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Faxanadu
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Item Condition
Complete in box: the cartridge, the manual and the box, all original. Original inserts or paperwork shown in the photos are included; display stands and other photography props are not. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.
Item Description
The entire world of Faxanadu is a single tree. The World Tree towers over the elf town of Eolis, and when the hero comes home he finds the springs dried up, the remaining water poisoned and the dwarves who once lived peacefully beside the elves turned into monsters. The cause is the Evil One, who emerged from a fallen meteorite, and the only weapon that can destroy it is a magic sword the Dwarf King hid inside his own body. Reaching it means climbing from the tree's buttress roots, through its hollow trunk and out along its branches before the final push into the dwarves' mountain stronghold.
It plays as a side-scrolling action RPG, closer in spirit to Zelda II than to Dragon Warrior. Enemies drop gold and bread, gold buys swords, armor, shields and items in each town, and magic gives the hero ranged spells such as Deluge, Thunder and Fire. The Wingboots let him float up to ledges that look hopelessly out of reach. Progress is tied to the Gurus in each town's church, who award ranks as your experience grows and hand out mantras, the passwords that restore your game. Your rank sets how much gold and experience you keep when you return, so every stop at the church carries a little extra weight.
Hudson Soft built it as a Famicom spin-off of Falcom's Xanadu, part of the Dragon Slayer series, and the title fuses the two names. Nintendo published it in North America in 1989, where it debuted at number six on Nintendo Power's Top 30 and even supplied the setting for two 1990 episodes of Captain N: The Game Master. Jun Chikuma's score sets the mood, drifting between melancholy and menace, and the muted, earthy palette makes the World Tree feel ancient, sick and enormous.
Faxanadu never became a household name, which is part of its appeal. Critics have since called it a hidden gem, and its interconnected, ability-gated world means it often comes up as an early ancestor of the Metroidvania. It is the NES adventure to reach for when you have finished Zelda II and want something darker and stranger on the same hardware.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1987
- Publisher
- Hudson Soft
- Genre
- Platformer, RPG, Adventure
- 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"
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.Watch gameplayFaxanadu on NES
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