History VideoGame / AtelierRyzaEverDarknessAndTheSecretHideout

''Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout'' is the twenty-first mainline game in the ''VideoGame/AtelierSeries'', and the first in a new continuity. The game was released on September 26 2019 in Japan for the the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch. A later localized version of the game launched on the same platforms as well as on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} arrived on October 29 in North America, then Europe on November 1.

A sequel, ''VideoGame/AtelierRyza2LostLegendsAndTheSecretFairy'', was released on December 3, 2020 in Japan on the same platforms (plus the UsefulNotes/PlayStation5), followed by a release late January 2021 for the global version and the Windows version. Notably, it stars Ryza as the main protagonist again, a first for the franchise, and is set three years after the first game. Ryza's story then concluded in ''VideoGame/AtelierRyza3AlchemistOfTheEndAndTheSecretKey'', released worldwide on March 24, 2023.

''Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout'' is the twenty-first mainline game in the ''VideoGame/{{Atelier}}'' series, and the first in a new continuity. The game was released on September 26 2019 in Japan for the the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch. A later localized version of the game launched on the same platforms as well as on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} arrived on October 29 in North America, then Europe on November 1.

''Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout'' is twenty-first mainline game in the ''VideoGame/{{Atelier}}'' series, and the first in a new continuity. The game was released on September 26 2019 in Japan for the the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch. A later localized version of the game launched on the same platforms as well as on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} arrived on October 29 in North America, then Europe on November 1.

An {{anime|OfTheGame}} adaptation of the game is in the works from anime studio Creator/LidenFilms, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly83UdDhv18 with the planned debut being currently set sometime in Summer 2023]]. This makes it the second game in the entire ''Atelier'' series to be animated, following the ''VideoGame/AtelierEschaAndLogyAlchemistsOfTheDuskSky'' anime in 2014.

--> ''"Farewell, Atelier. \\

--> [[ComingOfAgeStory "Farewell, Atelier. \\
This adventure shall live on in our memories."]]

A sequel, ''VideoGame/AtelierRyza2LostLegendsAndTheSecretFairy'', was released on December 3, 2020 in Japan on the same platforms (plus the UsefulNotes/PlayStation5), followed by a release late January 2021 for the global version and the Windows version. Notably, it stars Ryza as the main protagonist again, a first for the franchise, and is set three years after the first game. Ryza's story then concluded in ''Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key'', released worldwide on March 24, 2023.

A sequel, ''VideoGame/AtelierRyza2LostLegendsAndTheSecretFairy'', was released on December 3, 2020 in Japan on the same platforms (plus the UsefulNotes/PlayStation5), followed by a release late January 2021 for the global version and the Windows version. Notably, it stars Ryza as the main protagonist again, a first for the franchise, and is set three years after the first game.

An {{anime|OfTheGame}} adaptation of the game is in the works from anime studio Creator/LidenFilms, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly83UdDhv18 with the planned debut being currently set sometime in Summer 2023]].

* TamerAndChaster: Suprisingly, ''Atelier Ryza'' contains much less gratuitous {{fanservice}} than usual for an ''Atelier'' game. Although there are two MsFanservice party members, including Ryza herself having JigglePhysics, there is very little else in the way of "sexy" content. There is no BeachEpisode, HotSpringsEpisode, or groping scenes, and the swimsuit DLC has more modest swimsuits for the female characters (for example, Ryza's swimsuit includes a ModestyTowel around her waist).

* AnimalGenderBender: One of the quests has you doing things for a goat, who Ryza consistently refers to as male and as "Mr. Goat", even though 'he' has very, very obvious udders on account of all goats sharing the same model.

* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler: Regarding the current state of society, behavior of a government during a crisis, and the lack of accurate recordings of events. Rather than people that lived through it knowing the situation, the Klint government covered up all of their failures so that there is almost no information on their fall to the point where the citizens, troops, and anyone not at the top of their leadership who died back then knew what was happening. Because the lower level leadership blindly spread orders not to do certain things without knowing why, the citizens ignorance morphed them into Kurken's irrational taboo system and made it hard for the protagonists to piece anything together even with outside help and [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld direct testimony from someone who was alive at the time]]. The military personnel stationed at the tower to draw away the ravenous hordes had no idea what they were defending against, only that they were monsters and that how badly the battle was going meant they would die horribly. Tao doesn't get useful information out of their logs until he reads a note directly from the alchemist leading the Underworld project. Even then, the purpose behind the actions confessed to in that log had to be deduced by Ryza via circumstantial evidence.]]

* OneWingedAngel: In the final battle, [[spoiler:the Ravaging Queen has two forms. The first is a gigantic, praying mantis-like monster, which, when defeated, has a humanoid being emerge from its exoskeleton, wielding a double-ended polearm seemingly made from the remains of its previous body.]]

A sequel, ''VideoGame/AtelierRyza2LostLegendsAndTheSecretFairy'', was released on December 3, 2020 in Japan on the same platforms (plus the UsefulNotes/PlayStation5), followed by a release late January 2021 for the global version and the Windows version. Notably, it is set to star Ryza as the main protagonist again, a first for the franchise, and is set three years after the first game.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Philuscha's invasion have been stopped and Kurken Island's and Underworld's water supplies have been restored, but nearly all main characters after that leave the island to chase after their own dreams. Only Ryza stays behind to help with some unresolved issues, reminiscing about the time she spend adventuring with her friends and keeping alive a vague promise of one day following after them once she truly secures the island's future.]] This is somewhat mitigated by the sequel [[spoiler: since the entire premise is about them all getting together again and having another adventure after Ryza finally started her journey.]]

''Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout'' is twenty-first mainline game in the ''VideoGame/{{Atelier}}'' series, and the first in a new continuity. The game is set for release on September 26 2019 in Japan, October 29 in North America, and November 1 in Europe on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, and UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}.

* AbusivePrecursors: [[spoiler: The Klint Kingdom government decided to deliberately introduce the Philucsa into Oren lands, betraying to Oren to allow every living thing in their lands to be EatenAlive with the intention of harvesting the monsters for fuel. It worked too well, since when the hive was done eating the Oren they moved on to kill and eat the entire Klint Kingdom's unaware innocent citizens.]] It's telling that the normally kind-hearted main characters, ''in an Atelier game no less'', show absolutely no sympathy towards the regretful [[spoiler: ApocalypticLog of one of those responsible for this plan shortly before he was EatenAlive trying to divert the horde from the escaping citizens using the Holy Tower as a beacon (which still needed up as mass innocent casualties, since the towers' defenders were mostly ignorant Klint soldiers that had nothing to do with what happened with the gates. And while the kids are thankful for the construction of the artificial island the Klint Kingdom built saving their ancestors, they recognize it never should've been necessary to begin with and would've rather history taken a different course]].
* AmazonChaser: An NPC who gets together with an girl Ryza can help during a long quest chain after watching her beat the crap out of people in martial arts tournaments on the mainland. Funnily enough, the girl in question started off the quest line looking for her prince charming but got distracted by the thrill of training and became a professional fighter, then found him after forgetting about what she originally set out to do.

* AristocratsAreEvil: From Ryza's point of view, Moritz is seen as a corrupt noble figure who uses his influence to control the drinking water of Kurken Island, a sentiment that is shared by some of the residents as well. In addition, Bos and Lumbar are the classic {{Upper Class Twit}}s who taunt and bully Ryza's crew on a regular basis.

* ArtEvolution: Compared to past games, ''Atelier Ryza'' features more fluid animations (such as side-stepping through a narrow gap) and vastly improved lighting and shadow effects (such as LensFlare, and a windmill whose blades cast moving shadows onto the landscape and characters).

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Philuscha's invasion have been stopped and Kurken Island's and Underworld's water supplies have been restored, but nearly all main characters after that leave the island to chase after their own dreams. Only Ryza stays behind to help with some unresolved issues, reminiscing about the time she spend adventuring with her friends and keeping alive a vague promise of one day following after them once she truly secures the island's future.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: While it starts off as a usual lighthearted romp like the other Atelier Games, there are hints early on about the games finale (which is the most JRPG like in the series to date), including an abusive father, severe bullying, and [[spoiler: a country committing the [[AbusivePrecursors engineered destruction of a world and genocide of nearly an entire race of people that they pretended to befriend by deliberately introducing a invasive species of monsters with the intent to harvest said monsters organs once they had killed and eaten everything]], only to have nearly all their own kingdom's people EatenAlive as well without the public even knowing what happened]] amongst other things.

* EasilyForgiven: Shockingly for a Atelier game, completely averted. [[spoiler: The protagonists are even more disgusted to hear the remorse and apologies of an alchemist who, along with his companions, caused the needless deaths of millions from a note written shortly before he was violently killed by the consequences of those actions. Mostly because they learned at the same time that what happened to the Oren wasn't an accident and the level to which those responsible covered it up to the point where it created the taboo system that stagnated Kurken's society for hundreds of years. Stagnation that would nearly doom their entire island if a certain alchemist hadn't been born and broken said taboos.]]
** Played entirely straight with Lent's father, who seemingly patches up his relationship with his son overnight with barely any mention of how that happened.

* RunningGag: Barrel! Like so many other Atelier protagonists, Ryza is really excited whenever you stop and investigate a barrel.

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility: The center of the plot. Empel drills it into Ryza after the first big twist that alchemists caused horrifying events in the past [[spoiler: with the MANY actions listed on this page of the Klint Kingdom. It's also a bit of a sore spot for him personally and the core of his trust issues, since his own foolishness led to him being tricked into helping synthesising a huge bomb for an alchemists coup in his own country. When he screwed up the synthesis, not only did he lose his arm's function, he took all the blame and got exiled for life. It makes Ryza nervous a few times knowing that people doing what she does caused a civilization ending event. In the end Empel is very proud of Ryza for only using her abilities responsibly.]]

A sequel, ''VideoGame / AtelierRyza2LostLegendsAndTheSecretFairy'', was released on December 3, 2020 in Japan on the same platforms (plus the UsefulNotes/PlayStation5), followed by a release late January 2021 for the global version and the Windows version. Notably, it is set to star Ryza as the main protagonist again, a first for the franchise, and is set three years after the first game.

A sequel, ''Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy'', was released on December 3, 2020 in Japan on the same platforms (plus the UsefulNotes/PlayStation5), with an expected release in January 2021 for the global version (as January 2021 is the date for the PC version and the PC version always accompanies the global release). Notably, it is set to star Ryza as the main protagonist again, a first for the franchise, and is set three years after the first game.

A sequel, ''Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy'', is set to come out December 3, 2020 in Japan on the same platforms (plus the UsefulNotes/PlayStation5), with an expected release in January 2021 for the global version (as January 2021 is the date for the PC version and the PC version always accompanies the global release). Notably, it is set to star Ryza as the main protagonist again, a first for the franchise, and is set three years after the first game.

* XenomorphXerox: The Scorpion-class enemies are rather similar to a Xenomorph, being bipedal monsters with a [[BewareMyStingerTail bladed tail]] and covered in jewel-like armor, on top of [[spoiler:being ruled by a HiveQueen like all other Philuscha]].