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My favourite part in Iris 2 is Viese retracing Felt's Journey, but this time as a conventional Atelier Heroine and laughing off all the prior obstacles Felt faced due to being much more prepared with a bunch of Alchemy haxx in her bag. I don't think any other Atelier game since then had as much emotional impact has Viese discovering Felt's petrified body and completely mentally shutting down when she discovered that she couldn't heal him. Like fuck man, these two characters were shouldering the emotional weight of the whole story till this point, and when they finally get their long overdue reunion, Viese only ended up meeting his stone corpse (at least as far as she was concerned at the time).

I also really like the dynamic between Felt and Chaos. "Literally just the main character, but dealt a bad hand in life and forced into evil" is one of the most tried and played out RPG tropes ever, but I love it all the fucking same. Actually, in general, recent Ateliers have been holding back in creating explicit rival characters to the protagonist, and I wish they get back to it.

>Have you played the other two Iris games?
1 is charming in its own right, but really kinda rough. Both in art direction and mechanically. Lita is one of my favourite Atelier Heroines though.

3 is the most mechanically interesting of the Iris trilogy (for better and for worse) and has the benefit of actually starring the titular Iris as the main playable heroine. 3 also probably has the most "serious JRPG" plot of the entire franchise.

I'd still place Iris 2 as the best in the whole trilogy though.