Japan Is Getting A Huge Dragon Slayer Collection, And We're Jealous

Strange to not have console versions of most games.
But I guess it is only Falcom-developed games.

Such as how I guess with Ys 4 and Ys 5, the Super Famicom games were the originals. (PCE-CD Ys 4 was as a different game... and I guess a Hudson original?)

A good chunk of these don’t even have fan translations. I too am jealous.

I've been diving deep into Ys recently and having a great time, so yes I am also jealous of this collection - I would love to see what Falcom's other classics were all about.

@KingMike
I've played all four versions of Ys IV, and every single one of them is completely different to each other haha. You have the original two releases on SNES and PCE-CD, with the PCE-CD version being a trillion times better of a game in terms gameplay, storytelling, worldbuilding, overworld and dungeon design, and overall fun. PCE-CD version of Ys IV is honestly one of my favourites in the whole series, while the SNES version is just kinda bleh.

And then you have the PlayStation 2 version developed by Arc Sys and published by Taito, which is very loosely based on the SNES version, but is in fact a complete overhaul (and it also has some questionable game design of its own)
...and then eventually, there came Memories of Celceta for Vita and PS4, the only version of the Ys IV story to be developed by Falcom and released in English.

Ys V also got a Arc Sys / Taito PlayStation 2 version. ...And it SUCKS! the dungeon design makes it the most tedious game in the Ys series by far, especially the latter half of the game that takes place within Kefin. It's seriously not great. ...I powered through it anyway though, cause the Ys games have really enamoured me as of late, so I was determined to finish it.

That isn't to say the SNES version of Ys V was all that great either though. ...Man, Ys V REALLY needs its own "retcon-remake" like Felghana and Celceta were for III and IV.

@EarthboundBenjy I've only seen videos of the PS2 remake of III, and I was immediately thinking "how THE HECK do you put flip-screen scrolling, on a PlayStation 2 game? HOW, are even the 1980s computers the game was originally released on, able to do proper scrolling, and the PS2 can't?" Is it inhumane to ask those devs be locked up until they finish Super Mario Bros. Special?

I still have to wonder how much, if anything, was done on the Mega Drive Ys IV that was mentioned in EGM back in the day, before it was dropped (likely due to having by far the lowest market share of the three consoles in Japan back in the day).

@vidjagames Disappointed that the TGCD version of Legend of Heroes 1 wasn't released on Wii VC (despite that the Japanese version was).
So I believe II is now the only game in the franchise with no English version (if counting the PSP remakes of 3-5).

I just wish it wasn't nearly $100. This is still really cool, though, so I might end up splurging on it. I wish that the Record of Lodoss War collection wasn't sold out, because I'd have definitely picked that one up if I could. I'd love for a couple more of these to come out as well; I'd love a pack for the classic Ys games, and if they were able to pair up with a few more companies, I'd KILL for a collection of the Satsujin Jiken franchise or Konami's old MSX games.

@KingMike I thought it was more than that. Last I knew games like Sorcerian only had partials at best, but maybe I’m too long out of the loop on this one

@vidjagames I'm not sure about Sorcerian, but I was specifically thinking of the Legend of Heroes sub-series at best (though that is probably considered its own franchise by this point).