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Title: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: PUSH RUN BUTTON! on February 04, 2012, 07:00:05 PM
So, here's the official thread for our first "Plays Well..." Check in here or upload any useful tips, walkthroughs and/or videos here. Good luck!! :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 04, 2012, 08:23:52 PM
Well, tonight I played for about an hour. It took me a while to figure out how to heal (sleep in the bed in the house with the nun in it). I seem to have lost all the progress I made though because I can't figure out how to save. We probably need to figure that part out pretty quick...
I thought I was saving. I picked the blue file when starting the game. I hit "save" multiple times, and it make a nice little chiming noise as if it were saving. There is a save file in my Duo. I'm attempting to load it by choosing what I'm pretty damned sure is "continue" from the main title screen. "Tsuzuku" or something like that, and choosing "blue" again. Its not working though.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: sunteam_paul on February 04, 2012, 09:16:07 PM
Someone under the posted video said this:
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I wonder if Legend of Xanadu has a game save glitch? Let's say I save my game to the blue sphere. Once I shut the system off and power it back on, If I choose "continue" and select the blue sphere, it says that there is no save and begins the game from the beginning. Then once I begin a new game, I am able to bring up the status screen, choose "load", and my game progress loads. Does this happen to anyone else too?
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: nat on February 04, 2012, 10:54:45 PM
I played through the entire game some years ago and I had no problem saving or loading from the title screen.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: RegalSin on February 04, 2012, 11:14:38 PM
The game requires a huge amount of space for each save. If you have a save, and there is no space left it will fake save, and will result in the game starting over again.
Also mentioned, another game interacts with one of those saves, and the end results will as you described as well.
Probably the reason why this game has a debug/test mode still left inside it. In that mode you can access, all the 3d and 2d areas, and boss chambers. It is kinda depressing because the game is really nice to play.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: incrediblehark on February 05, 2012, 08:23:40 AM
was going to start the other night but will monday
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: PUSH RUN BUTTON! on February 05, 2012, 03:12:34 PM
To resolve the memory I'd back up all your saves to a ram card and delete everything off your internal memory. After doing this I'm saving the Xanadu save to it's own slot on the back up ram card. Just an idea.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Sadler on February 05, 2012, 03:27:14 PM
Alright, let's talk about check points. I think the first should be the first boss. Here's a map of the first area:
See that cave in the upper left? There's a locked door in there. Behind it is the boss.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: nat on February 05, 2012, 05:41:11 PM
Get ready for lots of fetch questing. You'll be running back and forth across these maps, top to bottom, talking to people, going back, re-talking to them, etc, in order to trigger events.
Xanadu is a fantastic game, but only the hardiest of the hardy will make it through to the end.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: blueraven on February 05, 2012, 07:07:46 PM
Get ready for lots of fetch questing. You'll be running back and forth across these maps, top to bottom, talking to people, going back, re-talking to them, etc, in order to trigger events.
Xanadu is a fantastic game, but only the hardiest of the hardy will make it through to the end.
Quoted for truth.
Do you remember the walkthrough at was incredibly vague that existed on the internets back in 2008? I've been having a heck of a time finding it for a few people who are getting stuck.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 05, 2012, 07:11:12 PM
Get ready for lots of fetch questing. You'll be running back and forth across these maps, top to bottom, talking to people, going back, re-talking to them, etc, in order to trigger events.
Xanadu is a fantastic game, but only the hardiest of the hardy will make it through to the end.
Yeah, this was stated from multiple sources multiple times during the voting process and still Xanadu 1 came out ahead. I sure didn't vote for it as I hate setting myself up for failure. I can't quite figure out why people voted for it...
We'll see how it goes.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 05, 2012, 08:51:20 PM
I figured out my save issue. RegalSin was absolutely correct.
Even though it never told me I was out of space, and even though it made a nice chiming noise that seemed to confirm my saving was taking place, it just wasn't saving. I deleted my internal memory and now it saves perfectly. It still has the same file with the same name in my memory manager, but now it actually works.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 05, 2012, 10:08:24 PM
Made some progress tonight. My dude is a lot tougher, I seem to have a slime for a friend. I think I'm supposed to take him to meet somebody, but I've taken him to everyone I can find.
I've cleared out the dungeon in the NW corner as much as I can, but I can't get into the door where I assume the boss is at.
Once, when leaving the cave, something bum rushed me an took off. I have no idea what it was. This was after an event was triggered in the cave where those eight barrels are.
The dude in the woods won't let me into his house. There is a little girl in a town who also won't let me in.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: shubibiman on February 05, 2012, 10:47:38 PM
Get ready for lots of fetch questing. You'll be running back and forth across these maps, top to bottom, talking to people, going back, re-talking to them, etc, in order to trigger events.
Xanadu is a fantastic game, but only the hardiest of the hardy will make it through to the end.
Quoted for truth.
