But I actually believe most people here ARE biased towards the PCE version (even though they won't admit it) because they're PCE fans/grew up with the game. I'm not a big fan of any particular system, and I like every version of Ys III.
How do we know that you aren't just BIASED towards the Megadrive version, the console you more than likely grew up with out of the three?
What you said about people here can be applied to you too only opposite
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Anyways, I never grew up with a TG16 and I didn't get into the system until all the way in 2002 and I had a Genesis back in the 16-bit generation, which I loved then and still do. I simply prefer the TGCD version of Ys III because overall it's better in all aspects:
Graphics - TGCD wins in the graphics department because the ingame details look nicer than both the Genesis and SNES versions and so does the actual color depth. The SNES version looked a little too "blurry" to me and the Genesis version looked a little too "dirty", (the map is probably the best example) though some parts looked pretty clean, like the opening part of the cave. Also to add to the graphics department, the TGCD version had way better cinematics than both versions
. Lets also not forget that the "Continue" screen in the TGCD version had a nice little piece of artwork in it of the three main characters. The only bad graphical part of the TGCD version was the parallax scrolling, which was down right terrible!
Sound - TGCD obviously due to the brilliantly arranged soundtrack by Ryo Yonemitsu. The Genesis verison had pretty good music too, and I don't even like the Genesis' sound chip for the most part too. I would have to play the SNES version again to remember, but I just remember it having the worst sound of the bunch.
Gameplay - The actual controls between the TGCD and Genesis version are identicle, but it's a little different in the SNES version since you had to perform slash in a different way (I think you had to hold down the attack button instead of just pressing down). The Genesis version however does offer a little more difficulty, whilst the SNES version is the easiest because you can level up so fast.
So out of the three main categories I judged the game in (Graphics, Sound, Gameplay), I gave the advantage of the TGCD version for a bold two of the categories and a tie for the gameplay. 2 and 1/2 out of 3 points makes the TGCD version a winner if you ask me, I'm sorry
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I hope to bring my site back so you all could see the actual article I wrote, I had descriptive paragraphs and nice screenshtos! In fact I just took screenshots of both the Genesis and Duo versions of Wonderboy 5/Dynastic Hero and I might have to make write an article for that later, which is even more fun because of how close they are.
