Xanadu Next

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.

Xanadu Next
Developer(s)	Nihon Falcom ScriptArts (N-Gage)
Publisher(s)	JP: Nihon Falcom WW: Xseed Games Nokia (N-Gage)
Director(s)	Takayuki Kusano
Producer(s)	Masayuki Kato
Writer(s)	Toshihiro Kondo
Composer(s)	Hayato Sonoda Wataru Ishibashi Takahide Murayama Takahiro Unisuga
Platform(s)	N-Gage, Windows
Release	N-Gage NA: 20 June 2005[1] Windows JP: 27 October 2005 WW: 3 November 2016
Genre(s)	Action role-playing
Mode(s)	Single-player

Premise

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.

Reception

Aggregate scores

Aggregator	Score
	N-Gage	PC
GameRankings	65%[3]	78%[4]
Metacritic		78/100[5]

Review scores

Publication	Score
	N-Gage	PC
GameSpot	6.6/10[6]
GameSpy	3.5/5
RPGamer		3/5[7]

Reception

The N-Gage version got mixed reviews, but the Windows version got generally favourable reviews.^[3][4][5]