My only real taste of Ys previously came from the spinoff RTS game on the DS. Needless to say the experience did not end well due to poor design and hilariously broken gameplay mechanics. However, with XSEED translating and releasing numerous entries of the core series to Steam this seemed like the ideal time to see if Ys was all it was cracked up to be.
Yes. Yes it was and you should be buying Ys Origin right now if you haven't already.
The game is set roughly 700 years prior to the first game of the series and, as the title suggests, tells the origin story of the events that would eventually lead up to the adventures of Adol. The world was thrown into turmoil when demons attacked and, as a last resort, the twin goddesses used their power to lift Solomon Shrine away from the chaos into the safety of the sky. In response the demons built a huge tower in order to continue their attack. During this time the twin goddess vanished, leading to the people of Ys to send a search party to the...
