I’ve enjoyed Japanese role-playing games ever since I first encountered the likes of Dragon Quest and Faxanadu in the late 1980s (earlier if The Legend of Zelda counts in your JRPG book, as it does in mine). I’ve played most of the big franchises since then, but I’ve never been able to get into one of them: Ys, a long-lived action-RPG series.
On Tuesday, Dotemu announced it’s bringing a modernized Ys Origin to the Switch, with a special boxed version from Limited Run Games. It’s coming later this year. I’ve never played this installment, which publisher/developer Nihon Falcom first launched in 1987 (Xseed is one of the series’ publishers in the West). This kicked off a franchise that would grow to 16 releases (some of which are remakes).
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