I played Atelier Annie, Totori, Rorona, and Meruru. They were kind of fun and generally different than your average RPG since rather than going on some quest to save the world, your main goal is to create things through alchemy and complete various other tasks and goals. Much of the game however is about time management as you have a limited number of turns to complete the games main goals. If you hate having a time/turn limit then avoid the games I mentioned, in general this is what got me to quit playing the series. Not all of the Atelier games have time limits though. Some of the newer ones I believe abandoned it and I don't believe Iris had a time limit either. My personal favorite from the Atelier series was the spin off Mana Khemia 1 and 2.

I would choose the Naruto Universe and have the shadow clone jutsu. I would let a couple of clones travel the world and also make sure each have a special development like one for drawing, one for studying, one for watching anime, one for gaming, yeah anything I want. Hehe ^^