![]() ![]() Further exploration in the north of the island leads the group to the ruins of an ancient civilization known as Eternia, whose residents possessed a power known as Essence. Citing her father's academic research, she concludes that the monsters are an extinct group of animals known as Primordials. While exploring the island for additional castaways, Laxia notes the creatures on the island are unlike anything known to the outside world. Īdol's party is soon expanded to include Hummel Trabaldo, a transporter who was a passenger on the Lombardia, and Ricotta Beldine, a resident of the Isle of Seiren. At the same time, he wants to find out what lies behind his dreams about Dana Iclucia, a mysterious girl from a prehistoric era who seemingly has a connection to the Isle of Seiren and Adol's fate. On his search for other survivors, he teams up with the noblewoman Laxia von Roswell and fisherman Sahad Nautilus to help his fellow castaways to survive and find a way to get off the island. The game was followed up by Ys IX: Monstrum Nox in 2019.Īdol is on a passenger ship called the Lombardia that is headed from Xandria to the continent of Eresia, but the ship is attacked in the archipelagos of the Gaete Sea by a giant creature and is sunk, and when Adol wakes up, he realizes he landed on the shore of a cursed island known as the Isle of Seiren. Ys VIII had sold over 500,000 copies by the end of 2018. ![]() An abridged version for Android and iOS, Ys VIII Mobile, is also scheduled for release. A part of the Ys series, it was first released in Japan by Falcom for the PlayStation Vita in July 2016, with later worldwide releases for PlayStation 4, Windows, Nintendo Switch, Amazon Luna, Stadia and PlayStation 5. Just like Ys Seven was one of the very best games the PSP had to offer, Ys: Memories of Celceta is one of the best games the Vita has to offer.Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana is a 2016 action role-playing game developed by Nihon Falcom and published by NIS America. Heck, I’ll even go a step further: the whole game is a godsend for any PS Vita gamers who’ve been longing for something long and deep. Basically, you can do it anywhere, anytime, as long as you’re not in a cutscene. Considering the game’s first plot point is the Governor General offering a prize to anyone who can map the entire forest, that’s incredibly useful.Īnd if we’re talking useful, I’ll throw in another word of praise for the game’s save system. You never have to wonder where you haven’t traveled, because it’s all helpfully laid out, and it tells you exactly how much - by percentage - you’ve discovered so far. Even if there’s a bit of grinding going on in the side quests, it’s not anything particularly onerous - you pick up a lot of stuff just from defeating enemies, and whenever there’s an object to be smashed that’ll yield additional materials, it’s always very clearly marked on the map. You occasionally slow down for dialogue, but that’s about it. ![]() You can keep pressing X to keep your characters running (and rolling, and jumping) as fast as they can, so there’s no moving slowly or methodically. Combat is all real-time and button-mashy you see an enemy, you hit the enemy, and you move on. Most importantly, though, like Ys Seven, Ys: Memories of Celceta knows how to keep things moving along as a brisk-pace. Like that last game, you’ve got to manage your companions and your inventory and all those things (that, I should emphasize, usually bores the crap out of me). Again you’re playing as Adol, the mute red-haired explorer, and again you’re on an epic quest that requires traversing an enormous map for various reasons. Admittedly, it may be a little early to make that pronouncement, since at this point I’ve only played it half as much as I did its predecessor, but it has all the same qualities that made me fall in love with Ys Seven. Now the next game in the series, Ys: Memories of Celceta, is here, and I have a sneaking suspicion it has a shot at making that list as well. Yet, for some reason, I couldn’t get enough of it. I like games that are short and get to the point, and Ys was not that at all. What makes that especially odd is that I’m not a particularly big RPG fan, either I don’t usually have the time or patience for crafting objects or managing parties or long, drawn-out adventures. Simply put, I played the crap out of that game. In amongst the baseball and hockey and Wii Fit and various iterations of Mario Kart, however, there’d be one oddball entry: Ys Seven. It’d be at least 80% sports games, casual games and fitness games. If I were to make a list of my all-time top 10 most played games, I suspect it wouldn’t be particularly impressive. ![]()
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