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 WW: 20 June 2005[1] Windows JP: 27 October 2005 WW: 3 November 2016
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.

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, which you must help with along your journey to find Momo.

Reception

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