Ys IX Monstrum Nox - REVIEW - Game Sack [4K HDR] 

I want my copy of Wise IV the Dawn of Wise back!

Ys IX - where the creators only used grey bricks for 95% of textures

PSA: Doing the side quests gives you tons of Nox Points. Almost no grinding required

I'm pretty sure I've watched every single GameSack episode at least twice. Yes, I have a problem. A problem with not enough GameSack, that is. Right now that problem is temporarily solved. Thanks Joe!

8:00 “It’s quite a fresh of breath air.” Mmm, breath air.

Oh my gosh... Wise: The Art of Nepotism is 10/10

7:59 "A fresh of breath air" -Joe Redifer 2021

God , I love how this man reviews games, he points out every important detail, like going in depth on the character switching and all. You're the man, you should do more reviews on Games, there are so many games to review and so this channel with never die

Fresh of breath air caught me off guard lol.

I am proud to be from Douarnenez, Brittany, France, where the mythical city of Ys was located. Sometimes, at night, I can hear, coming from the depth of the ocean, the church bells of the doomed city.

It's really odd that Joe missed the part that doing the side quests on a chapter takes away the need to grind the random town battles for the 100 points.

Anything Joe game reviews are absolute gold. Gamesack is still the most important YT channel in retro gaming community.

That ending made my entire day, sir. I love these skits. Johnny is such a wise man! We can all learn a lot from him!

8:01 - "Quite a fresh of breath air once you do."

This video was a real fresh of breath air…..

"It might take you a while to leave the city... but it's a fresh of breath air when you do"... huh?!? You ok der chief?

There are so many great homegrown video game reviewers that are so underrated - this channel being one of them. Excellent, in depth, hilarious review! 10/10 would watch and like again!

The refined PS3 era graphics are really hitting the nostalgia hard.

Haven't played this yet... but I loved every single minute of Lacrimosa of Dana. An unforgetable experience.

The enemies and characters looks alright (some enemies even good), but it really is the dull environment dragging it down by a lot.

Going to get my ice-cream reward while giving myself a pat on the back

"I'll admit I appreciate the occasional change of scenery from the usual oceans and mountains. You of all people would understand that the most, huh?" - Dogi to Adol, Ys IX (2021)

Also the game doesn't force you to grind per say for the nox. Doing side quests will also build up the nox metre usually 20-40 points a time.

A "wise" man once said, never enjoy your games with "ease."

Me, after spending thousands of hours grinding in Diablo series and various action RPG's, hearing that it takes 15-20 minutes to grind up to 100 Nox, "Oh, so we're in the kiddie leagues now? All right then" (love you, Game Sack ;) )

HDR 4K GameSack???? Count me in, this episode looks beautiful!

This engine is the same as Ys VIII, it's called the PhyreEngine, which is a free game engine made by Sony. This was their last game using it, and starting from the new Trails game they'll use their in house engine.

Thank you for getting me into Ys Joe. Its one of my favorite gaming series now, because of you.

Joe saying 'even on the freakin Stadia' makes me want to see a review of the console. Already know it sucks but I love hearing the specs and random info.

Big thanks from all 12 of us!

Definitely glad to see the Ys review! I owe Game Sack many thanks for introducing me to Ys and especially Nihon Falcom. I enjoy Ys a lot, but the Trails series has become my favorite RPG series of all time. Keep up the great work, Joe!

Ys is the Murder She Wrote of video games.

I’m glad we can always count on Joe for good reviews.

I hope Dave makes a cameo again soon

Love the happy console gamer cameo!

"Quite a fresh of breath air" the review quote that should be on the box lol

I put around 45 hours into it. I feel like im close to the end but havent played in about a month. I should pick it back up. Its a really good game

Been playing Ys IX on a base PS4 and I can confirm the game runs at 30 fps. However there are some areas where it can go up to 60 because there are less elements on screen.

I want my ice cream cone, I remembered that PS5 thingy.

