Franchise file / Nihon Falcom
Ys
Red hair, fast swords, new shores
Nihon Falcom's action RPG franchise began on the PC-8801 in 1987. It follows the adventurer Adol Christin from one lost land to the next, and it has always put speed and music first.
- 1987
- First game
- 2
- Series
- Nihon Falcom
- Creator
One world. Many eras.
Choose your chapter
The first voyages. Ys I arrived on the PC-8801 in 1987, with Ys II and Wanderers from Ys close behind. Key creators Masaya Hashimoto and Tomoyoshi Miyazaki then left to found Quintet.
Start with Ys: Book I & IIYour next late night
The essentials
Chapters
Series (2)
One swordsman, endless shipwrecksYsNihon Falcom's long-running action RPG series, started in 1987. Each game drops Adol Christin into a new land with a new mystery, fast real-time combat and a soundtrack that refuses to sit still.
One world, one very long storyThe Legend of Heroes: TrailsNihon Falcom's Trails games began in 2004 with Trails in the Sky and tell a connected story across the continent of Zemuria, with each arc moving to a new nation and cast.
A legacy worth revisiting
Adol's journey never ends.
Ys tells the travels of one wandering swordsman, each game a new chapter from his life. Falcom kept the combat quick and the soundtracks loud across decades of remakes, side stories and new adventures, from Ancient Ys Vanished to Ys X: Nordics.
- 1987 to 1989
- The first voyages
- 1993 to 1995
- Other hands
- 2003 to 2023
- The modern run
Scenes that stay with you
Inside the world
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