[DoctorEldritch]

Hello Legion Gamers!

A small question from yours truly: Ys X: Nordics came out at the end of last month and fought my attention as something I could try to play. But my excitement was short-lived as a quick search in Wikipedia revealed that this series is an institution dating from before I was even born, and each new instalment still has the same main character (and a few recurring ones).

Hence my current dilemma: can you play Ys X: Nordics without having played the rest or better not? This is my recurring problem with such games, but while I managed to resolve the Tales series conundrum and am still to find a solution for the Final Fantasy series, Ys is a new one.

So I wanted to ask if anyone knows or played those games before or knows the lore, can you play it standalone or at least a few previous ones need to be tackled so as not to miss anything?

@GoLLuM13, we may have touched on this series in passing sometime before? Or my memory may be playing tricks on me 😅

[GoLLuM13]

Never played the Ys games, but I know they have been mentioned here in the past (probably for the release of one of them ? 🤔)

[miskkie]

New franchise to me as well, would think that you can more or less just hop on it. Tho never really liked getting in on later parts in a game series at least if it's heavy on story.

[DoctorEldritch]

@GoLLuM13 Memory is playing tricks on me then. This is an odd one to try to remember, I can't quite put my finger on when I've seen a talk about it. Might have been the last game, as you said, but the last one was Ys IX: Monstrum Nox and it was released in 2019, Legion Community was not even around back then. Maybe it was given out for free or something...

[DoctorEldritch]

@miskkie That's exactly it, I have no idea how heavy on the story it is. I could not play all the games back from 1987 till now, even if I only focus on those that were ported for PC, it'd still be quite a lot. I may be tempted to at some point, but I do not have that amount of time right now.

Never really liked getting in on later parts in a game series either. I played all Yakuza games from the start, and all Assassin's Creed games from the start too. I like JRPGs, I think they tend to be better thought-through than modern Western RPGs, but many of them are long series. For this reason, I prefer those that are individual stories like Tales of Persona. Still need to tackle FF. And am trying to understand if Metal Gear is something I could get into.

Ironic how JRPGs are good but can be so much hassle...

[CandelaSynth]

@DoctorEldritch

You can play FF games without having played any of the previous ones, each story is different : )
(I don´t know about these series though!)

[DoctorEldritch]

@CandelaSynth even if the stories are different, there can be common lore points, or same universe or planet, or recurring minor characters. JRPGs are known for having those. But then again, not sure if it would really be such a loss if I did not know those bits when playing.