Do you remember the walkthrough at was incredibly vague that existed on the internets back in 2008? I've been having a heck of a time finding it for a few people who are getting stuck.
Haha, yeah, that walkthrough was something else. It was like the guy played through the game, and then a year later wrote the walkthrough based on memory.
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PROTIP: The night/day cycle makes a big difference in this game, and also is a big part of the difficulty. Some events will only trigger at night, some characters will only show up in certain places at night, etc.
That said, I don't remember the game pulling such shenanigans this early in the adventure (although I could be wrong). I recall making it to the 2nd or 3rd area before having to consult a walkthrough.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Sadler on February 06, 2012, 02:58:36 PM
Heh, well, looks like I'm in for a rough ride. :D I've scouted that cave, looted it for all it's junk, returned to town and talked to every one again. There's still the one lady in the town that refuses to talk to me, and the one guy in the mountains that's not interested in talking to me either. I have no blob buddy, but my guy is pretty powerful.
Any advice on where to go from here? Where's the blob buddy at? How do I get the villagers to go to the cave? Thanks!
ALSO, let me echo what Regal and Zeta said. I played for maybe an hour the other night, "saved" and lost that progress. Tonight I cleared out my backup memory before playing and saving actually works now.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: blueraven on February 06, 2012, 03:11:16 PM
Haha, yeah, that walkthrough was something else. It was like the guy played through the game, and then a year later wrote the walkthrough based on memory. ________
LOL EXACTLY. Like it was some distant memory. It started out pretty in-depth... with a ASCII b/w picture and then it got progressively weirder and more vague with phrases like "I cant remember what you have to do here, something about the yeti's.." Like he had been eating brownies at a reggae festival. Although still I wish I had saved a copy of it for subsequent runthroughs.
The sheer adrenaline of trying to beat Xanadu overshadowed the need to document the process of the game. The resulting In hindsight, that really sucks, because I probably would sound just as loaded and detached in my effort to go through the game.
BTW, Zeta, once you get the slime-dude you have to wait until the eventing in the town in Map 1 to trigger the event that opens up the cave. I'm not sure if they celebrate you as a god or kick you out of town because you're (Arios) are an outsider. You will pick up Lykos (Ryukos) on Map 2.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Black Tiger on February 06, 2012, 03:18:31 PM
I can't offer any specific advice, but my experience, from what I remember, was similar to nat's. The first map is very tiny and straightforward and I zipped through without any help. I'm guessing that what you need to do to get into the boss zone is more obvious than it seems.
I'm pretty sure that you pick up the blob friend around the canyons in the North, possibly at the very top or along the outer rim? I'm pretty sure that you just come across it and then it's following you.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 06, 2012, 08:17:58 PM
I honestly can't remember where I got the blob. I've been wandering around for two nights now achieving nothing. I still need a key to get into the boss room.
People in the town will sometimes mention the slime, but no event. He follows me everywhere on the map and occasionally attacks other slimes. For whatever reason he doesn't follow me into the cave though.
Still can't get into that one girls house, or the house in the woods.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 06, 2012, 08:39:31 PM
Ok, after my eighth run through of talking to every single person I've made some progress.
The guy in the woods won't let you in until you've talked to Melina. Melina won't let you in until you have a little event at the south part of the southern most town. For that to happen you need the slime. It wasnt actually night when this happened, but it was late in the day.
Sorry, I can't remember where I got the slime.
Had a long talk with the guy in the cabin. He gave me a book or something (my first event item) so I suppose I just need to talk to every single person in the game 11 more times to eventually make that into a key.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 06, 2012, 08:40:43 PM
BTW, my guy is thick enough to flip hamburgers with his dick at this point.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: nat on February 07, 2012, 01:24:40 AM
BTW, my guy is thick enough to flip hamburgers with his dick at this point.
I love the "leveling" process in this game. Watching that experience meter grow as you gleefully plow through waves upon waves of sword fodder is a pleasure unto itself.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Sadler on February 07, 2012, 01:55:13 AM
I love the "leveling" process in this game. Watching that experience meter grow as you gleefully plow through waves upon waves of sword fodder is a pleasure unto itself.
It is, but I spent way too much time doing this and now I'm to the point where enemies can't damage me and I can kill them in one hit yet I'm still not really anywhere in the game. :D I'd advise new players not to spend a huge amount of time saving up gold to buy the most expense stuff and leveling up their armor/sword/shield at first. Just go to that cave, all the good sword/armor/shield in the first area is available in there for free. :D
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Necromancer on February 07, 2012, 03:24:24 AM
Yeah, this was stated from multiple sources multiple times during the voting process and still Xanadu 1 came out ahead. I sure didn't vote for it as I hate setting myself up for failure. I can't quite figure out why people voted for it...
We should've only counted the votes from people that could be bothered to post, meaning Xanadu only got two votes. Ah well, I'm gonna start this sucka up tonight and see if I can catch up to you guys.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: blueraven on February 07, 2012, 04:42:26 AM
Yeah, this was stated from multiple sources multiple times during the voting process and still Xanadu 1 came out ahead. I sure didn't vote for it as I hate setting myself up for failure. I can't quite figure out why people voted for it...
