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The Ys series involves Adol Christin and his comrade Dogi and several other characters, such as Feena for the first two installments. Adol is the only playable character in most of the Ys games. Feena was playable in Ys I & II Eternal. The standard gameplay mechanisms only involve the control motion pad to fight, like pushing the enemy until dead. Those gameplay mechanisms were done away with by the game's fifth installment, Ys V: Ushinawareta Sunano Miyako Kefin (Ancient Sand City of Kefin). Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim graphically departed from its predecessors using three-dimensional graphics but is between old school and new school style.
According to the chronology of the fictional universe that the Ys series is set in, the correct order is:
Of the Ys games, only the first three Ys games were ever released in North America. The Sega Genesis, SNES, and Turbografx-16 CD-ROM versions of Ys III: Wanderers from Ys were released in North America, but the original PC-88, MSX, and NES versions were released exclusively in JapanJapan (, Nippon/Nihon literally "the origin of the sun") is a country in East Asia situated on a chain of islands east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. The largest of these islands are, from north to south, Hokkaido , Honsh. Ys IV: Mask of the Sun was translatedA fan translation is an unofficial translation of a computer game, video game, manga, or an unofficial dubbing or subtitling of an anime, into a language that it was never marketed in. This is usually accomplished by modifying the binary ROM image of the into EnglishThe English language is a West Germanic language, originating from England. It is the third most common "first" language (native speakers), with around 402 million people in 2002. English has lingua franca status in many parts of the world, due to the mil through emulationA console emulator is a program for a computer, or other computing device, that can emulate a video game console or handheld, so a computer can be used to play, translate, or modify games that were created for that console or to develop games for that con by an online translation group called Aeon Genesis Translation Proclamation. Ys VI: Ark of Napishtim has been destined for a North American release on PS2 and PSP, since Konami has purchased the rights to bring the game over to North America.