After sitting in the "early 2025" release window for a good few months, XSEED Games has today announced that Nihon Falcom's Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana will be making its way to Western Switch eShops on 7th January 2025.
This one initially launched in Japan in April 2023 as a remaster of the 2010 PSP title with added difficulty options, quality-of-life improvements and all-new voiceovers. The announcement of the Western localisation was leaked earlier this year, but we're pleased to know that we won't have too long to wait before it arrives.

For those who missed out on the original, Oath in Felghana will see you playing as red-haired hero Adol, arriving in the titular land only to find it swarming with criminals, monsters and natural disasters. Naturally, you'll be sticking around to help everyone out (this is a classic RPG, after all), all while taking on a greedy landlord who appears to be profiting from the dire situation.
You'll find a rundown of the remaster's key features and a handful of screenshots below:
Classic RPG Excitement Remastered: Experience the old-school action RPG combat the Ys series is known for, with added difficulty options and quality-of-life enhancements like “Turbo” mode, as you fight your way through a memorable fantasy world.
Refined Visual Variety: Ys Memoire features all-new “Refined” character illustrations throughout the game, but players who want the original experience can switch to the “Classic” versions at a whim.
A Silent Protagonist No Longer: Newly recorded voice acting for Adol Christin, including an opening narration that sets the stage for adventure, gives new depth and gravitas to the famous hero.
A Sweeping Soundtrack Reborn: Well-regarded for its outstanding soundtrack, this version features three different iterations of the epic score (Original, PC-8801, and X68000) for players to choose from, all remastered in high-quality audio.
Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana is now available to pre-order from the Switch eShop for £24.99 / $29.99. For those who prefer their games a little more physical, a "Refined Edition" boxed release is also up for pre-order from various retailers in North America via the Marvelous USA website. For $59.99, this physical release bundles in an acrylic diorama stand, CD soundtrack, microfibre cloth and postcard set — perfect for those Ys fans with a love for a bit o' merch.
Will you be picking up Oath in Felghana next year? Let us know in the comments.
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Love to see a release date for this, looking forward to it even though I'm not sure when I'll be able to play it as usual - really should play at least one Ys game, not even this one specifically, when I can as based on all I've seen and heard of them it's quite likely I'd enjoy this series!
I'm a simple man. You give me more Ys and I'm happy.
I hope that they just retranslated the game, because if not... Why it took them so long to release it worldwide?!
Hands down one of the best Ys games in my opinion and tied with Ys Origin with the Napishtim engine implementation. This one is certainly worth grabbing the physical release for IMO.
I've been a bit confused about this one, the original was already fully in English, including the voice acting
It's been a good news day.
@TopazLink They've added a voice for Adol, the rest will be the original English voice cast.
it was suppose to come to the us in march 2025 now it will come 2 months earlier..
Nice that this is coming to Switch as my PSP copy was recently stolen so nice to finally get a more HD remastered version of this.
i will get the physical version for sure...
Looks a bit too retro for me and not that good looking. Probably big skip; especially since we JUST had Nordics released.
Great game but that's not enough to make me wanna buy it again
IMO the Ys series is better than Zelda overall. And this along with 0rigin and VI are my 3 favorites.
So it has an engine akin to Ys Origin. No problem I love Ys no matter what. I've waited so long to play a lot of the games in the series and now I'm starting to fall behind due to time for playing games lol. One day I hope.
Bout time! I don't usually get games twice, but Oath is something special. That new art is really jarring though, so glad you have the option to switch back to the original. Ys I&II Chronicles did that too.
@harrystein Ys and Zelda games are nothing a like. While Ys required grinding to progress, Zelda doesn't. Also Ys are more quest based while Zelda are more puzzle based.
@Coversnail Ah, that makes more sense, been a long time since I played it
It's a good hack & slash game, but if you come (as I did) expecting to find an Action RPG like Ys VIII, you'll be dissapointed. As I was XD
@harrystein Zelda and this have nothing to do. Ys games, until VII, are pure action games while Zelda focus much more on exploration and puzzles.
This is wonderful. GREAT game. Ys somehow topped Final Fantasy as my favourite RPG series.
I’m literally getting goosebumps to preparing to replay this amazing game in all its glory and now with all those new bells and whistles. The original Felghana (a remake of Ys III), actually came out on PC in 2005-2006 or thereabouts. I remember having to painstakingly translate every line on screen using a Kanji dictionary. But it was worth it for all the insane action (very awesome boss fights that cream the YS 3 originals) and one of the best soundtracks to ever grace the medium. My only complaint here is that they aren’t including the legendary PCE version of the soundtrack, too.
Can’t wait
@MeloMan Yeah it’s the same engine as YSVI and Origin I believe.
Glad that the Switch now has 2/3rd of the mainline franchise.
I still wish they will make a modernised console port for Napishtim and eventually putting Seven and Celceta (and Chronicles even if we got the PC-88 versions of the first two in the e-shop).
As for Zelda even if I love Ys over it (although I am a fan of top down Zelda) they are not the same kind of experience.
@the_beaver They're both long running video game series that use 1 singular hero throughout the series who uses a sword and is set in a fantasy setting.
@harrystein Yes, and so is God of War (well, in this case it's two swords). And still has nothing to do with these haha.
Well, actually you can. The original God of War games are more like the old Ys games, and the new GoW games are actually more like Zelda. Still very different all of them, thought.
@the_beaver Well in any case. Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are the most overrated awful games was my point. Ys games need to be more recognized as the newer entries are much better made games.
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