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Faxanadu

Faxanadu
North American box art
North American cover art
Developer(s) Hudson Soft
Publisher(s)
Distributor(s) Nintendo
Designer(s) Hitoshi Okuno, Toshiaki Takimoto
Composer(s) Jun Chikuma
Series Dragon Slayer
Platform(s) Family Computer/NES, Virtual Console
Release Family Computer/NES
  • JP: November 17, 1987
  • NA: November 19, 1989
  • EU: December 28, 1990
Virtual Console
  • JP: October 5, 2010
  • PAL: November 26, 2010
  • NA: February 21, 2011
Genre(s) Action role-playing game, Metroidvania
Mode(s) Single-player

Faxanadu (ファザナドゥ Fazanadu?) is an action role-playing platform-adventure video game for the Family Computer (Famicom) and Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The name was licensed by computer game developer Nihon Falcom ("Falcom") and was developed and released in Japan by Hudson Soft in 1987. In 1989, Nintendo of America released the game in the United States under license from Falcom and Hudson Soft. Nintendo also released the game to the European market in 1990.

Faxanadu is a spin-off or side-story of Xanadu, which is the second installment of Falcom's long-running RPG series, Dragon Slayer. The title Faxanadu is a portmanteau formed from the names Famicom and Xanadu.

The game follows the story of an unnamed traveler who returns to his home town, which is part of a massive inhabited tree, only to find it ruined and abandoned because the tree's water source has stopped and is tasked with finding out the cause and saving the tree.

The game uses typical sidecrolling and platforming gameplay. However, the game also employs various elements that classify it as a role-playing video game including its expansive story and medieval setting. Along with that, the game has graphics that were unique compared to other games at the time.

The game has become relatively unknown and eventually fell below the radar for many gamers at the time. Despite this, Faxanadu has received overwhelmingly positive reviews, with reviewers calling it better than The Legend of Zelda and Castlevania and was eventually released on Wii virtual console in 2010 and 2011.


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