Ys SEVEN

A great story about cycles and fate that drags on for too long. Ys SEVEN is fundamentally, a good game, the combat is good, the visuals are nice, the world is fun to explore, but commits the worst sin than a video game can do and that's being boring. There's not much that I can say about this besides that, around 7 hours in, the game could end but instead goes on for another 7 hours and gets repetitive pretty fast. The game is decent, but SEVEN walked so Memories of Celceta could run. Wouldn't recommend if it's your first Ys game, but if you're already in the rabbit hole you might want play it for the story. Final rating: 6/10.

I came into this game after playing through Oath in Felghana and was originally disappointed in the combat since it was a changeup from the Oath/Ark/Origins style of combat which was had some really interesting mechanics, however playing through and getting an actual hang of it, Ys Seven has easily become one of my favourite games in the Ys series so far. The music is insanely good (Falcom love their rock, and I'm a fan of rock), the boss battles actually punish you if you're not paying attention and there are some insanely cool situations/pay offs which I won't get into as that would spoil the story and how some of the fights set you up. I will say though it does have a Parry system that isn't quite well explained called "Flash Guard" I believe I somehow missed the tutorial prompt for this (spoke to a lot of NPCs) but eventually looked up why I randomly 'guarded' something, then the mechanics of the game opened up tremendously and really enabled you to style on bosses if you reacted to their patterns. For me this is easily an 8-9/10, had a lot of fun and will continue to pickup the Ys series games whenever I see them on special because they're hidden gems that always one up …

A deeply tedious game. Decent up to the half way point, then forces a massive amount of backtracking while not bothering to level up the enemies. Bosses are all beaten first time with zero challenge & are basically like figthing regular enemies except the fight takes longer. The exception is the last boss which is suddenly a massive difficulty spike. But... the last boss is finally, finally where it starts to become fun. Like Origins or Celceta, for the first time in the game you are actually required to think about boss patterns and think up strategies to deal with them. Its absolutely baffling to me that the last boss is finally when they decide to make using the "guard" mechanic more or less necessary to beating the boss. Too little too late. One of the worst Ys games.

The first Ys game to have the 3 party member mechanics and it shows in how rough (not bad) they handle it, like when swapping party members they do not just swap the currently controlled character like they do in the games after this, so if you swap to someone stuck at the start of the zone then the camera moves to them, but i do like how attack skills are tied to weapons, so a weapon will have a skill and by using that skill you can learn it permanently, so you always know what you are about to get and if you skip a weapon a latter weapon can have old weapon skills. The game has perfect guard but no flash dodge and it works like all the other versions except it only guarantees a critical hit for one attack unlike the whole duration but invulnerability still last the whole time. Most of the characters are neat and all feel unique to play but that's the same for each game with the party mechanic and unfortunately the only game still that lets you have Dogi or Geis as party members BUT you get to have Dogi and Geis as party members! This game also still has my favorite Adol story moment even after all these years after playing the original on the PsP. Adol also has a neat mechani…

8

It's ok The story is excellent, but similar to other YS games I really enjoyed the previous titles like Felghana, but this game takes a different style not a huge fan of the new style, extra grindy and materials to farm for now...