History VideoGame / AtelierFirisTheAlchemistAndTheMysteriousJourney

* ButNowIMustGo: After teaching Firis the basics of alchemy Sophie and Plachta decide to split up with Firis and Lianne but promise to meet up in Risenburg. [[spoiler: It happens again in the second town because there is "something Sophie and Plachta must see to."]]
** Firis after being allowed to leave Ertona.

* ShipTease: [[spoiler: Between Firis and Heinz.]]

* SecretTestOfCharacter: In [[spoiler:Dona]] village. [[spoiler:The town elder looks as if she's bullying you into doing her own work, but it's really a test to see if Firis has the ''temperament'' to be an alchemist before she hands over her letter of recommendation. Afterwards, she explains that alchemists are jacks-of-all-trades who get asked for all kinds of favors, and much of the work boils down to doing a bunch of chores]].

* ItsUpToYou: Typical of an ''Atelier'' heroine, Firis keeps meeting people who are too lazy, busy or incompetent to do things for themselves, and will ask Firis to do their work for them instead. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by one of the other alchemists, who flatly states that for all their power, alchemists spend most of their time doing chores for other people.

* NotBloodSiblings: [[spoiler:Lia]] is adopted, making them this to [[spoiler:Firis]].

* NoSenseOfDirection: Drossel. When Firis is gathering materials in a dark forest Drossel repeatedly bumps into her trying to find a way out. It gets to the point where Firis escorts her out where she then joins the party.

* AgonyOfTheFeet: During the exam portion, Edel decides to demonstrate the toughness of a particular puni... by kicking it.

* ILied: Aurelie, the village elder of Dona, is seemingly a frail old lady who, according to her, can't even walk. So it comes as a great surprised to Firis and Liane when she asks them to meet her at the Divine Tree, then gets off to head there.

* [[UniversalAdaptorCast UniversalAdaptorCharacter]]: As with Logix and Pamela in the previous entry, [[VideoGame/AtelierEschaAndLogyAlchemistsOfTheDuskSky Escha]] is this.

* TheOutsideWorld: Firis is desperate to see it, but everyone in her village regards the outside world with vague horror. Only the chosen few, like Liane, are permitted to go outside -- and only Firis seems to have any inclination to question this system. Strangely enough, the reason for this seclusion is rather pragmatic: to preserve the town's Ertonite, which they fear outsiders would over-mine. Trapping their village's population inside is apparently just a side effect (or an attempt to keep the younger generation from leaving).
* TheOutsideWorld: Firis has been living in an underground village all her life and yearns to leave and see the world, she gets her wish but with some conditions. She must pass the license exam within a year and her sister Lianne must go with her.

** The various forms of teleportation. In exchange for Firis' portable atelier (which negates the need to constantly return to a hub in order to rest and synthesize) and the open world design, items like the Divine Gate (usually accessible via recipe book) have vanished for most of the game. It's easy to fast-travel across individual zones, but this will still cost you the same time and LP as walking there. Backtracking to other areas is extremely clumsy and costs you a lot of precious time, so it's usually more efficient just to keep pressing forwards. (spoiler:You don't get an effective means of teleportation until ''much'' later in the game -- and only if you do certain quests]]. Also unlike previous games, towns don't stop the clock - fast travelling around a town will still cause time to pass.

* OpenWorld: Rather than the ''Atelier'' series' usual "go out exploring and return to the hub" format, ''Firis'' is this - which makes sense, as the game specifically focuses on the "journey" of the title. Her atelier is portable, and there are multiple places in each zone where she can set up camp. However, in return for getting rid of the need to retreat to a central point periodically, it's become seriously time-consuming and clumsy to return to a previous area, which makes backtracking so difficult that it becomes a literal waste of time until fairly late on in the game (and you only get the solution to that problem after you've completed certain quests). Thus, even though it's "open world", it's usually in the player's best interest to push onward.

* ItsAllUpToYou: Typical of an ''Atelier'' heroine, Firis keeps meeting people who are too lazy, busy or incompetent to do things for themselves, and will ask Firis to do their work for them instead. {{LampshadeHanging Lampshaded}} by one of the other alchemists, who flatly states that for all their power, alchemists spend most of their time doing chores for other people.

** Firis shares a lot in common with [[VideoGame/AtelierTotoriTheAdventurerofArland Totori]]. Both want to explore the world, gain a license, and possess a relative that is initially against their leaving home. Both also have a protective CoolBigSis and has their mentor accompanying them on their journey.

* TheScrappy: Palmyra. Technically the most powerful optional boss in the game. But she's.. a random fairy who fights you for fun, then fights you some more if you win. She [[TheBattleDidntCount just waves]] if you beat her, but if you lose to her you suffer from a party wipe as normal, meaning she's a PhysicalGoddess with no explanation at all. Oh, and she's the only boss who isn't [[InterfaceScrew marked on the map]] by a skull and crossbones, so you can randomly run into her while exploring at lower level and lose your gathered materials.

* {{Padding}}: Done to chew up a chunk of Sophie's calendar. [[spoiler:The {{SarcasmMode delightfully lengthy}} transport-construction quest is back, which is made up of running back and forth between characters who are only available during the the day and synthesis tasks that take days to complete -- not to mention the time it will take to synthesize the ingredients you need, if you haven't been stocking up. The final item will also require a massive amount of materials, meaning you're probably going to spend more time to go shopping or gathering again]]. It leaves Firis stalled in one particular location for quite a while.

''Atelier Firis'' is the eighteenth game in the ''Franchise/{{Atelier}}'' series and the second game of the Mysterious series. Firis is a young girl who lives with her parents and sister Lianne in the underground mining village of Ertona. She has never left her home village since birth and wants to go on a journey to see the outside world but can't thanks to her overbearing parents and the village elder. One day when she meets Sophie and Plachta, from the previous game, after they forcibly destroy the entrance gate to the village. Sophie explains that she made the bombs with alchemy and shows Firis her [[BiggerOnTheInside bigger on the inside]] atelier. Mystified by the power of alchemy, Firis decides to learn from them so she can leave the village.

* BiggerOnTheInside: Sophie's portable atelier that she gives to Firis as a parting gift. She apparently made it by [[ItMakesSenseInContext "bending space using alchemy."]] The quest to craft the atelier tent was later made into a DLC for ''VideoGame/AtelierSophieTheAlchemistOfTheMysteriousBook'', and this quest also explains why Sophie and Plachta are on their journey in the first place.

* TheGift: Firis is able to detect where there are deposites of metal ore, similar to how Sophie eventually gained the ability to hear the wishes of materials or how Oskar can communicate with plants. She uses this skill to act as a sort of spotter for the Ertona's miners.

* WideOpenSandbox: Much more open than previous games. You can now gather anywhere at anytime including inside town and villages and fast travel between campfires and landmarks in a given region however you still need to cross borders between regions on foot.
** Later you can build a [[CoolAirship flying ship]] which allows you to fast travel anywhere in the world.

* BiggerOnTheInside: Sophie's portable atelier that she gives to Firis as a parting gift. She apparently made it by [[ItMakesSenseInContext "bending space using alchemy."]] The quest to craft the atelier tent was later made into a DLC for ''VideoGame/AtelierSophieTheAlchemistOfTheMysteriousBook''.

* BiggerOnTheInside: Sophie's portable atelier that she gives to Firis as a parting gift. She apparently made it by [[MakesSenseInContext "bending space using alchemy."]]

* MasterApprenticeChain: From Plachta to Sophie to Firis at least for the prologue.