Ys 9: PS5 Port Review - Can it improve on 4K60? 

Glad you enjoyed it :D

I mean it still got some arcadey ass combat, Ys9 even more so than ys8 since you gain the super form/attacks much quicker but they drain when you're not fighting so you gotta stay on the move to make use of it Story wise adol gets cursed with edgy vampire powers and a cool demon arm but the price is being unable to leave the city and its surrounding areas the opera masks were DLC I threw on to make it easier to tell which was the PS5 footage when editinglol I have been tempted to make a ys retrospective/lore video ever since some friends of mine had a "discussing ys lore with the bois" joke going for a while but that would be quite the undertaking

@@Kraftium It would be a massive undertaking. Maybe when you're done with the "Play A Real SMT Game" series. I keep a notebook around just to write ideas when they pop into my head for script or video ideas, so I'm sure you probably do something similar. Just developing the criteria for comparison would be a good start. I think even just answering the fundamental question "What makes this a Ys game?" is the hardest part, since it's been through so many iterations over the decades, because I can assure you that my idea of what Ys is varies drastically from yours. Anyways, great video. You just always seem so relaxed when you do these. I don't know if it's because you rehearse or you just have a talent, but it's probably your best attribute as a content creator.

yeah I've always felt that Ys 9 is a super cool game but if you asked me if I wanted another game in the same style I'd say no without a second thought (tho I would want other open world games to learn from it cos I felt like collectables were perfectly spread about) I think I get what you mean on story too, I liked Ys8 a bunch but I think thats cos they knocked it out of the park with dana so the more story focusness of it worked (also having a limited number of NPCs who are all actually relevent helpped a bunch too) Ys 9 focused even more on the story side of things an while I liked aprilis and co I wasn't as invested in their plight as dana's, also building up the bar felt significanlty less impactful than building up castaway village

glad you're liking them, they're pretty easy to make and it seems they resonate with enough people since I'm filling a niche, sadly alot of ps5 ports of anime games are pretty lack luster unless there popular enough that digital foundry would actually cover them

@@KraftiumThey actually covered Ys X recently. Was a huge surprise honestly, but certainly a welcome one!

@@Fabio-ql5yf john linnerman is out for my job

You could always, not buy them. Don't give in to your mind goblins also don't ask me how many copies of freedom planet and skullgirls I own

Sadly ys9's co op is basically just the same as ys8s and is like a weird little chop shop version that was thrown into the PC port as a bonus

@Kraftium Ys 9's co-op is quite a bit more polished than 8's. You can actually activate it straight from the in-game settings instead of changing launch options, and player 2 has their own skills HUD. I thought it would be good enough to include in the PS5 as a good selling point, but oh well. Maybe in the Switch 2 port. lol

@@Hamlock_ oh really, i'll my experience with the ys9 pc port was limited until doing this vid

Yeah missed opertunity.

thank you but I do lack alot of there frame rate or frame time measuring tools and just eye ball it nothing quite like finding out the rendering resolution like pasting a screenshot in MS paint and drawing right angle triangles tho haha

Glad I could help homie 8 is probably the most well liked of the series (personally I'm more partial to celceta and origin myself but 8 is probably my 3rd fav) I will warn that the 25-50% mark of the game is pretty slow but once you get over that mountain (both figuratively and literally) it really gets rolling

@@Kraftium as luck would have it i booted up Ys8 right after my comment, just finished chapter 3. So far zero issues with the PS4 version (played on PS5).

Funnily enough the switch port of 9 is actually better than the one for 8 but 9 was so badly optimised to begin with it just kinda feels like ass

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eyyy thanks a bunch

I get the feeling the only reason we got it on ys8 is cos they had so much headroom with it being a vita game at its core no idea if falcom will have it for ys10 but I wouldn't expect it purely depends on how they use the new engine to buff visuals

@Kraftium Kind of makes you wonder how the Switch version will be but by the time it gets localized, Nintendo will probably have new hardware out.

@@wodensthrone5215 yeah thats a good point Hope the switch successor has enhanced backcompat like the ps5 ans xbox series

Nioh 2 has 120 fps support which is nuts that this doesn't

@@nelieltu9730 thats what an old unoptimised engine for vita will get ya

ey nice I defo recommend ys8 over 9 for something thats more representive of the series since 9 definately does some weird stuff with its design also Ys X is coming out later this year (WOO)

Ys X looks S I C K

tbh the PS5 port is just good for the fact it puts more physical copies out there of a game that had a relatively limited run

@Kraftium you are right. Also, I think the ps5 case for this game is fire it matches the artwork

nothing beyond standard controller vibration

not to my knowledge, unless you count the PS5s auto HDR stuffs

No real haptic support from what I can tell DLC is all there including the pre order stuffs (mentioned closer to the end) load times are marginally better than the ps4 version on ps5 (ball parking it from memory the intial load goes from like 7 seconds to like 4, and fast travel loads go from like 2 seconds to 1.5)

no cold steel and tokyo xanadu both use the PhyreEngine which was made for vita games thats barely been used by anyone besides falcom since 2015 Ys 8 and 9 use the yameko engine which is one that falcom have been using and updating since the PSP days Tho for Kuro no Kiseki Falcom have made a brand new engine from the ground up and it seems like Ys X will also be using that one as well

Very much so Tho personally I'd recommend Ys8 first if its also on sale Its got an amazing story and is more representative of ys as a whole since 9 is a bit of a shake up for the series in many ways

@Kraftium it's not on sale sadly also what Jrpg games do you Recommend?

@@unknown97428 well the trails series is my go to recommendation I think no one has them beat of character writting and world building and one of the few fairly big budget turn based series around (would recommend trails in the sky the most cos its my favourite trilogy and its that start of the series but it can feel kinda old to some so trails from zero or trails of cold steel are both good jumping on points) (Theres also the remaster for nayuta boundless trails coming soon which is a action rpg pinoff that plays like the some of the older arcadey Ys titles) Tales of berserias is another one with an absolutely steller cast tho the combat is kinda braindead unless you really take the time to learn combos Valkyria Chronicles 1 and 4 are also 2 very dynamic tactical rpg that are are slept on by alot of people me feels All of these go for pretty cheap these days and have pretty frequent sales prices I could rec some more but i dont know what your tastes are out side of a pompom pfp lol

@@Kraftium the games I played are final fantasy 7 remakes final fantasy xv final fantasy 16 tales of vesperia tales of arise and other games

I really don't understand why people think that IX is the odd man out. I'd say that it's truer to Y's roots than is VIII.

Ps5 supports 8k but that's very demanding even for machines with powerful gpu

They are both pretty much PSvita graphics 😔

Ys9 techinally looks the same if not a bit better but the tropical eviroments and colours make ys8 look nicer

thats the difference between art direction and graphic fidelity baybeee I know I say I like how the drab enivorments make the colour of all the effects pop more but I'd still just prefer more colourful enviroments

Because the engine that this is built on hasn't seen an update since 2013 or so. And that update was only to allow for use on ps4. If Sony still supported the engine the way epic still supports unreal, who knows what this engine could be capable of.

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its not even a bad port, its just kinda ...boring

The same way a 2023 game looks like a SNES game. But really talk, Resources. If you had to make a game to release a year, every year. To stay in business, and you were a self publishing, developer, what would you do? Dumb takes like these are why AAA gaming is as reviled as it is.

If fancy graphics are your jam then JRPGs are not for you, maybe the really popular ones with high budgets look nice but I would say that the majority of JRPGs are niche with low budgets. They are great games though.