We should've only counted the votes from people that could be bothered to post, meaning Xanadu only got two votes. Ah well, I'm gonna start this sucka up tonight and see if I can catch up to you guys.
Maybe everyone thought it was another translation request poll
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: PUSH RUN BUTTON! on February 07, 2012, 02:19:27 PM
Argh, I'm late to the party here. I'm just firing this up now. Is everyone hanging in there alright? Sounds like we've had some issues. Voice up if you think this game isn't going to work well - this is all trial and error, so no use in torturing ourselves. This is supposed to be a fun experience here!
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Sadler on February 07, 2012, 02:24:15 PM
I'm ok continuing. I really recommend you heed the save advice though! :D
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Necromancer on February 08, 2012, 02:27:38 AM
I'm pretty sure that you pick up the blob friend around the canyons in the North, possibly at the very top or along the outer rim? I'm pretty sure that you just come across it and then it's following you.
There's a smaller blob/slime up along the northern coast, but he won't follow me. If I get close, he runs away; if I give chase and run into him, he dies.
Anyways, I'm trying to catch up to you f*ckers. :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 08, 2012, 03:25:27 AM
Last night I made some progress getting Nickola to leave his little warehouse he locked himself into. There were a series of walking back and forth events that involved him, people in the western-most town, and the dude in the woods, who took back the event item I had.
I then went to the dungeon again and some people met me on the way out. I went inside to the area with the barrels and met people again. Then I left, had another event, and there I am now.
Still can't get in to see the boss. Still have the slime. Still need a key. Have something like 600 gold and haven't taken a single HP of damage in the last few hours.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: incrediblehark on February 08, 2012, 04:58:19 AM
im about where you are zeta, going to play some more today and see if i can figure this out.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: PUSH RUN BUTTON! on February 08, 2012, 06:02:02 AM
I'm ok continuing. I really recommend you heed the save advice though! :D
Save advice heeded - if you have a Tennokoe Bank Card (http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?rt=nc&LH_PrefLoc=2&_nkw=Tennokoe%20Bank%20Card&_fln=1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m283) it'll make managing your saves much easier.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: incrediblehark on February 08, 2012, 01:01:09 PM
I'm pretty sure that you pick up the blob friend around the canyons in the North, possibly at the very top or along the outer rim? I'm pretty sure that you just come across it and then it's following you.
There's a smaller blob/slime up along the northern coast, but he won't follow me. If I get close, he runs away; if I give chase and run into him, he dies.
Anyways, I'm trying to catch up to you f*ckers. :mrgreen:
after you get Nicola out of the "jail" go back to the hut in the woods and talk to Teo (Theo?) He'll say some random garbage and you'll hear a chime. Should be able to get the slime then.
Last night I made some progress getting Nickola to leave his little warehouse he locked himself into. There were a series of walking back and forth events that involved him, people in the western-most town, and the dude in the woods, who took back the event item I had.
I then went to the dungeon again and some people met me on the way out. I went inside to the area with the barrels and met people again. Then I left, had another event, and there I am now.
Still can't get in to see the boss. Still have the slime. Still need a key. Have something like 600 gold and haven't taken a single HP of damage in the last few hours.
You might have to talk to one of the elders in either town with the trees, but go back to the starting village where Sister is, there should be a ship waiting at the dock, it was night for me. wait there till the morning and some guys will show up and drive the story forward a little more.
I'm making some real progress in this game knowing only the kana, I'm sure it gets a lot harder soon. Got through Area 1, before I go further I'm working on uploading a video guide (my play through) to help out others. We're going to finish this game dammit!
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Senshi on February 08, 2012, 02:17:40 PM
I got the slime without having to talk to Teo. (hermit in the woods of some kind).
Is anyone else trying to type things into google translate? I have the hiragana and katakana fonts but I just seem to get gibberish. Sorry I really need to try to make sense of whats going on or this will just frustrate me.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Ji-L87 on February 08, 2012, 07:36:35 PM
Is anyone else trying to type things into google translate? I have the hiragana and katakana fonts but I just seem to get gibberish. Sorry I really need to try to make sense of whats going on or this will just frustrate me.
You could always try excite.jp's translator. http://www.excite-webtl.jp/world/
I want to remember it being slightly not as rubbish as babelfish used to be. Maybe they've improved that now tho'
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 08, 2012, 07:51:18 PM
Had to work a 12 today. No time for burger flipping. Will continue tomorrow.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Necromancer on February 09, 2012, 02:35:18 AM
Three hours of playing last night and all I accomplished was a mountain of dead slimes. Man, I suck.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Senshi on February 09, 2012, 12:04:06 PM
I can't believe nobody has made it to the 2nd area yet.
Hopefully this isn't a harbinger of things to come....
