YS I & II English PC versions headed to Steam

Ok, I meant Ys Complete. No edit function here?

SO, um, does it run on Linux?

Not sure, it would be through the Steam client though.
Steam on Linux

-Thomas

Interesting rumors Evulopah you've been hearing on the XSEED forums. I hope you are right about the Ys Seven and Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky being offered on Steam. As far as I know the only PC version of Ys Seven was the Chinese version which I've more or less taken upon myself to try and work with a few others to see if we can insert the PSP script from the English version into the game. So far, we've been able to change the entire script into English, but sadly no character names, maps, or in-game menus/tables. Mostly this is due to the fact that the game uses Securom to protect it's files so any edits to the executable file will freeze the game. It's certainly playable though, especially if you've played the XSEED PSP release. It's just a lot nicer looking with HD graphics. If XSEED releases it, that would be fantastic, and it might be less buggy too!

The Chinese version comes in a several nice Limited Edtion sets too! This is the Amazon.cn LE version.

I'm a huge Ys / Falcom fan so I tend to collect a lot of their series as originals. : )

-Thomas

I am as well. I am a member of the XSEED forums, I just don't visit that often. I did look for some information to see if there was talks of Ys Seven coming out on Steam, but didn't quite find anything. Great to see some love happening over there for Brandish: The Dark Revenant though.

Such a fantastic game and one of my top 10 games of all time. Definitely wouldn't mind seeing that get released in English and to a wider audience. The level design and complexity of some of the puzzles and how they work together in some levels is truly amazing, especially in the extra mode where you play as the scantily clad clumsy Sorceress, Dela Delon. I feel like the game makes you finish it with Ares first just to train you in the basic rudimentary concepts of the game only to make you master them in Dela's extra campaign. Level design at it's finest!

-Thomas

Oh yeah, Brandish has some nice and pretty wild music!

I didn't get into Brandish at first when I played it for Super Famicom back in the day. I found the rotation of the camera funky to deal with and I thought it was a bit too slow moving for my tastes. So when Brandish: TDR was released for PSP I decided to just give it a try again and see what happens and I was blown away by it. All the secrets, all the traps and puzzles, all the dying due to my own mistakes and carelessness. It's like a beautiful precursor to Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, where dying and learning how to "not die" is what keeps you going. : ) For Brandish TDR it's truly all about seeing if you can outsmart the Game Developers, which were likely sitting in a room when they first made it saying "Ha! Let's see them get out of this one!"

Some advice though, if you are not going for a timed game (meaning you don't care about speed runs) you are able to heal based on how much time you wish to wait and you can do this anywhere save from a boss room, but you must be careful because if you wait and sleep while their are enemies still roaming, they will find you and wake you up from your nap with a few stabs, bites, or chomps, or fireballs and likely kill you outright. : )

Also, Ares, gains strength faster the more you use nothing but your FISTS! Weapons break, and "Only a fool trusts his life to a weapon!"-MGS. And getting hit in the chest with a fireball, please may I have another, will strengthen your magic defense. Ares is a man's man and later on the the series he can double-wield! And not just swords, he can double-wield tower shields too!

Best part too, that Brandish TDR is pretty much completely playable in Japanese without much issue once you understand the mechanics. There isn't to much story to concern yourself with as it centralizes around the game play and the ambience of the game.

The main story is that a long time ago a greedy, power hungry king decided to do something to a dragon to gain his power for himself and ended up getting cursed and cursing his entire kingdom. That very kingdom sank into the ground and remained hidden for hundreds of years. One day, a warrior/mercenary named Ares meets up with Dela Delon, the blond haired sorceress who has been searching high and low for him, to kill him to take vengeance on him for the murder of her master and teacher that she believes he is responsible for. They begin to have a battle in the middle of a dessert somewhere and she overdoes it with her magic blowing a huge hole in the ground, which causes a chain reaction giving away to the ground they are standing on and both fall into the ruins of this ancient kingdom below...

-Thomas

You are definitely Ys fan Skyewelse

Do you own all the original Ys titles? Not only PC but also MSX, SNES, PC-Engine etc etc?

And what about other Falcom games like Zwei?

Holy you now where! That's impressive! #LittleBitJealous

What is the brown Ys bible in the upper left corner??

Do you also own original soundtracks? I do have some of it like Ys Piano Collection, Ys Perfect Selection, Sorcerian Perfect Selection 3.

I bet you have the Oath in Felghana special edition with nine CD's!!

Very nice collection SkyeWelse!!