The Ys Series Continues With Memories of Celceta

This is my first Ys game and I'm loving it. I kind of wish I had gone for the silver edition, the journal might be nice to have.

You guys! This game is fantastic! Go get it!!! :-D

@yadilie: Are all the games in the series as painful at the start as Origin? I hit play and I still don't have control, feels like I've been watching sub-par cutscenes and for some reason an atrocious music video for about 5 hours by now. If there's ever gameplay I just hope it's good, because...fuck.

When I eventually get a Vita I'm definitely buying this. Ys Seven was my first introduction to the franchise and I loved that game. I felt it was too underrated.

Great non sequitur to open a trailer with.

If Adol Christin were here, he would run through these spambots like they weren't even there.

I got my collector's edition from Amazon the other day. It came in a box with 2 deflated shipping bubbles, but there didn't appear to be any damage or anything. The soundtrack looks really nice, though once again there doesn't seem to be track from the PCE versions of Ys 1 and 2. Hopefully I'll get a chance to play this today, I really liked the combat in SEVEN.

Did you know that if you type in Adol Christin in Google, the first suggestion is "Adol Christin badass"?

@eminier: Guess that 1.02 didn't roll out with the game. Maybe Twitter XSeed to see if they have any plans to release it because it has a engine improvement attached to it..

It's not working with the PS VitaTV :(

So ready for this! Ys Seven was one of my favorite surprises on the PSP and I'm ready for more.

@eminier:

Ys the Foliage Ocean in Celceta will be receiving a new patch through PSN next week on 11/7.

This patch will update the touch controls and add in compatability with a wireless controller through the Vita TV. There will also be an update to the graphical processing of the game.

Guess it was released but still that bold and underlined section makes me think that we're either going to get that patch (meaning they'll throw in Vita TV with it as well) or we already have it. I would be a little ticked off if we didn't get an update that important regardless of anything else tacked on.

@yadilie: Gonna try it tomorrow and report back

@eminier: Hard to tell. Base version on NA version is 1.00. While my JP Celceta is 1.01 (don't think the VitaTV patch has come out yet in Japan.) so probably too late. Maybe a random patch later on? Because I think that patch not only helps with VitaTV but also does some performance improvements.

@yadilie: yea.. the DS version...

I hope the US version of celceta is patched for the vita tv :|

@eminier: Hate myself for not picking up that used copy of Ys Ark PSP for 6 bucks.. I also really got to get a better job so I can just mass buy a huge box of JP version games of like all of Falcoms games, lol. Pretty jelly. Would love to get some of those Windows 7 boxes. So big..

Also can't believe you bought the DS Books of Ys port. That's .. tragic.

Did not received my copy of Celceta today :(

Looks like a y's game with the stylings of a tales of game. Definitely interested.

Is this game made by Crytek?

@kerse: Yeah. It'll be weird if you want to go play Origins or Oath if you like the Ys series as you'll be going from a radically different combat (3 party members to just Adol) but the stories are seperated from each other. Each game is its own adventure that Adol goes on. They might mention something from a previous time in a line or two but nothing more than a small nod.

I see, would you say this is a good jumping in point to the series?

Goddammit, the Japanese know how to do Europe!!!!

@kerse: The games were primarily gameplay based with stories just there to push you to the next boss but since Seven came out they've been trying to catch the Ys series up with their Eiyuu Densetsu series in terms of story. It'll never get that wordy but Seven and Celceta are pretty decently story based with lots of gameplay. It's a type of game series that people complain arn't made enough of for handhelds; a game you can play a short burst or maybe just sit down and put a couple hours into.

They're also gotten considerably longer. Ys 1 can be beaten in around 3 hours or so while Celceta is probably around a 20-25 hour without doing side missions and exploring for chests and such.

@beard_of_zeus: Probably hit their weight limit for what they put in bubble wrappers. My Muramasa LE came in a bubble wrap even though it's pretty huge but it weighs absolutely nothing and subsequently was destroyed on one side. This box however, lol. Although I really dislike the NA boxes they use now for the Vita. And even the cover boxes for NA 3DS games. They're all flimsy and cheap as fuck. The JP Celceta box feels great and doesn't want to collapse in on itself. Even the PSP boxes were fine..

Glad to hear you guys got your CE's in boxes from Amazon. I order from Amazon quite a bit and they've been using those crappy bubble mailers a lot lately. I've definitely lost faith in their packing methods. I didn't trust that they'd ship this CE in a box, so I ended up getting it at my local GameStop this time. I would have preferred to give Amazon the business, but I couldn't take the chance.

I've always thought about playing Ys games, but I've been wondering and this would influence if I would actually buy this or not: how good is the story? Are these games all gameplay with kinda lame stories? Or do they have great stories on top of good gameplay?

Aw yes new Y's game. I don't know if I like this stopping the game play for a second for skill kills but the crazy boss fights appear to be there.

@yadilie: Just got mine as well from Amazon. I've read some stories about Amazon packaging Collector's Editions of games not very well and them getting dinged up, so I was worried. But like you said, it comes in a fat box, so they didn't try putting it in a bubble mailer or anything like that, luckily.

Nope I have never heard that name before.

this is in my psvita right now

The Shiren the Wanderer Quick Look is still probably one of my favorite Quick Looks that they've ever done. It's what got me to finally try the series, too.

@blacklagoon: Damn you! You just reminded that I need to grab the PS3 version of Gal Gun!

@yadilie: I dunno, I'm pretty sure Creeper Jeff could get into it. Also, he could aways convince himself that Kuu is secretly a Mag.

@blacklagoon: Hopefully they'll release VitaTV over here and the patch should come shortly after. But Sorcery Saga seems a little too 'cute' for them to play, if you get what I mean. But it'll be nice to have some prospect of Vita Quick Looks in the future.

@logan3 said:

They might if they can get it running on Jeff's VitaTV, though while it works in Japan, from the sounds of it that requires a patch that wasn't done in time for the NA release.

I think the next easily Quick Look-able Vita game will be Sorcery Saga as it should work out of the box with a VitaTV, but being a mystery dungeon roguelike it seems even less like Giant Bomb's thing than Ys (well, they did actually Quick Look Shiren the Wanderer back in the day).

Woo! Checked the mail. Thankfully Amazon actually put this in a box because of how damn thick this box is. At least I only paid 1/2 the price of the JP for the NA Limited Edition.. lol. I hope all you guys with a Vita give this game a shot! It's a great ARPG that you can hop into and out of really quickly.

Now if the PS Vita TV will come out over here, this is one of the games being patched for the JP version of it. Would loooove to play this on my big screen. C'mon Sony! At least unlock the PS Store.

Thanks for posting the trailer Patrick! It's great to see the Vita games that are coming out get some attention.

Anyway, for those who want to see more of the game, XSEED made another really good trailer for the game that's more action/gameplay focused: