Ah, bummer. Guess I'll wait.The crashing issue is 100% a localization problem that should be fixed. I would caution playing it on PS5 until then, though.
Me too... ;)
While we're on the subject, the music's pretty solid again and I really liked following track:
My favorite overall is still "Sunshine Coastline" from Ys 8, which was the perfect exploration-theme.
What is the overall tech/performance on PS5, crashes aside? 4K with smooth 60fps with no dips, I hope? If the PS5 can't run a game that looks like a borderline PS2 game at a smooth 60... xD
Weak....Pretty sure it's 1080 / 60 on PS5, unless they changed it for the western release.
What's wrong with it?
I see, thanks. Sounds like a bummer but still worth playing... but I'll definitely wait for the patch for those crashes at least.it's basically Ys 8.5 with everything that was good stripped from it, boring ass huge city with the majority of the game taking place in it, boring places to explore outside of it too, super flat!
The combat is still good, but the bosses are for the majority really lame (there was like 2 or 3 that was really good, sadly that was the minority)... didn't help that the framerate was shit even on ps4 pro... but apparently it was fixed with later patches
The dungeons, some of them are nice but most of them are also boring to explore! Some of the characters have great traversal gimmicks to explore with them, but they're barely exploited at all until the last dungeon, so many missed opportunities
Music are still really good at least
I guess people will still enjoy it, but i'm quite more difficult to please in general (these review confirms that, lol)
The game runs 60 FPS on PS5, but seems like there are a decent amount of crashes
@Owl
From RPG Site.com " I have played most of Ys IX on my PS5 and I crashed at least 10 times throughout my 33-hour playthrough of the game; one of them even shutting my PS5 off entirely".
Yes, I had about 10 crashes too during my 35 hours playthrough. Two of them were during cutscene that I had to skip so I could move on. The others occured randomly, mainly while flying around across Balduq. There is an autosave, but because of this I spend the latter half of the game saving manually more than I should have.
It was certainly annoying but on PS5 the framerate is wonderful even in Balduq (it's not as good on PS4 Pro but still decent) and the loading lightning fast (pretty good also on PS4 Pro).
Apparently NISA is aware, so a patch before the relase would be welcomed.
Oh for fucks sake. Hopefully I can cancel my amazon pre-order still.
NISA said they have a patch planned so you might still be good.
As RPG Site reported, NISA are aware of the PS5 issues and are releasing a patch soon. We had to forego a review because I literally couldn't get past chapter 3 due to the crashes. I'd say I had a good 20+ and one of which restarted the console. After seeing the reviews, I launched the game again and crashed twice within 15 mins.
It's NISA. It's not even a meme anymore. It's just expected. It builds character or something.I don't trust NISA at all. For once could they just release a damn game that isn't fucked up in some way.
I loved Ys8 and Oath, but the demo for this game was unbelievably bad. It looked like complete shit and the two dungeons they let you explore were absurdly bland. The reviews seem good though. Pretty conflicted.
Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but is Ys a series with fan service type elements or no? Just not my jam.
Ok, neat. Thank you. That's exactly what I was asking. Is this the game series with the bump combat? If so, does it get more complex/involved as it goes on? Forgive me if I'm thinking of the wrong series. And does this entry seem like a good jumping-on point?Not really? Like I guess some of the designs can look a bit dumb but I don't know that I've ever seen any character "being sexy" or flaunting anything or I guess I don't know what you're asking. No there's zero focus on sexy waifu I guess is my answer. The series is 90s anime action Zelda played very straight for the most part.
Only the early 8/16-bit era games had the bump system combat, they're regular party-based (since 7) action RPGs now.Ok, neat. Thank you. That's exactly what I was asking. Is this the game series with the bump combat? If so, does it get more complex/involved as it goes on? Forgive me if I'm thinking of the wrong series. And does this entry seem like a good jumping-on point?
FWIW, the Ys games go on sale quicker and more often than the Atelier games. This seems like a safe one to wait onHmmmm wonder if I should go ahead and pick up
Atelier Ryza 2 instead of this.
Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but is Ys a series with fan service type elements or no? Just not my jam.
Yes it's the series with bump combat but that hasn't been a thing since 1993 (excluding Ys 1 & 2 remakes). Some would argue it's too complex now with all the character switching and whatnot involved.Ok, neat. Thank you. That's exactly what I was asking. Is this the game series with the bump combat? If so, does it get more complex/involved as it goes on? Forgive me if I'm thinking of the wrong series. And does this entry seem like a good jumping-on point?
Different dev. Ys VIII was ported by the Disgaea team at NIS basically while Ys IX is being ported by Engine Software (who has a very good track record on Switch btw).I enjoyed YS 8 on switch but the performance issues on PS4 has me worried about getting YS 9 on Switch