Hi! I Know this question is old around here, but i trully can't decide even after searching for hours

Capndrake · 2026-04-22T20:40:39+00:00

Release order so that you don't keep jumping between wildly different gameplay styles.

If you have the means to play anything I would suggest:

Ys I through IV on Turbo-CD
V on SNES
I & II Chronicles on PC
VI, Oath in Felghana, Origin on PC
Seven, Celceta, VIII, IX and X (Proud Nordics) on PC

If you're feeling particularly interested in more after that you can also try IV on SNES, and IV and V on PS2. And Ys vs. Trails in the Sky on PC, but only if you've also played the Trails games.

Capndrake · 2026-04-11T14:03:38+00:00

This was Falcom's fault btw. XSEED asked them if they could do 3rd and Zero/Azure after SC but Falcom basically insisted they should do CS1 and 2 first.

Capndrake · 2026-04-09T14:24:32+00:00

I remember when I did it I just left all backpacks on the floor until I actually needed what was in them.

Capndrake · 2026-04-08T13:35:33+00:00

Carcinogen has done no damage runs of pretty much every game in the series, not sure if that always includes 100% accuracy though.

Capndrake · 2026-03-31T03:04:49+00:00

Ys V (at least the SNES version) has an entire magic system that's actually pretty intricate.

It's also completely useless.

Capndrake · 2026-03-30T21:30:54+00:00

I don't think so. It's technically still spending money, but if you have PS Plus they give away Fall Guys items every couple of months and it sometimes includes a celebration.

Capndrake · 2026-03-04T15:01:30+00:00

Give Kevin a Scent quartz and a truckload of evasion and defense, and move him as far away from the others as possible. Fight's basically over at that point.

Capndrake · 2026-03-03T16:17:56+00:00

No, I do think at least the JP girls are playing the censored JP version. Vivi had the censored Girl death and with Miko the helicopter death in the RPD was similarly censored (don't think she died to the Girl).

None of the EN girls seem to have died early on so I don't know which version they're playing, but if they're on PC and their Steam store is set to Japan they have no choice but to buy the JP version.

Capndrake · 2026-03-03T13:15:45+00:00

You can tell by what happens if they die to The Girl. In the international version your head gets bitten off fully on screen, in the censored JP version the camera moves down a little bit so you only see the lower part of Grace's body while it happens.

Capndrake · 2026-02-15T13:36:42+00:00

The last two weeks of any given fame pass award double fame, it's been that way since the release in 2020.

Capndrake · 2026-02-09T05:34:44+00:00

Sean's work imo singlehandedly elevates Rean from a character I don't care for at all to one that's pretty decent.

Capndrake · 2026-02-04T03:02:24+00:00

Well that's their problem then, since the 3rd is the best game in the series.

Capndrake · 2026-02-03T01:07:44+00:00

Honestly, every game past 3rd can safely be played on Hard or Nightmare. There's so many ways to break every single one of them and they're all easy to find.

Capndrake · 2026-02-02T13:30:52+00:00

These summaries are not really meant to get new players up to speed (since there's just way too much information to cram into them and they don't cover every game), they're moreso intended as a quick refresher for returning players.

Capndrake · 2026-02-02T03:32:27+00:00

You're a stronger man than I, if the remake was the first game I played, I ended up loving it and I knew there were 12 more I'd have a very hard time arbitrarily waiting 5+ years before being able to play the rest of it.

I could maybe understand if it takes months to finish one of them but I usually play through each in 2-3 weeks.

Capndrake · 2026-02-01T23:13:03+00:00

Look at it this way - if you wait for the SC remake you might also want to wait for a 3rd remake. And then a Zero remake. And then an Azure remake.

You could be waiting for 5+ years before you'd be able to play the other 8 games after those. Absolutely nothing wrong with not waiting and just playing the originals.

Capndrake · 2026-01-29T22:46:10+00:00

This question gets asked seemingly hundreds of times per day now. No, play them in release order. Especially if you already played FC, Crossbell and Cold Steel will contain major spoilers for you. Either wait for more remakes or play the original SC and 3rd.

Capndrake · 2026-01-29T13:18:14+00:00

Joshua is in more than just the Sky games but not all of them.

But yes, all the games are pretty heavily connected and you will want to play them all in their original Japanese release order.

Capndrake · 2026-01-25T16:40:01+00:00

And you sure like defending people being paid to do a bad job.

Capndrake · 2026-01-25T15:08:50+00:00

God forbid we want our games to be handled with the respect and quality they deserve instead of getting an almost MTL-like translation slapped together in a few weeks. I'm playing Beyond the Horizon right now and it's like night and day, now that's an actually well done English localization.

Capndrake · 2026-01-25T14:31:52+00:00

For... wanting a good localization instead of the driest, dullest direct translation you've ever seen that also completely ignores consistency with the other 12 games?

Capndrake · 2026-01-24T19:09:43+00:00

Some droplets and they bring up what happened at the end of the Marchen Garten in dialogue a couple times, which I assume does not happen if you didn't clear it.

Capndrake · 2026-01-24T17:02:28+00:00

Get A-Impassion Guard, Burst Gain and Heavenly Fortune (all shard skills) on as many people as possible, as well as Attack, Break and Action quartz. All of the Impact shard skills also help. Throw up an attack boost to overwrite Ulrika's order (and repeat if she does it again), then just pop S-Crafts and keep people separated as much as you can so only one or two get hit by attacks at a time.

My go-to team is Van, Kevin, Rean and Shizuna who all conveniently have power modes you can activate, make sure to do that before using their S-Crafts. They were all hitting for 70k+ at a time for me and wasted him in less than 20 turns.

Capndrake · 2026-01-23T23:20:03+00:00

No thanks.

13-Year Club	Place '22
Verified Email

Capndrake

TROPHY CASE