Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished - The Final Chapter

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Ys II

Developer(s)	Nihon Falcom Corporation
Publisher(s)	Various
Release date(s)	1988
Genre(s)	Action role-playing game
Mode(s)	Single player
Platform(s)	NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-9801, MSX2, NES, TurboGrafx-16, Microsoft Windows

Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished - The Final Chapter is an action role-playing game developed by Nihon Falcom Corporation, and first released in 1988 for the NEC PC-8801. It is the sequel to Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished, and takes place immediately following the end of the first game.

Like its predecessor, Ys II was ported to various other platforms following its initial release, such as the NEC PC-9801, MSX 2, and Famicom. It was also ported to the Turbografx-16 by Hudson Soft as part of Ys I & II; to date, this is the only version of Ys II that has received an official English release.

More recently, it was remade for Microsoft Windows-based PCs as Ys II Eternal, and later as Ys II Complete. Versions of the game have also been developed for mobile phone platforms.

1 Plot
2 Gameplay
3 Music
4 External links

[edit] Plot

Ys II picks up immediately where Ys I left off. Adol is transported to the floating island of Ys, where he meets a young girl named Lilia. She takes Adol to her home, Rance Village. It is here that he will begin his quest to unravel the secrets of Ys, and finally rid it and Esteria of evil.

[edit] Gameplay

The player controls Adol as he battles his way across the land of Ys. As in the first game, Adol's strength is measured in a typical RPG fashion: He has numerical statistics such as HP, Attack Power, and Defense Power that determine his strength. These stats are increased by raising his experience level through battling.

Also returning from the first game is the combat system. The player attacks enemies by running into them, and the enemy takes damage according to Adol's Attack Power. A new addition to Ys II is the Magic system: Adol can acquire several different spells he can use throughout the course of play, such as a Fire spell for attack, and a Time spell which can stop enemies as long as it is active. The use of magic consumes Adol's MP stat.

[edit] Music

The soundtrack to Ys II was composed by Yuzo Koshiro, Mieko Ishikawa, and Hideya Nagata.

Several music CDs dedicated to the music of Ys II have been released by Falcom. They include:

Music from Ys II (1988): Contains the soundtrack to the original PC-8801 edition of Ys II, along with four arranged Ys II tracks from Hiroyuki Namba and one vocal track.
Perfect Collection Ys II (1990): A two-CD set, the first of which is a complete arrangement of the Ys II soundtrack by Ryo Yonemitsu. The second disc contains assorted arrangements from Ys I, II and III.
Music from Ys II Renewal (1995): The entire Ys II soundtrack, reproduced on more advanced synthesizer equipment.
Ys & Ys II Eternal Original Sound Track (2001): This two-CD set contains the soundtrack to the Windows-PC remakes of Ys I and II.