Ys IX: Monstrum Nox adds cooperative multiplayer

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Ys 9: Monstrum Nox adds cooperative multiplayer

It'south for local co-op, but yous can work around that to play online

The PC version of Ys IX: Monstrum Nox now supports cooperative multiplayer, a tidy lilliputian post-launch bonus for Nippon Falcom's activeness-RPG. Nadia Oxford told us last year that for fans of the genre, "the Ys series is a must-play, and Ys Ix is as good a place to starting time as any." Co-op makes it an even nicer identify to showtime considering friends are squeamish, aren't they?

"Unlike Ys Eight, where co-op was mostly limited to combat, the 2nd player is largely equivalent to the chief actor in terms of capabilities in Ys IX, including movement and gainsay abilities, using Monstrum Gifts, discovering and triggering landmarks, enemies and events, opening chests, picking up collectibles, and initiating dialogue," the announcement explains. "Merely interacting with menus and the map is restricted to player i."

The co-op is only for local multiplayer, but it'southward easy to do that online these days thanks to things similar Steam Remote Play Together—which this does officially support. The update too added support for more screen aspect ratios, specially with a view to fitting the Steam Deck's 16:10 screen.

The game has a xx% discount right now too, taking information technology down to £40/€48/$48 until the 27th of January on Steam. Information technology'south however total-price on GOG, though. It has a demo so you lot tin can attempt it first.

"I am personally very much a fan of local co-op in games, and feel like too few RPGs in detail offer the option to play their main campaign in co-op," said Peter Thoman of porting studio PH3 Games. "I hope this update brightens the day of my fellow co-op aficionados out in that location, as well equally anyone playing on a sixteen:x monitor or who is planning to get a Steam Deck of course."

You might meliorate know Thoman as "Durante", the creator of invaluable tools which stock-still screen resolutions in Dark Souls and Deadly Premonition. These days he has his ain company consulting working on ports, including this and the Legend Of Heroes: Trails Of Cold Steel games.