Reviews Rate the game you finished/retired

[Kvik]

Not sure how I would rate this in comparison to other games. It's better than Ayesha since it's clearer how to progress the story, but the actual story is less interesting than Ayesha.

I've completed both Escha and Logy routes, including their unique endings, and I have to say the overall experience is underwhelming. You have the standard endings where they went to become adventurers and what nots, but the true ending hardly touches on the subject of the world itself. Ayesha ended in a promising note, but instead of continuing where she left off, Eschatology is mainly about personal growth rather than discovery/fixing the state of the world, which I feel like a missed opportunity. Ayesha herself is entirely missing from the game as well.

I didn't have the time to play Atelier Shallie this year, but I'll try to play that soon because I'm curious how they will expand the story.

 

[Mivey]

I've completed both Escha and Logy routes, including their unique endings, and I have to say the overall experience is underwhelming. You have the standard endings where they went to become adventurers and what nots, but the true ending hardly touches on the subject of the world itself. Ayesha ended in a promising note, but instead of continuing where she left off, Eschatology is mainly about personal growth rather than discovery/fixing the state of the world, which I feel like a missed opportunity. Ayesha herself is entirely missing from the game as well.

I didn't have the time to play Atelier Shallie this year, but I'll try to play that soon because I'm curious how they will expand the story.

one funny detail: the name "Escha & Logy" is pronounced "escha to logy" in Japanese. Eschatology is a name for the expectation that the world will end (in some form or other, and do so soon-ish). Despite this reference, the game just isn't really willing to really deal with that topic, front and center. Sure, things get a bit harder out in the frontier, but you never get a true "end of days" feeling. It's way too cheery and happy for that to ever hit you.