Its main turn based battle system is a total blast.
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The Suikoden series also is known for having three separate battle systems. You’ll want to have as many of these characters as possible, though, because the war you’re fighting won’t be so easily won without warriors and tradesmen from all walks of life. The more characters you recruit, the larger your castle becomes. All of these characters gather at your own personal castle, the home base of your army. Some are as easy as a quick conversation with the right party members with you, but others are at the center of their own side quests. While some of these characters join throughout the story, many more require you to travel around the map and recruit them to your side. Many of these characters are playable as party members, though many also join you to provide storage spaces, run item shops or blacksmiths, and even teleport you. The most notable of these are the 108 Stars of Destiny, a roster of 108 characters that you recruit to join your army. The Bright Shield and Black Sword runes.įor those who don’t know, the Suikoden series is famous for a few different things. It promises great power, but a terrible fate, to those who take up its sword and shield. Along the way, these two young men find themselves in the possession of the Rune of Beginnings, one of the 27 True Runes. After a series of tragedies, Riou and Jowy find themselves on the run from Highland and caught up in a war that could bring to life a powerful magic that should never be awakened. Suikoden II casts you as Riou, a young man serving in the Highland Army alongside his best friend Jowy. The sequel to 1996’s Suikoden, players are once against tasked with leading an outnumbered army to victory against seemingly impossible odds. Suikoden II was released in the US in 1999 by Konami on the original PlayStation. At that young age, Suikoden II taught me that video games could be more than toys. It showed me that even something like an RPG, a genre I thought I fully understood, could surprise me. It always meant something to me, as one of the first times in a video game when I truly felt moved by the story of a game. As time went on, I never forgot the game. I was unable to purchase it, because of its rarity, and thus the expensive cost to obtain a copy. And in all of the years that followed, that game never left my mind. I struggled through what is, essentially, a fairly easy game. I missed some of the complexities of the story, and I wasn’t focused enough to gather all of the Stars. There’s nary a dull moment on this roller coaster. Younger me had no idea what to do with himself. The scope, the depth, the amount of characters and the castle-building. But Suikoden II was a whole different thing. I’d crushed Chrono Trigger and gotten all of the endings. Even back then, when I was 9 years old, I had already dived headfirst into Final Fantasy. Now, don’t get me wrong: I’d played my share of RPG’s by this time. I had never played anything quite like it. A few weeks later, after he had beaten it, he graced me with the opportunity to borrow it. One such visit, I showed up to find him playing an odd little RPG that I couldn’t pronounce the name of. When I was younger, though, what this really meant is that my cousin Chris and I would play video games in his room while the adults enjoy the film. Every other weekend, my father and I would head over to my aunt’s house to watch movies. The first time I ever laid eyes on Suikoden II was in, I believe, the spring of 2000. With the recent release of this game on PSN making it more accessible than it ever was before, Suikoden II just seemed like the perfect place to begin. As such, I figured that the best way to begin this site was to look back and draw attention to a multitude of Stuffs that have a special place in my memory or my heart. All: In Review is a place meant to bring focus to both the various Stuffs that people love to indulge in and the reviewer presenting their opinions of said Stuffs.
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