Ys SEVEN

The most 7/10 game I've ever played. SP generation takes so long until you get the wind seal about a third of the way in

This is truely a gem and great introduction into the YS series I highly recommend it

Mid-Game/Mid-to-Late Game spoilers.

So, you want me to save your corrupt, classist, hyper-capitalist, settler-colony of a nation where its guards creep on women and was founded from the genocide of the native Iskan tribe after you just framed me for regicide without as much as a fair trial or investigation, tortured me endlessly and threw me into a pit against a dangerous, raging titano with only a sword to my name just because I was the "only foreigner around" who got "buddy buddy" with King Kiemarl and you don't know what the fuck an "Adventurer" is despite me having no motive nor reason to kill the king.

...yeah, I'm good. Fuck you.

Tialuna, do your thing.

Besides, wasn't there supposed to be a fucking guard right outside the king's private quarters? Where the fuck did his ass fuck off to while all this was happening?

What a shame, as not many JRPGs take place in Africa (which they should, cause holy fuck is the market for it so dry). Guess I'll have to wait until Falcom decides to get their ass into remaking Ys 5, since that's the only other JRPG that I know that takes place in Africa (Egypt to be exact).

In the meantime I'll be playing The Peak of Napishtim and Lacrimosa of Peak as a palette cleanser. Cause ew.

why is the ys seven.exe file detected as virus by kaspersky??

sh1 t padded game with a switching mechanic that isn't even used on the final boss, disgusting game and disgusting translation with that chungus reddit karma movie reverences left and right.

IGN/10 (7.8/10) you can play it or skip it - it's rough around the edges since its the transition point from the Ark System the Party System which continued for four games. The game was still fun albeit extremely slow to the point you'd have to hold down the button but keep having to release it so dialog won't skip, and you wouldn't have to reload a save to catch up on what you missed reading.

There were framerate issues as well that made combat a little more clunky and especially during boss fights where the camera works against you most of the time (you may get a little nauseous from how it whips you back and forth).

I really wanted to like this, I really did, the story was great and it's one of the friendliest series I've found for someone very much directionaly challenged. Unfortunately this game was essentially the first implementation of party play at the time. Which, unfortunately some not so great decisions were made in designing the systems for the game.

However, that's not even the worst part. The worst part is the speed of gameplay and movement. You'll be rolling for 80% of the game to get places because the default speed is atrocious (despite some characters being faster than others, speed never improves). The speed of attacks are atrocious as well. This effects doing boss fights as the slowness of rolling can throw you off and the flash guard window is kind of weird. When you get to cutscenes it takes **forever** for characters to do simple movements. I hope it gets a remake

Probably the worst part was Finding out you have to use all 7 characters in the end boss fight. Adol getting special treatment is fine, but having to handle 7 different characters? Not only that but Adol, despite having ultimate gear, felt subpar damage wise in the last part. The same Adol who, up until then, had be traditionally been taking care of things solo. He's the hero of the series let my man be OP and awaken his true powers!

How party capable players were introduced also felt very inconsistent. I kind of wish everyone just stayed in the party all the time. In fact one of my pet peeves in RPGs with lots of potential party candidates is when you invest a lot in a character who you like and somewhere in the game they get ejected and don't come back for a while.

Another issue I had was how they did different damage types. Power types were made slow for a reason but given that attacks overall are slow this makes the whole experience painful. Don't even get me started on Dogi's terrible aim.

Then there's the ranged attackers. Normally with the party type games with different damage types you do reduced damage if your attack type is incompatible. Even so that reduced damage is still damage. What did they do with ranged attacks? They get auto-guarded for high armor type enemies. No damage at all, no SP buildup, just auto-guarded. Should have just been reduced damage like the other types.

Adol's weapons were also really weird. At a point you have the ability to give Adol swords with different damage types. This makes party compositions really weird. Especially so because weapon upgrades can often change Adol's damage type which just makes things really inconsistent. Well, unless you're working in a boss fight maybe.

I love pixel art RPG's with artstyle from the NES, SNES or PS1 era. I also love modern games with 3D graphics, whether realistic or cartoon/anime inspired. You know what I've always hated even since back in the day when it was a thing? 3D polygonal graphics that make the characters look like they're made or cardboard or orignami paper. So here we are, the first "modern" Ys and the fifth in my playthrough of the series following the gameplay-oriented suggested order.

Thankfully, this one doesn't look Final Fantasy VII levels of blocky, nor Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song levels of ugly polygonal anime characters, so after about an hour I got used to the new way the characters looked, even if I still think the way they looked in Ark of Napishtim or Oath of Fhelgana is my favorite so far.

