Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis is a Japanese-style RPG for the PS2 and is the fourth installment in the Atelier Iris series. Story and Basic Gameplay The game tells the story of a shy 16-year-old, Vayne Aurelius, who lives in the forest with a black cat named Sulpher. Vayne and Sulpher live peacefully together, until they are visited by a strange man who introduces Vayne to Al-Revis, a magic academy where students learn how to become powerful alchemists and magicians. In the game world you can explore various “dungeon field” areas of the Al-Revis campus: dungeon ruins, a mist-filled magical area, fishing areas where you can catch fish used to create items, and others. When you are exploring dungeon areas, the game-world will pass through natural phases of time. It will start out as morning, progress to mid-day, and eventually turn to nightfall. This aspect of the gameplay affects the behavior of enemies in the game-world. Quests “Quests” in the game take the form of school assignments, which you obtain at certain points and then complete in an ordered fashion. When you complete quests, you are award “units” for finishing that class. Once you fulfill the required amount of units for your “term,” the rest of your time in that term becomes free time, when you can do whatever you want in the game world. Battle System Each character has a separate supply of “SP” (Skill Points) used to enact various attacks. The order of battle is determined by the Active Cost Card Battle System; each character has a speed rating, which determines their order in battle, which is displayed visually via the order of character-cards on the screen. Fast Facts:

1. Developer: Gust Corporation
2. Publisher: NIS America
3. Genre: Role-Playing
4. Platform: PS2
5. Mode: Single-Player
6. ESRB Rating:
   • Everyone 10+ (E10+)
7. Release Date: March 31, 2008