Don't worry, it gets much easier after the first chapter. :wink:
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: nat on February 09, 2012, 04:03:12 PM
Yeah. What he said.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 09, 2012, 08:46:38 PM
Honestly I've been crazy busy these week. Doing some volunteer work, a couple of 12 hour days. Barely enough time to eat. I'm still playing though. I'm hoping to at least see a side scrolling section by the weekend.
But that aside...yeah, its taking a while. Between the speed of my character, the total lack of enemy challenge, and the small size of the first continent, I can literally talk to everyone, both day and night versions, in 10-15 minutes. Yet it still takes HOURS to do...basically nothing because the f*ckers that made this game have you running from one side of the continent to the other dozens of times to achieve basically nothing. Its extremely artificially bloated.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: incrediblehark on February 10, 2012, 12:33:28 AM
I can't believe nobody has made it to the 2nd area yet.
Hopefully this isn't a harbinger of things to come....
I'm on the 2nd area right now, but I'm working on uploading a video of area 1, with the key points. youtube is being retarded and not letting me use my own account, so i may have to make a new one and channel for the "Plays Well With Others Club"
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Necromancer on February 10, 2012, 01:34:37 AM
Looks like I'm gonna be waiting for hark's video, as another hour of gaming last night accomplished jack squat. I went to each town and talked to everyone twice (day/night), yet nothing.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Senshi on February 10, 2012, 02:24:14 AM
Necro, did you go to the cave yet?
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Necromancer on February 10, 2012, 02:30:10 AM
Yep. I raided all the treasure chests and made my way back to the locked door. Is there an event item in there that I missed?
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Senshi on February 10, 2012, 02:45:16 AM
I don't think so but I went there twice and the second time, some text was displayed when I "talked" to some barrels. Nothing else happened so I left the cave and when I did a girl with green? hair standing outside the cave said something and ran off real quick. I haven't received any event items yet though.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Necromancer on February 10, 2012, 02:49:26 AM
Well, I guess I'll try searching the barrels again. I did the first two times through the cave and got the same message at each barrel, but no girl; maybe it'll be different this time. Thanks!
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: incrediblehark on February 10, 2012, 02:52:55 AM
thats Nicola, you need to track (him?) down in one of the towns, he gets locked up. Hoping to have teh vid up soon!
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: blueraven on February 10, 2012, 06:31:17 PM
Well, I guess I'll try searching the barrels again. I did the first two times through the cave and got the same message at each barrel, but no girl; maybe it'll be different this time. Thanks!
IIRC when the event involving the barrels happens, it happens as soon as you walk into the room. No needs to search every barrel every time. Feel free to do so though, of course.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 12, 2012, 06:02:54 PM
Ok, I've spent some more time with the game and...seriously...f*cking NOTHING has happened in quite some time. I haven't seen the ship incrediblehark was talking about yet. I'm pretty sure that's my next main event...however the f*ck you trigger it. BTW, there is only one person left in the peninsula town to the west for some reason. I'm sure that means something.
I can't believe how hard it is to trigger events in a game where there is so little to do. The producer of this game was a DICK.
EDIT: Ok, I spoke too soon. I just talked to a gnome-ish dude in Kasta and Gus walked in saying something urgent, this enabled the event with the ship in the first town. The music is now a bit more exciting. Still no key. Back to flipping burgers.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 12, 2012, 06:17:23 PM
OK, now all the slimes have changed into other creatures. Shit is ON!
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 12, 2012, 06:24:33 PM
OK, now all the slimes have changed into other creatures. Shit is ON!
EDIT: I went to Theo's house and he wasn't there. Went to the cave and he was at the begining. Now the cave is full of monsters...that can actually do damage to me! I AM ALIVE AGAIN!
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 12, 2012, 06:50:54 PM
Did some more stuff. Went to the cave, Theo was inside. Also inside were four of his friends. You'll find them standing next to treasure chests in the first area of the dungeon. Return each of them to Theo and everyone will leave. Now to talk to old man Toma in Bolder. Theo is there as well. They will talk about the boss and mention the key, but not actually give it to you, of course.
EDIT: Went to Azzak's place in Bolder, a bunch of people where there. THEY GAVE ME THE f*ckING KEY!!! Headed to the cave to see what bullshit excuse Falcom has come up with this time to not let me in.
EDIT EDIT: Sure enough. The Boulder Key won't let me in to kill the boss. WTF is it for? No idea. f*cking hell, Falcom.
Back to flipping burgers.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 12, 2012, 07:13:04 PM
Got another event item in Kasta. A staff? I can now open that f*cking door!!!
Once through the door you enter an Ys III style style of game play with very nice graphics. Your character also becomes a complete pussy instantly. I have now been killed for the first time since begining the game.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 12, 2012, 07:28:02 PM
I killed that monster I've heard so much about. This triggered an event, and Sister and I have teleported to the next area.
