Part 1

Begin your journey through As Dusk Falls with Part 1 of our comprehensive walkthrough. Learn about gameplay systems, exploration, and the calendar system to master the game.

This guide covers Part 1 of Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk, focusing on the introduction and core gameplay systems. The game features a three-year time limit, with the year incrementing on Month 4, Day 1. Players can achieve the platinum trophy in a single playthrough, but should be mindful of missable events like the treasure contest and Keithgriff Hazeldine's events.

Gameplay Systems:

Exploration System: The game features towns and workshops for safe exploration, monster-filled areas for gathering ingredients and battling, and a world map connecting them. Towns allow interaction with residents, shopping, and story events. Workshops are for item synthesis, diary entries, resting, and saving. The world map enables travel between areas, discovery of merchants, and slight HP/MP recovery during travel. Dangerous areas offer alchemy ingredients and battles, with some dungeons spanning multiple screens.

Calendar System: The game spans three years, each with twelve months and thirty days. Time progresses through actions like traveling, item synthesis, gathering ingredients, and battles. Each day outside towns has ten units of time; harvesting uses two units, and battles use one unit if Ayesha gets a turn. Leftover time units are lost upon leaving an area. The game ends automatically at the start of Year 4.

Notebook System: Ayesha's notebook records Goals (marked with stars for story progression), Tasks, and a Log of completed goals. Goals are categorized as (Search), (Travel), (Info), or (Alt). (Travel) and (Search) goals involve defeating enemies or gathering items, with (Travel) goals potentially opening new areas. (Info) and (Alt) goals trigger the appearance of new, often powerful, monsters.