Ys IX: Monstrum Nox Gets Story Trailer

NIS America released a new trailer for the upcoming western release of Nihon Falcom’s Ys IX: Monstrum Nox. The two-minute story trailer gives some hints to the game’s narrative elements and introduces some of its characters.

Ys IX: Monstrum Nox takes place in the “prison city” of Balduq, where Adol finds himself imprisoned. In prison, a mysterious woman named Aprilis turns him into a Monstrum, a being with supernatural Gifts and the power to exorcise monsters. Adol teams up with other Monstrums to fight against the creatures emerging from a dimension called the Grimwald Nox and to investigate the Monstrum curse and its relation to Balduq. Ys IX: Monstrum Nox will launch for PlayStation 4 in North America on February 2, 2021, with the European release following on February 5, 2021. The game will also be released for PC and Nintendo Switch in the summer of 2021.