The cinema was ADPCM audio, not CDA. This has me worried. The music is all PSG, the recorded stuff compressed...how big is this game? I hope I never get the ability to teleport back to previous areas because if I do this takes the potential complexity of the fetch questing several orders of magnitude beyond the insanely stupid bullshit I've experienced already.
Oh well, best not think of that right now, I guess. I'm going to bed. I'll play more tomorrow.
BTW Richard Pryor once had a monkey named Sister. Have you heard that story? It will melt your heart, it will.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: blueraven on February 12, 2012, 10:52:29 PM
Once through the door you enter an Ys III style style of game play with very nice graphics.
The cake and martini at the end of the level. Your reward :D
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Sadler on February 13, 2012, 02:24:17 AM
Played a bit more last night and made the most minor of progress. I went back to the cave and this time I got the random event at the barrels. When I left I was attacked by some dude who then ran off. I went back to town and there were a bunch of people saying... uh.. who know's what. The dude that was in bed in the little town area to the left of the map appears to be up now. I know which slime you guys are talking about, but I just kill the thing when I try to get him to join up.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Necromancer on February 13, 2012, 04:16:27 AM
I went back to the cave and triggered the event at the barrels, so now I'm on the second world/level/map/whatever and killing some zombies (zombies, f*ck yeah!). Never did have a little slime follow me around though.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Senshi on February 13, 2012, 06:09:37 AM
Really? where did you go after you had the event item (Green book?) taken from you by Teo in the mountains?
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Necromancer on February 13, 2012, 07:34:27 AM
Really? where did you go after you had the event item (Green book?) taken from you by Teo in the mountains?
I probably should've made notes as I went, but it basically went like this: go to town A and talk to everybody twice (day/night), go to town B and talk to everybody twice (day/night), go to town C and talk to everybody twice (day/night), go to town D and talk to everybody twice (day/night), visit the cabin in the woods, hit the cave..... lather, rinse, repeat 'til something happens.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: nat on February 13, 2012, 11:09:18 AM
I killed that monster I've heard so much about. This triggered an event, and Sister and I have teleported to the next area.
The cinema was ADPCM audio, not CDA. This has me worried. The music is all PSG, the recorded stuff compressed...how big is this game?
It's like 14 or 17 areas or something, many of which are much bigger than the one you just dealt with. The game was just weaning you on Area 1! The real challenge has yet to present itself. If you actually make it to the final area, I'm wondering what you'll think of the 32-floor (or whatever it is) final tower.
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I hope I never get the ability to teleport back to previous areas because if I do this takes the potential complexity of the fetch questing several orders of magnitude beyond the insanely stupid bullshit I've experienced already.
No. It's your lucky day-- all fetch questing is limited to whatever area you're currently playing.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Senshi on February 13, 2012, 11:34:13 AM
Really? where did you go after you had the event item (Green book?) taken from you by Teo in the mountains?
I probably should've made notes as I went, but it basically went like this: go to town A and talk to everybody twice (day/night), go to town B and talk to everybody twice (day/night), go to town C and talk to everybody twice (day/night), go to town D and talk to everybody twice (day/night), visit the cabin in the woods, hit the cave..... lather, rinse, repeat 'til something happens.
oh dear...shoot me in the face
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: incrediblehark on February 13, 2012, 12:13:11 PM
ah looks like you caught up to me zeta! yes im still upping the video, need to edit out the aimless wandering, but it will be up soon. Nat thanks for mentioning the final tower, I was wondering what that map was for that was included with the game. I'm sure it gets a lot harder but im still confident we ca do it
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Senshi on February 13, 2012, 02:20:40 PM
I had four people go into the cave, and Teo was there but I didn't see them next to chests.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 13, 2012, 05:59:29 PM
I had four people go into the cave, and Teo was there but I didn't see them next to chests.
I think you are a ways off then. A lot happened between the first "party in the cave" event and my eventually going in and rescuing them. You'll see the event with the boat first.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Necromancer on February 14, 2012, 02:13:14 AM
Heh, it's really not that bad. You can make the whole circuit in ten or fifteen minutes.
