YMMV / Ys: The Oath in Felghana

• Awesome Music: See here.
• Complete Monster: Click here.
• Even Better Sequel: The Oath in Felghana is widely considered a huge improvement over Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim (the last Ys game released whose engine this remake is based on) and the best installment out of the Sprite/Polygon Mix games. When compared against the newest ports/remakes of Ys: Ancient Ys Vanished ~ Omen and Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished – The Final Chapter or Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim, The Oath in Felghana features a better narrative script and Character Development, more balanced game-play tweaks from Ys VI and a killer soundtrack.
• Luck-Based Mission: On Nightmare and Inferno difficulties, Gyalva can be a luck-based affair because it's possible for it to flip almost all the bridge tiles into spikes, giving the player little room to maneuver.
• Moe: The Oath in Felgana incarnation of Elena Stoddart is adorable; her voice acting being oh, so sweet that it hurts.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • When Adol Christin makes it to the bottom of Genos Island, he sees Elena trapped on a pillar to be sacrificed to Galbalan with a bunch of tendrils eating into her arm. Worse, the other pillars have skeletons on them, implying she's the most recent sacrifice. Who knows how many have been offered to Galbalan?
  • The enemies in Valestein Castle are corrupted soldiers and maids who walk in a creepy manner that shows they are no longer human. Making this even more frightening is that the Japanese guidebook has illustrations of the maids with their heads falling off as they have a dead look on their face.
• Polished Port: It was ported from the PlayStation 2 to the PC with multiple graphics and music options, including ones that the original PS2 release didn't have. Also, a February 2020 update to the game added in the English voices for the characters, free of charge.
• Remade and Improved: The original Wanderers from Ys is decent, but received criticism for shifting from top-down to side-scrolling action, and generally less polished than the other main installments before and after this one. The Oath in Felghana uses the Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim engine that brings the game to a more familiar Ys experience, irons out the gameplay issues from Ys VI, expands the plot and the characters of Wanderers from Ys while staying faithful, and has a live-recording soundtrack that lives up to high standards set by the TurboGrafx-CD version (whose music was considered the best out of all ports before the remake).
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Chester is an Anti-Villain — his Goal in Life is to get revenge on Count McGuire for the Doomed Hometown of himself and his sister, which is a perfectly understandable motivation. But he takes it into Revenge Before Reason territory. It's one thing to be The Starscream for McGuire, but Chester goes way too far in pursuit of vengeance. He constantly harasses Adol, abandons his sister for over six months with nary a word, stabs Dogi and leaves him for dead when Chester decides that he can't turn back, and helps resurrect a dark god. Also, Chester goes this far because he wants McGuire to suffer before he dies, which is why Chester doesn't just slice McGuire's head off, but there doesn't seem to be a point where Chester decides enough is enough until McGuire has almost succeeded. Finally, his actions at the castle turn innocent people into mindless zombies, an act that's just as bad as what McGuire did to his hometown on Genos Island, if not even worse. The game tries to redeem Chester by having him sacrifice himself to stop Galbalan, but it can still feel pretty unearned, considering everything else he did.
• The Woobie: Elena. The events of the story really take a toll on her. She and Chester's back-stories will make anyone feel sorry for them, but Chester's methods in seeking retribution mostly keep him out of this trope. Elena, on the other hand, seems to be doing her best to live a normal life by herself after her Childhood Friend Dogi leaves Redmont, including Chester some time later. Despite her state of depression over his disappearance at the beginning of the game, she does her best to be friendly with everyone, including Adol and Dogi, in spite of some resentment for her old friend for having abandoned her.