Xanadu Next Reviews

Soft thumbs up. It's a bit dense, mild grinding likely be involved for either a level here and there or money for better gear, if you don't get so lost you get the exp or money trying to figure out where you're going (you will learn to HATE the Trechier Woods). The combat is satisfying for something so simple. I mostly just ran behind things and cranked them upside the head, because that worked, but you could certainly play a more magical style. The story seems to be a bit scattered and thin, but comes together at the end very nicely. But do CHECK BEHIND WATERFALLS. Also, the A button being both Interact and BACK OUT, while X (on an Xbox controller) being the confirm/advance button is simply derangement. The number of times I hit the save statue then immediately backed out of the save menu...

Zelda meets Diablo

hidden gem if you're looking for something cool to play

My almost full hour of play time was reading the intro text and running around town to get instructions to go to the first dungeon where the game introduces keys. You need to buy keys from a shop. The game mentions that if you buy to many keys from the shop at once the prices goes up due to supply and demand. After that room I had a room with 2 locked doors. I had to run out of the dungeon to the shop to to buy 2 more keys as thats all I had money for. Then run back to the dungeon, open up to more doors, then run back to the shop to buy more keys. Thats not a game that respects players time. It has to be one of the worst mechanics I have ever seen in a game. Locked ruin doors that a shop keeper found just last week (its in conversation text!) but he has all the keys for it.... for a price... Ill pass.

I like this game a lot. It has a gameplay loop that I can just relax with and lose myself for a bit. However, it's so broken you can barely play it. Everything went fine until you get to the red slimes, then if you accidentally kill 2 (they explode on death and can accidentally take multiple out) the game freezes and crashes. This is a known bug, apparently, and the work around is just to not fight the red slimes in the Endless Maze and run past them because apparently it's only in the Endless Maze this problem occurs. Then I got to the Berilard boss and I couldn't progress. Not because of the boss. I could easily beat him except the game kept freezing and crashing on him. ONE time I managed to defeat him without any freezing or crashing, and then you open then chest you get from him and it froze and crashed during the little animation opening the chest. It did this at the end of the first dungeon too, but when I restarted it worked fine so I figured I'd just restart and beat the boss again here... except it just freezes and crashes the once I get 2 or 3 hits in. My computer exceeds the recommended requirements for this so not sure what's going on, but I'm not exactly a compute expert, either. It's a shame because the game is genuinely a lot of fun.

Honestly, a fun and interesting action RPG. The systems are fleshed out enough that it creates intrigue around the battle system and exploring your options. Story is pretty standard (so far lol. not even close to the end of the game), but there a few narrative choices I didn't see coming so that was refreshing. Overall, would recommend!

The kind of experience that makes you fall in love with video games all over again.

Fantastic Hidden Gem. Combat, world & gameplay loop is very addictive & exploring the world is always compelling.

Great interconnected and compact world. Progression is similar to the older Ys games.

I really enjoyed this game a lot... until I got to the optional dungeon. It's full of cheap shit that are there to only piss you off. I got down to floor 18 and then the game decided to give me an invisible enemy I couldn't hit. You can't progress in the dungeon if you don't kill all monsters within the room. That dungeon completely ruined my opinion of the game and I can't recommend the game. I didn't even bother to finish the game even though I was so high level everything outside of that dungeon would hit me for 1 damage. The optional dungeon soured my experience. It wasn't about difficulty, it was about "How much cheap shit can we throw at the player?" Screw that place and it's no leaving when you get 10 potions that heal only for a third of your max life.