NIS America has announced a Western release window for the seafaring JRPG Ys X: Nordics.
The game, which was released in Japan back in September last year, will launch across PC, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch in fall 2024, the publisher has confirmed.
If you’re a PC gamer, you’ll be able to grab it on either Steam, the Epic Games Store, or GOG, and PC versions will also include a language option for Japanese. It’s not clear whether this refers simply to voice language or text as well.
Ys X: Nordics is, believe it or not, the tenth mainline installment in the long-running Ys series of JRPGs, which began all the way back in 1987 with Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished.
Since then, the series has expanded to accommodate nine more mainline games, as well as several spinoffs and remakes, including remaster-of-a-remake Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana, which is sadly still lacking a Western release.
The latest installment once again follows protagonist Adol Christin as he teams up with the pirate Karja Balta in order to do battle with mysterious monsters known as Griegr.
NIS America promises that Ys X: Nordics will feature “fast-paced combat” and “a moving story of unexpected bonds”, but it’ll also revolve around naval exploration.
Previous Ys X trailers and screenshots have introduced us to the game’s charming cast of characters, action-packed gameplay, and ship crew recruitment, as well as exploration and more.
While previous trailers have been released in English, those came courtesy of Clouded Leopard, which often localizes games for the Asian market outside of Japan (and which cruelly releases its trailers in English to get people’s hopes up, apparently).
Thankfully, Ys X: Nordics does now have a concrete Western release window. It’ll arrive in fall 2024 for PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch. Watch this space for more.
