Hack Showcases and RPG Hack Showcases are a series where I show off various game and rpg hacks. I try to stick with hacks that improve gameplay or add quality of life features, completely or partially change the plot and characters, along with additional content, dialogue, graphical and sound improvements. Non-rpgs I try to give a full run to, or at least enough for a solid review. Rpgs I will stick with titles that have enough changes in the beginning to show off, and when I can, show parts later in the games where more differences appear. There may be spoilers in the reviews and videos. Some of these I may stream fully in the future or play on my own. Reviews are open to later revisions due to bug and content updates or me playing them and finding anything new I wish to bring up.

Y’s 3 Renewal by Plombo aims to clean up the dialogue and script of the game into something that flows and sounds better. Beside that, the hack also presents terms and names used by XSEED in the modern remakes of the Y’s series along with some graphical improvements to clean up the look of the game more.

The goal of Y’s 3 Rebalanced by Mentil is to reduce the amount of time grinding and a lot of the difficulty issues this game has with the following changes:

• The player getting hit now grants 25 invincibility frames rather than 10; each mistake is now less likely to get you hit more than once.
• Enemies now grant 6x the gold and XP in the early game; once reaching an area where you should be about halfway to the level cap, this drops to 2x. One should reach the recommended level for each area by the time one arrives, with almost no grinding required, if one slays every monster in one’s path.
• Many enemies and bosses have had their damage output nerfed to more-reasonable levels. The final boss got particular attention and should be far less frustrating to fight.
• Each enemy defeated now grants 3 ring points instead of 1, making rings more useful without frequent recharges in town.
• Adol now starts the game with a sword, given the intro states he has one.

I combined both these hacks for gameplay and for this review, which is recommended and possible to do. Review will be for both together and separate and same with my final score.

SO HOW IS IT? For the Renewal portion of this review, I enjoyed it quite a bit. Really nice to play a Y’s game where you’re familiar with the items, gear and locations when they’re later referenced in the other games. Author did a great job making everything fit within the XSEED remakes. I do still recommend the remakes along with the original ports of the Y’s games for pc-Engine, Genesis, SNES, etc of course.

Rebalanced is where it’s at with this hack! Having played the SNES port of this and realizing the SNES port has a max level of 16, compared to 12 in this and other ports, I think this one was easier, though the boss fights were still really rough. One the best parts of this is the added i-frames of 25 compared to 10, so you can try to do some added damage to enemies and bosses before your life gets wiped out. Starting with a sword saves you money, this change was done since the game states you start with a sword (and the graphic has Adol with one), but you still gotta buy one.

Enemies drop more xp and gold when you fight them including bosses, but that drops as you get higher in levels. Good thing with this change is you don’t have to fight (as hard) to gain a level or 2 when you enter new areas so you stand a chance against enemies. Not to mention enemies that you can’t touch until a certain level can be attacked once high enough thanks to a lower limitation. The Y’s games are known for being tough and players having to gain a level or 2 in new areas of they’ll be destroyed.

The big elephant in the room is the final boss. Galbalan is tough in any port including the remakes thanks to the pulsating floors throwing your jumps off and the small hit boxes on Galbalan along with his attack patterns. Bosses were rebalanced and nerfed to make them easier as was the final boss. Honestly feels it wasn’t enough, his attacks occur less but the small hit boxes and the pulsating floor still makes it a very rough fight.

All that said, I highly recommend these hacks combined for Genesis Y’s 3, and I recommend playing the other Y’s games along with the remakes!

I GIVE Y’S 3 RENEWAL HACK & REBALANCED HACK 5 OUT OF 5 SWORDS!!

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LINKS:
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/6175/ – Y’s 3 Renewal
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/6684/ – Y’s 3 Rebalanced

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