Faxanadu
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…
Faxanadu is an adventure developed by Hudson Soft, released 17 November 1987 on Wii, Family Computer and Nintendo Entertainment System.
What Faxanadu is
Faxanadu is an adventure game developed by Hudson Soft and released in 1987. It is available on Wii, Family Computer and Nintendo Entertainment System.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The player-controlled protagonist of is an unidentified wanderer. He has no name, though the Japanese version allows the player to choose one. The game begins when he approaches Eolis, his hometown, after an absence to find it in disrepair and virtually abandoned. Worse still, the town is under attack by Dwarves.The Elven king explains that the Elf fountain water, their life source, has stopped and provides the protagonist with 1500 golds, the games currency, to prepare for his journey to uncover the cause.As the story unfolds, it is revealed that Elves and Dwarfs lived in harmony among the World Tree until The Evil One emerged from a fallen meteorite. The Evil One then transformed the…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Xanadu series
Faxanadu is the fourth of 10 entries we hold in the Xanadu series. It arrived a year after Xanadu Scenario II. The next entry was The Legend of Xanadu in 1994.
What it launched against
Faxanadu launched on 17 November 1987, within three weeks of Tecmo Bowl and Shinobi.
Released around the same time: Tecmo Bowl, Shinobi.
Official trailer
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