The newest game in Gust's long running Atelier series has taken the crown with an 81 on Metacritic after 13 reviews. For the first time on PlayStation 3, Atelier series players can choose if they will follow the story of Escha or Logy, a novelty that offers a unique story perspective and gameplay experience.

http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-3/atelier-escha-logy-alchemists-of-the-dusk-sky

To break up routine, they could release an Atelier game on 360 too. I've always wanted to play this >_>

haha, you could buy a Vita to play one but I doubt its ever going to see an Xbox release ever

... Wheres my Vita version?

A few years away =P

Got this Tuesday as I enjoyed the other ones from Rorona onwards. I Havnt played it yet though as I'm still playing through persona 4 golden. I'll more than likely have an hour in it tonight, I admit the gameplay vids I've watched and reviews I've read it does seem like it's going to be the best in the series, but to be honest I think each time they've released one from rorona each installment has gotten better so Gust are definitely improving the series with each release.

That's actually impressive considering its the 5th entry on the PS3. I've still got to get through Rorona, Totori and Meruru first.

My pre order got lost and then canceled. Someday I will get to play it as looks great.

I've quite enjoyed the game myself though I wish they'd do another storyline as good as Totori's. That said the gameplay has definitely improved with every game. The only things I miss from previous iterations are having unique ingredients that you can pick up with their own random features which made gathering less automatic and it required more thought. The other thing is that I think it's gotten a bit easy to do all the tasks in the time period they're assigned to you, and once they're all done and I've made every new alchemical item I can make there isn't a lot to do and a couple of times I just skipped ahead a few weeks because I coulldn't think of any useful way to use up my time, particularly when I got to the adventurer level cap.

All that said, has anyone read anything concrete and specific about what the differences are between the two campaigns? I'm going to try out the Logy campaign briefly but I don't think I have the time to get far through it.

True, true, but considering I've been saving months for Dark Souls 2, that ain't going to happen soon.