Decent game but not that great if you've played the Atelier on the PS2
I liked the concept of creating towns to make your kingdom bigger and better, this reminded me of Seiken Densetsu 3 a bit.
The lack of japanese voices was a bad move.
Overall, the Atelier games on the PS2 were definiftely more JRpgs than the series on the PS3 which focus a bit too much on the alchemy and picking up ingredients to my taste and not enough on the adventure part. Something is definitely missing in the Arland series no matter how cute the characters are. No need to put them in swimsuit in the "plus edition" to make them any better. I can see a bad trend growing up here and if things continue, this franchise will slowly die in the same way the Final Fantasy did (beautiful characters but no real content).