoid and actively counter them and all have own drops from them.

Difficulty options are nice and easy to understand and is challenging on higher difficulties.

Art style is nice and detailed.

World is fun to explore and has secrets to find and feels alive with day and night cycle offering up different monsters to farm and resources to gather.

Combat is fun and enjoyable

Skills are cool and alot of potential to make own build to suit style and not to complex to understand.

Items are cool as all have own look and own uses for crafting and much more and stats to the items.

Can be daunting as alot to learn.

OVERALL SUMMARY

Overall can be daunting as alot to learn. However for £49.99, the story is fun and interesting with a nice detailed art style and the characters you meet all have own look and own personality to them and enemies are cool as all have own look and own attacks to learn to counter and even offer own drops used for crafting and more and the world is fun and exciting as has secrets to find and a day or night cycle which has own drops and own enemies and skills are cool as own feel to them and can make own build to suit style and items are cool as alot of them and all have own uses such as crafting and own look to them and game offers so much more as never played franchise but now total fan was so great and so much in the game can even run a shop and much more. LOVED THE GAME.

I RECOMMEND THIS GAME.

Story is fun and interesting.
Characters own look, personality.
Enemies own look, attacks, drops.
Difficulty options nice easy understand.
Art style is nice, detailed.
World is huge, feels alive, stuff to do.
Combat is fun and enjoyable.
Skills cool make own build, suit style.
Items own look, uses, stats.