Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis Announced For PS2

NIS America announced today that the sequel to the Atelier Iris series will be headed to the PS2 in late March, 2008. Mana Khemia deviates from the tradition of Atelier Iris . Mana Khemia is more of a campus style RPG, where your character interacts with classmates and professors while completing various academic quests. The above video is a clip from the Japanese version of the game.

Key Features

Academic Quests – Players will take on quests that the professor assigns. If you fail your
mission, you may have to stay after school. Also depending on who you work with for
your assignments, the outcome of the story will change.

Avatar Crafting – Personalize your characters by “crafting” skills and stats instead of just
leveling up through combat. Crafting skills and stats allows the player to create unique
characters like a warrior that excels in summoning magic or a magician that’s an expert
at snipe shooting.

Item Crafting – A comprehensive item/weapon crafting system. Create anything from
healing potions to swords through alchemy.

Team Crafting – Craft items using your team’s recipe.

Symbol Encounters – No more random encounters. Visually confirm and engage
enemies.

Burst Attack – Knock your enemy out and pound them with combo attacks like a
fighting game.

Via Press Release