I've never played an Ys game. And if you read my other post "Gaming frustation and me" you know that I'm working on improving my gaming skills.
Ys was brought to my attention by the youtuber EpicNameBro. As he decided to play the game on nightmare, blind without knowing what's coming up, I decided to do the same thing.
As the meme goes, "challenge accepted!"
It's easy to praise Ys for what it does well so lets focus on some negatives first. In Ys: Origins. The characters aren't really personalized enough that you would care about them neither are they obscure enough that you would want to know more. The story is simply a vessel to take you from one point to the other in the game, a vessel that sometimes just takes to much of your time, especially when the gameplay is so satisfying.
The basic gameplay is simple enough. You fight baddies in rooms, each enemy has it's own set of attack(s) and when they combine sometimes it can get pretty damn deadly.
I'm playing the axe wielding girl named Yunica and to support my journey through the tower I have a small array of skills that I can use to my advantage and the occasional powerup that I can activate at will.
Like arguably most RPGs you gather experience and level up. Levels are incredibly well balanced. Either you are underlevelled and thinks will wreak you apart if your not very careful, or you are the proper level, which seems to be quite rare, or you are slightly overlevelled which means you will tear through normal enemies while bosses will still make barbecue of you.
Speaking of bosses, at first I almost thought I'd give up at the miniboss, but needless to say obsession had already set in and I just HAD to do it.
Let's just say it was merely an easy warmup for what was to come for the first real boss of the game. Now Im sitting here victorious with this incredibly sense of archivement.
An sense of archivement I urge you all to become a part of by getting the game for yourself.
Signed, Peter Elvin
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