Ys I & II | |
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Developer(s) |
Nihon Falcom Alfa System (PCE/TGCD) Team Digi (PS2) Dreams (DS) |
Publisher(s) | Nihon Falcom Hudson Soft Xseed Games (PC - International) Atlus (DS - International) |
Designer(s) |
Masaya Hashimoto (director, designer) Tomoyoshi Miyazaki (scenario writer) |
Programmer(s) | Masaya Hashimoto (original) Hiromasa Iwasaki (remake) |
Composer(s) |
Yuzo Koshiro (original) Mieko Ishikawa (original) Ryo Yonemitsu (arranger) |
Series | Ys |
Platform(s) | PC Engine CD-ROM², PC, PlayStation 2, Virtual Console, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Network |
Release date(s) |
PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16
Microsoft Windows
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Genre(s) | Action role-playing game |
Mode(s) | Single player |
Review scores | |||
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Publication | Score | ||
PC | TurboGrafx-16 | Wii | |
CGW | Positive | ||
Dragon | |||
EGM | 35 / 40 | ||
Famitsu | 35 / 40 10 / 10 |
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GamePro | 5 / 5 | ||
IGN | 8.5 / 10 | ||
Nintendo Life | |||
RPGFan | 100% | 92% | |
TurboPlay |
Awards | |
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Publication | Award |
OMNI Magazine | Game of the Year |
Electronic Gaming Monthly | Best RPG Video Game, Best BGM and Sound in a Video Game |
Atlus,Gamasutra,GamesTM,GameZone, Hardcore Gaming 101, RPGamer, RPGFan |
Best Game Music of All Time |
Electronic Gaming Monthly,1UP,GameSpot | Best Games of All Time |
Ys I & II (イースI・II Īsu Wan Tsū?) is a Japanese action role-playing video game compilation consisting of enhanced remakes of the first two Ys games, released for the PC Engine CD-ROM² System by Nihon Falcom and Hudson Soft in 1989. It was released as Ys Book I & II for the TurboGrafx-CD in North America in 1990, and was a pack-in title for the TurboDuo in 1992.
Ys I & II was released on the Virtual Console in Japan on October 16, 2007, in North America on August 25, 2008, and in Europe and Australia on September 5, 2008.
Ys I & II consists of enhanced remakes of the first two games released in the Ys series, Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished and Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished – The Final Chapter. It was one of the first video games to use CD-ROM, which was utilized to provide enhanced graphics, animated cut scenes, a Red Book CD audio soundtrack, and voice acting. The game's English localization was also one of the first to use voice dubbing. The game uses over 500 megabytes of CD-ROM storage, including 43 music tracks, 24 minutes of character voice acting, and 20 minutes of animated cutscene sequences.