I have yet to do the other character yet but since his story seems to be quite different from theres i feel justified in a completed....
so.... lets get a few things out of the way.
I am a falcom fan girl... they are fun an challenging games with amazing music and a decent enough plot to get through it.
Ys Origin tends not to be peoples fav game in series and i can agree but also disagree.
Things that kinda suck -
No Adol.... apparently he's a secret character but for the purpose of this review i'm gunna pretend like he doesn't exist cause this game takes place 700 years before Adol shows up.
doesn't matter who you choose (between yunica and hugo who at the start are the only two you can choose from) you're going to be playing the same game over again but instead of one being the reason everything happens it'll be the other.
even though the two bump into each other specific plot elements don't stay the same... so say a character dies in one story line... they may not in the other....
The water portion.... first you have to get an item from a boss so you can hold your breath for longer.... then you have to rush through a room with unkillable enemies... then you have to find fruit that refils your oxygen cause if that bar runs out... you die... anyways you have to find the magic to kill the unkillable enemies (which is WAY trickier to use underwater as hugo then it is Yunica.... more on why later) anyways the point is i hate being put on a timer.....
But honestly.... that doesn't make this game bad.
so whats good?
The characters play extremely different....
Yunica can only use melee.... kinda... she gets magic like abilities but no one ever says they are magic so...... yeah....
Hugo on the other hand has like long range blast attack which are weaker but hit faster and from father away.... his type of magic is way trickier to use since the wind creates a shield... fire does like beam attacks and lightning does the times bombs that stay at the elevation you put them at.... so it's tricky.
If i had to pick a character i liked more... i'd go for hugo since he has more of a character arc while yunica kinda acts ditzy through the entire game.... though i like yunica's interactions with other people more.... except for one puzzle..... i'll touch on that later.
As always the music is top notch, J.D.K you have outdone yourself for this game... i especially like the music for the topmost part of the tower...
the story is okay... i've said this before but you don't play falcom games for the story.... but it's decent.... The two godesses have vanished from the Solomin shrine which floats in the air and have been spotted on the surface of the world... a group heads out to bring them back with the hopes of figuring out why they left without saying a world.... of course everything doesn't go as planned when they find out that there are still 'human' who leave on the barren surface.
the length is decent... i have spent 15 hours on each story only cause i level up as much as i can before bosses. still didn't get the 'increase movement' blessing... too much SP..... fun fact that fastest way to get SP is to go to blighted blood 2 and go to the room before with those purple gel things.... just keep clearing out that room and you'll have enough sp in no time... the only reason i didn't was because i was valuing experience over sp at that point.
it's an action based RPG and depending on how fast you kill monsters you get multipliers for things like strength, mp, defense and even experience..... from what i can gather this game originally came out after Ys 3 but before ys 7 (they've been redoing the games so the order is more then a little messed up.)
it is 20 bucks on steam... i say it's worth it for replay value alone plus it's fun...
and if you like hard games.... this is the one... even on normal it's chllenging.... i was stupid to play hugo's story on hard.... nearly broke the controller i bought so i could play this game without a hand cramp...
oh yeah.... BUY A USB CONTROLLER.... the way it's set up on he keyboard is strange... and yes you can change it but controller will always be more comfortable and if you do break it it's better then breaking your keyboard.
ok so what did i say i'd mention later... already covered the different magic.... essentially all of yunica's 'magic' is long range.... kinda while Hugo's stays close to him.
Ah yes... the puzzle...
a little before the halfway point is a hallway with Hellish music that drains your health. Having played Ys 1 i remember this very room.... so i came across it first as Yunica... and i'm thinking.
"i either need to crack the pipes causing the music or get something that has a holy sound.... because those were the soultions in Ys 1..... oh wait... Yunica just got the harmonica! i know i'll play it--- what do you mean it doesn't work?"
so i stare at the screen a moment
"you know... Yunica is stupid.... maybe she can't figure out that she needs to play the harmonica to get through.... i'll call her superiors..."
so i do and they go "yeah a holy sound will work" so i try to play again.... and she plays it but it sucks.... no good.... ah maybe it's like the water portion where i just have to hope there's a spot i can go to avoid death.....
and there is.... with a roo... these creatures that if you give them fruit they will help you.. .and it teaches me the song to play..... so you're telling me that if i hadn't have picked up the fruit i would automatically lose? yay~ no they probably had another way to beat it but i figured it out.... still takes game logic to a new level...
and yeah i know i've just given the solution to that puzzle as Yunica but still.... i was just baffled.... alright off to play as Toal then to figure out if adol is unloackable or not.... and if it involved nightmare mode how do i cheat cause i had a hard time on hard... do not wanna think about nightmare.....
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