This game is not so great.Every time it seems like its loading on the simplest things such as moving on the map screen or before and after battels. A simple 15 minutes of gameplay equals about 30 minutes with all the loading screens you'll have to suffer though.

I've played this game on the PS2 and liked it pretty good, I'd give it an 8 or 8.5, but the PSP version seems to have been beaten with an ugly stick.
The characters look great, close to the PS2 version but the backgrounds and foregrounds are horribly blurred and jagged.
I know the PSP isn't as powerful as the PS2, but there isn't much going on graphically, just mostly sprites and static images. I've played other similar games on the PSP that looked a lot better than this.
I can ignore the blurred graphics, I just thought I would point that out, but the biggest problem is loading, it takes soooo long to load some of the smallest, simplest things. Load times are about as slow, if not slower, than some of the first generation games released on the psp.
Great game beaten down to a mediocre game mostly because of the unforgiveable load times.
If it wasn't a part of the Atelier Iris series I would have given it a 3 or lower.