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Nihon Falcom is a Japanese video game developer, best known for their '' Ys'', '' The Legend of Heroes'', and ''Trails'' series. The company was founded in March 1981, making them one of the oldest active video game companies. They are credited with pioneer ...
is a Japanese
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company founded in 1981. While the company has actively developed video games since their inception, their games were not consistently localized and published until the 2010s. The company originally focused on developing games for Japanese
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. In the 2000s, the company moved into developing games for
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, while continuing development on PCs on
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, to reach a broader demographic. The move was internally seen as a success, and broadened their fanbase in Western territories, leading the company to put greater emphasis into English translations and releases of their games in the 2010s. Since the 2010s, the company generally releases one game per year. By the end of the decade, the company started seeing success in porting their games to the
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platform, leading them to start internal development on the Switch moving into the 2020s, alongside an even greater push for multi-platform publishing.


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'' - a game in the ''Xanadu'' series that was outsourced to Hudsonsoft. * '' Ys 4'' original releases were outsourced to other companies, and not developed by Falcom. This includes '' Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys'', developed by Hudsonsoft for the
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in 1993, '' Ys IV: Mask of the Sun'' by
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for the
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, and '' Ys IV: Mask of the Sun - A New Theory'' by
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for the
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. The only version of ''Ys 4'' to be developed by Falcom was '' Ys Memories of Celceta''. * ''
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'' - a 2006 entry into Falcom's ''Ys'' series outsourced to another development team for release on the
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Nihon Falcom is a Japanese video game developer, best known for their '' Ys'', '' The Legend of Heroes'', and ''Trails'' series. The company was founded in March 1981, making them one of the oldest active video game companies. They are credited with pioneer ...