In addition to standard hack-and-slash combos, Yunica is also able to perform various aerial maneuvers such as the down-thrust and up-thrust from previous Ys games, as well as a crippling lunge attack.

With good timing, he can pull off a crippling "power shot", generating a debilitating pillar of pure magic with a wider area of effect.

There once was a wildly prosperous land named Ys, ruled by the twin Goddesses Reah and Feena and their six priestly retainers.

It was a veritable paradise, with all its residents able to enact miracles at will through the use of magic – a power granted them by a holy artifact known as the Black Pearl.

Their numbers and their might were too much for the knights and sorcerers of Ys to handle, so the people sought shelter within their holiest of temples at the top of the tallest mountain.

In a desperate attempt to keep these people safe, the twin Goddesses used the power of the Black Pearl to tear this temple from the ground and raise it into the heavens, away from the ever-growing threat below.

Intent on finding their missing deities, the Six Priests organized a search party of the most elite knights and sorcerers in the land.

These soldiers were given a single mission: secure the safety of Ladies Reah and Feena, and bring them back to Solomon Shrine alive and well, but in the desolate, ruined remains of Ys, there's only one place they could have gone: the Devil's Tower itself.

Featuring most enhancements from the Steam release, the ports also add localization to French, Italian, German, and Spanish, in addition to English (using Xseed's translation) and Japanese.

[14][15][16][17] Richard Cobbett from PC Gamer rated Ys Origin a 71 out of 100 and called it "a cute, quirky anime dungeon crawl that will cheerfully kick your arse until your nose starts bleeding".