Since I started playing this game I got a job, which coupled with a lot of exams, slowed down my time to play games. As a result I took two months to finish these two ones and I don't remember all the tiny details.

It's mostly the generic kind of fantasy story that would show up at that time. I think I overall prefer Ys I better because you are finding the relics of a long lost civilization and I like lore-hunting, though Ys II removes the mystery since it is set in that same civilization up in the sky, which, while in peril, wasn't so abandoned as Ys I would make you think. Ys II has a fun to use magic spell where you can turn into a goon and talk with other enemies to know the whereabouts and clues to puzzles, but otherwise becomes more predictable than Ys I.

People tend to complain about the "bumper car" gameplay of these early Ys games, though my problem at least in these two is that roughly the last third of the game takes place in the same monotonous-looking location, a thirty-floor tower in Ys I and a giant fortress in Ys II, which makes you backtrack all the time and hurts the pacing of the adventure.

Nice soundtrack though
https://youtu.be/ZSJeWCz2cXo?si=priq7rCyHSP-gJvx
https://youtu.be/mCugddr9Tug?si=saKcVVZlpp9zT0Io (this one at 0:54 is god-tier)
https://youtu.be/G-xLS7W5vNY?si=MX9CpGZqJfN_lfud
https://youtu.be/mKW3mJfM3qY?si=OhR9MgqnlnEVOCyo
https://youtu.be/82FQuVh-XGE?si=PohjA84ciwgAJikg