I just recently got into Y's after watching countless videos about them. And they're amazing! I'm playing Y's VIII right now and I love the combat, the exploration is fun. It's just a good fun game. Very Zelda like

I only played Ys Book 1 & 2 as well as Ys Origins. I need to play more of them . This one looks good

If you haven't noticed yet Joe, the character movements in the cutscenes aren't stiff anymore like previous games, bcoz they were actually motion captured for the first time in a Falcom game, in 2019! Way too late if you ask me. The cutscene presentation is considerably improved since then with it, including the elimination of their signature "camera panning".

Nice episode! Very informative! Loved the Johnny Millennium cameo at the end!

I'm totally gonna get that ice cream cone tomorrow...

Great ! New video to wake up to

On the grinding aspect he mentioned, the sidequest give a crapton of nox as a reward so if you do all of those it won't take you 20 minutes of mindless grinding monsters

YS X: Fresh of Breath Air

I was thinking it be good to hear Joes thoughts on this game and then what do you know!😆

Johnny was a requirement for an Ys video! That was excellent, guys

About the grind; you really don't have to grind monsters - the subquests give you lots of points to unlock story-areas.

Haha wasn't expecting the HappyConsoleGamer cameo, he's really WISE on this topic! 🤣

No grinding is needed, I did the side missions and it was plenty enough, oh and the PC version releases 6 Jul, 2021, I agree 100% good review of an excellent game

Was anyone else hoping that Johnny was going to make another chicken sandwich in the outro?

4K HDR Beautiful!

I didn't realize this came out yet so when i saw this uploaded i immediately bought it and have been playing since then. I definitely enjoy doing everything there is to do, the moment i get access to it, like going back to old dungeons and getting the treasure chest i couldn't get without the right power. I think this game is pretty great so far, I'm on chapter Six and I'm super curious as to why there are two Adol's and really want to figure that out for myself. I'm also glad your review didn't really spoil anything for me. I think the grind is definitely fine, even fighting for the Nox points, but as many others stated the side quests give you basically all you need to open the next area, but i find myself fighting them a bunch to get elixirs so i can sell them and make better gear/buy the best consumables. Getting 8500gold in the first chapter is an insane amount of money and all my characters are equipped with the lifesteal gloves, playing on the difficulty after Hard because i have a problem so i need all the help I can get. I love this series as well, I hope to see a great next gen experience on their next release. Saying this game has PS3 or worse graphics is pretty harsh, it's definitely looking and playing like a PS4 game, just a low budget art style. There are worse looking series' out there.

Thank you to Game Sack and Happy Console Gamer for telling me about Ys, and I hope more people give the games a chance! I've enjoyed every game I've played in the series, especially the newer games for modern systems! 9 is good, but I still think 8 is amazing!

I am currently playing through YS Origin. It's my first ever time playing an YS. Once I've got through it I'm going back to do the games in chronological order. That will be a fresh of breath air once done.

Wow GameSack’s pumping 4K vids now? Step up

Even though I'm a fan of the Wise games, I wasn't sure about this one. But now it's ordered, and I'm looking forward to playing Wise IX soon. Thanks Joe!

Oh by the way, the bosses in the Nox are NOT invincible, but they are usually something nuts like level 80 when you're 30. Basically they are meant to avoid as they can even kill your party members while you're not controlling them. They are meant to come back later. Defeating the bosses in the Nox otherwise gives you a big amount of the 'red crystals', so in some cases it might be faster to kill the boss than finding the rest of the crystals.

Within 5 mins - falling asleep to that show Brittania and now I'm awake!!

I watched this is 4K and HDR. I appreciate the work you did for this.

You get the truckload of nox points from the chapter sidequests which mitigates the grind pretty much. Great review Joe!

There was a huge sale on GOG recently and after wanting to jump in, I went ahead and bought every Ys game available, besides this one. Started with Origin, I'm really enjoying it so far, can't wait to finish it up and move on.

