Almost finished Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana, only bonus dungeon and some syntesis recipies left.
Nice JRPG, but a bunch of flaws hold it back from being truly great. To name a few:
Because of an infamous ending glitch I was forced to kill final boss twice. And while he is not hard per se, the fight is pretty long, ~20 minutes or so. Turn voices off before final fight, for me it helped.
Localization issues. English dub isn't atrocious, but isn't good either. Fortunately, Japanese voicover is included...just don't forget to turn it on before loading your game, cause default setting is English. And the text sometimes looks kinda "off". Line breaks, some typos, acronyms, etc. Not a game breaker, but takes away some of the fun.
Some items are crazy hard to get. Dragon Horns in particular. Played for ~50 hours, got only one, need two more for a perfect game. Hope that the bonus dungeon will be infested with Baals and Flame Virums, and lady luck will be kind enough to give me those blasted horns as a drop.
Right now I give it a 7\10. But the end verdict will depend on how lucky I'll be in the bonus dungeon...
Nonetheless, I still glad that I've found out about Atelier series, because I've uncovered a ton of potentially great JRPGs to play. Hope that sequels will fare better...