Great game. Somehow I was the weird kid who knew about this one long ahead of its US release (EGM? Nintendo Power?), so I was extremely pumped for it and tried to tell my friends about it, who were all mystified by my enthusiasm for this weird game they had never heard about. My best friend had no idea what he was in for when I first showed it to him. He didn't really get it until we made it to the third level, which is the festival that is packed with minigames. His mind was blown. It was easily our top co-op game until Secret of Mana, and we still played it until the very end of our time with the SNES.
The funny thing is, I don't think we ever beat it. Sometimes we would go for progress, but we must have hit a roadblock somewhere, a boss we couldn't get past in the game's later sections. A majority of the time, we mostly just played minigames. We had the password memorized for that festival level.
You should do Faxanadu. An oooooold NES game. I’d love Nintendo to release it on the Switch NES expansion thing.
I have good news for you, from the past https://retroxp.substack.com/p/remembering-hudson-soft-faxanadu
Noice!!! I’ll read that later!!
Great game. Somehow I was the weird kid who knew about this one long ahead of its US release (EGM? Nintendo Power?), so I was extremely pumped for it and tried to tell my friends about it, who were all mystified by my enthusiasm for this weird game they had never heard about. My best friend had no idea what he was in for when I first showed it to him. He didn't really get it until we made it to the third level, which is the festival that is packed with minigames. His mind was blown. It was easily our top co-op game until Secret of Mana, and we still played it until the very end of our time with the SNES.
The funny thing is, I don't think we ever beat it. Sometimes we would go for progress, but we must have hit a roadblock somewhere, a boss we couldn't get past in the game's later sections. A majority of the time, we mostly just played minigames. We had the password memorized for that festival level.