{"id":4642,"date":"2024-02-15T01:21:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T01:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=4642"},"modified":"2024-02-15T01:21:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T01:21:44","slug":"ys-x-nordics-na-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/4642","title":{"rendered":"Ys X: Nordics &#8211; NA Release!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ysx-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ysx-logo-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ysx-logo-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ysx-logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ysx-logo-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ysx-logo.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><b>Ys Books I &#038; II<\/b> came out on the TurboGrafx-CD in the spring of 1990 when I was 14 years old.  In the near-35 years since, I&#8217;ve played almost every iteration of the franchise: on consoles, on portables, both numbered entries and side stories.  I didn&#8217;t beat them all; some  I abandoned, others I completed, but I simply loved returning to the world every few years.  <\/p>\n<p>Since then, communities have exploded, translations and special editions have expanded, but my adoration of the series never wavered.  I loved <b>Ys IX: Monstrum Nox<\/b>, despite it being ranked lower than <b>Ys VIII<\/b> almost universally.  But all that will matter in the the autumn of 2024 is that <b>Ys X: Nordics<\/b> will have an English translation on the PS5 and I couldn&#8217;t be more thrilled.  My expectations are always tempered for Falcom&#8217;s storied franchise, but I endeavor to have fun, see Adol in yet-another new light and to enjoy three-and-a-half decades of <a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/game-completion-lists\">one of my favorite series ever<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ys Books I &#038; II came out on the TurboGrafx-CD in the spring of 1990 when I was 14 years old. In the near-35 years since, I&#8217;ve played almost every iteration of the franchise: on consoles, on portables, both numbered entries and side stories. I didn&#8217;t beat them all; some I abandoned, others I completed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-worst","category-blog","category-ys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4642","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=4642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4644,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4642\/revisions\/4644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}