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The History of Ys
From a 1987 PC-8801 cartridge of ideas to Ys X: Falcom's action-RPG series, nearly four decades of one adventurer, documented.
Ancient Ys Vanished: One Story in Two Games
Ys I (1987) and Ys II (1988) were designed as a single game and split in two: the duology that founded Falcom's series, its six Books, and its floating land.
What is bump combat?
The Ys signature: no attack button. How Falcom's off-centre collision combat worked, why it was built for kindness, and where it still lives.
Ys Book I & II: The CD-ROM Landmark
Hudson Soft's 1989 PC Engine CD remake and its 1990 TurboGrafx-CD release: Red Book audio, animated scenes, and some of the first voice dubbing in games.
Ys III and the Felghana Remake
Wanderers from Ys (1989) turned the series sideways; The Oath in Felghana (2005) rebuilt it into one of the most loved action RPGs of its decade.
The Music of Ys: Falcom Sound Team jdk
Koshiro, Ishikawa, and the anonymous-by-design sound team whose collective name hides some of the most famous melodies in RPG history.
The Ys Anime: Two OVA Series
Ancient Ys Vanished (1989-91, seven episodes) and Castle in the Heavens (1992-93, four): the games' story told as early-90s anime, scored by Falcom's…
Ys IV: The Game That Exists Twice
Falcom wrote one scenario bible and licensed it to two studios: Hudson's Dawn of Ys and Tonkin House's Mask of the Sun (both 1993), resolved by…
Ys V: Lost Kefin, the Missing Kingdom
The 1995 Super Famicom entry that changed the controls, softened the difficulty, and became the one mainline Ys the modern era left behind.
The Napishtim Engine Trilogy
Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim (2003) rebuilt the series in 3D; The Oath in Felghana and Ys Origin (2006) made that engine sing.
Ys Seven and Memories of Celceta: The Party Era
Ys Seven (2009) gave Adol a party and three weapon types; Memories of Celceta (2012) rebuilt Ys IV on the same system for the 25th anniversary.
Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana
The 2016 shipwreck that became the series' breakthrough: a castaway village, two timelines, and the most loved Ys of the modern age.
Ys IX and Ys X: Monstrum and Nordics
Monstrum Nox (2019) turned a prison city into a playground; Nordics (2023) took a young Adol to sea for the series' 35th anniversary.
Ys on Paper: The Manga and Novels
Novelizations from the 1980s onward, two rival Mask of the Sun manga, anthologies, and the Tribute: the paper branches of a game series.
The Art of Ys, Era by Era
From PC-88 key art to the Taue illustrations and modern key visuals: how one adventurer has been drawn for nearly forty years.
Why Ys Endures
Four point eight million copies by 2017 and a series still sailing: the case that Ys is not a failed giant but a successful permanent.
