| Xanadu Next | |
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| Developer(s) | Nihon Falcom ScriptArts (N-Gage) |
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| Director(s) | Takayuki Kusano |
| Producer(s) | Masayuki Kato |
| Writer(s) | Toshihiro Kondo |
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| Platform(s) | N-Gage, Windows |
| Release | N-GageWindows
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| Genre(s) | Action role-playing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Xanadu Next[2] is a 2005 action role-playing game developed by Nihon Falcom for Windows. The game is a spin-off of the 1985 action role-playing game Dragon Slayer II: Xanadu. Xanadu Next was released worldwide in English by Xseed Games in 2016. An N-Gage version was developed by ScriptArts and published by Nokia a few months prior to original Japanese release.
The player character is a dishonored knight hired by a scholar named Charlotte L. Wells to investigate the ruins of Harlech Island on her behalf. Almost as soon as he begins, however, he is mortally wounded by a mysterious warrior named Dvorak and must undergo a life-saving process which binds him to Harlech. He will now die if he ever leaves – unless he can find the fabled Dragon Slayer sword, which is the only item capable of severing his ties with Harlech and giving him his life back.
In the N-Gage version, the player character is instead a hunter who has been hired by a small town named Marion Berck to find a missing girl named Momo who disappeared after King-Dragon attacked. Since King-Dragon's attack, the villagers have been plagued by mysterious deaths, dying crops, and monster attacks, and the players must guide the hunter in the journey to find Momo.
| Aggregator | Score | |
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| N-Gage | PC | |
| GameRankings | 65%[3] | 78%[4] |
| Metacritic | 78/100[5] | |
| Publication | Score | |
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| N-Gage | PC | |
| GameSpot | 6.6/10[6] | |
| GameSpy | 3.5/5 | |
| RPGamer | 3/5[7] | |
The N-Gage version got mixed reviews, but the Windows version got generally favourable reviews.[3][4][5]
