*Home sweet home. Wait, what happened here? Daggers and Wing Boots, mantras and monsters await you. This is the tagline for Faxanadu and though there is only one dagger, wing boots, oddly enough, are in fashion among the elves. There are more mantras and monsters than you can wave that dagger at. While this game is widely unknown, it has a cult following and for good reason. It is an overall excellent game that shows traits that have become an industry standard. Released in 1988 by Hudson Soft, Faxanadu is one of many side scrolling adventures on the NES that, even though most reviews give it acclaim, fell into the abyss of the unknown at time of launch. The likely cause for this is the…
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