Appropriately, this portable Atelier title features a wagon. That's not the only major change it brings to the series formula, too.

The Big Wheels keep on turning, Proud Lina keeps on yearnin'. She be rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin' on a wagon.

Sing it, Nyxie. This is an Atelier with some big wheels, but training wheels aren't among them. It's much meatier than its predecessor, Atelier Annie.

Aliens, mutants, and artifacts, oh my! For a game that was based on a series of chocolates and collectible figurines, it was surprisingly good.

But daddy, I want a Chocovader! And I want it now, now, NOW!

Nice Verruca imitation.

Here's a game that's simple as candy and twice as saccharine. You can't argue with cuteness, though.

The Poms are soooooo cute! I want to hug them and squish them and kiss them and love them forever and ever and ever.

Don't smother them now! But yeah, cute is this game's M.O. And "La-La-La (Means I Love You)" is its theme song.

Eithéa was really pretty, and I really wanted to like it, but...

Think of Eithéa as the Passions of RPGs, filled with a plethora of animé clichés and linearity as bad as Final Fantasy XIII.

Correction, Nyx. Linearity WORSE than Final Fantasy XIII.

Cell phone games don't get a lot of coverage on this site, but this post-apocalyptic tidbit does its best to represent.

This game is like a poem written by Sylvia Plath. It's beautiful when you look at it, but it makes you want to kill yourself then after.

I'd rather compare it to e e cummings. Full of meaning, but could've used more punctuation.

Three separate timelines, over a hundred bizarre creatures, eight years till it all goes kablooie. I can't say I've ever seen a game like this one, before or after.

*sings* I saw mommy's head attached to Santa Claus~~~

Man, there's an image I'm never getting out of my head... Weirdness quotient exceeded.

Mad Max: The RPG. In pocket-sized form for all your madness, mayhem and carnage. OH YEAH.

And who can say no to a cute widdle puppy dog with a bazooka? That should sell the game right there!

On a remote desert island... there's nowhere to hide and nowhere to run... The scare is all part of the fun...

With infinite glee, it's going to be she who slaughters us all...

And extra points for the proper use of Deep Ones and Elder Gods within a game plot.

With design and animation by Ghibli, not to mention plot and gameplay by Level-5, this game was just amazing. No other way to describe it. Even my dad thought The Book looked cool.

While it may not be a doorstopper à la Brandon Sanderson, that is one book of power at 352 pages. Did I mention it's necessary to play the game? Yeah, ya do.

Who doesn't like a puzzle, after all?

A heartwarming tale about a young girl who uses alchemy time manipulation to make stuff and help people.

Wait, this ISN'T Atelier?

Nope, that it isn't. Coulda fooled me, though!

Who remembers A Boy and His Blob? The folks who made this game certainly do.

Can this game morph into ball so I can boot it back to the landfill it belongs in?

Now, now, it wasn't that bad. Though you could morph Mui into a little smiley turd....

I tip my hat to Racjin for taking a mediocre game and turning it into this.

If only more remakes were this effective.

Amen, Nyx. Racjin is getting my money every time from now on.

It's good to see Square Enix take a chance on something for once. Between the plot, the setting, the gameplay, the battles, and the interaction, this game could only be described as a longshot.

You gotta hold the game, HOW?

Yeah, exactly.

What does it say when a company can shoehorn two PS2 games into a DS title, and have it come out the better?

And then Shion and Allen were like ILOVEYOU, but then KOS-MOS got jealous, 'cause she wasn't involved. So she cried, and then Gnosis was like ILOVEYOUTOO, so then she didn't feel left out. Also Momo, totally got launched into the stars on a rocket because she felt left out, and then everyone lived happily ever after, THE END. Oh oh, and then I wrote another sequel where bad stuff happened. Boo. But then KOS-MOS punched the bad stuff IN THE FACE! Yaaay!

Y'know, that would have been pretty funny. The actual story of the game was even more complicated, and the fact that this game is all storyline makes it even more of a brainbender at times. At least it avoided most of the gameplay pitfalls of its PS2 incarnations.

Here's an odd one to translate. The title could be "The High Road of Weirdness." Not too accurate, but it makes more sense than some other names. Unfortunately, the game fails to be as interesting as its own title.

We liked this game better when it was called 'Life is a Highway: The Game,' and believe me, you didn't want to ride it all night long.

It's definitely hard to take a road trip if you can't hardly pack anything in your bags. Monsters need to learn to carry their own weight, I say.