My first beaten PSP game is the remake of the third Ys game, which I already said felt more personal due to taking place in the single town of the protagonist's friend. This PSP iteration delves a lot deeper in making you care about the town and its residents, often building up characterization and backstories that happened in the place, that lend a more organic feeling to the story of Chester and Elena. The best piece of rewriting in the game has to be that they made a random exposition NPC in Ys III be responsible in the massacre in the island the vengeful brother comes from, and being the one who adopted him and Elena when they were kids.

That said, the modernization makes a game that went fairly quickly (you could beat in two hours if you left the game running and grinding) take a lot longer and some things they want to detail or add end up feeling like a mixed bag. For instance they reveal a character who truly died in Ys III is actually alive near the end of here (which makes the dramatic investment in his grandmother's grieving feel cheap) or they just add some secondary escort missions that doesn't contribute to much other than letting you know about some very minor characters beforehand. The added detail that the demon that gets resurrected possesses the soldiers of the castle and it can't be reversed is a disturbing touch, but it takes responsability from the king and feels like a forced way to make him more empathetic for redemption, choosing like the original game, to do a not well foreshadowed plot twist with the character of a priest.

So overall the added fluff and the low budget feel of the presentation makes it come as very middle of the road, despite some fun gameplay to boast and the expansion of the Stoddart backstory.