Ys: Foliage Ocean in Celceta - i'm playing it right now

well my classmate just bought his Ys: Foliage Ocean in Celceta a few days ago at a local game shop here in hong kong, i'm been watching alot of people in the streets playing this game and i've stood at a few game shops ogling at people playing it so i'm so happy now that i finally get to try this game even though i'm only borrowing it, i have to give him back his PSV by next morning so i'll give you guys a quick rundown of what this game is like, i'm loading his save file though since he beated this himself i have no idea what the story's going on about but i'll update the thread when i can borrow it from him again.

one important thing, adol finally speaks with a voice after 20 years. i'm still getting used to it...

here are the controls:
the direction pad: up down left right
the left analog stick: same
the right analog stick: move in menu
start for menu, select for map

triangle button: defend command and to trigger memory fragment
square button: switch characters
X button: dodge, dash
O button: attack, confirm
L button: special KO attack
R button: use in combination with other attacks


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-Memory fragment-

IMPORTANT

basically when you get near a bunch of crates at the entrance of the dungeon,
the screen will start getting fuzzy and sizzling out as if some crazy tv signal is interfering with it, the crates will glow and when you walk towards it and press the trangle button a memory fragment of adol will be briefly shown and captured.

throughout the rest of the game you will collect these memory fragments will will gradually restore adol's memory as well as his fighting capabilities, there are numerous flashbacks depicting Adol's past adventures and the people he's met, aftewhich the memory can be freely accessed and seen again in the menus

this game is a real treat for us chinese YS old-timers, there's so much tributes paid to adol's past in this game, words just cannot express how i feel right now. i mean, even a little wee lad adol and his red hair DAD of all people is in one of the memory fragments in THIS GAME! good GOD!


-adol's tonestone

there's a tonestone with adol's name on it

there's a manual in it, that's all.



-angel's betrayal

the angel エルディール, his wings and hair turns from white to black as he reveals his true form and intention.

i feel so sorry for リーザ, since she's in love with him.

i'm loading to my friend's final ending save now.





-the mask of the sun



the final battle takes place atop of the volcano mountain with all your companions gone,
then you fight [ the false god phantom] . i'm translating his name directly from kanji so i'm probably got his name wrong.

after placing the mask of the sun in the volcano, you'll receive the final memory fragment
[ adventurer ]



the ending...well.... i will never forget it.

i bought the chinese pc version of YS 1&2 eternal back in 2001, so Lilia will always be my heroine, even though the age old debate of whether she is the mother of adol's child comes to a final end with this remake's only cannon ending.

this story of this game is both Dawn of Ys and Mask of the Sun, the story of these 2 older games have been combined into Foilage Ocean in Celceta.

alot of western folks who claims to be be old YS fans are calling this game a remake of dawn of ys while asking about where dogi went. i can't believe this.

in my mind, they're just fake fans to me.

that's like saying
"i am an old fan of the beatles and i know everything about the beatles i've been listening to their songs for many years.
anyways too bad John Lennon retired, now the beatles broke up and they don't have any new songs anymore."

GOOD GOD!



a bit of histroy i've had with the Ys series:

The chinese pc version of YS 1&2 eternal was released in hong kong in 2001

The chinese pc version of Ys 6 the ark of naphistim was also released in hong kong in 2004
which i talked abit about in neoseeker back in 2004, in mml2pc thread.

Ys Oath in Falganna and Ys origin released in hong kong as chinese pc version in 2008

Finally Ys 7 the seventh dragon was released as a chinese pc version in hong kong just a month ago by typhoon games,

in other words....

if the chinese pc version of this Ys: Foliage Ocean in Celceta comes out sometime in the future, you can bet that i'll buy it and post back here.

Falcom may have decided to move on to the PSP platform, but the chinese pc porting companies will never abadon the YS pc heritage

Let's hope it does.

This was purchased at a local video game shop here in hong kong

The pc version release depends on the sales of Ys 7 pc
Since Falcom abandoned the pc market and stopped making pc games this means the porting will have to be done by the chinese companies, since the psv system is not like the dreamcast which uses native windowsNT and directx the porting time should be even longer than the psp to pc port of ys 7.
So....
Dont expect to see it for atleast 5 more years

(Update)


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Ive finished the whole thing

-the girl of adol's memory-

Liza: this important person to you...do you remember her name?
Adol: her name was Lilia


Theres a part when Liza asks Adol about the girl he talked about, you can choose to answer lilia or somebody elses name


-the power of the dark side
The angel was the one who destoryed the winged race with the mask of the sun
after he fell to the dark side

To atone for his past mistake, he gifted the human who came to him with his race's wisedom and knowledge. He set up a magic memory erasing barrier around his residence so ppl who have met him will have their memories and the knowledge theyre gifted with erased once they step outside the barrier, their memories on its own would in time be gradually restored, this was to prevent the knowledge from being misused by the humans.

After meeting adol, the angel starts falling to the darkside again, he gives the mask of the sun to adol and told him to get it away from him, however as adol ran he chases after him to try and take back the mask, coming to the edge of a cliff he blasts adol off it.

As adol fell he loses all his memories since he fell outside the memory barrier

The first chapter of ys celceta begins at this point. The villagers built a grave for adol thinking that he had died and buried his stuff with it


-the mysterious big man-

there's a memory fragment [ mysterious big man ]

adol has a flashback of when he's talking to a "mysterious big man" who is hinted to be dogi, and they decided to come with the doctor from Ys1 to the land of celceta to research on the celceta flower. the mysterious big man told adol to stay put while he takes a sample of the flower back for lilia but adol decided to do some exploring, during his exploration adol kept a journal and drew some pictures of what he saw in celceta before he was attacked by a certain girl of the treefolks.