{"id":2887,"date":"2018-08-19T14:44:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T14:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=2887"},"modified":"2018-08-19T14:59:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T14:59:15","slug":"ys-viii-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/2887","title":{"rendered":"Ys VIII Begun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Ys journey started almost 30 years ago on the TurboCD and the legendary series continues with a title that truly stands up to those iconic classics. Just last year I completed <a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=2623\">II<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=2606\">Felghana<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=2658\">Origin<\/a> but entry #8 (by far not the actual eighth game!) would have to wait. And while I&#8217;d prefer play on my big-screen TV and PS4, the Vita will have to do, much as it did for those three aforementioned titles.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m excited as the first three hours have been compelling and fun, not unlike countless <strong>Ys<\/strong> titles in the past. Reading reviews never helps convey quite how systems work and how fun they can be. What I <strong>can<\/strong> share, however, is the kick-ass overworld theme for the first section. I instantly fell in love with it and the tune captures that rocking exploration feeling the series is synonymous with. It&#8217;s immediately become one of my favorite <strong>Ys<\/strong> tracks ever&#8230; Quite the statement given the franchise&#8217;s heritage. Ah well, enjoy the song&#8230; It&#8217;s spectacular.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ys VIII -Lacrimosa of DANA- OST - Sunshine Coastline\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HvBla5NUlvk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Ys journey started almost 30 years ago on the TurboCD and the legendary series continues with a title that truly stands up to those iconic classics. Just last year I completed II, Felghana and Origin but entry #8 (by far not the actual eighth game!) would have to wait. And while I&#8217;d prefer play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4,13,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-games","category-music","category-ys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2887"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2890,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions\/2890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}