| Kakadu18 said:
#31: Ys IX: Monstrum Nox A great adventure. Fantastic story, great setting with great level design, phenomenal soundtrack (seriously incredible). The story has even more twists and turns than in Ys VIII and at the end of each chapter it may answer some questions but at the same time only creates more. It's incredibly intriguing. The dungeons are surprisingly intricate at times with cool looking fun bosses that offer more variety than in Ys VIII. The combat is great and fun, it introduces some special skills that create alot of verticality in the traversal. This enables some fun collectable hunting. The characters are all very well written with interesting backstories and mostly very good character development. The dialogue is generally a bit worse then in Ys VIII sadly but that doesn't detract from the experience. The side quests are fun to do and lead to you learning to know the characters even better. I got Ys IX right when it launched on the Switch and poured over 100 hours into it 100%ing it. The graphics aren't the best and in battles with alot of enemies on screen the framerate tanks, but that doesn't really bother me to much. Since I fully completed the game I got the true ending and it made me sad. I wanted the game to continue, this wonderful story, but it was over. It was a great ride. Watching the final cutscene and the credits made me very emotional and I teared up. Definitely recommend this game to any JRPG fan.
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Between the two Ys games I played, VIII and IX, I have a hard time to tell which is better. VIII has the great locale in the Isle of Seiren, while IX has cool movement options and a lot of verticality which is fun. In the end Monstrum Nox did miss my TOP 50 just about on place 55 and Lacrimosa of Dana represents the series for me (very few series have multiple entries in my TOP 50).
