https://twitter.com/bowloflentils/status/1525482468077449217?t=a8487erPFoMnkpH4YBuNww&s=19
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Famicom Boom-era gamebooks are the best.
Two points of interest from the Sharp X68000 port of Ys, both of them personal favorites: the title screen music…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8gAPXjzjYQ
...and these two stereotypically Italian NPCs in the first town of the game.
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@Video_Game_King that reminded me that i made a silly youtube playlist based on feena:
This walkthrough for Ys Book I & II is really cool. A lot of hand drawn art and maps etc. I found it last year when I was playing through the first one.
https://annarchive.com/files/Ys-BookI%26II-Guide.pdf
@mindleftbody This guide is cool as hell but it is a liar. I couldn't beat the game following it. You just gotta wonder around the map long enough to eventually have “feel” for the map and situations heh heh……
https://twitter.com/bowloflentils/status/1626569054247960577
https://youtu.be/TS_jWCpMTHs?t=490
Just going through some of my saved screenshots from Ys games…
I really dig Ys Origin's style.
I‘ve been enjoying Revival Xanadu (easy version) and Popful Mail a lot on PC-9801. Might have screwed myself in Xanadu, though. Foolishly thinking enemies would just respawn on the floor I’m in. They don‘t! So now I don’t have any lanterns, or money to get any keys, or any means of doing so by farming any from enemies unless I go to the next floor… but if I level up, then the key prices go up! Anyway Easy Version is still hard. But it rules anyway.
https://twitter.com/jjsignal/status/1627492067822936064?s=20
I'm really in love with the two color backgrounds.
https://twitter.com/jjsignal/status/1630020732796440577?s=20
I still haven't finished any version of Popful Mail, but I'm really more drawn to the PC-9801 version. There's a lot of extra charm to it that isn't quite fully recreated in the Sega CD/PCECD versions (though I do like the voices and localization for that one). I was kinda not down on bump mechanics for a while, but these two games have kinda made me warm up to them.
Going through old PC applications: I‘ve had a portable version of Vantage Master 2 for Windows 95, translated to english, in my backups since about 2009, lol. Looking at any art for the game I can find, it’s pretty awesome:
https://imgur.com/OVdFMfF
HG101 article
The Felghana port on Switch seems excellent. We defo need more of those high definition PSP ports on the console.
https://youtu.be/ijMN6VswEyc
Western release whennnnnn. XSEED doesn’t handle any new Falcom stuff anymore but I’d assume they still have the rights to this game? Or maybe just the PSP/PC versions?
@sabertoothalex It’s probably one of those things that will get announced during a Summer Game Fest stream. The Western publisher for Ys X has also not been announced yet.
The Asian release is handled by Clouded Leopard, as usual, and will come out on May 25. No English inside, though.
@chazumaru Would assume X is NISA yet again since they’re handling all Falcom stuff here now 
Felghana is a curious one though. Hard to know where the rights lie.
BRANDISH S ver. when??
@treefroggy We need more Brandish games in the style of Dark Revenant - it's been like 10 years since I played it and I still want more
