This year, Nihon Falcom’s “urban myth action RPG” Tokyo Xanadu (originally released in 2015 in Japan) celebrates its 10th birthday. Commemorating the milestone in an interview with Dengeki Online, company president Toshihiro Kondo talked more about the ”new project” in the Tokyo Xanadu series, which was announced in 2024. He shed some light on why it took so long for the studio to come out with a new series entry in the first place.
According to Kondo, Tokyo Xanadu was always supposed to get a sequel, but things got tricky along the line, and turning it into a full-fledged series ended up taking more time than expected. “We originally created the title under the premise that we’d make a series from it. We never intended to end it with just one game,” Kondo commented.
“However, as you may know, we’ve been extremely busy developing the Trails series. And in a blink of an eye, 10 years passed without us even getting started with development of the sequel,” Kondo said. Apparently, throughout the years, even Masayuki Kato, the late founder of Nihon Falcom, was actively pushing for the idea to make Tokyo Xanadu into a series. “He always kept asking us why we don’t turn it into a series. But that’s how we’ve always felt too.”
As Kondo explained, Nihon Falcom has finally settled down and made all the arrangements necessary to re-start development of the series smoothly. Despite there not being so much information about the sequel as of now, Kondo reassures Nihon Falcom fans that the team has been making solid progress on the upcoming Kyoto-themed Xanadu title behind the scenes.
Nihon Falcom has been on a roll recently, announcing the 2nd chapter of the quite voluminous Trails in the Sky remake series almost back-to-back with the release of the 1st chapter, which debuted as their most successful Steam release to date. Given that the studio’s pace of making games is rather quick compared to other developers, it wouldn’t be surprising if more news about the upcoming Tokyo Xanadu series sequel was just around the corner.
