WTMG’s Leo Faria: “Ys IX: Monstrum Nox is yet another excellent entry in this long-lasting JRPG franchise, even if it does suffer from a few pacing and gameplay issues. It still retains the series’ trademark art style, quality sound department, and most important, a fun combat system that makes you overlook its technical flaws. Adol’s awkward goth phase may have started on his 34th birthday, but thankfully, it ended up being the good kind of goth. The one that listens to Nightwish and reads 19th century literature, not the phoney one that hangs out at Hot Topic and thinks that Keanu Reeves’ role in 1992’s Dracula was competent.”
