Chest items are now randomized. Story-progression items not yet randomized.
Currently, duplicates can still be rolled.
Experience boosted to 16x.
Gold boosted to 16x.
Ring boosted to 16x.
Locked doors have been unlocked to start.
Player i-frames increased from 20f to 60f.
Skips dialogue that blocks progression. Also skips dialogue that is only heard once.
World-map locations unlocked to start.
Ogre’s Ball of Fire no longer needed to light Galbalan’s Island.
Ring efficiency improved to 6.4x. Specifically, ring is reduced every 64f instead of 10f.
All progression blocks removed.
Cutscenes that return you to town from dungeons are now whitelisted from cutscene skips.
Reenabled cutscene skips in the room with the cutscene trigger, when heading toward the boss rather than returning from defeating the boss.
You can now do a triple jump. But beware of jumping out of bounds, as it can softlock your game.
Town health regen boosted to 4x. Does not affect Ring health regen.
You now deal a minimum of one instead of zero damage against enemies, including bosses.
The final boss is now vulnerable even when his heart isn’t visible. This is the case even when one or more of his hands are still visible.
The dialogue for finding herb medicine in the volcano has been whitelisted from being skipped.
You can now hold the L button to force a skipped dialogue to still occur.
The pool of random items has been shrunk to include only items that drop from chests in vanilla.
Duplicate rolls have been removed.
So, what do you think? Which platform do you think has the best version of Ys III? Where do you think Ys III ranks in the series? Comment below, or come check us out on Discord.
For more info on the Whirlwind (Four-Job) Fiesta event, see here. For more on the Crosswinds mod for Final Fantasy III, see here.
NeoKakarot is a fanatic of JRPGs, anime, and DOTA with an especially soft spot for games by Nihon Falcom. You can follow Neo’s work via YouTube or Patreon.
Writes Neo shortly after his playthrough of Final Fantasy III on the Nintendo DS (playlist available here):
Today we are playing Final Fantasy III for the NES on this stream, but it’s not a normal version of the game.
For you see it has been modded by @cIymax and is called Final Fantasy III Crosswind!
And I will be “speed running” it if you catch my drift.
It should be a fun time!
So, mark your calendars for Wednesday at 8pm Eastern, boys!
Update
The Speedrun.com submission is posted here, or see the video embed below.