Tokyo Xanadu
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| Developer(s) | Nihon Falcom[1] |
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| Platform(s) | PlayStation Vita |
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| Genre(s) | Action role-playing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Tokyo Xanadu (東亰ザナドゥ Tokyo Zanadu) is a Japanese role-playing video game for the PlayStation Vita. It was developed and published by Nihon Falcom and released on September 30, 2015 in Japan. While no releases in any other regions have been officially announced, Falcom has stated that it is working towards finding a third party company to release a Western version in English.
Gameplay
The game plays as an action role-playing video game with many elements from the Persona series of games.[2][3] It has a party-based realtime battle system with dungeon exploration.[4]
Story
Characters
- Kou Tokisaka (時坂 洸)
- Voiced by: Shintaro Asanuma
- Asuka Hiiragi (柊 明日香)
- Voiced by: Yu Shimamura
- Sora Ikushima (郁島 空)
- Voiced by: Ai Kakuma
- Yuuki Shinomiya (四宮 祐騎)
- Voiced by: Daiki Yamashita
- Mitsuki Hokuto (北都 美月)
- Voiced by: Haruka Yamazaki
- Shio Takahata (高幡 志緒)
- Voiced by: Kosuke Toriumi
- Rion Kugayama (玖我山 璃音)
- Voiced by: Manami Numakura
- Shiori Kurashiki (倉敷 栞)
- Voiced by: Ai Kayano
Setting
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With Tokyo Xanadu, Falcom set out to create a game with a different feel than their other flagship video game series, the Ys and The Legend of Heroes/Trails in the Sky series.[5] While the other series have a fantasy setting,[6] the events of Tokyo Xanadu occur against the background of a fictional suburb of modern-day Tokyo called Morimiya City,[7] and contain modern elements like smartphones and social media.[3] Morimiya was based on actual locations in Tachikawa City where Nihon Falcom has its head office: for example, the Morimiya Station Plaza, with its red arch monument and the "Yumine" Department Store, closely resembles the north exit of Tachikawa Station, which has a similar-looking blue arch monument and a branch of the Lumine Department Store.[8] Falcom held promotional activities at various real-world locations in Tachikawa City which resembled in-game locations, including a Tokyo Xanadu-themed menu at the cafe in Books Orion, an actual Japanese bookstore chain also based in Tachikawa City which appears in-game with permission under its own name.[9]
Development
Falcom first announced the game's title on December 17, 2014.[10] The company referred to the game as a "urban myth action rpg".[10] They also emphasized that they wanted to create a game with a different feel than their other flagship video game series, the Ys and The Legend of Heroes/Trails in the Sky series.[11] The game is the latest iteration of the Xanadu games, including the 1985 video game Xanadu and the 2005 video game Xanadu Next, though the game is modelled to be rather different than its predecessors.[12]
The game was released in Japan on September 30, 2015.[13][14] It has not been announced in any English speaking regions, though journalists have listed it as a likely candidate for game localization due to Xseed Games having a close relationship with translating Falcom titles,[7][15] and the similarity to the XSeed Xanadu related trademark leaked in January 2015.[16][17] USGamer described the game's chances of being localized as "extremely strong".[15] In February 2016, Falcom president Toshihiro Kondo, when asked if third party companies were interested in releasing the title in the English in the West, responded that it was "something that we definitely want to make a reality and are currently working towards. Please wait just a bit longer."[2]
Reception
Famitsu gave the game a review score of 32/40.[18] The game sold a total of 88,879 physical retail copies within its first week of release in Japan, topping the software sales charts for that particular week,[13] and 112,041 copies had been sold as of October 2015.[19]
References
- 1 2 3 "RPGamer > Tokyo Xanadu". Retrieved March 17, 2015.
- 1 2 "Falcom vs the fans". Eurogamer.net. 14 February 2016.
- 1 2 "Tokyo Xanadu first screenshots, introduction of Xiphones". TechnoBuffalo. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
- ↑ Adam Vitale. "Tokyo Xanadu website opens - first screenshots". Retrieved March 17, 2015.
- ↑ "Falcom president shares more details on Tokyo Xanadu - Gematsu". Gematsu. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
- ↑ "Tokyo Xanadu Is A Falcom Action RPG Set In Modern Times". Siliconera. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
- 1 2 "Tokyo Xanadu is a new Vita RPG from Nihon Falcom". Retrieved March 17, 2015.
- ↑ "ストーリーや戦闘アクションだけではない『東亰ザナドゥ』の魅力！ 学生らしく放課後のお楽しみを満喫しよう！" [Not just story and combat action: the charm of Tokyo Xanadu! Let's have fun like students after getting out of class!]. PlayStation Blog. 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
- ↑ "立川にあるゲームソフトメーカー、日本ファルコムの最新作『東亰ザナドゥ』が人気爆発中！" [Tokyo Xanadu, an explosively-popular new work by Tachikawa City game software maker Nihon Falcom]. Ii Ne! Tachikawa!. 2015-10-13. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
- 1 2 "Falcom announces action RPG Tokyo Xanadu - Gematsu". Gematsu. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
- ↑ "Falcom president shares more details on Tokyo Xanadu - Gematsu". Gematsu. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
- ↑ "Falcom Announces New Game ‘Tokyo Xanadu’ for 2015". Retrieved March 17, 2015.
- 1 2 "Media Create Sales: 9/28/15 – 10/4/15". Gematsu. October 7, 2015.
- ↑ "Nihon Falcom Unveils PS Vita JRPG Tokyo Xanadu". PlayStation LifeStyle. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
- 1 2 "Three Promising RPGs Prove that Post-Apocalyptic Tokyo Makes for Great Gaming". USgamer.net.
- ↑ "It Seems Like XSEED is Localizing Falcom's Xanadu Next - Niche Gamer". Retrieved March 17, 2015.
- ↑ "XSEED Registers a Handful of Domains for Upcoming Japanese Games". TechnoBuffalo. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
- ↑ "Famitsu Review Scores: Issue 1399". Gematsu. September 23, 2015.
- ↑ Whitehead, Thomas (October 21, 2015). "7th Dragon III Code: VFD Claims Japanese Number One Spot as Nintendo Maintains Momentum". Nintendo Life. Archived from the original on October 21, 2015. Retrieved October 21, 2015.
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