someone for the love of god please gush about the Xanadu games with me. I have nobody lol
Nobody even knows this is a series these days.
Just yesterday I found out that Galsis was in the 2005 game Rinne, which is the fourth game in the Relic series of SciFi Diablo-likes, development of which was farmed out to Falcom. You fight the dragon with the help of the main characters of Brandish, who are also there for some reason.
I also discovered that after Ys vs. Trails on the PSP in 2010, they started up a gag manga series based on the premise, set in Xanadu with characters from various Falcom properties showing up, running in the regular Falcom magazine AND NEVER STOPPED. THE LATEST VOLUME CAME OUT TWO MONTHS AGO. GALSIS IS A LITERAL GAL AND SHE HAS A LITTLE CAMAZOTZ SIDEKICK AND THEY TRY TO SEDUCE HEROES AND FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET THEM OUT OF HER KINGDOM
This is it. This is going to be the lasting legacy of the series isn't it. Pioneered the hack & slash action adventure genre, directly influenced The Legend of Zelda, is the entire reason gaming magazines are even a thing, is now reduced to the setting of a decade-long gag manga. Sigh...
