VC Tuesday: Hey, an RPG!

by JC Fletcher { Jun 26th 2007 at 12:15PM }

This week's Japanese Virtual Console update brings something very rare to the Wii: a role-playing game. And by Capcom's Breath of Fire II is a pretty good one. Also available are a fossilized Konami classic, the sequel to one of the weirdest game concepts ever to become a mainstream hit, and a bizarre first-person space adventure of some kind-- we can't tell if Silent Debuggers is an action game or a graphical text adventure. Anyone out there play the US release on the Turbografx-16?

Pooyan (Famicom, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points)
Breath of Fire 2 (Super Famicom, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
Ecco the Dolphin 2 (Mega Drive, 1 player, 600 Wii Points)
Silent Debuggers (PC Engine, 1 player, 600 Wii Points)

Also listed as a June release, but with no specified date, is Paper Mario. Since there are no more Tuesdays in June, this one looks like it's getting delayed.

Tags: bof, breath of fire 2, BreathOfFire2, debuggers, ecco, nintendo, pooyan, silent, silent debuggers, SilentDebuggers, vc, virtual console, VirtualConsole, wii

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

vidGuy @ Jun 26th 2007 12:33PM

Just about any of the SNES RPGs are instant buys for me. I've never played BoF2, so it'll be first on my list.

Kevin-Wiicafe @ Jun 26th 2007 12:40PM

Silent Debuggers was the balls. I actually have it for my Turbo and it was hilariously awesome...but bad. Basically, it was the first level of Halo - you're in a ship full of tunnels, and you meander aimlessly through the tunnels in search of Aliens, which certainly were ripped right from the feature film.

It is an action game, not a text-based game. In fairness, I was just a wee little lad when it came out, so, it's been a number of years since I last played.

Velvet Kennedy @ Jun 26th 2007 12:49PM

Silent Debuggers was one of my favorite TG-16 games! I am very excited about even the *slightest* possibility of it coming to the US on the VC.

In short, it is an Aliens-inspired bug hunt. You wander around corridors with a motion detector that beeps with increasing frequency to let you know how close the aliens are. It can get pretty frantic, especially if the aliens destroy the lights. Think Doom crossed with Wizardry.