I'm taking some rudimentary notes now. I'm not sure how much they'll help anyone (it's just where events happen - who knows what triggers 'em), but it's better than a sharp stick in the eye.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: blueraven on February 15, 2012, 04:32:46 AM
Badass. Keep it up.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Necromancer on February 15, 2012, 04:44:42 AM
Here's my notes on events in area two thus far (tiny for anyone that wants to avoid my meager spoilers):
1) After the standard 'talk to everyone and explore the map/towns', a guy comes into the sheep village; talk to him and he goes to bed after. 2) Back in the first village, there's a new guy hanging out behind the weapon/armor shop. Follow and keep talking to him and he'll eventually show his true colors and get tossed in jail. 3) Boat ride time! 4) Not really an event, but you can sleep in the destroyed temple in the ghost town. 5) Lonely tree in a field. It's an event location (you don't move when you press against it), but nothing happens yet. 6) Cave's are spooky! - locked door w/ adjacent wall switch - chasm w/ adjacent wall switch to activate Indy style invisible bridge - hidden hallway (press against wall to enter) in upper right area - pick up a 'shroom. It increases max hp, but is there a reason to hold onto it 'til later? I've no real need for more hp now, as everything dies in one hit and only one type of enemy can even do damage. - pick up some hourglasses. They slow time, but I can't see any practical use for 'em right now; I thought maybe they'd work for springing green hair at night, but no dice. 7) After two laps of talking to everyone in both towns twice (night/day), visiting the ghost town, tromping to the solitary tree, and spelunking, I think I'm stuck. I gotta be missing something.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: blueraven on February 15, 2012, 07:37:28 PM
CAEVS AR SPOOKY
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Senshi on February 16, 2012, 01:07:23 AM
I'm on to level 3 this weekend. Who else is still playing and what stage are y'all at?
Ha! I'm in the first area blundering about. But, in my defense, I have not put much time in.
But, to prove my senility and overall degradation of skills, I am pretty sure I was able to make more progress in less time when I first played this game a few years ago (I never finished it).
So, it's sad and pathetic, either way.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: incrediblehark on February 25, 2012, 03:52:25 PM
My play-through of Area 1 of Legend Of Xanadu. Now that I got everything sorted out it won't take nearly as long to get the next area up (unless I get stuck :P). Sorry about the rough video, I just cut out a lot of in between travel and tried to mainly focus on the key points, and theres no real transitions so it will just jump from one spot to the next. If anyone wants to type up some captions to go along with the video I can add them and of course will give credit. I'm sure I have a lot of catching up to do in the game now!
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Necromancer on February 27, 2012, 03:40:25 AM
I'm on to level four now. Y'all are in for a treat with the cutscene between levels three and four - have the popcorn ready!
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Senshi on February 27, 2012, 05:16:41 AM
I'm still in the 2nd area but still moving forward thanks to Blueravens awesome walkthrough.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: nat on February 27, 2012, 02:13:07 PM
The better question is...who voted for this one and is still playing?
Me, though I changed my vote when everyone said this title wasn't the best idea for our first game. There was something like 20 votes in that poll, yet there's only 4 or 5 guys playing - DON'T VOTE IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO PARTICIPATE!
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Colossus1574 on March 03, 2012, 12:58:31 PM
I haven't been on the forums in ages (I hope everybody is doing good!)... this Plays Well idea is something cool & new! I wasn't around when the voting happened, but i must say Xanadu has always been one of those games i wanted to tackle but due to the language barrier...it just sat on my shelf. Has there been good progress (with the help of BlueRaven's walkthrough) on the game, does anybody know if the farthest player here has even gotten halfway yet? Keep fighting the good fight :clap:
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Necromancer on March 03, 2012, 01:37:59 PM
... does anybody know if the farthest player here has even gotten halfway yet?
I don't know where the others are at, but I'm about half way through level five. There's twelve levels, so I'm nearly to the halfway point.... except the twelfth level is a giant tower that surely requires way more play time than the other levels, so I'll say I'm maybe a fourth of the way through.
The better question is...who voted for this one and is still playing?
Me, though I changed my vote when everyone said this title wasn't the best idea for our first game. There was something like 20 votes in that poll, yet there's only 4 or 5 guys playing - DON'T VOTE IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO PARTICIPATE!
I'm in the second "level". (http://junk.tg-16.com/images/pcgRT.png)
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Necromancer on March 08, 2012, 10:02:12 AM
I finished off the sixth world last night and started the seventh (just bought new gear and talked to the first town's people). Lookin' forward to tackling this stage over the coming weekend.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: kazekirifx on March 08, 2012, 06:18:59 PM
The sequel is great, but the original is horrid. Falcom really F'ed up on this one. Games should not be a chore to play.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: grahf on March 08, 2012, 07:28:15 PM
I disagree. ------------------------------------
I think I might join you guys in playing this. I still have my save on my Ten No Koe... I think. If so I think I'm probably close to the end of level 2.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Necromancer on March 09, 2012, 03:19:59 AM
The sequel is great, but the original is horrid. Falcom really F'ed up on this one. Games should not be a chore to play.
Which part is a chore - not knowing what to do due to the language barrier, the fetch questing, or something else? In any case, I heartily disagree. The language barrier isn't Falcom's fault, and it isn't much of a problem with a walkthrough anyhow; and the fetch questing isn't really tedious, at least not when compared to the pointless grinding that's necessary in most similar games.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Black Tiger on March 09, 2012, 05:37:06 AM
The sequel is great, but the original is horrid. Falcom really F'ed up on this one. Games should not be a chore to play.
