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* CheckpointStarvation: When you manage to restart the Spring of Life, your next step is to go into the World Tree and start climbing to the top. This results in a transition to the misty interior, with enemies that you haven't seen before that hit harder than enemies you've already fought, and tricky platforming that, if you miss a jump, sends you back several screens. You have to get to the first town, a journey of a dozen screens, without dying. If you ''do'' die, you'll be sent back to the last town outside the World Tree and have to buy a new Queen key to get back inside. Notably, the first town once you get ''out'' of the misty interior is only three screens away.
* DegradedBoss: With the exception of The Dwarf King and The Evil One, every enemy in the game will show up multiple times, and they don't always guard anything important. It's up to you if you want to fight them for the experience and money, or if you want to just run past them.
* DenialOfDiagonalAttack: The first weapon you get, the Dagger, cannot hit enemies that are only one tile high, forcing you to use the Deluge spell to hit them or jump over them. Once you get the Long Sword, these tricky enemies are much less problematic.
* DegradedBoss: With the exception of The Dwarf King and The Evil One, every enemy in the game will show up multiple times, and they don't always guard anything important. It's up to you if you want to fight them for the experience and money, or if you want to just run past them.
* DenialOfDiagonalAttack: The first weapon you get, the Dagger, cannot hit enemies that are only one tile high, forcing you to use the Deluge spell to hit them or jump over them. Once you get the Long Sword, these tricky enemies are much less problematic.
* DifficultButAwesome: the most powerful spell in the game, Tilte, has a very strange casting path, going down on an arc and then blasting upwards at about 45 degrees, when every single other spell has been a straight horizontal attack. However, it is very powerful if you can adjust to it, even better than the overpriced Death spell.
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* InformedEquipment: Averted. Equipping different armour changes the character sprite, and equipping a shield shows it on your character. The different weapons all have a different look as well.
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* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: For most of the game, this is true: you can improve your armor and shield, but you never get a helmet. At the end of the game, however, the Battle Suit and Battle Helmet replace your armor and shield entirely.
* InformedEquipment: Averted. Equipping differentarmour armor changes the character sprite, and equipping a shield shows it on your character. The different weapons all have a different look as well.
* InformedEquipment: Averted. Equipping different
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* ItsUpToYou: For some reason, even though you've only just returned to your hometown after a long journey abroad, you are the last hope of the elves.
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* ItsUpToYou: For some reason, even though you've only just returned to your hometown after a long journey abroad, you are the last hope of the elves. It's implied that you were specifically called back to your hometown due to being a skilled warrior (indeed, you don't get stronger at all through the game, only better equipment) and only after all other attempts to stave off disaster have failed.
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** Winged Boots are required for one particular point in the game (reaching a spring in the sky at the base of the World Tree), but getting extra sets of boots makes platforming later in the game much easier, and completely removes the challenge of many towers by [[DungeonBypass letting you skip entire sections]].
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** Winged Boots are required for one two particular point points in the game (reaching a spring in the sky at the base of the World Tree), Tree, and ascending to the later half of the misty interior sections), but getting extra sets of boots makes platforming later in the game much easier, and completely removes the challenge of many towers by [[DungeonBypass letting you skip entire sections]].
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* WithThisHerring: When you arrive in town at the beginning of the game, you have nothing, not even a full health and mana bar. Visiting the king gives you 1500 Golds, which is enough to buy a dagger, your first magic spell (Deluge), some potions and a key to leave town. Somewhat justified by the fact that your hometown is on the brink of ruin: there isn't anything better to give you.
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''Faxanadu'' is a 1987 SideView ActionAdventure RolePlayingGame for the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]]. It is considered a [[GaidenGame side story]] for the ''VideoGame/DragonSlayer'' series of videogames and is actually a port/spinoff of the UsefulNotes/{{PC88}} game ''VideoGame/DragonSlayerIIXanadu'' (''Faxanadu'' being a portmanteau name of ''UsefulNotes/{{Famicom}} Xanadu'').
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''Faxanadu'' is a 1987 SideView ActionAdventure RolePlayingGame for the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem [[Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]]. It is considered a [[GaidenGame side story]] for the ''VideoGame/DragonSlayer'' series of videogames and is actually a port/spinoff of the UsefulNotes/{{PC88}} Platform/{{PC88}} game ''VideoGame/DragonSlayerIIXanadu'' (''Faxanadu'' being a portmanteau name of ''UsefulNotes/{{Famicom}} ''Platform/{{Famicom}} Xanadu'').
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!!Nello. I sell tropes.
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* EquipmentBasedProgression: You gain experience points and levels throughout your quest, but they only determine how much gold you get when you resume your quest after dying or using a password. You can only improve your combat prowess by buying or finding new equipment as you progress through the game.
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* PoisonMushroom: The overworld sprites for useful ''Potion'' and damaging ''Poison'' are much alike (see also RealIsBrown), causing some players to mistake one for the other and take a fatal poison in a moment when they are low of health.
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* PoisonMushroom: The overworld sprites for useful ''Potion'' and damaging ''Poison'' are much alike (see also RealIsBrown), causing some players to mistake one for the other and take a fatal poison in a moment when they are low of in health.
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!!This game contains examples of:
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* ChainReactionDestruction: Bosses like to go down with that manner.
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Incorrect, actually: the suit of armor includes the Battle Helmet, which functions as a shield, stronger than the Magic Shield.
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** A minor moment late in the game: once you get the best armor in the game and the Dragon Slayer sword, equipping the sword equips the armor, which looks cool...but you can't use a shield with the armor, meaning projectiles will now do full damage after only doing partial damage for most of the game.
