Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. George Yang is a critic covering Japanese and Western games. Ys X: Nordics is a real-time action-RPG that follows series ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The upcoming Japanese release for action RPG Ys X: Proud Nordics has just gotten its first major ...

Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana PS5 Review. Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana stands at an interesting point in the Ys franchise lineage; Ys X: Nordics recently made its way to Western shores and ...

We’ve finally reached the point that even remakes are being remastered. Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana isn’t just a remaster of a 2010 PSP game being given new life on modern consoles, because even ...

Michael has been writing about entertainment since 2016, but he's been a gamer since playing Pac-Man in the arcade, Kings Quest 3 on the PC, and the Sega Master System he got from his late father. In ...

Adol Christian is a remarkable human being. He should know by now that if he steps foot on a ship, that thing is crashing, sinking, getting attacked, or all three. Yet he keeps doing it for the love ...

Ys X: Nordics might initially seem like it could feature a love story. Especially with its focus on two similarly aged, playable characters—Adol and Karja. This setup might lead some to expect a ...

Chris started gaming in the 8-bit era so writing game reviews seemed like a natural choice of activity to protect his brain from further atrophy during his final year in a psychiatric penitentiary.

Michael has been writing about entertainment since 2016, but he's been a gamer since playing Pac-Man in the arcade, Kings Quest 3 on the PC, and the Sega Master System he got from his late father. In ...

Ys X: Nordics Review (PS5) – While Ys has never had the strongest presence on Western shores, dedicated fan demand has ensured that the 10th mainline entry in the series has received an official ...

I’m always in awe at the dedication that long-running Japanese game developer Nihon Falcom has for their legacy series like The Legend of Heroes and Ys. Most game franchises this long in the tooth ...

Though the Ys series has been around for decades now (it even predates Final Fantasy), its release history in the West was rather inconsistent until the mid-2000s and the series only really became ...