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Ys IV: Mask of the Sun

After having defeated the ultimate evil in his previous adventure, the great hero Adol stands on a sea shore, thinking about the fate of the once peaceful Utopian land of Ys, while the wind is blowing through…

19 November 1993

Ys IV: Mask of the Sun is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Tonkin House, released 19 November 1993 on Super Famicom.

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What Ys IV: Mask of the Sun is

Ys IV: Mask of the Sun is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Tonkin House and released in 1993. It is available on Super Famicom only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

After having defeated the ultimate evil in his previous adventure, the great hero Adol stands on a sea shore, thinking about the fate of the once peaceful Utopian land of Ys, while the wind is blowing through his red hair. Suddenly, Adol notices a bottle, thrown onto the shore. It contains a letter, written in a foreign language, in which an unknown person asks Adol to come to his land and save it from a mysterious evil. Adol decides to accept the offer, and thus his adventure begins again... Ys IV: Mask of the Sun is an action RPG with a combat system like the earlier Ys games. An enemy should be rammed from the sides in order to hurt him. If performed incorrectly, the player will get hurt…
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How it plays

Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Ys series

Ys IV: Mask of the Sun is the 14th of 51 entries we hold in the Ys series. It arrived 2 years after Ys III. The next entry was Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys in 1993.

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What it launched against

Ys IV: Mask of the Sun launched on 19 November 1993, within three weeks of Doom, Sam & Max Hit the Road, SimCity 2000 and Romancing SaGa 2.

Released around the same time: Doom, Sam & Max Hit the Road, SimCity 2000, Romancing SaGa 2.

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When did Ys IV: Mask of the Sun come out?
Ys IV: Mask of the Sun was released on 19 November 1993 for Super Famicom.

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