The incredibly average first swing at 3D Ys. Bosses are fine and I really cherish the way dialogue progresses with the Rehda villagers without side-quests, but the map and the arrangement of shops and upgrades across the two towns is just so unpleasant. I enjoy the idea of being familiar with the island and abstracting time through repetition, but it's just far too much distance to travel every single time I need to upgrade my swords. Playing the worst possible release of this game on PSP did not help, but even with the fast travel on the more recent PC port I could not imagine having that much better of an impression on Ark. Strangely fine to play through despite all that because everything other than the lunge jump feel exactly like Oath, but this is a pretty skippable Ys release given how sparse the writing is or how unconsidered the map is.