But you're still hungry.

I played the Falcom Classics version for Sega Saturn. Well so…it’s a strange game. You do contact damage, like Ys, and it’s like, whoever is moving towards the enemy (has right of way?) strikes first, and then can move out of the way to avoid doing more damage, and oblique attacks are good like in Ys? To get stronger, you 1) bring power stones back to your house, +5000 strength per 2) get more XP and go back to your house, which brings your HP to your XP 3) trade in coins for HP (not as effective). Did I mention the numbers are really big? The max HP and XP are 999999. I think damage is based on your strength and opponent’s experience, so XP also acts as defense for you. You can only carry one item at a time. So you use your key to open chests. Then you drop your key to pick up coins and jars (to use magic). Then you pick up one power stone at a time and bring it back to your house (or teleport back to your house). Somewhere along the way when you're empty-handed, you pick up your key again. lol. Also, the positions of the items change over time because there are random ghosts flying around that sometimes pick up items and drop them in a random location. Enemies spawn from graves (there’s at most one enemy per grave at a time, I think). Annoyingly, some enemies take your money/magic jars/sword.

Your goal is to get strong enough to beat up the 3-headed dragon. When it dies, 4 crowns are scattered across the map, and you have to find them and bring them back to your house, except that your house is now surrounded by gravestones and just getting back is really annoying. Then you pass to the next phase. Phase 1 was pretty ordinary, and phase 2 looked like a giant puzzle where there's warps everywhere and some of the houses are actually warps and I didn't have the brain space to think about how to actually get to any of the items, so I gave up.

Here’s what happened to me in phase 1: I went around and earned XP and strength and stuff until I got break. Then I broke into the bottom part of the map (the map is a torus, so that meant going up from my house) and there’s a LOT of power stones in the shape of “FALCOM” there. I picked them all up, one by one, until I had lots of attack (like 400k). Then I beat up a bunch of monsters, mostly one-shotting, until I had lots of XP. Because your HP is set to your XP when you get back to your house, I ended up with a bunch of HP too. Eventually, I upped my attack to about 500k, and beat up the dragon; because of my high XP, it wasn’t doing any damage to me. Then I had to deal with getting -10’d by all the enemies near my house while gathering up the crowns (ALSO one by one). It was fascinating but IDK if I really want to play 2 (which seems to have more strange mechanics, including a prohibition on powerleveling and separate levels for magic and each weapon, according to Wikipedia). I think I prefer Ys...