Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim

Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim is a 2003 action role-playing game developed and published by Nihon Falcom. The sixth numbered entry in the Ys series, it was Falcom's first new numbered installment since Ys V: Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand in 1995 and its first original numbered Ys developed for Windows. Set three years after Ys V, the game follows adventurer Adol Christin after he is swept through the Great Vortex of Canaan and stranded among the Canaan Islands. There he encounters the indigenous Rehda, the pirate organization led by Ladoc, and the expansionist Romun Empire while investigating the legacy of the winged Eldeen civilization and the weather-control device known as the Ark of Napishtim. Ys VI substantially redesigned the series' action system. It combines sprite-based characters with three-dimensional environments and gives the player direct control over Adol's sword attacks, jumping, movement combinations, and three elemental swords. The technology and design framework established for the game were subsequently revised for Ys: The Oath in Felghana and Ys Origin. Falcom released the original Windows version in Japan on September 27, 2003. Konami developed and published altered versions for the PlayStation 2 in 2005 and the PlayStation Portable in 2006, providing the game's first official English localization. Xseed Games released a newly translated and enhanced Windows edition internationally in April 2015, adding widescreen support, save-point warping, achievements, leaderboards, and an optional Catastrophe Mode.