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NIS America and Gust team up to once again offer North American gamers alchemy-based RPG action in Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk. Set in a world that no longer values alchemy, The Alchemist of Dusk stars a lonely girl named Ayesha Altugle who struggles to keep her herbalist workshop open after her grandfather dies and her little sister Nio disappears. But when Ayesha sees someone who looks like Nio walking through ruins one day, she decides her sister must still be alive and goes on a quest to find her.<br><br>Much of the gameplay focuses on Ayesha's ability to harvest or purchase hundreds of different ingredients that she can then combine into useful potions, weapons, or other items. Players are free to move around the 3D cities and shop at stores, recruit party members, and accept quests for the townsfolk. The overhead-view world map finds gamers traveling along a fixed path to various wilderness locations where they can once again move freely to harvest ingredients or engage in combat. Battles are turn-based, and players can enlist the help of their party members for combo attacks, with each character earning experience points for battlefield successes.