Falcom staff have compared this style of gameplay to the enjoyment of popping air bubble sheets, in the sense that it took the tedious task of level-grinding and turned it into something similar to a high-score-based arcade game. This "bump attack" system has become one of the series' defining features. This combat system was created with accessibility in mind. If one fighter contacts the enemy's side or back, only the attacked fighter will sustain damage. Attacking straight-on causes the attacker the most damage to himself, but clipping the edge of the defender causes the attacked fighter to take most or all of the damage.
When one fighter comes into contact with an enemy, damage can be sustained on both sides if both combatants are facing each other. Ys instead features a battle system where fighters automatically attack when walking into their enemies off-center. As he travels on the main field and explores dungeons, Adol encounters numerous roaming enemies, which he must battle in order to progress.Ĭombat in Ys is rather different from other RPGs of the era, which either had turn-based battles or a manually activated sword. The player controls Adol on a game field viewed from a top-down perspective. Sara gives Adol a crystal for identification and instructs him to find her aunt in Zepik Village, who holds the key to retrieving one of the Books. These books contain the history of the ancient land of Ys, and will give him the knowledge he needs to defeat the evil forces. He is called upon by Sara, a fortune-teller, who tells him of a great evil that is sweeping the land.Īdol is informed that he must seek out the six Books of Ys. As the story begins, he has just arrived at the Town of Minea, in the land of Esteria. The hero of Ys is an adventurous young swordsman named Adol Christin.
Ys was a precursor to role-playing games that emphasize storytelling.
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DotEmu has released the game on Android with the following localizations: English, French, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Italian, German, and Portuguese. Ancient Ys Vanished saw many subsequent releases, such as an English-language version for the Master System and an enhanced remake for the TurboGrafx-CD system as part of a compilation called Ys I & II, alongside its 1988 sequel Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished – The Final Chapter. Initially developed for the PC-8801 by Masaya Hashimoto (director, programmer, designer) and Tomoyoshi Miyazaki (scenario writer), the game was soon ported to the X1, PC-9801, FM-7, and MSX2 Japanese computer systems. The name is commonly misspelled Y's due to an error on the packaging of an English-language release. It is the first installment in the Ys series. Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished ( イース Ancient Ys Vanished, Īsu), also known as Ys: The Vanished Omens or The Ancient Land of Ys, is an action role-playing video game developed and published by Nihon Falcom in 1987.
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