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.