Faxanadu
Faxanadu
Faxanadu
Faxanadu
Faxanadu
Faxanadu

Faxanadu

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Faxanadu opens on a homecoming gone wrong. A wanderer returns to the elven town of Eolis to find the great World Tree withering, the springs running dry and the dwarves, once neighbors, twisted into monsters by a mysterious evil. What follows is a moody, unusual NES adventure: a side-scrolling action RPG that climbs up the World Tree itself, through rotting bark, misty towers and finally into the stronghold of the Evil One.

Its roots explain its character. Hudson Soft built it in 1987 under license from Nihon Falcom as a side story to Xanadu, the second chapter of Falcom’s Dragon Slayer series, and the name blends “Famicom” and “Xanadu.” Nintendo brought it to North America, and it played like little else on the shelf: you earn gold and experience from every fight, buy swords, armor, shields and magic in each town, and slowly rise from a lowly Novice to a hero ready for the endgame.

Towns such as Apolune, Forepaw, Mascon and Victim each bring new gear and a guru who grants your next title and hands you the mantra password that lets you pick up where you left off. The items have real personality: Wing Boots for a short burst of flight, Red Potions and the Elixir for survival, and a set of keys named for playing cards, Jack, Queen, King, Ace and Joker, for the doors that bar your way. That steady, hard-won progress up the tree, one region at a time, is exactly what fans remember.

Then there is the atmosphere. Muted greens and browns, gnarled branches and a soundtrack that drifts between hopeful and melancholy give Faxanadu the feel of a dark fairy tale rather than a typical 8-bit quest. Few Western players had heard of Xanadu, so this cartridge was their only window into that branch of Falcom’s history, and it has aged into a cult favorite because of its strangeness: a world that feels sick at the root, and one stubborn hero climbing toward its heart to set it right.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1987
Publisher
Hudson Soft
Players
Single player
About the game

Faxandu is for the Famicom and NES. The name was licensed by Falcom and was developed and released in Japan in 1987. Nintendo also released the game to the world market in 1990. It can be considered a side-story of Xanadu, which is the second installment of Falcom's long-running RPG series, Dragon Slayer. The title is a combination of "Famicom" and "Xanadu"

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