You play as Adol who goes on an adventure fighting monsters, later on, he climbs Darm Tower to fight Dark Fact. In the Sequel, Adol is sent to the floating island of YS to save the people fr... Read allYou play as Adol who goes on an adventure fighting monsters, later on, he climbs Darm Tower to fight Dark Fact. In the Sequel, Adol is sent to the floating island of YS to save the people from the demons and monsters, and to fight Darm.You play as Adol who goes on an adventure fighting monsters, later on, he climbs Darm Tower to fight Dark Fact. In the Sequel, Adol is sent to the floating island of YS to save the people from the demons and monsters, and to fight Darm.
- Darm
- (English version)
- (voice)
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- Dalles
- (English version)
- (voice)
- Dark Fact
- (English version)
- (voice)
- Maria Messa
- (English version)
- (voice)
- Lair
- (English version)
- (voice)
- (as Louise Vallance)
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- Luta Gemma
- (English version)
- (voice)
- Goban Toba
- (English version)
- (voice)
- (as Thomas H. Church)
- Keith Fact
- (English version)
- (voice)
- Dekka Dabbie
- (English version)
- (voice)
- (as David Stary)
- Feena
- (English version)
- (voice)
- Lilia
- (English version)
- (voice)
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- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaThe Turbografx 16 version of Ys Book I & II with Anime cutscenes and voice acting has been released on Nintendo Wii Virtual Console in 2008 making it available for 10 years. However in 2018, The Wii shop channel has shutdown and this game is no longer available to buy on the Wii anymore. Now only the disc version for Turbografx 16 is available but it's the most expensive game ever. Another option is the Turbografx 16 mini console which came out in 2020 and it has the Ys: Book 1&2 game included as part of the 57 games lineup.
- Quotes
Narrator: [Opening lines with the screenshots of Ys] Ys, the ideal utopia. Once a country so peaceful and prosperous. A country where children was free as the wind. A country where harmony blew through the hearts of all men. Ys, a kingdom ruled by the wisdom and charity of its six powerful priests. An empire watched over and blessed by the enchanting aura of it's two beautiful Goddesses. Ys, the seemingly tranquil paradise, suddenly pulled from the height of its civilization, to the empty abyss of infinite isolation. How could such a land of promise simply vanish from the face of the planet? How could such prosperity be forgotten?
Narrator: [Then the opening Title screen shows a picture of the Goddess holding an orb] The legend has been silenced for over 700 years. And now, the mystery unfolds.
Narrator: In the beginning.
[Then an opening scene introduces screenshot of characters]
- ConnectionsRemake of Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished (1987)
So enter the Turbo CD games. It was expensive so no one had it. It had tons of anime games but nobody knew what anime was back then! Can you kids imagine? I had never seen a narrated intro anime movie (movie!!) for a video game. That didn't exist back then. There were cut-scenes with graphics and text on the SNES and Genesis, but not animated with orchestrated music and with a real narrator. This game was years beyond what I expected to see video games do and only a few of us saw it, the few people who had TurboGrafx.
Combine that crazy stuff with the fact that this was my first RPG makes it amazing to me. Also be aware that I was a huge cartoon and anime geek at the time, and the fact that well-known voice actors from all my favorite cartoons were in this game almost made me die of happiness. See, these hobbies are very acceptable and popular now, but back then nobody knew about them and certainly didn't think it was cool.
So I'll try to rate this game looking back at it without letting too much of my feelings mess with it. Although it's bound to happen, so don't hold your breath.
The game has a perfect difficulty. You don't have to spend too much time leveling up but you do have to do a little. However, the exploring you do while you are trying to figure out how to get through the game will level you up at a nice pace. This game also has quite a wonderful atmosphere. The incredible music definitely sets the tone brilliantly, but also the story and environments certainly take you away. The game play is great. It's an accelerated RPG, which means instead of wasting your time with random encounters and battle screens, you simply run your character into the enemies and the game immediately takes into account your stats and the angle in which you approached the enemy and reacts accordingly with damage. So if you're the impatient type like me it's a great game. It's a nice long game, it took me a week to get through playing after school for about 3-5 hours a night. It might be too short for you if you have lots of time on your hands. There's a reason EGM magazine gave this game a perfect 10 score when it was released. It's a tight game in most respects.
Playing it now, you'd probably think it was just a 16 bit game with awesome music, and you'd be right. It is fairly straightforward, no real side quests and linear, but that's how games were back then. You also might think the cut-scene animations are primitive, but again, that was the technology back then. You have to remember that full screen images of people on screen and talking were literally something no console gamer ever saw before. Also, this is one of those 'main character doesn't talk or have any emotions' type games, which were extremely popular back then. The idea was for you the gamer to take the full brunt of the emotions and situations presented to you (kind of like some first person shooters like Half-Life) and the character on screen was just an extension of you, instead of you controlling a person on an adventure who you may or may not agree with. This game pulls it off nicely, although there is still a bit of disconnection, especially now with games being so complex.
Anyway, if you consider yourself a gaming nut and you think you need to know and play all old legendary games to make yourself an expert in the history of gaming, this is a must-play. Play it alongside the popular SNES and Genesis games released in 1991 and see for yourself why all the people (look at all the comments here in IMDb so far) get all teary-eyed when they think back about it. That's the only way to see what people were seeing and expecting of video games and how far the Turbografx and Y's were beyond those expectations. It really was an amazing experience for us
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- Ys I & II
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