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Ys I & II Chronicles

Ys I & II
Ys Book 1 & 2.jpg
Developer(s) Nihon Falcom
Alfa System (PCE/TGCD)
Team Digi (PS2)
Dreams (DS)
Publisher(s) Nihon Falcom
Hudson Soft
Xseed Games (PC - International)
Atlus (DS - International)
Designer(s) Masaya Hashimoto (director, designer)
Tomoyoshi Miyazaki (scenario writer)
Programmer(s) Masaya Hashimoto (original)
Hiromasa Iwasaki (remake)
Composer(s) Yuzo Koshiro (original)
Mieko Ishikawa (original)
Ryo Yonemitsu (arranger)
Series Ys
Platform(s) PC Engine CD-ROM², PC, PlayStation 2, Virtual Console, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Network
Release date(s) PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16
  • JP: December 21, 1989
  • NA: 1990
Microsoft Windows
  • JP: June 28, 2001
Vista/7
  • JP: December 24, 2009
International
  • WW: February 14, 2013
Wii Virtual Console
  • JP: October 16, 2007
  • NA: August 25, 2008
  • EU: September 5, 2008
Nintendo DS
  • JP: April 18, 2008
  • NA: February 24, 2009
PlayStation Portable
  • JP: July 16, 2009
  • NA: February 22, 2011
  • EU: February 23, 2011
PlayStation Network
  • JP: November 17, 2010
Genre(s) Action role-playing game
Mode(s) Single player
Review scores
Publication Score
PC TurboGrafx-16 Wii
CGW Positive
Dragon 5/5 stars
EGM 35 / 40
Famitsu 35 / 40
10 / 10
GamePro 5 / 5
IGN 8.5 / 10
Nintendo Life 9/10 stars
RPGFan 100% 92%
TurboPlay 9/10 stars
Awards
Publication Award
OMNI Magazine Game of the Year
Electronic Gaming Monthly Best RPG Video Game,
Best BGM and Sound in a Video Game
Atlus,Gamasutra,GamesTM,GameZone,
Hardcore Gaming 101, RPGamer, RPGFan		 Best Game Music of All Time
Electronic Gaming Monthly,1UP,GameSpot Best Games of All Time

Ys I & II (イースI・II Īsu Wan Tsū?) is a Japanese action role-playing video game compilation consisting of enhanced remakes of the first two Ys games, released for the PC Engine CD-ROM² System by Nihon Falcom and Hudson Soft in 1989. It was released as Ys Book I & II for the TurboGrafx-CD in North America in 1990, and was a pack-in title for the TurboDuo in 1992.

Ys I & II was released on the Virtual Console in Japan on October 16, 2007, in North America on August 25, 2008, and in Europe and Australia on September 5, 2008.

Ys I & II consists of enhanced remakes of the first two games released in the Ys series, Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished and Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished – The Final Chapter. It was one of the first video games to use CD-ROM, which was utilized to provide enhanced graphics, animated cut scenes, a Red Book CD audio soundtrack, and voice acting. The game's English localization was also one of the first to use voice dubbing. The game uses over 500 megabytes of CD-ROM storage, including 43 music tracks, 24 minutes of character voice acting, and 20 minutes of animated cutscene sequences.


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