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Xanadu Next (2005) - Released on PC

ghostdog

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Sheeeeet, I just finished the secret dungeon, what a crazy ride. After level 26 you reach the boss. Afterwards the normal endboss was a piece of cake.

Tips for the World of the dead:
-Before you go there, Re-level with the Bell-freude guardian.
-Bring a full set of healing potions: 10 small, 10 medium and 10 large.
-Bring 10 magic potions. If you don't have them go through the time crevice again with the guardian that finds more items.
-Bring all your elixirs, but don't use them unless you're past dungeon level 20.
-Equip the Belladonna guardian, that doubles your potion power.
-Equip the armlet that drains skill points and the armlet that paralyses enemies. Also equip the Gauntlet in order to break boxes and find some items. Health and magic potions can be found this way.
-Equip the increase speed skill, the faster attack skill and the freezing weapon skill.
-In the last slot have the death spell equipped, but be ready to switch it with the Frost, or the Freezing spell when it doesn't work. Some enemies are immune in one of these, but between these two you can damage every enemy.
-Conserve spells as much as you can. Magic potions are hard to find. On the other hand you probably wont have any problems with health since you've got the belladonna guardian.
-Each five levels you'll find a nice special item/equipment.
-Each level has a chest that contains a magic potion, or more frequently a large healing potion. These can be very useful if you're in trouble. On the other hand if you are in a good condition and find the exit first just head to the next level. Avoiding extra rooms could save your life since you never know what will come up. You should only fully search levels 5,10,15,20 and 25.
-Beware of Liches that can put a death countdown on you, kill them as fast as you can!
-If you die prematurely choose to give away half of your gold and return to town, money is irrelevant at this point.
-After level 26 you get to the big boss.
-Good luck !
 

SilentMRG

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Well, what completely breaks this title is that there is absolutely no option to import the character or a "New Game +", that is, when the game ends it simply ends, without a good incentive to replay it. Other Nihon Falcom games, like the Ys series, suffer from the same thing, but in the case of Xanadu I think it would be a good option to import the character with at least the statistics from the last playthrough. Would a late patch resolve this issue? I think so... But that won't happen, unfortunately.

Other than that, the game is incredible, really fun, with a good story that keeps you hooked, and with a few bugs here and there that don't harm the overall experience.
 

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