Ys returns with a brand new adventure for the first time in 8 years! Adol awakens shipwrecked and stranded on a cursed island. There, he and the other shipwrecked passengers he rescues form a village to challenge fearsome beasts and mysterious ruins on the isolated island. Amidst this, Adol begins t...
Ys returns with a brand new adventure for the first time in 8 years! Adol awakens shipwrecked and stranded on a cursed island. There, he and the other shipwrecked passengers he rescues form a village to challenge fearsome beasts and mysterious ruins on the isolated island. Amidst this, Adol begins to dream of a mysterious blue-haired maiden living in an unknown world. Join Adol as he unravels the riddle of the cursed isle and the blue-haired maiden Dana in Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA!
An Epic Tale - Follow Adol on his latest adventure and uncover the mysteries of the cursed island.
Party On! – Change your playable character on-the-fly as you battle ferocious foes in lightning-fast combat.
Another Side – Unravel the mystery of the blue-haired maiden Dana through her unique gameplay sections.
It Takes a Village! – Rescue your fellow shipwrecked passengers and bring them to your village where they will provide valuable services.
My first Ys game. Previously played Kiseki series. The game is awsome.
Despite a loft of issues with optimization, my laptop with NVidia GT750M let me usually play without promblems.
Game - 5; Port -3 -> Overall - 4.
If you enjoy Nihon Falcom's games, especially their groundbreaking action-RPG Ys series, know that Ys VIII is one of the best games they've ever made. Engrossing story, lovely art direction, fluid fast-paced "easy to play, difficult to master" gameplay, superb soundtrack.
Having said that, as of right now, this PC port by Nippon Ichi Software America (NISA) is one of the worst ever made -- think Dark Souls level of PC porting. Resolution is internally locked at 1800p (even though you can set it to two other resolutions by using command lines and/or hex editing the game's exe file), there are sound bugs, a minimap glitch, 8-direction control instead of full 360º freeflow, the game keeps crashing to desktop for no discernible reason, there is some extreme flickering on at least two locations (epilepsy warning, by the way, since NISA still hasn't put up a warning of their own before they fix this), and a few other people keep coming across different bugs, crashes and overall issues with the game. Graphical options are as barebone as they get, and mostly for show -- turning them all on or off doesn't seem to have any major impact on how the game looks and, especially, how taxing it becomes on your machine.
Some people have been getting lucky with the game (perks of playing games on PC, what might be broken for some may work for others). If you own a pretty beefy PC and if you're feeling lucky, by all means, get this game, because it really is amazing. Just be wary of the broken package it comes in.
Also: unlike XSEED, who got us used to top notch Ys translations, NISA's EN localization is pretty mediocre (the first version was even worse, but thanks to the PC delays we only got the revised one), so be aware the translation is not that great, either.
In short: absolutely great game that most PC players can't enjoy due to an appalling port by NISA. It would get one star from me for the port alone, but the game is so good that I have to at least acknowledge that.
Do not buy in this current stage - the first game I have to send a refund request for a game of GoG.
The game in itself is good on all accounts by Nihon Falcom - however this is not a good port by NiSA. You can also check out Steam reviewers for the range of issues many players had with this title at its current state. Personally I had steady 60 fps, but chapter 2 onwards I began to have missing / low res texture popups and seizure-inducing lighting glitch in a very large area which is necessary for the main quest. Which I could not justify putting up with for a full price game.
Maybe one day I'll purchase Y'SVIII again when it's fixed - but not in this current state. Was really looking forward to this title but but will be very wary of NiSA's future releases.
The game has decent gameplay but sadly the characters are not good enough for a top of the line rpg. The story while being very ambitious and having really good ideas it fails in making the world feel lived in and credible. Most of the game the storytelling is lighthearted and casual but it also has parts were the game takes itself very seriously. The serious parts contrast strongly with most of the game which is so casual that it never really tries to make you feel this is a real world. The game continously tosses credibility and realism right out the window in order to make jokes or stay lighthearted.
Gameplay is okay but to be clear, the game is easy. I played the game on hard but still the game is easy and I am not good at games. Don't go into this expecting a depth to the gameplay, its fun and easy but lacks depth.
Ys VIII is finally here! After more than a year of waiting and multiple delays, PC users all around the world finally recieved the game they've been waiting for. And what we recieved... was unplayable broken mess. Let me say it straight - my laptop SHOULD run it. It runs games with a lot higher requirements and doesn't have a slightest bit of problem with them. And my config IS within at least minimum requirements stated on this very page. But no. What I get is 3 frames per second. Actually, I didn't even notice any difference when I changed my graphics settings. And if that wasn't enough, when I launched the game for the first time, it appeared in 720p window and any attempts to change the resolution to my native or at least to put it in the fullscreen crashed the game. Actually, it seems to crash for any reason it can come up with. It happens really often. Overall, I really would like to recommend this game, but at least right now I can't. It is a very bad port of a good game. And if anyone from Nihon Farcom reads it (highly unlikely, but still), don't deal with NIS America ever again. Stick to XSEED, their port of Xanadu Next was amazing. Don't support the bad publisher who doesn't care about the consumers. Don't buy this game. At least for now.