Ys: Wanderers from Ys
Adol Christin's long-time friend, Dogi, wishes to return to his home town of Redmont after hearing about strange disturbances that are happening there. Always looking for an adventure, Adol joins him and soon…
20 October 1989
Ys: Wanderers from Ys is an adventure developed by Nihon Falcom, released 20 October 1989 on MSX2.
What Ys: Wanderers from Ys is
Ys: Wanderers from Ys is an adventure game developed by Nihon Falcom and released in 1989. It is available on MSX2 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Adol Christin's long-time friend, Dogi, wishes to return to his home town of Redmont after hearing about strange disturbances that are happening there. Always looking for an adventure, Adol joins him and soon finds out the cause of this new evil. Ys: Wanderers from Ys breaks away from the "bumping into enemies" battle system of the first two games, allowing Adol to control his sword in a variety of directions. Beside changing the battle system, the game's perspective switches to a side-scrolling view, as opposed to the top-down one of the previous games. Adol also has the ability to jump now. New to the series is the use of magical rings, which give Adol different powering-up abilities such…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Ys: Wanderers from Ys launched on 20 October 1989, within three weeks of SimCity and Shadow of the Beast.
Released around the same time: SimCity, Shadow of the Beast.
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When did Ys: Wanderers from Ys come out?
Ys: Wanderers from Ys was released on 20 October 1989 for MSX2.
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