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.
I've only put in about 2 hours. Game play is fun and rewarding. Definitely feels and plays like a PSP game (it's from that era). Not a bad thing. Nostalgic for me. Absolutely a run of the mill JRPG, so if you're not into JRPGs this is NOT the game for you.
The base game is fine. Unfortunately, the PC port is not good at the moment. It's V-Sync doesn't work at all, there are severe audio issues, it has trouble defaulting to my preferred controller, and the game will randomly crash. Hopefully with time and a couple of patches, this port will be in a playable state, but right now it's not.
My Specs:
-Windows 10 Pro
-NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
-AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core Processor @ 3.60 GHz 16 Core(s)
-32 GB of RAM
-Gigabyte AX370-Gaming motherboard
This is the first Ys game that I play, but I can say that it is worth a try even if you are not so much in this kind of games.
Even if there's nothing new in plot and in characters, it all fits well. We have classic jrpg characters (the brave protagonist, the silly little girl, the funny big man, the tsundere, etc...) but they're all well characterized and it's funny to interact with them when you can.
One or two moving moments with them are a pleasant adding.
It's interesting how the story develops: first you can think it's a story about castaways trying to escape from a little island, but from half of the game it becomes more epic; the Dana of the title become central and this island become little by little the real centre of the world.
Nothing new, as already said, but the way all narrations are connected is intriguing and help to maintain the attention high.
The gameplay is always funny; fast pace battles and a good system of skills. A little grinding if you want to create all items and powerups, but is never oppressive.
Two words on the ending: I found the idea of the ending very good - what you think is right to do maybe it's not really the right thing to do... BUT. I had the impression that the screenplay rushes over the parts that needed more time and explanation (like Dana decision after the "first final boss", and all stuff related to the error of evaluation of the consequences) and lengthens too much the moments you feel a need to close everything (ie: I found the very last boss useless... why put it there? It breaks the immersion of the ending with a thing that has no real use in the plot).
So: not perfect, but a game in which you can invest from 20 to more or less 100 hours; thought for a lot of types of gameplay.
Not much to say. It's just a great game as most titles in this long running series are. This version is the third I bought after the PSVita and Playstation 4 iterations and it's still a blast to play.
I think this game is awesome. Played it on Switch already and wanted to experience the game with higher framerate and better graphics. People say this port is bad but it works fine I gues. If u have more than one HID-Device connected the game maybe won't register imputs from your conroller. HIDHide is the software that resolves this problem.