Definitely toward the upper echelon of Falcom games, in my humble opinion. The gameplay is fun, I love the added character customization via all the different options you have for equipment enhancements and wish it had stuck around on the future Ys titles. The characters are decent, not great, and certainly nowhere near as cringe as the ones in this game's successor - Ys VIII. The combat is Ys (if you know, you know - more of what you love if you're a fan of the franchise). Falcom's dungeon designs are peak and the dungeon crawling experience is as much a spectacle as it is a compelling gameplay experience. 7.5 - 8 out of 10 seems like a fair rating to me because I think it's overall a very good game. Another 0.5 to 1 points could've been earned by a better ending but the "ending" here is actually extremely lazy. It's like reading a Stephen King novel lol, but that comparison does mean the first 99.5% is great so overall it's still worth playing.
