Ys (Famicom) Playthrough [English]
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- čas přidán 12. 06. 2024
- A playthrough of Victor Musical Industries' 1988 action-RPG for the Nintendo Famicom, Ys (イース).
This video was recorded with a copy of the game that had an English fan translation patch applied. You can find the patch at www.romhacking.net/translatio...
Though Ys 1 for the Master System ( • Ys: The Vanished Omens... ) was the only Ys game to hit third generation consoles in the west, Japan saw the first three games in the series brought to the Nintendo Famicom. All three were developed by Advance Communication Company, best known as the creators of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyd... ), and were published by Victor between 1988 and 1991. The Famicom's Ys 1 landed on Japanese store shelves five weeks ahead of Sega's version, making it the first version of the game to be released on a dedicated game console.
Most of the main characters and plot beats remain faithful to the original, but unlike every other port of Ys 1 to be released in the 80s, this one makes several significant changes to the core game:
-The layouts of the overworld, town, and dungeon maps have been completely redesigned.
-A couple of new story events have been added. To clear a path to the mines, a flute that you obtain from a spirit has to be played to dry up a lake, and there's a new door puzzle that has to be solved in Minea.
-There are two new bosses introduced in Darm Tower, and the final battle with Dark Fact takes place in a new location.
-Adol can only move in half-tile increments, and this simplification removes much of the strategy and challenge from the bump combat system.
-Many of the songs have been replaced with new tracks created exclusively for the Famicom port.
These changes all make Famicom Ys feel very different from its computer and Master System counterparts. The Famicom version's smooth screen scrolling is welcome and the controls are a natural fit for the gamepad, but the most substantive changes throw off the balance of the difficulty level and feel like unnecessary intrusions on Falcom's original game design, and navigation is now often frustrating thanks to the way Adol has to be right near the edge of the screen to make the playfield scroll.
Overall, it's not a bad effort, but it might leave a sour taste in the mouth of anyone who first experienced the game on another platform. The TurboGrafx-CD version ( • Ys Book I & II (TurboG... ) certainly spoiled me.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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This Japan-only Famicom port of the first Ys game takes some interesting liberties with the game's design, but it doesn't quite live up to its namesake.
Hahahaha, that red fox (?) one-shotted you. Since it was so powerful and so tanky, surely it must be worth so many EXP! Oh? What's that? It was only worth 2? Oh. 🫠
@@LPetal86Haha ikr? Thank God the game has a spammable save feature for moments like that.
i got to admit these old famicon games are quite fasinationg nintendocomplete. and the more i watch your work the more i am inspired to improve my own retro game collection so thanks for all these walkthoughs.
That's great to hear, thanks!
@@NintendoComplete anytime and this channel is proof that sometimes the old ways of gaming are the best
And here I was just listening the other day to the PC-88/98 OSTs for "YU-NO" and "Ys"! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
The graphics and music of this game make me nostalgic, I never tried it (I was barely able to try the original) but it looks pretty good and maybe worth a try.
Yuzo Koshiro's work sounds great NES style.
Was actually considering giving this version a shot. I really enjoyed Ys 3 on the Famicom.
I was actually pretty amazed by how competently made Famicom's Ys 3 was.
I don't remember Ys being released on the Nintendo Famicom. I own the SEGA Master System version.
That's the Master System and Famicom versions down. Just the Turbo-CD and PSP versions to go.
If I wanted to do all the console games, I'd probably have to toss in the Saturn remake as well.
Whys? Bcus.
are planning to do ys 2 soon?
Indeed I am.
Il primo gioco con cui ho iniziato a videogiocare su master system 1990
Does any1 know what famicom is?
It's the Japanese NES
@@NintendoComplete OK thanks
Usually the Famicom/NES has superior sound and music to the SMS. But this is definitely a downgrade from the latter's port. If I heard it by itself, half the time I would never guess it was _Ys: Vanished Omens._ The graphics...well, that's goes without saying. The SMS always had superior graphics but inferior marketing.
Yeah, a lot about this version wasn't quite up to snuff. The FC port of Ys 2 was much better.
@@NintendoComplete Having played it myself, I couldn't get past the Burning Lands because the text bugged out so bad I couldn't tell what to do next, so IDK about that. I've only ever played the PC CD port all the way through.
Out of curiosity, will you upload a playthrough of Ys I on Apple IIGS or MS-DOS? They're really interesting ports, as they were developed by an American company specifically for the western market
I was surprised they even took a chance on a DOS port for the American market.
I might. I was thinking about it.
@@VahanNisanianI'm a little surprised we only got the first one. I would've expected Sierra to pick up 2 and 3. I mean, they handled the Dos port of Sorcerian and several Game Arts titles.