At first, I thought Ys Origins was going to be a monotonous game, but they more I played, the more it branched out and made for a good little dungeon crawler.
Mind you I only played the Yunica route here, I felt like playing the other characters would be more or less the same with only the skills and the bosses being different. As fun as I had playing as Yunica, I don't think it would be worth going any further than that.
The two big highlights here are the music and the boss fights. There are some killer music here that are pretty catchy, biggest example for me is the fire section of the tower. The bosses are somewhat difficult too, until you can figure out the patterns, then it becomes pretty damn easy.
There's some variety in the level design but it could have gone further with the designs, both in themes and layout, because after a while it does feel a little samey, regardless if they add some gimmicks here and there.
It's a good game to pick up and play if you can get it on a sale, like i did. It was enjoyable that does have more game inside it, but I think one playthrough is more than enough!