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Director(s) Tomonori Matsunaga Mode(s) Single player Series Ys Publisher Hudson Soft | 4.6/5 Emuparadise Designer(s) Taiichi Matsuda Initial release date 22 December 1993 Developer Hudson Soft Genre Action role-playing game | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Composer(s) Atsushi Shirakawa
Naoki Kaneda
Takahiro Tsunashima
Masaru Nakajima Platforms TurboGrafx-16, TurboGrafx-CD Similar Ys IV: Mask of the Sun, Ys III: Wanderers from Ys, Ys V: Lost Kefin - Kingdom, Ys: Memories of Celceta, Ys I & II | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys (イースIV -The Dawn of Ys-, Īsu Fō) is an action role-playing game developed for the PC Engine Super CD-ROM², and is the fourth game in the Ys video game series. Ys series creators Nihon Falcom Corporation licensed its development to Hudson Soft.
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The Dawn of Ys was released in 1993 and was one of two games released under the title of "Ys IV", the other being Tonkin House's Ys IV: Mask of the Sun for the Super Famicom. The two games share the same setting, but Hudson took more liberties with its presentation in The Dawn of Ys, and two unique games resulted.
Plot
Ys IV takes place two years after the events of Ys II, and before the events of Ys III: Wanderers from Ys.
As the game begins, Adol has returned to the town of Minea, where Ys I began. After hanging around for a while and conversing with old friends, he decides to set sail for the overseas land of Celceta.
Gameplay
Ys IV returns to the style of play used in Ys I and II. The gameplay area is viewed from a top-down perspective, and the player attacks enemies by running into them to cause damage. Adol gains experience from defeating enemies, and gaining experience serves to raise his strength, as in the previous games. The Magic system introduced in Ys II is also brought back for this game.
Music
The original music was composed by Falcom Sound Team J.D.K. members Atsushi Shirakawa, Naoki Kaneda, Takahiro Tsunashima, and Masaru Nakajima.
As was the case with Hudson's CD-ROM² versions of Ys I & II and Ys III: Wanderers from Ys, The Dawn of Ys CD-DA tracks were arranged by Ryo Yonemitsu. Yonemitsu did not arrange the entire soundtrack for the game itself, as many tracks were programmed for the console's internal sound chip by Osamu Narita, but he did cover every track for the Perfect Collection Ys IV CD series. (see below)
Soundtrack releases for Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys are as follows: