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Vanished Ys Should Have Stayed That Way
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/06/2014
The ‘Ys’ series is the long-running flagship franchise of Japanese developer Falcom. While it supposedly is quite popular in its homeland, ‘Ys’ has never really taken off in the rest of the world. Of course, it’s no surprise, considering the first ‘Ys’ game to leave Japan and find itself on a popular platform in the rest of the world was “Ys III: Wanderers from Ys” on the SNES, with its weird take on hybridizing action RPGs with clunky 2D platforming. I never got very far in “Ys III” before giving up and selling the cartridge. The first two ‘Ys’ games may as well have not existed outside of Japan, with “Ys I” seeing a release on the obscure Sega Master System and both games released on the even-more-obscure Turbo CD. It was only in Japan that “Ys I” and …