Amazingly enough, this time around instead of washing ashore after a shipwreck or some other boat-related mishap, Adol makes his way with Dogi to the kingdom of Altago though, as it was bound to happen, Adol ends up becoming a chosen one destined to save this land from some ancient evil, like he does every few months or so, only this time you get to form a party of adventurers with his long-time bro Dogi and some new characters and you can cycle between them in combat.

This time around instead of emelas weapons, rods or bracelets for spell-casting, you get some local weapons that allow you do special attacks and as part of his chosen one role Adol gets some special elemental attacks granted to him by the Five Ancient Dragons who called upon him to save Altago.

The word is much bigger, with larger towns/cities, much larger sections connecting each location, and a ton of NPC's, several of which can join your party. Oddly enough, you can no longer jump, and instead you have a dash button. Also, there's an equipment crafting mechanic and some other small differences, but overall it still feels like Ys.

I did like that everything feels larger and more detailed, but the downside is that, as games of this era were wont to do, you get the usual boring fetch side quests and stuff like that which include a lot of backtracking through way bigger maps than ever before, instead of actual interesting side quests.

On average I'm enjoying the game, but it's probably my least favorite so far not counting the very first one, and that one has the excuse of being ancient and outdated in many respects.

Also, this one for some reason ran correctly on my Steam Deck after trying out about half a dozen different Proton tools, but the screen didn't fit and I could only see part of the images being displayed, so I had to tinker with the resolution until it did, both from outside and inside the game.

Then, every time I went to a different screen in the game, for instance when I entered a house, it took like 10 or 15 seconds with the message Now Loading...even when the house was small and had like one NPC inse, which was ridiculous. Finally, it started working correctly after I went to the options menu in the game from the camp menu and changed the screen to "Borderless." Why? Who knows. This is the only game in the franchise that was required any troubleshooting to run.

Ah yes. Ys Seven. The 8th game chronologically.

10/10

This is such an underrated Ys game. I'm going through the whole series now and played in a weird order so I've played all but Oath and Memories of Celceta. I expected this to be a meh game based on everything I've read about Ys but this is easily one of my favorites. This is such a great Ys game, don't skip it

I wrote the above while I was in the final dungeon still. After the ending, this might be my favorite Ys game. Enjoy your depression after finishing Ys Seven

Out of all the Ys games I've played this is probably the only one I don't like.

you should play this game if you love old jrpg games
also i hope falcom would remaster ys v kelfin

game

Right After Ys Ark of Napishtim
the Pirate Ship that Adol boarded with Dogi has reached the Region of Altago.
and in not so surprising turn of events our boy was chosen by the Dragons.
Adol Christin was chosen by Grand Master Oogway (Moon Dragon) to become the Dragon Warrior. and do the Row Row Fight the Power against the higher power that seek destruction upon the land of Altago.
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the first half is for you getting used to the Party and Attack Style Mechanic but the combat is still hack n slash.
Attack types are consist of Cutting(sword, polearm and Dual Blade). Bashing(Fist and Hammer) and Shooting (Bow and Staff).
At the Skill part. you need to level up your weapon (once is enough) to unlock its skill to your list.
You gets 4 quickslot for your skills and 1 EXTRA gauge to fill up which is your ultimate.
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Dogi became playable.
Dogi is a Bashing Type with his Fist (as expected from the wall breaking friend of ours)
Geis is also in this game and he is playable.
Adol cant jump dash or measure girls.
But Adol can dodge Roll (its like hes equipped with level 3 Extended Evasion)
Adol's equipment is still Sword, Shield and Armor [tho he can use rapier and greatsword later which can change his Attack type]

..its is a good Ys after all
admit that i got bored at the first half but the second half makes the game more enjoyable and i even farm the materials and synthesized the final weapons right before the end. 👍👍👍

🎶 Game :- JRPG
Enjoyable
Story :- Good
Graphics :- Good
Difficulty :- Balanced
Battle system:- Good

11/10 - Best Ys

Sideways thumb.

This was quite the disappointment. This is the first Ys game to start using party combat, and boy does that have me worried for the next games (I own Celceta & Ys VIII, so I'm going to try them eventually).

So Ys had a string of games that were pretty solid 8/10's (at least to me) with Naphistim, Felghana & Origin. If you've played one of those, the others were predictable, the gameplay would be pretty much the same.

With this game, Ys introduced the character swap mechanic in place of the fire/thunder/etc weapons, and this system just feels worse/more convoluted than the previous.

It's not at all difficult to grasp or anything, but it just feels like you're swapping characters to the one most effective at dealing damage to specific enemy types and regardless of whom you swap too, you're using your basic attack and occasionally your big attacks. Some of these basic attacks are slow, or ranged with a very limited range, they don't feel particularly great, whereas when you used your various weapon skills in the previous Ys games, they each had their place and felt more powerful/better to use. The combat system here does have more special attacks and things going on with it, but it feels like a downgrade from the previous games.

