Unfortunately for Tokyo Xanadu though, it tries a bit too hard to mimic Persona with its narrative. It’s an interesting premise, and certainly a great platform in which to debut a new series of games that link up with one another.
However, some people (such as, you guessed it, the game’s protagonist) are sensitive to this alternate reality and can materialize weapons out of the air to fight off the Greed. The thing is, average folks can’t see these pathways or the Greed that come from them, so these instances are written off as mere missing person cases. Much like the Persona games before it, Tokyo Xanadu‘s alternate world ties directly into human emotion opening a portal unleashing mysterious creatures called Greed that abduct those in the vicinity of these gateways. But before he can step in, Asuka and her assailants are whisked away into an alternate dimension and Kou along with them. One night, after the conclusion of a late shift, Kou happens upon his classmate, Asuka, being harassed by some local thugs. Though he has a good reason a catastrophic earthquake occurred a decade prior that devastated Tokyo and left him with some very serious trauma. It takes place in a fictional region of Tokyo (which is based on a real area) and centers around Kou, an indifferent teenager that works long hours at a new part time job everyday, much to the dismay of his family and friends. However, Tokyo Xanadu opts for a more modern approach as compared to its more fantasy styled brethren.
Now, if the name Xanadu sounds familiar, that’s because it’s a part of the same franchise as Faxanadu that was released on the NES, which itself is spun from the Dragon Slayer series that The Legend of Heroes splintered off from. Tokyo Xanadu eX+ is an enhanced release of the vanilla Tokyo Xanadu that launched earlier this year for the PlayStation Vita that includes all of the DLC of the original, plus some added side stories that weren’t present in the original. And while it doesn’t stand out from the pack quite enough to win any awards, it’s still an enjoyable time in its own right and a great way to cap off the year. Well, before you had the chance to close the book on everything 2017 had to offer, Aksys manages to sneak one more into the release calendar. Which is good for all of the extremely niche Japanese titles that make their way west, the fact that a lot of these nearly slipped through the cracks is criminal. We’ve seen localizations of multiple games in the Ys and The Legend of Heroes franchises, as well as less recent titles like Xanadu Next and Zwei II. The past several years have been kind to Falcom fans.
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