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Ys IX: Monstrum Nox – Zero Punctuation

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This week on Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviews Ys IX: Monstrum Nox.

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It’s always the silver lining about big game releases being dryer than a senior church warden’s panty liner that I can devote more time to the lower profile titles. The viewers get to send in heartfelt recommendations for their personal favourite indie and retro games, I get to tell them all to piss off, everyone’s having fun. So since it finally came out on PC last week I had a chance to play Monstrum Nox, the ninth game in the Ys series. Yus series? Is? Yes? Yyys? Well that’s one way to foil my usual “gradually corrupt the title” gag. Ys: Molesting Nonce is the latest in the courageously persistent and long-running Ys series of mid-budget Japanese action RPGs that’s been about three steps behind the rest of the industry its whole life but while the games have never exactly lit up gaming horizons like a napalm strike in nipple tassles I tend to find them fucking adorable. Like a little toddler coming downstairs at an adult party going “I’m a gwown up!” wearing daddy’s best jacket and waving mummy’s favourite clitoral stimulator. The Ys games are a sort of cozy, unthreatening place for me. Sometimes you just want to play a nice straightforward game where you press the button and the dude goes stab.


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Yahtzee Croshaw
Yahtzee is the Escapist’s longest standing talent, having been writing and producing its award winning flagship series, Zero Punctuation, since 2007. Before that he had a smattering of writing credits on various sites and print magazines, and has almost two decades of experience in game journalism as well as a lifelong interest in video games as an artistic medium, especially narrative-focused. He also has a foot in solo game development - he was a big figure in the indie adventure game scene in the early 2000s - and writes novels. He has six novels published at time of writing with a seventh on the way, all in the genres of comedic sci-fi and urban fantasy. He was born in the UK, emigrated to Australia in 2003, and emigrated again to California in 2016, where he lives with his wife and daughters. His hobbies include walking the dog and emigrating to places.