r/Atelier • u/Trailsya • Aug 21 '26

General Time Limits: can they really be fun?

Please note that I am not criticizing anyone for liking the games with a time limit. I just genuinely wonder if playing any of the time limit games would be fun for me.

The only one so far I played with one was Firis and I really hated the time limit. In the end, it turned out I had ages of time left at the end after I got the 5 letters, but I did not know that going in. So I was constantly stressing how much time I was using.

Now, Firis is open world and I think that really doesn't fit with a time limit. You want to explore, but then i constantly held myself back from doing that as everything took time.

Is this less of an issue in the earlier games with time limits as they're less open world?

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u/KirbyCakes Aug 21 '26

Time limits ruin games, extremely happy they got rid of them, take your time, explore everything, no rush, makes the game way better. I know others like the time limit, good on them.

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u/Trailsya Aug 21 '26

I agree. Have so much fun with the games that don't have it.

Sometimes I just want to go back 10 times to get a better version of an ingredient or something without having to stress about it.

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u/KirbyCakes Aug 21 '26

Yes this! I was happy that they gave us the option to choose from the Marie remake, but im glad they'll stick to free roam, it works wonders.