Posted on April 24, 2018 by Jason Nason
Adol Christin, the fearless red-headed adventurer, embarks on a new adventure in Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA. A seasoned traveler, Adol boards the Lombardia passenger liner, only to wash ashore on a cursed isle after a mysterious monster attacks the ship. On this island, he must find fellow castaways, build a village, and look for a way to escape the Isle of Seiren.
Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA arrives on the Nintendo Switch on June 26.
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Posted on April 18, 2018 by Jason Nason
NIS America revealed today that the Nintendo Switch edition of Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA will contain Adol’s Silver Armor costume won’t be DLC and will be included in the game.
The Silver Armor outfit is very special to the red-headed adventurer, as it was the first outfit he wore when he debuted in the first Ys game, Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished.
Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA will be released for Nintendo Switch on June 26th.
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Posted on April 11, 2018 by Jason Nason
NIS America has released some new gameplay footate for their upcoming Nintendo Switch edition of Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA. The gameplay is still a development build of the game, but should be pretty close to what we can expect from the game when it is released in June.
The graphics and textures in Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA look very smooth and the game appears to run smoothly on the Nintendo Switch.
NIS America has also updated the official website to reflect the re-localized version of the game. You can find everything from character profiles to gameplay information about Ys VIII. The developers have also uploaded some alternate Nintendo Switch cover sheets for the game. These designs did not win in the recent reverse cover contest for the title, but fans can download them nonetheless on the official website.
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Posted on April 9, 2018 by Jason Nason
NIS America has announced that Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA will be released for the Nintendo Switch on June 26th. The release will follow the release of the game for Steam, which is set for next week, April 16th.
This year marks the 31st anniversay of the Ys franchise and will be the first Ys game on the Nintenso Switch. In addition, the Nintendo Switch version of the game will include content fromboth the PS4 and PS Vita versions of the game.
Ys returns with a brand-new adventure for the first time in 2009. Adol awakens shipwrecked and stranded on a cursed island. There, he and the other shipwrecked passengers he rescues form a village to challenge fearsome beasts and mysterious ruins on the isolated island. Amidst this, Adol begins to dream of a mysterious blue-haired maiden living in an unknown world. Join Adol as he unravels the riddle of the cursed isle and the blue-haired maiden Dana in Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA.
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Posted on January 19, 2018 by Rae Michelle Richards
Nippon Ichi Software America has decided to delay the PC release of action RPG YS VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA until an indeterminate date while they work the specific game-engine bugs that are hampering performance. In particular, testers reported during the second closed beta test on PC reported nasty issues like memory leaks and severe frame-drops under certain circumstances. These issue stem from core technical decisions with the game’s engine, which was originally designed for the PlayStation 4. NIS will now have to dig deep into guts of YS VIII and make changes that aid performance on PC.
Here’s a breakdown of the specific issues reported during the recent closed beta:
“Low framerate issues and memory leak problems were apparent from the earliest PC builds we received. To help combat these, we looked into the drawing processes, which lead to an overall improvement in performance. However, we are still encountering framerate drops in specific circumstances. The systems regulating these framerate issues are heavily reliant on the architecture of the original PlayStation 4 version and, as such, are not existent in PC architecture. The memory leak issues are somewhat less complicated and expected to be resolved this weekend. But in order to solve these issues, we have determined that we must modify the core level of data in the game.”
The PC version will receive the updated localization patch that will also hit the PlayStation 4 and Vita at the end of this month. Once these localization changes are complete NIS will be shifting develop duties for the PC version of YS III to a different unnamed external developer who will work specifically on the game engine, level and PC specific optimization that this port will require before release.
“Once the changes from the relocalization efforts have been implemented at the end of this month, we will be moving development to an entirely different developer who will primarily focus on frame rate improvements as well as other PC optimizations. Once that process begins, we will monitor the progress and determine the release schedule. We will also be sure to give regular updates to our progress.”
Due to this delay NIS America will be opening up Steam Refunds for YS VIII: Lacrimosa for those who have pre-ordered the game. When we have more details about the release date for the PC version of YS VIII, we will be sure to bring it to you. A Nintendo Switch port was also announced this past month for release sometime in the Summer.
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Posted on January 13, 2018 by Jason Nason
Ys returns with a brand-new adventure for the first time in 8 years. Nintendo announced during their Nintendo Direct mini that Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA will come to the Nintendo Switcn in 2018.
Adol awakens shipwrecked and stranded on a cursed island. There, he and the other shipwrecked passengers he rescues form a village to challenge fearsome beasts and mysterious ruins on the isolated island. Amidst this, Adol begins to dream of a mysterious blue-haired maiden living in an unknown world. Join Adol as he unravels the riddle of the cursed isle and the blue-haired maiden Dana in Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA.
This is the first game in the primarily PlayStation Ys series to be released on a Nintendo platform since Ys Strategy on the Nintendo DS in 2006 and Ys IV: Mask of the Sun on the Super Famicom in Japan back in 1993.
Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA was initially released for PlayStation 4 and PS Vita in September 2017 and will will be released for Steam at the end of January 2018. The game will be released for Nintendo Switch in Summer 2018.
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