Product Description
Suikoden III is the deepest and most innovative installment in the series’ rich seven-year history. With multiple endings, three styles of combat (party, army, and one-on-one battles), and the ability to recruit from over 100 characters throughout your quest, Suikoden III raises the bar for RPGs everywhere. Also new to both the series and the RPG genre is the Trinity Sight System, which enables players to experience events from the viewpoints of three different characters…. More >>
hey i dunno about 3 but the other 2 games were great you get over 108 playable characters there are tons of side quests lots of hidden magicrunes you can lead entire armys, u even get your own castle to do with as you please….basicly this is one of the greatest series games ever made!!!!
Rating: 4 / 5
I have been looking forward to the next generation game in the series. The first 2 in the series were for the playstation, and were overlooked, but considered by many, to be one of the best rpg’s for the system. Already the most popular rpg of the year in japan, Suikoden 3 has the potential to be one of the best rpg’s in the ps2 history.
Rating: 5 / 5
Don’t let the flashy beginning sequence fool you, this game is bland throughout. I guess maybe I was expecting too much(had just finished playing ff10)who knows. I just couldn’t get attached to the characters at ALL, and the plot/storyline can be completely ruined if you play it the wrong way. The dialogue was incredibly dull and seemed rushed and choppy. The backrounds and towns are somewhat comparable to those of Kingdom Hearts…but you have to keep revisiting them OVER AND OVER AND OVER. I’d say by the 50th time you go through Brass Castle, you just want to burn down the place and call it a day. And the music…UGHHHHHH! Nobuo Umatsu(music director for ff7), please visit the poor composers at Konami and smack some talent into them!! I just couldn’t believe how bad the backround and battle themes were, nothing fresh or new, every peice sounded like a bunch of dry keyboard effects. Movement in the game(as well as when moving in the game) goes very slow and becomes like a tedious chore. I will say that there are a few plot twists, but nothing you’ll care about 2 months after you finish it. But kudos to the character designers, there are 108 characters that are semi-drawn and playable(for the most part), that must have taken A LOT of work. Its a shame the game couldn’t have turned out better, but its games like these that make the Final Fantasies look good right?
Rating: 2 / 5
Common sense to me in making a good video game sequal,would be sticking to what made the previous installment/s great…NOPE! That ain’t gonna happen in this age! For some reason game developers are almost sadisticaly compelled to add “new” stuff and completely throw away the tried and true elements that veterans of a series have come to know and love.
Suikoden 3 is the fourth RPG that I have played for the PS2 which originated on an older system.And like the other three(Wild Arms 3,Legend Of Legia 2 and Final Fantasy X)it [bites] because they change way too much;almost to the point of feeling like an entirely diffrent game instead of a sequal.
I hate to say it,but I think the death of good rpgs is upon us.
Fun and traditonal gameplay is being replaced with eye candy and foreign concepts.I’d rather play good ol’ dragon warrior on the 8bit nintendo than these peices of junk!
I STRONGLY advise lovers of the first two installments of suikoden to rent this game before buying it.
Rating: 1 / 5
To me, the appeal of Suikoden 3 to so many people is one of the world’s greatest mysteries, right up there with Roswell, Stonehenge, Easter Island and JFK’s assasination. Why did so many people enjoy this game so much? My theory is that someone switched the discs in my game when I bought it, and that I was actually playing a fake version of Suikoden 3 that really, really, REALLY sucked.
Well at any rate, I’ll review the game that *I* played.
Suikoden 3 is terrible. It is one of the most boring games I’ve played in my life, and I played all the way through it. Up to the very end, I kept telling myself that the game MUST get better (based on the reviews I read). Yep, right up to when they started rolling the credits I promised myself the game would get better.
It didn’t. Elizabeth R. Powell’s review is actually a pretty good description of my experience, though I would disagree with her contention that Hugo’s plotline was worth playing. It wasn’t. The worst part of the game hands are the game triggers (those events that happen when you enter a certain place that “triggers” the game to progress). Some of the game triggers are so random it’s ridiculous. Sometimes, the game doesn’t even tell you what you need to do next (like the chapter you spend recruiting people, and you have to talke to EVERYBODY in ALL the towns you visit). I spent countless wasted hours running from screen to screen trying to figure out how to progress that damn game, baffled because apparently I was supposed to know I to go to some remote corner of the castle to speak with some character I’ve never even met before. How in the world was I supposed to know to do that? And of course the overly high random encounter rate, coupled with the boring terrain and terrible music made the whole experience dreadful.
The story hardly makes up for the game either. In fact, if the game had good gameplay, I’d probably complain about the boring storyline. The uninspiring characters make you think Konami game designers flung darts at a personality chart to come up with their characters.
All in all, not even worth a rental. But I do implore you, if you are the least bit curious about the game based on the other reviews (reviewers bribed by Konami no doubt, CONSPIRACY I tell you), RENT, don’t buy, the game. Don’t worry, I’m sure you won’t mind if you don’t finish it in time.
Rating: 2 / 5