Gust Learns About The Third Dimension

More about Atelier Rorona came out of this week’s issue of Famitsu. The biggest surprise being Atelier Rorona has 3D graphics. Gust, the developers of titles like Atelier Iris and Ar Tonelico, stuck with sprites and talking heads for facial expressions throughout the PS2’s lifecycle. Atelier Rorona retains static character portraits, but has 3D models.

Can’t really get a good feel for them from the scan so we’ll have to wait for clearer pictures. Gust should be sending those out soon since Atelier Rorona is scheduled to come out in Japan on June 25. We’ll start bothering NIS America to see if Atelier Rorona is on their plate for this year.