Lol, the Safari Hunt song on Joe's phone! I spoiled that little surprise by reading the song credits for the episode, though. But I would've instantly recognized it regardless.

Love the review, love the ending part even better, Johnny's second guest appearance I think. First appearance was 7yrs ago wow

Great review, I definitely gotta make time to play this (along with all the other Ys games in my backlog). FYI in case you were curious Joe, the PS5 actually tracks your play time for all games on the system-level, which is super nice: Home menu > Profile Icon (upper right) > Profile > Games

Dude you have the personality of paint drying holy hell how you built such a large subscriber base is beyond me

I needed that ending. Love it so much.

Joe must be the most patient man alive to resist muting all voices after hearing one battle where multiple characters shout over one another at the same time. I couldn't stand hearing that more than twice.

Great review, thank you!

I can't pet the dog? U N P L A Y A B L E

4k HDR GameSack!? Yes please!

finally the ys9 review i was waiting for

SNES has the best RPG's

“fresh of breath air” :)

HDR 4k big screen user here! Looks super clean!

Joe will you be reviewing Rtype final 2 soon?

Love it. End of episode skit is always perfect. Thank you

8:00 "quite q fresh of breath air"

Would love to see Joe tackle the "Souls" Series or "Soulslike" games.

This game really grew on me, during the first half or so of the game I kept worrying if this game was going to match the excellence of Ys VIII, as I continued playing I stopped caring about that comparison, the games narrative and environment are so unique it stands on its own. I was sad to say goodbye to the characters at the end. I didn't think there was any chance I'd like this game as much as YsVIII, I'd still give it an edge but a very slight one. It's a brilliant game but I hope some new gameplay changes occur in the next Ys game because I can see combat getting stagnant If they continue with the current system.

I finally did it. I never played a Ys game and since you've been talking about it for years now I took you by your word and got the Ys I & II Chronicles+ for starters.

Oooo. Tight gameplay is TIGHT!

Hella??? Really Joe🤣 Well, you said it right! Sounds like you definitely remember the 90's brother...😎

I think this is my favorite channel now your videos are so relaxing

Shocking how much better Ys VIII looks.

I got to say I love, I love when all you youtubers do sketch together🙌🤞truly are amazing to watch, and then to do it with one of my favorite youtubers besides you guys as well, keep up the amazing fantastic work we love all y'all💖

I remembered. I'm expecting my ice cream cone by mail.

3:23 he says "hella"... Sweet!!

I knew this was coming and its great

PC version is not out till July, Joe. Same as Switch. The good news is that Durante's studio (the guy behind Dark Souls fix and the studio that fixed disastrous Ys 8 launch on PC) is behind the port so I think it will be fine. Also thank you for the review Joe, you are one of the few people I trust with opinion on Ys, everyone else seems to be either fixated on 8 or Oath in Felghana and nothing else.

I hate that I never got into your videos earlier.. I would always see you pop up and would watch a couple, but man, you put out amazing content.

I love your choice in games. Not always my taste but you've turned me on to some things I never knew. Always a good day when a new Game Sack video is up!

I loved this game, but not quite as much as 8. I played on the base PS4, and it runs at 30 Fps in the city, and 60 everywhere else. As for the visuals, I can forgive them because the city map is by far the largest unbroken map Falcom has ever made. Which was necessary due to the new traversal abilities. I liked exploring the city too. Overall, Falcom continues to prove they are masters of their craft, and eagerly await their next title.

The one where they were on the island was freaking awesome

The Trails series has been doing very well financially, so Falcom's budget has been increasing a bit. Judging from the previews for Falcom's next Trails game, I think the next Ys game is going to look much more impressive. Especially if they keep it out of any big cities. Oh, and speaking of Trails: it's becoming an action RPG series! Well, sorta. You'll be able to switch between Ys style combat and Trails style combat. At will, between fights. Yeah.

I love once in a while you review some modern game

I knew Johnny would be in this, just by the title.

NF games have a certain charm factor that many devs/pubs rarely match. Steambot Chronicles comes close though.