Side Scrolling RPGs?

[darthmunky]

Are there ANY side scrolling RPGs? (That are not Castlevania SOTN)? Basically sidescrollers where you have skills and level up and get new weapons and stuff.

[brunoafh]

I feel confident that there's already a thread about this on here, but if you have a Wii, look no further than Muramasa: The Demon Blade.

[MrPopo]

Popful Mail is a side scroller. You could consider Odin Sphere and Muramasa as well.

[BurningDoom]

The Battle of Olympus and Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link both for the NES. Both great games, and if any Zelda game is an RPG, Zelda 2 is. Quite different than your average Zelda game.

[alienjesus]

Wonder Boy III: The dragons trap (master system) and Wonder Boy in Monster World (Mega Drive/Genesis) are both great. They're half ARPG and half platformer, and all fantastic.

[Xeogred]

Wonder Boy III: The dragons trap (master system) and Wonder Boy in Monster World (Mega Drive/Genesis) are both great. They're half ARPG and half platformer, and all fantastic.

That makes me want to bring up the Super Adventure Island games on the SNES, great stuff.

[darthmunky]

I'm looking more for the kind that don't have levels, open world kind of.

[Xeogred]

I think a lot of what we've mentioned so far fits that bill... lol.

[alienjesus]

I'm looking more for the kind that don't have levels, open world kind of.

The wonder boy games are verging on being a metroidvania. Thats why I didn;t mention wonder boy II, which is level based.

[brunoafh]

Vanillaware's games (Odin Sphere, Muramasa) and Falcom's side scrollers (Popful Mail, Xanadu games, some Ys games, Sorcerian) are exactly what you're looking for.