The appeal of many of the most popular games of today is doing chores.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: nat on March 09, 2012, 06:21:04 AM
Give me Xanadu's fetch questing any day over endless, monotonous grinding.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: incrediblehark on March 09, 2012, 09:14:53 AM
jeez necro you're tearing through the game! I am still playing but haven't been able to lately. Colossus its not too late to get in on the action! blueraven's walkthrough will get you caught up to most of us, I'm trying to play without any help though. And kazekirifx i disagree with you, I think LOX 1 is actually a pretty fun game, the music and cutscenes are excellent, if i could understand a little more of the story I'd probably enjoy the game even more.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Necromancer on March 09, 2012, 09:46:02 AM
I'm curious how much time you guys are putting into this. Are you just busy with other stuff and haven't played much, or are you sinking in hours and hours and getting nowhere?
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: incrediblehark on March 09, 2012, 10:08:55 AM
I have been busy which resulted in my attempt at a video walkthrough a turbofail. but I'm getting back into the game.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: blueraven on March 12, 2012, 05:20:19 AM
Which part is a chore - not knowing what to do due to the language barrier, the fetch questing, or something else?
The fetch questing.
I didn't know much Japanese when I started, but actually, I had several huge gaps between playing this game, and consequentially when I finally forced myself to finish it was after I'd completed my Japanese major and lived in Japan for a year. My experience was that it sucked whether you understand it or not.
I'm a HUUUUUGE Falcom fan, but I just can't like this game. It's god awful. Falcom, as great as they are, have made quite a few missteps, and this is one of them. And you can't say I didn't give it a chance, because I finished it, and it is looong. Too long. To be fair, it does have its good moments in some of the dungeons and sidescrolling parts, but those parts are too far in between. I'd take levelling over fetch questing anyway. Especially since levelling is pretty fun in this game.
Luckily, Falcom made necessary improvements in the second, and I love it. (Might have been nice if they'd kept the sidescrolling stages instead of just bosses though.) I just finished my third run through the game over my lifetime. Something about it just keeps me coming back. First one? I'm glad to have it over with, and I'd prefer not to revisit it.
We'll have to disagree on this one, but I still have a hard time believing that anyone who claims to like this one isn't forcing it a bit. If it really is just my preference, I'm glad to hear it though. Yay Falcom.
I'm curious how much time you guys are putting into this. Are you just busy with other stuff and haven't played much, or are you sinking in hours and hours and getting nowhere?
I think this quote alone illustrates what's wrong with the game. In my case, it was all of the above.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Necromancer on March 13, 2012, 03:38:06 AM
I'd take levelling over fetch questing anyway. Especially since levelling is pretty fun in this game.
So crashing through enemies willy nilly is fun, but doing it on the way to and from picking something up is horrible? Does not compute.... [insert snide comment about agreeing to disagree, but you're full of bananas here]
So crashing through enemies willy nilly is fun, but doing it on the way to and from picking something up is horrible? Does not compute.... insert snide comment about agreeing to disagree, but you're full of bananas here
Yes! Because when you've already leveled up as much as you can with the enemies between the stuff you need to pick up/deliver, then you can only smash through enemies without even improving your equipment, and I don't find that to be as much fun. (I agree that smashing through enemies in this Legend of Xanadu IS fun, but you can have too much of a good thing when the game is this long.) Also, I spent quite a bit of time wandering since I tried not to use the FAQ unless I got stuck hopelessly. Some parts were not easy to figure out even understanding the text. Besides, in my earliest days of playing, the FAQ had not even been written yet.
I know what you mean, but in my case it kind of was both. Like I mentioned earlier, it was over a period of about 7 or 8 years from when I first started the quest and finally finished the same run of the game (having the file saved long-term on my Tennokoe Bank over the years). There were about 3-4 chunks of days/weeks over the years when I was actively playing, and sinking time in and getting nowhere. Most of the time that passed was when I had the game and system in storage and was too busy with life to play though, of course. I was so happy when I finished it, not only because the ending is pretty satisfying, but because I could say that I had finished it (after having finished the second one many years earlier) and would never have to play the game again!!!
[SPOILER?] Actually, there are a few times I've enjoyed replaying just the sidescrolling stages after finishing the game, so I guess I HAVE played the game a few times again after finishing it. The music and sidescrolling stage graphics are quite good and enjoyable, after all.
I have to admit the game has some very good point - excellent even, but I still have very negative memories of drudging through the quest. I can be a bit hard on Falcom I guess, since I love them so much. (I'm buying a Vita as soon as Ys or the remake of LoH Zero no Kiseki comes out!)
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: esteban on March 14, 2012, 12:43:35 PM
(http://junk.tg-16.com/images/cooks_transb.gif) Cook enjoyed reading kazekirifx's responses to necro!
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Necromancer on March 19, 2012, 08:21:41 AM
I'd bet you wont get past level 8, but you've already proven incredibly determined.
Screw you, Thomas! The eighth world went down over the weekend and I'm most of the way through the ninth (up to the side scrolling part).
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: nat on March 19, 2012, 12:10:08 PM
Will Necromancer be the only one from the "Plays Well" crew to finish the game?
