Falcom and NIS America revealed the first trailer for the western release ofYs IX: Monstrum Noxat New Game Plus Expo. NIS America revealed on the same occasion thatYs IX: Monstrum Noxwill unsurprisingly not be a PS4 exclusive in the west, and will be launching on Nintendo Switch as well as PC. NIS America has been localizing Falcom games for these three platforms for a while now, so it’s still following this pattern. The game is scheduled for 2021.
Ys IX: Monstrum Noxfeatures Adol and Dogi visiting the “Prison City” of Balduq. There, Adol ends up meeting the Monstrum, individuals with super-powers, becomes a Monstrum himself, and gets tangled in the mysteries of the city.
Ys IX: Monstrum Noxis also the furthest adventure of Adol in theYstimeline and includes multiple references to previous games. Especially in its prologue, with a pretty fun scene where Adol recounts his past adventures to an investigator. It’s still an entirely standalone game though and you won’t miss anything starting with it.
The game will feature the original Japanese voices and an English dub. Koch Media Francespecifiedthe game will also include French subtitles in Europe.
Ys IX: Monstrum NoxWestern Release Trailer
Ys IX: Monstrum Noxwas released in Japan on July 17, 2025 on PS4, and later on in Asia. Falcom initiallytold DualShockersin July 2019, before the game released in Japan, that it wasn’t currently planned in the west. The western release was then teased for the firsttime in November 2019.And then confirmed via aGematsu interviewin April 2020. It seems plans for a localization moved quite late, and this explains why we’ll have to wait till 2021.
Personally,as someone who already played a good chunk of the game in Japanese, I can assure you it’s an awesome game. Gameplay wise it isn’t a huge evolution compared toYs VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana, but the Monstrum abilities, the incredible vertical dungeon design, and the giant explorable city of Balduq makes it into a really unique experience and among the best Action RPGs there ever was, up there withYs VIII.
I’d also add I’m slightly worried at how the PC and Switch versions ofYs IXwill run and hopefully, they will be well ported and optimized. Falcom, being a very small studio, actually launchedYs IXon PS4 with pretty big framerate issues at first, and these were correcteda few weeks after release via a patch. The game still has some slowdowns in certain areas though, even on PS4 Pro. I personally don’t mind and I don’t think it makes the game any worse, but those who worship the god of 60 FPS definitely will.
Be sure to check out our previousYs IX: Monstrum Noxcoverage, including: Our latestinterview with Falcom President Toshihiro Kondo,his latest comments ontheYs Seriesas a whole andYs IXpossibly launching on PS5,teasing of anYs Vremake, moregameplay, trailers,screenshots,andartwork.
