I never played an Atelier game. I remember looking at some Rorona screens and thinking it looked very nice. I just noticed that Patrick gave it a 85%, metacritic is 65 though. Oficial PS mag gave it a 40, that's less than half the score it got here lol.
"Play time is kept to a minimum, with most of the development effort put into designing reams of menus for you to navigate...ensuring that you never start to have actual fun."
I might still check it out though, desperate times...