News: Ys IV - Mask of the Sun ~a New Theory~

March 06, 2005, 05:59 PM

by Recap, via Taito Corporation -
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This year is going to be recalled as the year of Ys. Falcom's acclaimed action RPG series has never been so popular, at least with publishers. The recent PS2 port of the sixth episode ('Napishtim no Hako') by Konami is the first Ys game published outside of Japan in many years (and it is the first Ys game ever developed outside of Japan, too), and, while the game seems to have been severly downgraded with the port job, it's being well received by the public. As we've recently mentioned, there's been an on-line announcement of the seventh chapter, called 'Ys: Felghana no Chikai', which presumably will be developed for Windows and will use Napishtim no Hako's graphic engine. But that's not all. We did mention here some months ago that Taito got the licence to remake the third, fourth and fifth episodes in the series for the PS2. The former, 'Ys III: Wanderers from Ys', will be released in less than three weeks, with high resolution graphics and art by Akira Yasuda, AKA 'Akiman'. In the meantime, Ys IV: Mask of the Sun ~a New Theory~ (originally for the Super Famicom) has been given a release date (May, 26th) and the first screens and details (it'll have some gameplay and story tweaks) have appeared, thanks to Rakuten. As you can see, real-time 3D backgrounds are been added for this remake.