[quote name='Dr Mario Kart']Metal Saga tries to have a sandbox thing where you can go and do whatever you want, but the tasks that you have options to do feel like there is no real drive to do them anyway.
Then again I'm not a big sandbox fan. Metal Saga also bothers people graphically, I believe it was Gamespot has said, "could be mistaken for a PS1 game".
Atelier Iris, the first one anyway, has an open gameplay situation was well, but less so than Metal Saga.
I liked it. The main story was weak, but I was driven by the character interactions. You have to be alright with synthing.[/QUOTE]
For $9.98 they are worth a fair shot... I had bought them awhile ago either through Outpost or trade-in deals (so low prices all around), decided it was stupid to have $30 - $35 games chilling on my shelf and they would all be cheaper eventually (at which point I would kick myself), so I sold them all and broke even (I think I made like $3 over what I paid for all of them).
At $10 a pop, though, they can sit on my shelf all they want until I get around to them.