So first off, I'm not cancelling or replacing Crystalgazers, its just on the back burner is all anyway...

The Plot

Atelier Anthrax is about a Lower Class merchant named Anthrax who befriends a Magical anime girl who was rendered homeless due to the economy crashing in early 90's Japan, the Magical Girl is a parody of Minky Momo/Creamy Mami, etc. After getting the Magical Girl her wand back from a posh shopkeep who is none other than Benito Mussolini (complete with Funculi Funicula as boss music).

But danger lurks as Henry Ford wants to run the Magical Girl (in reference to an episode of Minky Momo) and as such has gathered of a group of devious car makers ranging from the coked up John Delorean and the cunning Dodge Brothers. Anthrax and the Magical Girl must defeat them before they themselves get run down by the maniacal Automotive Industry.

The game is set in a country based on 1980's Britian complete with class warfare, a Margaret Thatcher-esque leader, and the presence of a parody of the IRA. The game has an overarching theme of class and why capitalism sucks.

Endings

There are several different endings ranging from

Good Endings:

1. Beat the game as normal.

2. Through a sidequest, join the Communist Party, and defeat the carmakers as well as libberating their workforce, through this route Henry Ford isn't the final boss but rather the Prime Minister.

Bad Endings:

1. Fail to defeat Henry Ford or his goons.

2. Use the broken corrupt capitalist system to bribe your way into the national government and use the Prime Minister to arrest Henry Ford. Requires a lot of money grinding but there might be a game mechanic you can use to get more money. This is the bad ending because you become part of a corrupt system as means to an end.

3. Join the IRA, use special crafting recipes such as Pipe Bombs and fight Henry Ford and assassinate the Prime Minister all for a island to have its sweet 36 counties. This is a bad ending because terrorism.

Joke Endings

1. Through a series of interactions its all revealed to be an episode of Top Gear featuring Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond who look back on your progress and on a bombshell, ends tonight's episode.

As you can tell this is one hell of a game, pretty much making fun of all those RPGs all titled "Atelier So-And-So" as well as being an anti-capitalist themed game about magical anime girls and the automotive industry.

This is an insane game idea but if you actually look back on my catalog of RPG games, this is very run of the mill.

IDK, what do you guys think?