Legacy of Ys: Books I & II – Trailer 02

“Trailer 02”

Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished is a Japanese action role-playing game developed by Falcom in 1987. The name is commonly misspelt Y's due to an error on the packaging of the English-language release of the Master System version. Initially developed for the NEC PC-8801, this first installment of the Ys series of video games was ported to other platforms including the MSX 2 and Famicom in its first year. The game saw many subsequent releases, such as English-translated versions for the Sega Master System, DOS, and Apple IIGS, and later bundled remakes for the TurboGrafx-16 and Microsoft Windows. Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished is also slated to be released for Nintendo DS. Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished - The Final Chapter is an action role-playing game developed and published by the Nihon Falcom Corporation, and first released in 1988 for the NEC PC-8801. It is the sequel to Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished, and takes place immediately following the end of the first game. Like its predecessor, Ys II was ported to various other platforms following its first release, such as the NEC PC-9801, MSX 2, and Famicom. It was also ported to the TurboGrafx-16 by Hudson Soft as part of Ys I & II; to date, this is the only version of Ys II that has received an official English release. More recently, it was remade for Microsoft Windows-based PCs as Ys II Eternal, and later as Ys II Complete. Versions of the game have also been developed for mobile phone platforms. Ys II is also slated to be released on Nintendo DS with Ys I ... more