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Kyuu 5 days ago
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BasilZero said:
Kyuu said:

Finished Ys Origin (Yunica's path), and got to chapter 16~ in Valkyria Chronicles. Two great games.

I started Ys 8 tonight (at chapter 2 currently, beat a couple of bosses) and I'm not feeling it right now. Ys Origin is an excellent game for its scope/perspective, the small budget isn't much of a detriment for its style. Ys 8 on the other hand is kind of butchered by the small budget, not a fan of the combat flow either so far, and it's sometimes hard to make out what small enemies are doing, maybe my eyes need time to adjust to the visuals.

I hope it grows on me because I loved Origin which I thought would be "my cheap entry to the series" vs 8 being "the ultimate Ys" lol. Love the soundtracks though, this series got some bangers.

Origin was my entry to the series too

Its a great entry.

At least you didnt start on Ys 1 and 2 with the bumping battle system and all lmao.

I played the PS4 version via PS5 backwards compatibility, and it looks like it might be the worst version because it kept crashing on boss retries...and I played on the highest available difficulty "Hard" only to realize that there is an even higher difficulty "Nightmare" that I can't find in my version :( but no one on the internet talks about this so I don't know what's going on. Another problem I had is one boss glitching a minute into the fight. He just stood watching and let me beat his ass. Restarting didn't fix it.

Ys is like Resident Evil to me in that I wish both stuck to their "semi 3D" perspectives, or at least continued to make spinoffs with these styles.

What a game though:

https://youtu.be/o33465CE_Y0?si=CAEZTRWi_mteyL1S

The giant centipede fight just carved this music into my soul. So sick.