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In the third game of the adventure game series Zork, you are once again a nameless adventurer, only this time you won’t travel through a beautiful magical land, but are immediately cast into a deep dungeon. Like in a dream, you hear a mysterious voice telling you that you have passed all the tests but … Continue reading “Zork III: The Dungeon Master”
Year: 1982
Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Browser, Commodore 16, Plus/4, Commodore 64, DOS, Macintosh, Mainframe, PC Booter, TRS-80, TRS-80 CoCo, Tatung Einstein
Genre: Adventure
Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz is a text adventure, a sequel to the classic first Zork. Once again, the game is set in the Great Underground Empire, but this time the main goal is to face off against the titular Wizard. Like its predecessor, Zork II plays like any other text adventure: there are no graphics – only … Continue reading “Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz”
Year: 1981
Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Browser, CP/M, Commodore 16, Plus/4, Commodore 64, DOS, Macintosh, Mainframe, PC Booter, PC-8000, TRS-80, TRS-80 CoCo, Tatung Einstein
Genre: Adventure
Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim is a direct sequel to Ushinawareta Suna no Miyako Kefin, the fifth installment of the Japanese action RPG series. Once again, the player controls the main character of the series, the adventurer Adol Christin, on a new journey. Adol’s ship has been attacked, and he loses his consciousness. After … Continue reading “Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim”
Year: 2003
Platforms: BREW, PSP, PlayStation 2, Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Action RPG
A bright light shot up from Darm Tower in the end of the first Ys, and Adol Christin is awakened by a young girl who finds him lying on the ground. She introduces herself as Lilia and tells Adol he is in the land of Ys. Finally he was able to establish a connection between … Continue reading “Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished – The Final Chapter”
Year: 1988
Platforms: FM-7, MSX, NES, PC-88, PC-98, Sharp X1, Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Action RPG
In this game, the player takes the role of Adol (Aron in the English-language Sega Master System version) Christin, a red-haired adventurer and expert swordsman. One day he encounters a fortune teller who sends him on a quest to find information about the six books of Ys. It appears that there was once an ancient … Continue reading “Ys I: The Vanished Omens”
Year: 1987
Platforms: Apple IIgs, DOS, FM-7, MSX, NES, PC-88, PC-98, SEGA Master System, Sharp X1, Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Action RPG, Japanese-style RPG (JRPG)
Ys: The Oath in Felghana is an action role-playing game in the long-lasting Ys series. It is a heavily re-imagined remake of Ys III: Wanderers from Ys. Adol Christin and his friend Dogi are travelling to Dogi’s hometown of Redmont three years after the events of the first two games. Upon arriving, they discover that … Continue reading “Ys: The Oath in Felghana”
Year: 2005
Platforms: J2ME, PS Vita, PSP, Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Action RPG, Japanese-style RPG (JRPG)
The events of Ys Origin take place 700 years before those depicted in Ys: The Vanished Omens; it is the first game in the timeline of Ys, and a prequel to the entire series. It is also the first Ys game in which the main protagonist is not Adol Christin, the red-haired swordsman and recurrent … Continue reading “Ys: Origin”
Year: 2006
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PS Vita, PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Action RPG, Japanese-style RPG (JRPG)
Ys: Memories of Celceta is re-imagined and retold story of Ys IV games. Adol Christin, the protagonist, finds himself in the land of Celceta, suffering full amnesia. He soon teams up with Duran, who claims he can help him regain memories. But that will require to venture into the dangerous and uncharted lands, which task Adol more than … Continue reading “Ys: Memories of Celceta”
Year: 2012
Platforms: PS Vita, PlayStation 4, Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Action RPG
X-Morph: Defense – Complete Edition is a compilation of:X-Morph: Defense (base game).X-Morph: Defense – European Assault (DLC).X-Morph: Defense – Last Bastion (DLC).X-Morph: Defense – Survival of the Fittest (DLC). Unique fusion of a top down shooter and tower defense strategy. You are the X-Morph – an alien species that invades Earth to harvest its resources … Continue reading “X-Morph: Defense – Complete Edition”
Year: 2017
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, Windows Apps, Xbox One
Genre: Strategy / tactics
Theme: Tower defense
Xanadu Next is an entry in the Xanadu series of action RPGs. It casts you as a young adventurer recently arrived to the outskirts of the abandoned kingdom of Xanadu, there you hope to raid the dungeons and make a name for yourself, however you get tricked early on and now a curse lays over … Continue reading “Xanadu Next”
Year: 2005
Platforms: Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Action RPG