Loved everything but Thomas.
If you begin with the first one, it's not. The game is short and introduce the series with easy mechanics.This is a series I desperately need to check out. It looks daunting, but I think i could manage a playthrough or two.
i share the sentiment, though I liked more the return to the classic system with suikoden 5..Suikoden 3 is great. I think that its reputation suffers a lot for being directly after 2, but it has so many great parts, great characters, great scenes, great music. And the trinity sight system is just wonderful (and the final route!!).
All the people I know who played it enjoyed Thomas chapters too including me.I am probably one of the rare people who really liked the Thomas segments. It felt down to earth and I cared for the cast.
NAh Thomas chapter was great probably the most hardest parts of the game too because man those guys were just normal ol ppl so it made since they were weakI got to play it back in 8th grade when I was sick and it remains one of my favorite gaming memories of all time.
I remember I hated it at first due to unimpressive graphics and no voice acting. Also haven't tried the series before. Man, am I glad I kept on going. I think it singlehandedly kept me in good spirits helping me to get healthy.
I played all of the games since then and this one remains my favorite, followed by Suiko II.
I am probably one of the rare people who really liked the Thomas segments. It felt down to earth and I cared for the cast.
Yeah, that wasn't hyperbole. I game at night and I literally did fall asleep a couple of times.I don't know if OP is serious about falling asleep - that happened to me a couple of times playing SaGa Frontier after work.
For the most part, I dislike anthromorphs in Suikoden in general. IV's cats were terrible. Kobolds were the worst part of II. Gengen. That kid-pup with the slingshot. Can't stand them in most Suiko games, really; even in III there's Mutt. Are those damn beavers in V (though they were pretty amazing on water-based army levels hhh).Ctrl-f "duck joe"
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Seriously Ducks with halberds. Sgt Joe is amazing, too bad he doesn't really fit in an end game party
Loved Suiko III, sad we'll never get a proper sequel (storywise moreso than gameplay)
That's nice, too.
There aren't any cliffhangers or anything and the games jump all around the timeline. Just go for it!
There's no massive cliffhangers or anything like in Trails. Each game is self contained, but enriched with knowledge of the others. There are underlying plot threads in each game about the missing Harmonian bishop, the ultimate fate of the true runes, the final conflict between Yuber and Pesmerga, the disappearance of the Sindar civilization, and so on, but none of it is ever related to the story being told at the time. It's more like, "oh, it would be really cool to know what this is all about." The world building shot too high and wasn't able to get to each of the places and events it mentions, but each game's story is complete regardless.
My all-time favorite Suikoden entry and top JRPGs.
To this day I don't understand why there isn't a direct continuation of III. III did such a wonderful job of world-building it's almost a crime what they did to us with IV.
Why skip 1? People tend to rate it low, but it's one of my favorites. If you like 2, you'll like 1. Extremely short and snippy game, too, so it's not at all taxing to play.Nah I didn't really like the game. I kind of dropped it near the end. I only like one character out of the three you play as. The girl and the silent dude was bland and boring. I will admit though the silent dude crew was the best out of the three. 2 is still the best. My first one in the series was actually 5 and i liked it so much I went to play 2-4.
A real shame. Maybe, maybe we'll go beyond this game one day... never say never, right?Series creator Yoshitaka Murayama left Konami during III's development. He had supposedly made a setting bible for the rest of the Suikoden team to draw from, but it's possible they didn't feel confident moving the setting forward without him.
There's two ways you can start, chronological or release order. Like with Star Wars, most people will say release is better, so I - II - III - IV - V.As someone who never played this series and being tempted to since quite a time now, where should I start? Does the story follows as the number goes, or it's not related like Final Fantasy/Dragon Quest? How many hours required to complete a playthrough on average?
Yeah I know it's funny considering my user name, but I actually discovered years after picking it that it was related to a video game.
There's two ways you can start, chronological or release order. Like with Star Wars, most people will say release is better, so I - II - III - IV - V.
IV is skippable, by the way. It's so far back in the timeline that it does not matter to the overall story, and is also widely considered the worst in the series. It's not a terrible game, it's just not a very good one. The map traversal is like Wind Waker if it was even slower and more tedious, the story meanders quite a bit, and there's a comparative lack of memorable villains (although there are some). It does have its merits, though. I love the soundtrack, character design, setting, and spinoff that it got (Suikoden Tactics). It is not, however, a good representative of the series as a whole.
Chronologically, the games go IV - V - I - II - III. This is my preferred order only because I feel V sets up some things from later games surprisingly well, like the recurring characters of Lorelai, Georg, and Killey, the mysterious Sindar civilization and its ruins that are littered throughout the entire world, and offhand mentions of the Scarlet Moon Empire that I takes place in. V is also a very strong game on its own that will leave a positive first impression. That's just my mega lore nerd talking, though. Release order has the benefit of watching the games evolve from a mechanical standpoint.
The first four are all relatively cheap on PSN, although III is only playable on PS3 right now. V is hard to find, confined to PS2, and unfortunately also very expensive.Okay, thanks for the heads up. I think I will go the release date road, I fear if I do the chrono one, mechanical/graphical evolution could do more harm than good.
Ultimately, are these games easily findable and/or affordable on online resellers?
Like the Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles spinoff, but with Suikoden? I'd take that over the shitty DS or PSP games they gave us.If the series would have been successful as some of the bigger JRPG:s I would love to have a game focused on something like Thomas. Managing a castle in the Suikoden world.
My all-time favorite Suikoden entry and top JRPGs.
To this day I don't understand why there isn't a direct continuation of III. III did such a wonderful job of world-building it's almost a crime what they did to us with IV.
Recruiting Futch and Bright and having them be OP as fuck was pretty up there too.2 > 3 > 1 > everything else
The Luc reveal about blew my damn mind. One of the greatest payoffs for a series fan in video games.
I loved it!
Suikoden 1, 2, and 3 are all excellent in their own way.
After seeing the success of Persona 5 I hope some Japanese developers can take another look at what JRPGs can mean to the West.
I just remembered something.
The Tiamat Omega boss fight music from Granblue Fantasy is awesome in the same vein as the anime opening music from Suikoden​ 3.
And I was also thinking Granblue itself kinda scratches some of the same itches as Suikoden with a huge cast of characters with varying levels of backstory and intertwining factions and everything. Even if it's a gacha game.
Here's that Tiamat track:
https://youtu.be/TGnUBjbd32Y