Haha oh my! That sounds weird. I guess I’ll see… I take it you’re not too impressed with his recent output?
i’ll never understand what caused it to begin with but pushing the tiny reset button i didnt even know existed fixed it
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What’s the deal with Ys games in terms of continuity, does one need to play the whole series or is it ripe for just dipping into one of the better entries?
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they have continuity with characters reappearing and old events being mentioned again, but its not like its interesting in such a way that it matters a whole lot to follow closely? at least my feeling on it.
at most i guess consider ys 1 & 2 as a single game you should play together, but otherwise i see no issue just playing whichever ones you like
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Yeah just play one (1) of them. There are names and a vague overplot of the last couple about a different named Roman Empire and everything kind of maps to the Mediterean as these sort of anime things go.
Bump and grind with Ys 1 and 2. I think 3 in most of it’s forms is worth a few hours.
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Ys is the kind of series where you should just start with whichever one looks most interesting to you, and then you will probably start playing the others.
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I booted up Ys 8 for the first time over the weekend and was having a great time laughing at everyone talking about how they’re sailing near the country of Greek, towards the coast of Afroca, and how there are Romun Empire navy ships around. I never realized Ys took place on fake Earth.
But yeah, my impression has always been that the games historically are mostly independent, starting off with Adol crashing on some island and then having to kill God to save an anime girl. He then sails off on more adventure until he crashes on a new beach. So just play whichever one looks most interesting to you.
When they started consistently using a party system they decided Adol should have a friend named Dogi who travels with him, so those two are always together at the beginning. And then they crash on an island and kill God to save an anime girl.
I read Ys 9 takes place in the Romun Empire that I saw mentioned in Ys 8 and based on what Rudie said it sounds like the two or three most recent games are trying to at least create a consistent setting, but I don’t think continuity or on-going plot are really things anyone needs to worry about for an Ys game, at least for the foreseeable future.
Technically I guess continuity has been a thing since the beginning but the story is either so light or the plotting makes previous knowledge unnecessary to follow it. Ys 2 is a sequel to 1 but they’re light on story anyway, and then there’s a prequel to those called Ys Origin but since it’s about an ancient civilization it functions independently as a story too.
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fair trade imo
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the romuns have been around since 5, and i think oath in felghana might have retconned the minor antagonist into being one. they usually aren’t super important tho, and are just these minor villains tertiary to whatever the game is actually about. you could easily replace them in some of these games with another evil empire and the games wouldn’t contradict themselves.
i also think dogi has been in every game except obviously origins. he’s an in-series meme and if hes not with you at the start (which i think he usually is) he’s gonna show up at some point to do what he always does.
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i’m gonna say what i always do, which is that ys viii has the best and most insane plot twist/revelation ever
ys i and ii are so closely tied that they’re basically the first and second halves of one game, which is probably why modern versions are almost always sold together.
apparently an english demo of ys ix came out today. exciting!
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don’t stress over which game to play, take it ys-y
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or, as i like to call it, Why 6
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ys six: rendezvous then i’m through with you
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Want to say 3? Has a world map in the manual that had the name of all the places every game has gone to.
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don’t let the sound of Nihon Falcom drive ya crazy
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Fuck why do I keep forgetting the y six joke
always thought this entry was a bit of a departure, but still worthy of the title
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Yeah that’s the best.
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There was a… Video? Essay? Select button dot net post? about FFVIII and a consideration of its plot that I encountered some time in the last year that I really want to find again, and the only things that stick out were the way that the author acknowledged and then immediately dismissed the “Squall is dead” hypothesis, and it highlighted how Seifer’s “ROMANTIC dream!!” was absolutely a consequence of him watching as a child the film in which Laguna fights a dragon to save a sorceress, which is the whole reason he used gunblades. Anybody know what I’m talking about?
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If it’s distant, probably not, but all of that was mentioned on the December episode of the State of the Arc podcast’s FF8 playalong:
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