Ys I & II

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Ys I & II
Developer(s) Nihon Falcom
Hudson Soft
Publisher(s) Hudson Soft
Platform(s) PC Engine CD-ROM, TurboGrafx-CD, Virtual Console
Release date Flag of Japan December 21, 1989
Flag of the United States 1990
Genre(s) RPG
Mode(s) Single player
Rating(s) ESRB: Everyone (Virtual Console)

Ys I & II (イースI・II Īsu Wan Tsū?) is a Japanese computer role-playing game compilation consisting of enhanced remakes of the first two Ys games, released for the PC Engine CD-ROM 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 is available for download on Nintendo's Virtual Console service in Japan and is confirmed to appear in North America as well.

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Ys I & II consists of the first two games released in the Ys series, Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished and Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished - The Final Chapter, with enhanced graphics, a Red Book CD audio soundtrack and animated cut scenes.

In both games the player controls a red-haired swordsman named Adol Christin. In the first game he must seek out the six Books of Ys. These books contain the history of the ancient, vanished land of Ys, and will give him the knowledge he needs to defeat the evil forces currently sweeping the land of Esteria.

In Ys II Adol is transported to Ys, and begins a quest to unravel the secrets of the land, and finally rid it and Esteria of evil. This version of Ys II is the only version that has received an official English release.

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