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23 Sep, 2010
Suikoden 3: A new lease of life or a aged yarn?
1 of 2 found this helpful As a huge fan of the Suikoden series (i first the played the 2nd Suikoden in about 2000, and then later was able to get hold of the 1st) i was absolutely ectastic when i heard the third was coming out, on a brand spanking new generation console (2nd back then). In my mind i saw vibrant colours, 3d (yes 3d!) character models and a new awesome story to follow. Unfortunatley i was left decidedly disapointed and distraught when i relised that the game would not get a european release.
So almost 10 years later, and following the other titles (4 and 5 respecively) i grudgingly moved on to the new generation of consoles. I myself (a playstation man from the beginning) blindly threw all my faith in the gargauntuan black goliah the PS3. Im not going to go into which console is better, as frankly i don't care but i was horrified and have coninually been left so by the distinct lack of decent RPG's on the platform. The ps2 has one of the greatest and large catolgue of great RPG's yet now all i seem to be able to find are god awful pieces of tripe such as 'Enchanted Arms' (the cut scenes, god the cutscenes) and don't get me started on FF13 (seriously squaresoftenix or whatever, i am not a child that needs to be walked through a game by my hand). Don't get me wrong i have been impressed by .... erm yeah, well, there was that... oh. Actually Valkyria Chronicals is awesome, buy it people, or games like it won't be made.
Anyway, after being let down by the 3rd generation i have since regressed back to the faith ful ps2 and ps1 for my rpg fix. And so after almost 10 years of having Suiko 3 on my mind i took the plunge and imported a reconditioned console from the states. After a few weeks on anticpation and waiting, it finally arrived and wohooooo it works!
So finally having a ntsc playstaion i was able to invest in Suikoden 3 and finally complete the missing part of the suiko journey so far.
Now im actually only a few hours in, im just very vbored at work but i will tell you what i think so far.
The gaming lanscape is very lush and brightly coloured, but i cant say the same for the character models, often they are shaowed and darkened (even inf the are out in the sun) but i guess this shows how far we have come in percieving games, we notice even th tiniest of flaws. To be fair tho, even mario in his 8 bit days always looked well lit, so is it just developers laziness, i dont know. The on thing i was completely agast at was the complete lack of voice acting. To be sat in 2010 listening to .... well watching static text appear on the screen is frankly weird. And it just leaves great blips of silence in between battles and exploring. It really is quite creepy. But then i think bakc to my FF7 days, all text... not even much varied music and it made me cry time and time agian, so i have come to the conclusion that maybe the suiko characters are just pretty 2 dimensional portrayals.
The battle system has always been a key part of Suiko, but even after a few hours im feeling rather bored by it, battle systems need to evole with the times, and this battle system is pretty darn awful. The worse part is that it pretends to give you the feeling of spacial movement and suprise, but its little more than a glorified you hit me i hot you set up.
The music so far is fine, but nothing to write home about and the storyline is at best entertaining at worst toatllu predictable.
ANyways ran out of characters,
so toodaloo