Atelier series

Anynyan else into cute girls alchemizing cute things while great music plays? I've been trying to get a wonderswan color

Not experienced by any means, but just getting into Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout.
That Atelier is a decades spanning series I never heard of definitely caught my interest when I first found out about it.
That aside, I don't know anything about wonderswans or much about the game mechanics yet. Maybe I'll get to that point.

Haven't played any of the games, but really want to try getting into it it, planning on picking up the Dusk Trilogy pack on the Switch at some point soon, really seems like it'd be my jam.

Dusk is a great place to start, Ayesha was one of my favorite atelier protags. Also if you start with Ayesha then tell me with a straight face that she isn't at least bi.