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Posted on: August 9, 2025
jkanaan
Verified ownerGames: 247 Reviews: 12
The Best Ys Game
The music in this is so good that I listen to it outside of the game. I consider it the best of the Ys series.
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Posted on: August 22, 2021
chesaro
Verified ownerGames: 246 Reviews: 13
This is how i like my ys games
I really like this style of gameplay, great difficulty (not so easy yet not impossible), this along napishtim and origin are my favorite ones of all the ys (specially against the new 3d ones)
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Posted on: December 17, 2022
amirdizdarevic
Games: 488 Reviews: 8
My Personal Ys Series Sweet Spot
Disclaimer: I've played the PC version, but not on GOG. I hear it works well on modern PCs and even on Wine/Proton if you use Linux. I think this was the best Ys era so far. They've done away with most of the jank the bump combat titles had and made the combat fluid 60fps. I love the 2D character design and animations, even though the generic anime style Falcom often chooses makes it hard to memorise NPCs at times. Still, the 2D is charming and makes my inner SNES child swoon, while living in a 3d background that was OK graphics for its time and especially on the PSP. The world building is great. Even though the area is quite small and the game is short, characters grow and feel like they belong in their world as well as notice what's going on around them. No NPC filler babble here. Dungeons aren't very smart, but not as boring as later titles either. They've iterated on the combat introduced in Ark of Napishtim and made it very fun, even doing away with the tedious grinding -- some reviewers still mind the grinding here, but I didn't really. Now you can either git good(TM) and defeat the bosses while studying their patterns or you'll usually have 1 or 2 enemies where you can overlevel if you suck at ARPGs like me :D The story is OK, but the bigger charm for me wasn't the grand narrative so much as the very intimately crafted characters. Most of the stars I give here are for the cool Falcom-style world building and NPCs, as well as lore -- this is why most people look beyond some of the shortcomings of Falcom titles. However, I'm deducting one point because the game is sadly a bit on the shorter side and because there's still a bit of jank here and there that's gone in games like Ys Origin. However, I like that this game isn't as hand-holdy and full of filler content like some of the later party-based games. Also, the pricing on this one is more decent than the AAA price Falcom asks for Ys VIII or IX, even though those games often don't feel AAA at all.
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Posted on: November 24, 2024
FrozenZeroLight
Verified ownerGames: 488 Reviews: 5
Difficulty
It gets really difficult even on easy
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Posted on: January 29, 2025
OlCappy
Verified ownerGames: 134 Reviews: 1
Ys 3: one of the best soundtracks ever
This remake is solid, wish it had the snes soundtrack to choose, but the new one is decent enough. Fleshes out the world and story nicely.
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