Origin took the backstory of I&II and made a hell of a fucking game out of it that gave Adol's first quest and future ones a ton more weight.
I wonder if they'll ever feel like remaking I&II again. For the 14th time.
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I wonder if they'll ever feel like remaking I&II again. For the 14th time.
A prequel to the first two games that brings them more in line with the mythos established in later games.
Also it being the only non-numbered entry is no accident I believe
This sounds really cliché, if this happens we all know that the parents murder will be a misunderstanding. We all know that Adol is the nicest guy ever and can't do wrong.
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There's no apostrophe in Ys. And I hope we get a better launch localization this time as well.
I welcome the apparent shift from Celceta's and VIII's wilderness exploration to an urban environment. If there are multiple point of view characters, I hope the screen time is split more evenly between them than in CS II, Tokyo Xanadu, or Ys VIII.
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Puts Origin in a weird place. It's clearly canon but since Adol never experienced it, he couldn't have written about it.
Is this really port begging when it's a completely realistic scenario given the previous game and the current market?
I mean, I could ask the same for a PC version but it's really just a guarantee even if not officially announced.
That's why I say alternate universe. In this timeline, Adol had been corrupted by some mystical jewel or something and became a bloody tyrant.
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My hope story-wise is for this cast to have great interactions and deftly-written edge/critical flaws that are engaging and meaningful. The lore will come naturally for Falcom's writers, so it's up to dialogue and good localization for everything else.
Since exploration still matters to new fans, I imagine the game's gonna have an extensive underworld to compensate.
I can hate Roy for being a dull childhood-brother-surrogate that needed better writing to make Yunica's character growth more earned. Otherwise, yeah, she's great and the most interesting character to play on higher difficulties if you want challenge.
What do you want to hear? That's how the games are framed. That is the Ys series.
If you want to hope that Adol isn't in this one because of Origin don't let me stop you
President Kondo talks about release development
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Falcom's president responded to an interesting question.
The development staff's had successful new recruits + a lot of mentoring from veterans, meaning they're stronger than ever.
The development staff's had successful new recruits + a lot of mentoring from veterans, meaning they're stronger than ever.
There's mention of some kind of guild operations system. That could be building up weapon stores and stuff.
I like it when developers dare to subvert troupes. Particularly I always like the idea of hero turns evil kind of story. Adol being a long time Gary Stu hero being a tyrannical, ruthless murderer, if well-written could be quite interesting.
It would have to be an alternate timeline for sure, considering IIRC Adol dies of old age in his mid 60s after returning to his village and writing all his stories.
Personally I hope they don't do that anyway. As I mentioned, I don't mind that Adol is that straightforward Link character.
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In the picture showing the prisoners, the second character from the left appears to have a Romun emblem on her skirt:
It's only PS4 atm. Currently Falcom only develops for PS4
but PC and Switch ports were all licensed out and developed after initial japanese release. So there's potential for that with this game as well
It's PS4 only atm. YsVIII released on the Switch because of NIS. Who knows if they'll be willing to give it another go.
Yeah, but there's a certain charm to that in that game. At least for me. Maybe that will be present here as well when we can actually see the full designs and aren't focusing on and analyzing their abundant details lol
huh, that's cool! Surprising to me it was coming already, somewhat enjoyed the last one... a bit too heavy on dialogue that killed the pacing for me but overall an enjoyable experience and I'll be down for another one :>
The game's apparent female lead seems to have prosthetic left arm, left leg and at least the left part of torso. The left eye may be an implant too, going by the unnatural glow. Her right arm appears to be organic. Not sure about the right leg, but it looks different from the left one.
This. VIII's art direction was flat-out ugly and I avoided the game because of it.
Overly busy character design, last gen (PSP) assets and visuals, it's still the same old YS, in 2019.
I guess I'll pass.
I guess I'll pass.
Well this is an interesting change in direction. I thought Ys IX would just focus on Adol and Romn since VIII teased that a bunch, although they could still do that here. I'm curious if they'll change the combat up now that we've had 3 games with the previous system.
Best series still going strong!
I just hope that they'll really give a bit more care to the ports, the PC and Switch versions of Ys 8 could have been better... although since the original is on Vita and is kinda dreadful all around.... maybe it's fitting...
"Love" those screenshots, it looks like Oblivion.
We're not getting better visuals for this one, are we?
I just hope that they'll really give a bit more care to the ports, the PC and Switch versions of Ys 8 could have been better... although since the original is on Vita and is kinda dreadful all around.... maybe it's fitting...
"Love" those screenshots, it looks like Oblivion.
We're not getting better visuals for this one, are we?
I'm sure others replied to you already but no he doesn't. He defends himself by parring her sword attack (which she goes for a swift death blow the second she realizes someone came across her out in the river, real classy) and when he does she loses her sword and her grip on the towel she was wearing.
It's still an embarrassing and fucking stupid as shit scene, especially as an introduction for a soon to be very important playable character, I am not defending any of that. But it's a fact that Adol does not slash her towel down at all. Also I wish this trope died in a fire already.
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I disagree. The texture work as shown in the screenshots shared here looks significantly detailed enough compared with Ys Seven (which originally released on PSP), as an example. Secondly, the environment here looks expansive with added geometry. I think to put Falcom's work at the same level as asset flippers aren't exactly fair.
Yay more Ys.
Couldn't care less about Adol, he's a nothing character. Ys is played for the gameplay so the characters honestly don't matter to me.
Couldn't care less about Adol, he's a nothing character. Ys is played for the gameplay so the characters honestly don't matter to me.
Looks really good, hope they get XSEED to do localization, and it comes out without too much delay in the West. YS8 was my first YS game, and it really clicked with me. The game play is so snappy, and streamlined. I hope if it's designed around PS4 they can manage to have much fewer load screens.
Unspecified Cold Steel games are coming to the West in 2019. This may or may not be limited to the PS4 ports of CS and CS II that we already know about.
