Atelier Ayesha announced for PS3

The last piece of news gamers heard about the Atelier series was that Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland was getting localized in English and would be out on May 22. Meanwhile, publisher Gust recently announced a new Atelier game in the works: Atelier Ayesha for the PlayStation 3.

According to Dengeki PlayStation (via Andriasang), Atelier Ayesha pits players in the shoes of Ayesha Artool, who is on a quest to find her missing sister, Nio. As gamers progress through the story, she starts recording memories in her journal via the memory connection system. Here, players can piece together recorded clues and sightings to advance the plot, possibly in different story branches.

The game's turn-based battle system is tweaked from past entries; the further an enemy is away from a player, the more attack points a player has to spend to strike them. The character designer of the game is Hidari, known for doing character design for the anime adaptation of Fractale and Natsu-iro Kiseki.

The game is slated to be out on June 28 in Japan. There is currently no word on a North American and European release as of yet. For more information on the previous entry in the series, check out GameSpot's coverage on Atelier Meruru.