Other changes that don't improve the gameplay, and in some ways made it worse:

Your jump has been replaced with a dash. Okay, so dashing out of the way of enemies is fine, but I enjoyed being able to jump and was missing it here, it also led to more interesting level design and platforming in the previous games.

You get different stat bonuses depending on which 3 characters you use, but this doesn't feel interesting or important to develop any kind of synergy.

They added crafting ingredients which you collect, which feels needless, though seemed at least be straightforward and mostly inoffensive.

Often enemies die and remain there to be whacked a few times to drop extra resources, it serves as a needless, minor nuisance.

Enemies respawn now after a period of time, even if you don't leave an area, like in an MMORPG. I'd prefer them not too, but whatever, okay.

On another note, a game is also more immersive to me when you feel like you're adventuring alone rather than with a jumble of characters on the screen, it makes you feel more isolated in your environments.

The game otherwise appears to follow most of the usual Ys formula, though feels a bit sparse/bland in its area design (probably in part due to jumping being taken away).

Apparently the next Ys games are doubling down on this party system, so yeah, this was disappointing, and the future looks bleak. Whilst the previous games had a streamlined machine going, they were quite repetitive and I agree with the decision to try and mix things up a bit, but this wasn't the sauce that the series needed, and in fact has led to the combat actually becoming more dull and repetitive. It's quite playable and fine, but just incredibly bland compared to the previous games, mid at best.

Other issues, mostly technical:

-The game doesn’t launch in full screen mode and I had to check the Steam discussion page to find a way to make Steam launch a configuration tool which then allowed me to fix that. Pretty shoddy, but easily remedied.

-The title screen has a portion of the screen cut off. This is fortunately only on this one screen, so it isn’t a big deal but again, shoddy.

-At the start of the game, I visited every possible location & NPC in the town and appeared to be stuck/trapped. Apparently the game relies on your entering one of the screens from a specific side in order to trigger a crucial cutscene, which I eventually stumbled upon running in circles around the place. Poor design.

-Sound effects were a little too loud in relation to the music, you can adjust that with the volume sliders in the game, but by default you’d expect that to get picked up during testing. I’ll add that some character sounds still sounded too loud.

-I was beating most of these bosses on the first try on Normal difficulty, but I don't think making them spongier by playing on harder would've made them more interesting encounters.

AISHA

Beginning was pretty tedious to be honest but it picked up a good amount after 7-8 hours. Ended up liking it a lot in the end.

For me, this is the exact point that Ys started going downhill into mediocrity. The game just feels very "chunky" and not nearly as sleek visually or in terms of gameplay in comparison to previous entries. The boss fights, which are the highlights in any Ys game, began lacking from this point on. Their patterns became not nearly as well thought out or designed and end up being forgettable. The whole game is forgettable. It's been a little while since I completed Ys SEVEN and yet I remember so little of it. That's in stark contrast to the previous 3 games that came before SEVEN that are practically burned into memory. Ys SEVEN feels like just another action game.

After playing through all of it i can say without a doubt it's very ok, not the best Ys i have ever played but it's ok and for a game that was originally on PSP it's very ambitious.

the first ys game to feature party member & transition to new engine, there is definitely some rough edge but overall an okay ys game, with fun exploration and dungeon

Story was good, i liked the plot twists
Characters were alright but ill let it slide since its the first ys game dealing with many party members and it does improve in VIII
Gameplay is good, though i do miss being able to jump
Only really bad part is if you plan too 100%, i wouldnt wish this on my worst enemy cause the grind for skills is abysmal so it takes like 5 hours of breaking crystals and spamming skills for what took me 5 hours for one achievement (this is the fastest method)
Its a Falcom game so the music is peak and this one is a bit of a cut above the rest

Overall good game 8/10

A fun JRPG with up to seven playable characters, each with its own strengths, skills and combat style. I loved changing around through the game and trying out their skills!

The story is about 25 hours, give or take, and has some good moments. Some of the bosses do pose a challenge, especially the Final Boss, but overall it's kind of an easyish game unless you play on Nightmare difficulty.

If you're looking for a straightforward Japanese/action RPG with fun characters, try this one!

It doesn't say, but Ys Seven does work on Steam Deck. Though it doesn't support the native resolution, so you'll have to be happy with 720p and having black bars on top and bottom. The game does run in 4K 60fps in you play in desktop mode.

This is an absolutely great game and I highlynrecommend it. It's a bit archaic and short, but it's pure simple fun.