Among its contemporaries, including others in the Ys series, Origin is incredibly easy to get to grips with. This ease of progress (in terms of accessibility, not game difficulty) leads to an action RPG that feels downright friendly, which to this reviewer is a bit of a departure from what can be a somewhat alienating genre. You level up pretty quickly, too, so it's great fun to combine the necessary murdering with a quick sweep of the dungeon for hidden treasure chests. Said dungeons are surprisingly breezy to navigate, thanks to your characters' ease of control and speedy movement – bashing your way through rooms is so effortless in terms of basic navigation that you'll never feel like Ys Origin is a slog, even when the difficulty spikes upwards.ĭestroying enemies results in a shower of glimmering items, from SP (spendable on permanent upgrades at save points) to health regains to temporary buffs it triggers a mini version of that tingly Diablo effect watching items fly out of the enemy you've skilfully dispatched. It never gets much more complex, but it doesn't need to the escalating design introducing stronger enemies and environmental hazards always keeps you on your toes, and considering it's a game in which you spend much of your time fighting enemies, said fighting never stops being a total blast.Īt the start, you'll pick a character – either hack n' slash Yunica or ranged attacker Hugo – then set out into a fairly linear ascension of the massive Darm Tower, each floor of which effectively encapsulates a "dungeon", through which you'll have to crawl. It's that momentum that makes it work – the meat and potatoes gameplay of it all is very familiar stuff – run, jump, attack, magic attack. Here's the thing, though – regardless of your attachment to its host franchise, Ys Origin is excellent fun.Ĭaptured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) No doubt that statement will have many series fans gnashing their teeth at this writer's ignorance, and for that, we can only apologise not being what you'd call a committed fan of the long-running Ys series, you might wonder if a useful position can actually be offered. An action-RPG with the "action" part very much writ large we found it more akin to the likes of Gauntlet than, say, the Zelda series. The momentum of Ys Origin is quite something. ![]() Thankfully, now it's on the Switch we can see that it has held up brilliantly, and is well worth playing whether it's for the first time or one of many encore playthroughs. ![]() Well, technically, a lot of people already saw it in 2006 when it originally released, or 2012 when it was initially localised. Nihon Falcom's Ys (pronounced "eese") been around since the days of the PC-8800, but only now are we seeing this formative tale in the enormously popular saga.
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