The game's protagonist, as you may have guessed, is a young alchemist named Ayesha. She is the sole operator of a small herbalist shop that was left to her by her grandfather.
This is the first game on the PlayStation 3 in the Atelier series to take place outside of the Arland trilogy.
The game was released in Japan on June 28, 2012. It due out in the US on March 5, 2013, with Gust's parent company Tecmo Koei publishing instead of NIS America which handled the previous entries in the series. NIS America has stated that they will still be doing the localization of the game, even though they are no longer publishing it.
