So far the longest Ys game I've played and the most modern version of a game. The game was as always another solid ys title that was decent fun all the way through and felt nice to play. The party system while interesting all I ever played as was Adol and got annoying to swap to one character just to open locked chests, which by the way the first locked chest you find is also when you can open locked chests making me question what is the point of it if there was never any back tracking like there is with some of the other abilities. I only filled out 97% of the map and about like 95% of the memories but it looked like I got everything so I am not sure if there was stuff that was just missable or not. The story also ends pretty abruptly and also makes me wonder if there is more story in New Game + to cover up the rest of the plot and the collectables .
Even though I think the story was fine only thing I wish was that some of the memories also focused on the event of Ys I, II, and III but it was nice to see Dogi there in one of them. He is the GOAT and should be in every Ys.
The Forging was interesting to as I kinda ignored it for awhile till partway in and found that it was pretty nice giving you weapons and armor more oomph but it never felt like it was needed to progress (on normal anyway).
Finally the combat felt the most involved so far doing the basic just tap attack button to attack but adding skills that you slowly unlock through the journey to add more flare to the combat with perfect dodges and guards built in to.
Another great title in the series but its going to be weird since from now on I think the games kinda jump around in quality since this game was in 2018 and the rest for awhile are going to be way before it.

I decided to go with the steam version of this game just cause I didn't want to play the snes version or the ps2 version since ps2 does not have a translation out there from what ive seen. Once again another good game in the Ys series and a decent jumping on point if you're not a fan of the bump system from 1&2 as this one goes for a more regular action rpg gameplay. The only connection between the this and 1&2 is Dogi from 1 is an important character as he travels with you to his homeland. The story is decent nothing too out of the ordinary it was nice seeing everything come together at the end. The gameplay while better then the bump system was good just had an issue with jump attacks and flying enemies but as the game went on I just got better at it. The bosses were mostly all good outside of a couple namely one near the end and the final boss being pretty annoying. I always found just leveling up once can make a boss go from hard to easy sometimes. Overall just another good ARPG that doesn't take a long time to beat

I think this game is an overall improvement to the first one. Things it lacked was that I need to check a guide often or I'd get completely stuck on some parts. Magic was a plus but the only offensive magic being fire kinda sucked. The bosses were made around being killed with only magic until the last 2 which is cool but since you only had fire magic that did get to homing upgrades it was a bit of a let down and the homing sometimes was not reliable so I would just manual aim instead. Overall this game felt like more of a complete package then I did and had a better story that connects with the first at the end and great characters as well. If I didn't mention it for Ys I I'll say it here but the music in this game is way better then it should be, the composers did a great job on it to make so many song that just sound so good.

Trying out all the Ys games and the first is definitely interesting. I technically played this on Steam but haven't actually play YII and the listing is for the bundle of games. The story is kinda you normal Fantasy RPG, you are a dude who got caught up in a storm and wakes up in a port town to then go out on the journey to save the world. The Combat is very simple as its just run into the enemy, but you have to do it off center of the enemy or from their blindspot which is interesting but used to it from playing Xanadu Next earlier this year. The final area of the game was really annoying, alot of going back and forth, even more so if you didn't have a walkthrough which I had to glance at one every now and then during it cause I got so lost. The Final Boss was also one of the most annoyingly hardest things in the game, but after finding his pattern and just restarting over and over I finally did it. Overall it was a decent game and I am interested in checking out more of the series now.