Tradeghouls 'n ghosts Origin is actually the first Ys game I’ve ever played, though I’d only played for an hour or so before getting distracted and playing something else. That was a couple years ago now, back when I thought there’d be no way I could catch up on such a long running series…turns out it’s not as daunting as I thought. Anyway! I played through to the second zone tonight, and I gotta say I’m digging the game a lot more now that I have context for all the people and places. This next bit isn’t a story spoiler but since I know there’s someone else playing through the series I wanna keep basic gameplay details under wraps in case they want to go in completely blind. Would you recommend playing both characters back to back, or are both characters’ stories similar enough to be a bit of a drag if played in succession?
Mnemogenic You’ve been posting about your journey in this thread, ya? I remember seeing some Ys posts throughout the year and those are what gave me the push to finally dive in. Assuming I’m remembering correctly, thanks for posting and making the games sound fun! I enjoyed IV a good deal, but II had a couple of fist-pump inducing moments that are hard to beat imo. Plus I really liked being able to give people gifts!
I told myself I’d play them in release order but when I found out there were like, four meaningfully different versions of IV, only one of which was made by Falcom, and that that version wasn’t released until sometime in the 2010s…well I decided that I’d have to play all of those versions, but playing two versions of IV in a row to stick to release order would probably burn me out. So now I’m getting a little wild with it, and will be sprinkling in Origin and the other IVs when I think I’ll enjoy them the most.
