Plot linkage between Faxanadu and Xanadu

[BlueLander]

I know Faxanadu is a "spinoff" of the Xanadu series, but I don't know how the plots are related. What is the plot of Xanadu, anyways? How are Faxanadu/Xanadu's plots related to the Dragon Slayer series in general?

The US translation of Faxanadu is pretty shoddy and sparse, but this is the plot of the game in a nutshell as far as I can figure it: Elves and Dwarves are living side by side in harmony. Then one day a meteor falls out of the sky. The Dwarves take it and start worshipping it or something, and it turns them insane. They use the meteor to poison the Elves' water and air.

You're some Elf guy returning to your home town, and the king tells you to go deal with the dwarves. So you go fight your way to the Dwarves' kingdom. Some evil overlord (forget his name) has turned the Dwarf King into a monster. You kill the Dwarf King and get the Dragon Slayer sword, which is the only thing that can kill that other evil guy. Apparently the Dwarf King was hiding the sword inside his body so the evil guy couldn't find it. So then you go kill the evil guy, and everybody lives happily ever after.

[FM-77AV]

It has nothing to do with Xanadu other than the title. And, of course, the Dragon Slayer - a sword which can be found in several Dragon Slayer games, including Xanadu Next.

The reason it doesn't really releate to the other games is that it's (partly?) developed by Hudson (just like YsVI: The Dawn of Ys).

Faxanadu doesn't even have Dragon King in it. (However, the dragon you kill in order to get the Dragon Slayer might just be Dragon King - I don't remember what the game is about, I haven't played it in about 6-7 years.)

[BlueLander]

Ah, I see. Are all Dragon Slayer games like that as far as plots go? I can't imagine what the plots of Legacy of the Wizard and Legend of Heroes have in common other than the Dragon Slayer.

[FM-77AV]

BlueLander said:

Ah, I see. Are all Dragon Slayer games like that as far as plots go? I can't imagine what the plots of Legacy of the Wizard and Legend of Heroes have in common other than the Dragon Slayer.

Nothing. The only reason that the games are named Dragon Slayer is because they all had the same producer. Falcom had some weird rule to name every game produced by that guy "Dragon Slayer". I don't remember his name, but I posted it somewhere in these forums a while ago, so look around to get more info.