Stay tuned...
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: incrediblehark on March 19, 2012, 05:09:03 PM
He'll finish the game then we'll get a bunch of people who voted and haven't discussed a word suddenly appear. "Yeah i beat it too *shifty eyes*." I'm definitely not going to finish before Necro but I'm still determined to beat the game.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: esteban on March 19, 2012, 05:26:48 PM
He'll finish the game then we'll get a bunch of people who voted and haven't discussed a word suddenly appear. "Yeah i beat it too *shifty eyes*." I'm definitely not going to finish before Necro but I'm still determined to beat the game.
I'll beat this game at some point this year (2012). I promise. (http://junk.tg-16.com/images/pcgs.png)
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Necromancer on March 20, 2012, 02:56:37 AM
Will Necromancer be the only one from the "Plays Well" crew to finish the game?
Plays well with myself, eh? Nothing new there.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: grahf on March 20, 2012, 10:41:08 PM
When does the next game start? I think we should probably choose some games to vote on that are short, easy, or both. Just to get a bigger crowd to join in.
I'm going to finish this one as well, but free time is hindering my progress.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Necromancer on March 30, 2012, 05:32:45 AM
I'm still planning on finishing this puppy, but my Duo shit the bed and it's gonna be a while. Time to catch up, you weenies!
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Sadler on May 25, 2012, 03:05:47 AM
After taking a massive break from this game, I finally got my shit together and fired it up last night. Still haven't beat the first level, but made plenty of progress. Got the slime, got Theo's book, gave Theo back his book, now apparently I need to head into the cave again, then presumably I get the ship event. Feels good playing this game again, it's pretty fun when stuff happens!
I saw some comments asking about how much time people are spending on this game. Well, I didn't play it for probably 2 or 3 months, but I've sunk maybe around 5 hours into the first level. In my defense, the first hour+ was lost when I found out I couldn't save without clearing out my save memory. I also didn't have the benefit of the walk through until I started replaying last night. Super handy! Hopefully I'll get on to area 2 tonight!
Anyone else still playing?
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: blueraven on June 02, 2012, 06:22:41 PM
In case folks were wondering, yes, I will finish the tutorial as soon as work slows down a bit.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: PUSH RUN BUTTON! on June 05, 2012, 01:36:48 PM
Neo Metal Fantasy?
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Sadler on June 05, 2012, 02:28:03 PM
Are you giving up?! :D I'm still playing this, though very slowly.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: PUSH RUN BUTTON! on June 05, 2012, 02:57:04 PM
I'm with you Sadler, just have been following the progress of the walkthrough. Thank you blueraven!
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: incrediblehark on June 06, 2012, 12:21:57 PM
haven't finished it yet, been busy with work, actually just got on the forums today for the first time in a while. but I packed away all but 4 of my systems (kept the pce out) so I should have no excuse not to play
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: blueraven on June 19, 2012, 12:28:51 PM
No worries guys, I'll put level three up in the next few days.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Necromancer on June 20, 2012, 02:23:55 AM
The Duo came home to roost last Friday, so I'm back in the LoX saddle. I've finished off the tenth level and am working my way through the eleventh - I'm coming for you, Tower of Power!
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: blueraven on June 20, 2012, 02:38:25 PM
Congratulations! LoX II is going to be a walk in the park after finishing that beast of a prequel!
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: gbapalyer on August 05, 2012, 01:33:11 AM
i would like to play legend of xanadu 1 right after i finished emerald dragon.
will i be able to save in the game, if the only file in my back up memory is from emerald dragon? or does the game need a complete blank ram? what do these colorful crystals in the games start menue mean? does the game show the amount of time it was played at the save file screen?
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: Necromancer on August 06, 2012, 04:47:09 AM
will i be able to save in the game, if the only file in my back up memory is from emerald dragon? or does the game need a complete blank ram?
From here (http://turbo.mindrec.com/files/gamesave.faq): Emerald Dragon makes one file that uses 4 units of memory and then 1 to 5 other files that take up 274 units (each or combined?), but I don't know what LoX eats up. In my case, I couldn't start Emerald Dragon without making room, but I had both LoX and LoX 2 saves; I deleted both, but there might've been enough room available if I'd deleted just LoX 2.
@necromancer: do these colorful orbs in the main menue mean anything, like new game, continue and so on?
You mean the ones that you can rotate through after selecting one of the three options from the title screen (http://pcengine.co.uk/Images-Screenshots_L-R/Legend_of_Xanadu_01.gif)? I think those three options are start a new game, quick start a new game (no opening sequence), and continue - followed by the orbs, which are the three save slots.
Title: Re: Plays Well With Others: Legend of Xanadu
Post by: gbapalyer on August 06, 2012, 07:13:08 PM
ah i see. thanks. will try this game as soon as i finished emerald dragon. your guess for the main menue is correct. i can read hiragana and katakana.^^