ys x is good y'all
it's mostly good in the ways an ys should be good, which is to say its combat slaps and the seafaring exploration is genuinely neat
the storytelling so far is generally kinda whatever for as much talking as there still is, if toned down from ix mercifully, and that's okay, i'd honestly be worried for kiseki if falcom suddenly brought its writing a game to ys
but kaja?
she's a good one
i know she's not the first playable lady in the series, but she feels like the best fit for adol as a swashbuckler herself and i'm kinda alarmingly invested in their relationship and i'm gonna be bummed when she presumably gets sidelined at the end of the game so he can keep going on his chronicled adventures and all that 
but yeah
ys x is cool, it's the first one of these 3D ones to click with me as completely as it has and you should play it whenever the hell it comes out in english, i have no idea when
I am definitely in the end-game stretch by this point and y'know what? It's all coming together in an incredible way, both narratively and in the combat encounters. I'll probably have more to say after I finish it, but I'll just say that I totally get now how this game ended up on people's GOTY lists even with such a murderers row of games going up against it. This is Falcom at its most confident as an action game developer in a long time and you can see the presentational refinements it's been exhibiting in Kiseki for the past couple of games really coalescing here now that they're finally using a brand new engine.
Really hope this game gives the series a new shot in the arm overseas and that people give it a chance. Between the combat, the chemistry with Kaja, and, miraculously for an Ys game, the way the story is wrapping up and exploring its themes, this feels like an entry people are gonna be talking about in hushed tones for years like Felghana.
For the love of god, do not sleep on this whenever it comes out in English, folks. I'm genuinely floored at how much this game accomplishes. 
i finished ys x and the ending sequence and epilogue made me bawl my eyes out?
an ys game made me cry
came to bop some bad guys for a couple dozen hours because falcom is good for that, left in tears over an impressively heartfelt and sincere execution on its themes, simply as they appear on the surface
incredible finale from the falcom series i don't remotely need any of that at all
when you first start playing it, you might think it's a solid 8/10 like a lot of these games tend to fall, propped up in large part by its combat, which is absolutely great and worth playing for alone
but give it a chance to really talk and you'll find a game that narratively punches way above its weight in places when you least expect it
gonna be thinking about this one for a long time, folks
