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Faxanadu: Hollow Tree, a soulslike remake of Faxanadu (NES), first public preview

I’ve been turning Faxanadu into a Dark Souls game. The World Tree is hollow: gold is souls, you drop them where you die, and the gurus are bonfires.

What’s in this preview:

pick a vow (difficulty), a class and a look at New Game

souls and bloodstains, Estus flasks, eight stats to level at the gurus

stamina, guard and backstep; every monster shows its attack before it hits

lords with a second phase, fog walls, bosses that stay dead

21 new weapons, armours, shields and spells, some sold, some hidden in the world

a new soundtrack, with a switch back to the original music

two endings and New Game+

It’s a work in progress, so expect rough edges. It’s a BPS patch for the USA ROM, and it needs an emulator that runs 512 KB MMC1 games with battery saves (I test in Mesen).

Patch and notes: https://github.com/malexe3169/faxanadu-atlas/tree/main/hollow-tree

Feedback welcome, especially on difficulty.