You can blame this version of the game for making me the way I am about Ys

JWjpengine.bsky.socialSep 29, 2024 10:39pm

No. 9 - Ys I & II (CD-ROM² - Action/RPG - 1989) Head: 🧠🧠🧠🧠 Heart: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ (JP Bias +1) Score: 10/10 The game that sold the idea of the CD medium to many gamers. Some of the more archaic elements of its PC roots make it less easy to revisit, but this action RPG is still a masterpiece.

It's still the definitive version to me. The best arrangement of the soundtrack and not just the more characteristically rocking Ys-style songs either. The ending of "Feena", after the narration stops, is sublime.

this looks so fucking rad

I had messed around with other Ys before this one, ports that didn't represent the series' actual quality. So I didn't know what I had been missing until I played this one and became immediately obsessed.

It makes a strong impression! I still think it has some of the best presentation I've seen in a game