Current Events > Ys VIII comes out tonight boys

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How is it?

I only really liked Ark of Napishtim and Oath in Felghana. I hated I & II (but still beat them) and the 3D entries just didn't interest me enough to keep playing them.

8? I thought it was already in the teens.
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Kineth posted...

8? I thought it was already in the teens.

Many of the releases were remakes of older games.

Do you have to play the first game or in order to be able to get the series?

FratMilkyHolme posted...

Do you have to play the first game or in order to be able to get the series?

Nope. They're all contained little stories. They just have the same main character basically
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FratMilkyHolme posted...

Do you have to play the first game or in order to be able to get the series?

I would at least suggest I&II Chronicles on Steam before anything else, just to get the very beginning of Adol's story.

60 dollars is too much for a ys gam
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TheMarthKoopa posted...

I would at least suggest I&II Chronicles on Steam before anything else, just to get the very beginning of Adol's story.

Yeah... no. Don't do that.

The gameplay in the first two games is terrible compared to the rest of the series. At least try one of the games where combat doesn't rely on you bumping into enemies.

iirc, the main character loses his memory in Ark of Napishtim (and probably others), so you start off not knowing anything anyway.

Vertania posted...

Yeah... no. Don't do that.

The gameplay in the first two games is terrible compared to the rest of the series. At least try one of the games where combat doesn't rely on you bumping into enemies.

Gameplay is fine and they are short

iirc, the main character loses his memory in Ark of Napishtim (and probably others)

This was only in Memories of Celceta

TheMarthKoopa posted...

FratMilkyHolme posted...

Do you have to play the first game or in order to be able to get the series?

I would at least suggest I&II Chronicles on Steam before anything else, just to get the very beginning of Adol's story.

Ok. If you could compare how it works with another series, what would you say it'd be like? Resident Evil?

Ys games have connecting elements, not big enough to really make a big deal to play them in some order, but they're just nice tidbits

Vertania posted...

I only really liked Ark of Napishtim and Oath in Felghana. I hated I & II (but still beat them) and the 3D entries just didn't interest me enough to keep playing them.

Have you played Ys Origins? It's the same type of gameplay as those two but basically perfects the system from Felghana.

Vertania posted...

Yeah... no. Don't do that.

The gameplay in the first two games is terrible compared to the rest of the series. At least try one of the games where combat doesn't rely on you bumping into enemies.

I second this. The Ys games don't really have any remarkable story that requires playing the games in order. Adol is a typical one-dimensional JRPG good guy, with zero depth or nuance. The only thing you need to know if that he has an adventure buddy named Dogi, and you have the sufficient background for any of the games.
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