@coolboymew The stories in the Ys games are just in-universe retellings of what Adol wrote in his journals, published by some unknown writer centuries after his death. In other words, they are supposed to be in-universe history books.
@xianc78 I checked and the author was a native Russian and there's no mention of anything bad on wikipedia so chances are it's not going to be absolute garbage?
@coolboymew The manual for the original PC88 version was in hardcover, and even included a catalog for other games. Falcom really loved to put a lot of work in their packaging back then.