Ys IX: Monstrum Nox Launches for PS5 in May - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 10 January 2023 / 2,099 Views

Publisher NIS America and developer Falcom announced the action RPG, Ys IX: Monstrum Nox, will launch for the PlayStation 5 in North America on May 9 and in Europe on May 12. It includes all the released cosmetic DLC.

The game first released for the PlayStation 4 in Japan in September 2019 and in the West in February 2021. It later released for the Nintendo Switch and PC in July 2021.

View a new trailer of the game below:

Read details on the game below:

Renowned adventurer Adol “the Red” Christin and his companion Dogi arrive at Balduq, a city annexed by the Romun Empire, only for Adol to be detained before their adventure can begin. While imprisoned, Adol meets a mysterious woman named Aprilis who turns him into a Monstrum—a being with supernatural Gifts and the power to exorcize monsters.

Now, Adol must team up with his fellow Monstrums to fend off the fearsome threats emerging from the shadowy dimension known as the Grimwald Nox, unravel the mysteries of the Monstrum curse, and discover the truth behind the unrest within Balduq. Join Adol in this iteration of the Ys series coming to PlayStation 5.

Feared Protectors

Play as any of the six notorious Monstrums, each with their own unique Gifts that grant abilities such as scaling sheer walls or detecting hidden objects to protect the city from shadowy creatures.

The World Within the Walls

Explore the massive city, accept quests to aid the townsfolk, and enter the Grimwald Nox to vanquish the threats to Balduq.

Strength of the Night

Familiar mechanics such as Flash Dodge and Flash Guard allow you to outmaneuver your foes, while new additions such as Gifts and Boost Mode further augment your ability to fight.

A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.

17 Comments

2zosteven (on 10 January 2023)

i had ys 1 and 2 on turbografix 16, have not played since, looks like i will try this one out

Leynos 2zosteven (on 10 January 2023)

It's literally the worst Ys game and it's just Tower Defense in one town, you don't explore a world at all. Try the best Ys game Oath of Felghana then origin and the best of the modern Ys game is Ys8. IX is the worst entry in the franchise by a large margin.

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2zosteven Leynos (on 10 January 2023)

thank you, looks like 8 it is.

Kakadu18 2zosteven (on 11 January 2023)

Ys VIII is better than Ys IX, so I would recommend to play that one first, but Ys IX is still a very good game and nothing like what Leynos described. I put 100 hours into it.

Bandorr 2zosteven (on 11 January 2023)

I'd do 8 right into 9. While there isn't much story connection they are two absolutely great games.

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Kakadu18 Leynos (on 11 January 2023)

You're full of shit dude. No exploration my ass. What you call Tower Defense is a very small part of the game and you pretend like that's all it is. There's a lot of exploring in this game and a fantastic story and cast.

Bandorr Leynos (on 11 January 2023)

I question how much of the game you actually played. Even if you sum up the small part of the game that is the "other world" that wasn't tower defense. You didn't defend anything really. You went around and destroyed stuff to "Save the town" but nothing like in a tower defense game.

Also you can't say "you don't explore a world" but then also recommend 8. 8 takes place on an island. If exploring an island is exploring, then exploring a giant town and the area around it is also exploring.

8 is probably the best, but 9 is quite close.

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Kakadu18 Bandorr (on 11 January 2023)

8 and 9 both have very similarly sized worlds too.

Leynos Bandorr (on 11 January 2023)

First 10 hours. I'm a fan of the series but christ IX sucks and Ys is not a series that takes 10 hours to get going.

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Kakadu18 Leynos (on 12 January 2023)

So you basically didn't really play it. After you unlock all areas in the city there are many regions outside of it to explore.

Leynos Kakadu18 (on 12 January 2023)

I have finished every Ys game. Been a fan of the series for decades. Never has the series taken ages to get into. Known for how brisk paced they are. Ys IX is not an Ys game. It may as well be a Xanadu game with an Ys logo slapped on it. IX is not Ys. I don't have to finish it to know this is not what an Ys game should be. Ys 8 still had a much faster pace than this. I am fine with most RPGs taking hours to get into like Persona or Xenoblade but not Ys. I only put up with tower defense in 8 as the rest of the game was decent but they were the worst parts. Ys IX combines all the worst parts of the modern games in just the first few hours for me to know. Fuck Ys IX. Done responding or reading anything further on the subject.

Kakadu18 Leynos (on 12 January 2023)

I do not think Ys IX took hours to get into. I heavily disagree with that. I was instantly hooked just like with Ys VIII, both are among my favorite games. Thanks to the different abilities of the different characters, wich you probably didn't even unlock all of, exploration is way better than in Ys VIII. Practically everything you said is bullshit. Just because you found the first 10 hours boring, which I can't comprehend, you shit on the entire thing and misrepresent it hugely. Fuck your lies about Ys IX.

Bandorr Leynos (on 12 January 2023)

HowLongtoBeat has the game around 30 hours main. 40 main sides, 50 completion. Even rush is 20.

So you played about 1/3 of the game needed to beat just the story.

So I gotta ask.. how far did you actually make it? Did you even unlock everyone?

"I didn't like the game because the first 10 hours felt slow" is a very different argument than "just Tower Defense in one town, you don't explore a world at all. "
The first is how you felt the game began, the rest is just wrong.

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Kakadu18 Bandorr (on 12 January 2023)

Exactly.

Bandorr Leynos (on 12 January 2023)

Thing about 8 I had to make a completely new post to ask.. are you sure you aren't confused?

9 involves a tower that if you upgrade defends it self (with maybe NPC help?)
8 you literally are playing tower defense. Like there is a gong you hit to destroy monsters. You put certain items in certain places and you run around using them.

Plus the exploration is limited by what "items" you have and what people you've found.