Linca and Marion are confirmed in Escha&Logy

Ayesha and Nio are said to return as well.

I think this hasn't been posted yet.

At last I have it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aaaaaargh so lucky!!!!

Here's my preview video (written preview still to be translated)

thanks for sharing the video ryuzaki57, the game looks so good =) wish the video was hd though.

the basket slots unlocking with progression reminds me of the slots on the stores that unlocked as you lvl up the shop.

Cheers Ryuzaki. I genuinely loved Ayesha; it was a lovely little game, so I'm looking forward to Escha & Logy (I hope it gets localised).

I was pleased to see Wilbell returning (definitely my favourite character; and the first time a child in a JRPG hasn't annoyed the hell out of me), but I was a bit miffed to see she was paid DLC. Ah well.

Seems like they did shake up more with this instalment than I gave them credit for, too. Although you can still undoubtedly tell it's an Atelier title.

I'm curious, Ryuzaki, have you gotten a chance to play through a bit with Logi as the main character instead. Press releases talked up the differences between the two campaigns but I'd be interested to know exactly what the differences amount to.

No I'm still in the middle of Escha's story. But I have a contact who's already 230h playing, I will ask.

From what I heard from my friend, a certain of events change when you play as Logy, and you discover much more about his personality than I do in Escha's story (which indeed talks very little of Logy's past and motivations). The main story and objective seem remain the same though.