Unfortunately, one of the changes Falcom made to this game, is that only about half the soundtrack is from the originals. One song, the general boss theme(at least in Dawn) I'm sure they skipped, due to it being based on an Yngwei Malmsteen song, I think called Far Away from the Sun. It's a shame, it's a great track. I have no idea why a whole bunch of other songs are replaced though.
Infact, IIRC, the PS2 version of Ys IV, called Mask of the Sun: A New Theory, also keeps all the original tracks.
All in all, Memories is a good game, but I still prefer Dawn of Ys by a landslide. Even the musical arrangements are much better than Memories. The music from Ys 1-4 on the TurboGrafx-CD all gives me goosebumps. Ys 1-3 of the more modern remakes also give me goosebumps, but Memories music only occasionally does.
Oh, and while it gets debated back and forth on whether Dawn or Mask was originally cannon, I think the main thing is that Mask has no contradictions to the official timeline. Hudson took the liberty of having a character in Ys 1 that originally officially died, instead ended up surviving and later showed up in Dawn.
One reason I think it's debated on which was originally cannon, I think is based on the fact that Falcom seemed to initially embrace Dawn, shown by them shopping around for a studio to make an anime based on Dawn of Ys. You can easily find that video on YouTube.
You need to get around to playing the English version of Dawn of Ys. I actually still need to play it in English. I originally beat it in Japanese a couple of times several years ago, but then later on we did a dub and I was the narrator and Dr Flair. Although, I'm not thrilled with the fact that they sped up my narration to make my voice higher. I wish they had just asked me to redo my lines so I can keep my deeper voice but do it faster to keep it in pace with the narration scenes. I did my best to try to emulate Alan Oppenheimer's opening narration from Ys 1 & 2 on the Turbo CD.
Unfortunately, one of the changes Falcom made to this game, is that only about half the soundtrack is from the originals. One song, the general boss theme(at least in Dawn) I'm sure they skipped, due to it being based on an Yngwei Malmsteen song, I think called Far Away from the Sun. It's a shame, it's a great track. I have no idea why a whole bunch of other songs are replaced though.
Infact, IIRC, the PS2 version of Ys IV, called Mask of the Sun: A New Theory, also keeps all the original tracks.
All in all, Memories is a good game, but I still prefer Dawn of Ys by a landslide. Even the musical arrangements are much better than Memories. The music from Ys 1-4 on the TurboGrafx-CD all gives me goosebumps. Ys 1-3 of the more modern remakes also give me goosebumps, but Memories music only occasionally does.
Oh, and while it gets debated back and forth on whether Dawn or Mask was originally cannon, I think the main thing is that Mask has no contradictions to the official timeline. Hudson took the liberty of having a character in Ys 1 that originally officially died, instead ended up surviving and later showed up in Dawn.
One reason I think it's debated on which was originally cannon, I think is based on the fact that Falcom seemed to initially embrace Dawn, shown by them shopping around for a studio to make an anime based on Dawn of Ys. You can easily find that video on YouTube.
You need to get around to playing the English version of Dawn of Ys. I actually still need to play it in English. I originally beat it in Japanese a couple of times several years ago, but then later on we did a dub and I was the narrator and Dr Flair. Although, I'm not thrilled with the fact that they sped up my narration to make my voice higher. I wish they had just asked me to redo my lines so I can keep my deeper voice but do it faster to keep it in pace with the narration scenes. I did my best to try to emulate Alan Oppenheimer's opening narration from Ys 1 & 2 on the Turbo CD.