I guess they assume that L.O.B.M requests aren't getting filled out yet?
requesting without the compendium feels so vague oh god 
Well, in my case I'm pretty much with my hands full running a live playtest as well as producing material for Atelier Meruru, and writing up a written playtest.
Given the commits required, it's a 'Do it until it's done scenario'. I do my requirements properly.
A few videos have shown up which you can find on the youtube channel, as well as... this:
http://www.siliconera.com/2011/07/09/atelier-meruru-live-play-streaming-right-now/For those who are interested, I'll be doing it for the next few days, straight, for about 8-10 hours a day. The justin.tv channel will have me there as well, if people want to talk with me live.
Initial synoposis - Good. If you liked Rorona, and you like Totori, you owe it to yourself to get it. If you didn't like the Rorona combat simplicity, both Totori andMeruru will give you a run for your money. Bad news - If you didn't like the request filling aspect to Rorona or Totori, you probably won't like the request filling too much in Meruru.
Worse news: It'll be quite a wait, since we're a game (and technically a half, since Totori isn't even out) ahead, so I hope you got patience.
Anyway, for anyone filling requests, I'll be happy to sit down and run a quick 'This is how you use the compendium as a request filler' service after Meruru afters, but that requires you to show up, and more or less and wait after hours.
I don't have catalog 5 though (Still very, very broke, since I've got cisco fees to worry about now *sigh*) and I'll be happy to field donations, if anyone's kind enough. But that will have to wait until well, I get done with Meruru.
- Just a thought.
