"The Ar Tonelico series is back for an apparently final hurrah of JRPG goodness, great music, and more than a bit of debauchery. Ar Tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel is a hallmark for the series, not only as the final game, but also the first game in 3D, and the first to get an ESRB rating of M. Is this really the dirtiest Ar Tonelico yet?"
Gary Green said: You’ll be forgiven if you haven’t heard of the Ar Tonelico trilogy. The previous two games arrived so late in the PS2’s life-cycle that they simply went unnoticed. While most were tinkering with their shiny new PS3s, Ar Tonelico: Melody of Elemia and Ar Tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica were being ‘returned to sender’ by your local Game stores. Luckily, you won’t need to have played them to understand and appreciate this third and final chapter, Qoga (pronounced k-yoga) tells the story of a racial war between humans and Reyvateils, a breed of biologically produced female cyborgs capable of reproduction, while still having a digital mind.
Oh my god. I kinda wish this would get a remaster on PS5, it would be awesome. One of my favorite games on PS3.
That and 3D Dot Game Heroes. It's a shame that some stuff is stuck on PS3.
Ar Tonelico 3 is good I still prefer the first AT game. The music is solid in all the games and Akiko Shikata is a very talented singer bringing life to the game. Only annoying part is well I find is Saki I always choose Finnel or Tyria. KOEI so needs to HD remaster the franchise along with Ar Nosurge and Ciel Nosurge since it never came to North America. I would day one the Ar Toneliceo games and Ar Nosurge if they were remastered.
I still have the limited edition of Qoga unopened. Unfortunately it never went up in value like I had hoped all these years.
Used to own all these quirky JRPG on ps3 good times. Wish I would have kept them all
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Hell yea, that's all I got to say. I hope one day they re release the cold steel set, I completly missed them due to issues at the time. Now their pretty pricey.
Maybe Gust will come back to the series for an offshoot at some point, I'd hate to think that this is really the last Ar Tonelico I'll get to play. They aren't the greatest games, but they're definitely some of the weirdest/most unique.
They wanted to go out with a bang, in more ways than one.
Good review! That title's a mouthfull.
I think it's a game: let's make a game title nobody can pronounce.
Good review, though. Still, seems like JRPGs are really struggling to break the 8.0 barrier.
YES! looks like an awesome rpg!