Journey to Silius

Journey to Silius is a video game that consists of 1 release

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The run and gun game that was supposed to be a Terminator game, however SunSoft lost the Terminator license some time during development and instead of scrapping the project entirely, they remade it into Journey to Silius.

Journey to Silius

Journey to Silius is a run and gun platformer developed by SunSoft for the NES.
It was also released as Raf World (ラフワールド) in Japan.

Plot

The player takes the role of Jay McCray in the year 0373 of the new space age calendar. Earth has been overpopulated, which has led to the creation of space colonies to which people emigrate. Jay's father is responsible for the development of Space Colony #428 in the Silius Solar System.
As Jay is getting ready to leave Earth and join his father, the entire colony suddenly explodes.
A few days later, Jay finds a floppy disk in his fathers home containing plans for the colony, and a message from his father telling Jay that if terrorists should destroy the colony, he should finish what his father started.

When Jay sees this, he heads out to the colony to seek revenge on his fathers death.

Gameplay

The gameplay is pretty straight-forward if you have ever played a run and gun game before. It is very similar to the Mega Man games.
You start with two weapons. Your regular gun with unlimited ammo, and something similar to a shotgun. You get a new gun after every level, except for the last level.

The guns are:

Handgun - Your regular gun which you start with. It has unlimited ammo.
Shotgun - You also start with this gun, but it has limited ammo. It fires three bullets at the same time which spreads out after being fired.
Machine Gun - Acquired at the end of level one. It has a rapid fire that lets you keep the fire button pressed. It is about as powerful as the handgun but is a lot faster.
Homing Missile - Fires homing missiles that deal a lot of damage per hit but drains a lot of ammo.
Laser Rifle - Fires a blue laser that deals a ton of damage to the target but also costs a lot of ammo.
Grenade Launcher - One of the best guns in the game. Fires a grenade which when explodes causes a lot of damage to surrounding enemies. Drains even more ammo than other weapons, but it may be worth it if there are lots of enemies.

General Information Edit

Game Name	Journey to Silius
Platform(s)	NES
Publisher(s)	SunSoft
Developer(s)	SunSoft Tokai Engineering
Genres	Add a new genre Action Adventure Shooter
Themes	Add a new theme Sci-Fi
Original US Release	need a fuzzy date?
Original US Release	September 1990 know the real date?
Aliases	Raf World