Arrives December 14th.
D4 Entertainment and Project EGG have revealed that the next title coming to the Nintendo Switch eShop as part of its Console EGG series of rereleases will be Nihon Falcom’s PC-88 action RPG hit Xanadu (thanks gosokkyu!)
The second game in the Dragon Slayer series, Xanadu was released for the PC-88 in 1985 and features a mixture of dungeon crawling, real-time combat, and RPG mechanics (including a morality system, item customization, player statistics, leveling, and more). It was a huge hit in Japan upon its original release, but as gosokkyu notes, it has surprisingly never received a faithful port to home consoles, despite coming to various other home computers including the X1, PC-98, FM-7/77, and MSX/2, and Windows.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
Arrives December 14th.
D4 Entertainment and Project EGG have revealed that the next title coming to the Nintendo Switch eShop as part of its Console EGG series of rereleases will be Nihon Falcom’s PC-88 action RPG hit Xanadu (thanks gosokkyu!)
The second game in the Dragon Slayer series, Xanadu was released for the PC-88 in 1985 and features a mixture of dungeon crawling, real-time combat, and RPG mechanics (including a morality system, item customization, player statistics, leveling, and more). It was a huge hit in Japan upon its original release, but as gosokkyu notes, it has surprisingly never received a faithful port to home consoles, despite coming to various other home computers including the X1, PC-98, FM-7/77, and MSX/2, and Windows.
Read the full article on timeextension.com