Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim
Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim is an action role-playing game in which adventurer Adol Christin is shipwrecked on the Canaan Islands after the Romun fleet attacks his expedition. Rescued by members of the native…
Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim is an adventure developed by Nihon Falcom, released 27 September 2003 on PlayStation 2, Legacy Mobile Device and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 6 hrs to finish.
What Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim is
Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim is an adventure game developed by Nihon Falcom and released in 2003. It was published by Konami. It is available on PlayStation 2, Legacy Mobile Device and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The story begins after Adol's ship is attacked by a fleet of Romun ships. Forced to sail into an unknown area, they encounter a large storm. Adol is swept off the vessel while trying to rescue a fellow sailor and washed ashore by the vortex that surrounds the Canaan Islands. He is found, unconscious, by the nieces of the chieftain of the nearby Rehda village, Olha and Isha, who are the daughters of his brother that died when battling with fellow Redha against the Wandering Calamity. The girls take him to their village and lay him to rest in their Uncle Ord's house. Adol hears them talking about him and wakes up briefly, afterwards going back to sleep because of his exhaustion. His adventure…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 16 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Ys series
Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim is the 22nd of 51 entries we hold in the Ys series. It arrived 2 years after Typing of Ys. The next entry was Ys III: Wanderers from Ys in 2005. Its critic score of 72 is 3 points below the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Ys X: Proud Nordics at 86.
How it was received
Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 42% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 3 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Pentium III 800 MHz, 1 GB RAM and 32 MB VRAM, 3D accelerator compatible w/ DirectX 9.0c. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim launched on 27 September 2003, within three weeks of Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Jak II, Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy and The Simpsons: Hit & Run. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Jak II, Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy, The Simpsons: Hit & Run.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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