Topic: Wii RPGs

My brother and I were just discussing the lack of good RPGs on the Wii. Any hidden gems I may not know about? The only ones I have are Twilight Princess, Okami and Fire Emblem (even considered RPG?).

Fire Emblem is more Strategy game.

Super Paper Mario is there, but even that is less RPG than the others.

I'm looking forward to playing Arc Rise Fantasia early next year. I'm hoping the wait will be worth it!

As for games that are available now, have you tried Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World? The original Symphonia on the Cube was better I think, but Dawn of the New World was still a pretty good Wii RPG, too.

When just reducing RPG's to games where you level up your character(s) by defeating enemies:

• Dragon Quest Swords
• Final Fantasy: Echoes of Time
• Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon
• Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
• opoona
• Super Paper Mario
• Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World

Games with RPG elements:

• Disaster: Day of Crisis
• Little King's Story
• Samurai Warriors Katana

How is Chocobo's Dungeon? I've never played any of those.

I've beaten Super Paper Mario
I'm well into Twilight Princess, but can't get past the endless moblin army
I've beaten the first two episodes of SBCG4AP

Otherwise, I don't know of any RPGs for the Wii save for those you can download via VC.

Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn is excellent.
Don't forget about FF: The After Years. Though I haven't played it.
Dragon Quest: Swords is an awesome game.

ahem...shall I direct you to my avatar?

Ahem! ill direct you to MY avatar as well!

Paper Mario: TTYD is a GameCube game, so I didn't say it.

And do as StarFox told you and get Paper Mario while you are at it.

...and Super Mario RPG.

Chocobo's Dungeon is in no way worth to buy/play. Worst FF I've ever played.

spectrobes origins and phantom brave are pretty good rpgs

I second the recommendation for Dragon Quest: Swords. I want a sequel and a DS version.

Baroque is on Wii too, if you like your RPGs rogue-like and crazy-difficult. I guess Alien Syndrome could be considered a dungeon-crawler along the vein of Baldur's Gate/Diablo as well--not a horrible game, but pretty monotonous.

Wait for FFCC: The Crystal Bearers.
EDIT: The best and worst roles to play with your Remote.

I second Spectrobes: Origins. When the price goes down, I'm definitely getting it. From what I've seen, it looks great!

I'm thinking of gettiing chocobo's dungeon.

also looking forward to shiren the wanderer

yes I like roguelikes. The wii seems to be the only place to get graphical roguelikes like this.

I tried baroque for ps2 and wanted to like it but ended up not really enjoying it. Guess not enough variety of items and skills like in other rogeulikes.

An old one, but good on the VC is Wonderboy The Dragon's Trap or TG 16's Dragon's Curse same game but not bad for it's time. Also Wonderboy in Monsterland on the SMS had some elements of RPG especially buying new equipment and weapons etc..

The only traditional RPG for wii I can think of is DQ10, and that's probably 2 to 3 years away, if you want a traditional RPG game to play now then the VC has a few, Paper Mario and Phantasy Star are worth downloading.

If you are going down the VC route then Any of the Zeldas from SNES up is well worth ago. Also IGN just did a RPG Chears and Tears fears feature for RPGs

WOW..I just pick up Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn and I can stop playing this game. I know it's like 40-50 hours long. But this game is so fun and the story is great. It makes me want to go buy the GC Fire Emblem. This is the 1st Fire Emblem game I have played and it will not be the last. Time to go play some more. Played about 3 hours stop to make something to eat and now back to the game. Must buy if you see.