#Meteorite pickaxe series

Players guide the hero through a screen-by-screen series of fields, towns, and dungeons. His journey takes him to four overworld areas: The tree's buttress, the inside of the trunk, the tree's branches and finally the Dwarves' mountain stronghold.įaxanadu is a side scrolling action role playing game. It is only with this sword that The Evil One can be destroyed. The Dwarf King, Grieve, swallowed his magical sword before he was transformed, hiding it in his own body to prevent The Evil One from acquiring it. The Evil One then transformed the Dwarves into monsters against their will and set them against the Elves. The Elven king explains that the Elves' fountain water, their life source, has been stopped and all other remaining water has been poisoned and provides the protagonist with 1500 gold, the game's currency, to prepare for his journey to uncover the cause.Īs the story unfolds, it is revealed that Elves and Dwarves lived in harmony among the World Tree until The Evil One emerged from a fallen meteorite. Worse still, the town is under attack by Dwarves. The game begins when he approaches Eolis, his hometown, after an absence to find it in disrepair and virtually abandoned. He has no name, though the Japanese version allows the player to choose one. The player-controlled protagonist of Faxanadu is an unnamed wanderer who returns home.