Are modern games getting you down? Do you find yourself getting bored by long cutscenes and patronizing tutorials? Do old Zelda games simply require too many buttons? Surely, you think, there must be a better way.
There IS!
Say goodbye to the JRPGs of tomorrow! Why spend three hours meeting all of your party members when you could be spending three hours killing squirrels on the first map so everything doesn't kill you immediately? Why get tied up in pointless, convoluted gameplay when you can just run straight at monsters and pray to the blue haired beautiful angel goddesses that you chose the correct angle? Fighting bats and other dumb, flying enemies is stupid! It would be actually really awesome to fight a boss who is made of at least fifty bats! The final boss of Ys I probably took up nearly two actual hours of my life and that is a dark fact!
That said, the soundtrack is legendary and is easily better than anything made before we figured out how to get the third dimension in a game. The games are very much of their time in a way that is pretty cozy. You can probably beat both games in a day or two and it has neat little touches like how you can transform into a ferret and get a solid chunk of entirely unnecessary dialogue that tickled my particular brand of JRPG autism. Adol is probably one of the only gaming characters who could be accurately described as a "chad." It's a piece of video game history that feels oddly important and is absolutely not worth the undiscounted asking price for it. I liked it. It was pretty cool. If you've played any other Ys game, I think it's sort of essential. If you've played none of them, please play Oath in Felghana instead.
There IS!
Say goodbye to the JRPGs of tomorrow! Why spend three hours meeting all of your party members when you could be spending three hours killing squirrels on the first map so everything doesn't kill you immediately? Why get tied up in pointless, convoluted gameplay when you can just run straight at monsters and pray to the blue haired beautiful angel goddesses that you chose the correct angle? Fighting bats and other dumb, flying enemies is stupid! It would be actually really awesome to fight a boss who is made of at least fifty bats! The final boss of Ys I probably took up nearly two actual hours of my life and that is a dark fact!
That said, the soundtrack is legendary and is easily better than anything made before we figured out how to get the third dimension in a game. The games are very much of their time in a way that is pretty cozy. You can probably beat both games in a day or two and it has neat little touches like how you can transform into a ferret and get a solid chunk of entirely unnecessary dialogue that tickled my particular brand of JRPG autism. Adol is probably one of the only gaming characters who could be accurately described as a "chad." It's a piece of video game history that feels oddly important and is absolutely not worth the undiscounted asking price for it. I liked it. It was pretty cool. If you've played any other Ys game, I think it's sort of essential. If you've played none of them, please play Oath in Felghana instead.