Ys X Nordics - PS5/PS4/Nintendo Switch - Digital Foundry Tech Review 

SAME LOL

I know, me too. Just got Golden sun 1 and 2 on Nintendo Online and now was like oh and YS nordics is coming out too? Finally! But alas no, it was not to be.

Me too, for a second I thought it got shadowdropped into the west.

But now we know John is a weeb

Same

the kr/cn version coming to PC on 14th march

@@ARTA47x I have no rush for a proper english release

It is coming soon 💙

I got talked into starting the Kiseki series a couple of years ago despite the length and started by bouncing around between Sky and the Crossbell games. I almost gave up on Sky a couple of times because of the glacial pacing of FC. Then I started Cold Steel a month ago and blitzed through it. It finally clicked. I understand why people love this series so much now. Falcom are great devs that know how to leverage their strengths (writing, basically) whilst keeping costs down and somehow releasing a new game every year.

@@agromchung Just a heads up before you'll continue with Cold Steel: you'll really want to finish Crossbell games before playing CS3 (even CS2 has parts that expect the player to have played the Crossbell games). The Sky trilogy is also relevant to both the Crossbell duology and the latter two Cold Steel games.

@@electricindigoball1244 Yeah, I'm well aware - just trying to find an affordable copy of Azure on Switch! Wish I'd bought it at release...

@@agromchung FC can be a chore to anyone expecting a high-pace game, but stick to it and you will get the BEST trilogy of Rpgs ever, the complete work is perfect in all senses

Completely echo the above sentiment

Same, couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw DF covering a Falcom game. Now I hope they cover Trails too in the future!

Disagree regarding its a game nobody plays. Ys post memories of celceta been quite popular and many reviewers covered the series now.

Doesn't deserve to be brought up. This is garbage copy and paste. Looks the the last 2 games. Fn PS3 graphics. Evolve already

​@@kennykij1 You might want to get your eyes checked

The release of the English version of Trails Through Daybreak in the middle of this year will be a good opportunity for DF to look at the Trails series.

Beyond df covering Falcom, here’s hoping they bring trails in the sky to the west for ps4/ps5

@@jtruque -AFAIK Falcom hasn't said anything regarding new re-releases of Trails in the Sky in Japan or otherwise.- With that being said the Sky games are available in English on PC (Steam and GOG). Even if you just have a weak laptop you should still be able to play them just fine due to how old those games are. You can even configure them to work with a PS4/PS5 controller. Edit: After seeing the comment below I looked into this and apparently Falcom is considering its options regarding a Sky re-release. With that being said it's worth keeping in mind that an English re-release of Sky will run into the issue of Trails publishing rights being split between XSEED who localized the Sky trilogy as well as the first two Cold Steel games and NISA who is the current publisher of Falcom games in the west.

@@electricindigoball1244 I need to get me one of those weak laptops you talk about :p

They actually announced that they plan to re-release it in the future at the shareholder meeting in December. It’s just not their first priority atm, they don’t have the resources right now.

Ys 8 is one of the best games I ever played. I enjoyed getting that platinum trophy

Don't skip Celceta. It was a port from the vita so the graphics aren't that great, but it has the same great gameplay and music. I found it also had that great sense of exploration that 8 had but that 9 was missing due to the location of the game.

If Ys 8 astonished you in regards to story then it doesn't take much to please you. OR you haven't played any of the greats yet, which is a shame.

@@RasenRendanXas an owner of vita’s and switches and decks….id like to play 8 on vita.

I still need to play the original.

@@seanmcbay Yeah Y's book 1 + 2 for the tg-16 is the best way to play. It's like a remaster!

Final Lap Twin was one of my favorite games growing up, and Keith Courage was stupid fun. Man I miss the TG16

I was part of the massive swath of folks that didn't have a TG-16 growing up, and it wasn't until I heard online "whispers" of the best traditional 2D side-scrolling Castlevania was on the system that I had to find a way to emulate it. Years later, I was introduced to Ys through Ys VIII. I went back the next year to play through all the games available in the series. While playing Ys 1 and 2, I kept thinking "my mind would have been BLOWN if I had played this back during its original release". The west really slept on this series.

@@malaki7123 It really was something special in 1990! You could see that was the future of gaming!

But how are you gonna able to enjoy a fully Japanese game with Japanese dialogues in the cutscenes?

@@jishan6992 By knowing Japanese. As John suggested, being decent at Japanese is kind of necessary, with the log feature allowing for looking back on words to look them up as needed.

I hope Digital Foundry covers one of the Falcoms PC ports at some point. They need the attention. They went from fixing Fromsoftwares garbage Dark Souls port to making proper offical pc ports

​@@alumlovescakeThey have

@@helloguy8934 When? Besides talking about DSFix what was before Durante made PH3

@alumlovescake Yeah exactly.

The tg16/pc engine 1-4 are the best of the series and I agree Ys 4 English dub is by far my favorite.

Dawn of Ys is the best Bump Combat Ys game.

You picked up the japanese version? Can you tell how?

I have to agree that Ys 9 did feel a bit of a step back compared to Ys 8, while at the same time the new mechanics were a welcome feature. The setting did kinda throw me off as well until I made it out to the open fields, then it felt like Ys 8. I did grow tired of the back and forth to the jail scenes though. Lol It felt like extra padding. But from what im seeing, Ys 10 looks wonderful, and I am so excited for it to be available in the west 😁

Yeah, I've also searched for something comparable but couldn't find anything. Generally, it seems like JP players just don't care enough about graphics for a format like this to make sense, many will just generally talk about graphics being good or bad or sth. inbetween. But detailed comparisons are just not what the general JP audience is interested in it seems.

@@anabang1251 Sad but true. And that mindset isn’t limited to video games. I don’t know if you know this, so sorry if I tell you something you already know, but basically as a consumer they’ve been brought up to just buy without asking more than which brand something is from. I’m from Germany and you wouldn’t believe how many test/review magazines there are for everything, still to this day. I know no one who doesn’t buy a magazine and/or informs themselves online diligently before purchasing something that costs more than a couple of bucks. Here in Japan? There is one magazine that tests household appliances and other items but it’s so shallow that the result is mostly yeah the big brand expensive one is good. It’s completely baffling. Then again when I go to the doctor here it’s also this 曖昧 bs like “Oh, your throat is red, I’ll give you some antibiotics.” and I’m like soo you won’t tell me what it is but it’s red? Am I a child or do you not know what it is? The doctors in Germany tell you exactly what you have or what they think you probably have and which other possibilities there are. It’s maddening here in Japan. Alas, sorry for the rant but it felt nice to read from someone who knows the pain. ;)

You should try Ys SEVEN, it was the first one in full 3D and where toy played as a party of 3 characters. It was built for the PSP, but there's also a PC port.