Thread:MMYP999/@comment-27109830-20170315162439/@comment-27416494-20170316221324

No need to worry, this isn't really intrusive or anything.

I've just started looking into the Ys series myself, but I'm definitely seeing a lot of similarities with The Legend of Zelda in it. (Surprisingly enough, both franchises actually happened to debut one year apart from one another.)

As for Link and Adol, both are silent sword-wielding protagonists of their respective series famous for wandering the lands in search of adventure and heroism. (Link has traveled across Hyrule and various parallel worlds throughout his various incarnations while Adol has managed to remain as the main protagonist throughout the majority of Ys, where he is constantly traveling to new corners of the world.)

Both of them have an innate tendency to "show up in the right place at the wrong time", where they will promptly lose whatever skills and equipment they may have acquired from a previous adventure (this kind of depends on the incarnation of Link you're using) and be met with some sort of world-threatening disaster or damsel in distress that requires their attention. They will gladly help out anyone they meet over the course of their journeys, all while collecting a large assortment of magical relics to further aid them in battle. And just to top things off, most of their adventures will typically end with them personally defeating an eldritch abomination that has been plaguing the lands.