Be the leader of a huge RPG army! (Suikoden (PS))

Member Name: louly_booly

Product:	Suikoden (PS)
Date:	15/10/08 (59 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Recruiting all them members, the controls with the fights

Disadvantages: It quite a short game, and costs a bomb nowadays

Suikoden is the first installment to the suikoden series by Konami, it was released in england in march 1997. This game is an RPG. Due to the rareity of the game, it now costs around £50-£80, even on ebay

THE STORYLINE
This game is based on the hero, Tir McDohl, the son of a general of the Scarlet Moon Empire. Tir is starting out in the imperial army. As you go through the game doing certain missions, you learn that the empire is corrupted. There are 27 true runes in the game, and your friend ted come in possession of the rune of life and death, also known as the soul eater. The corrupted members of the empire are trying to get there hands on the rune, that you decide to protect which later leads you to be banished from the city of Gregminister, thus the making of your own army begins...

CHARACTERS
Through out the game you have the ability to recruite 108 members (108 stars of destiny). You can find these characters whilst going through the game with the story line but others you have to go and find. With some characters you need need things such as a certain level, or a certain amount of people in your amry, others may ask you to do a task for them. Each memeber is different and helps you in different ways in and out of battle. Some of the characters go on and appear in the further games of suikoden.

FIGHTING
The fighting scences in the game are a very traditional way of fighting in an RPG game, it is turn based. You may have 6 people in your party whilst traveling and fighting, and w of hilst in a fight you have control of all 6 individually. You have a weapon range, which are short medium and long. To perform magic you have to have your hands on a rune, then rune has levels, the higer the level, the better the move and improves by having more moves. You can also have dual battles in the game, which is one on one, and wars. Your army against another. When in a war you hae the choice of four moves, charge attacks, bow attacks, magic attacks and others. The other section are certain special attacks for example, learnign what the enemys new move is. In the duel you have the choice of 3: attack, defend and special. With the war and duel you basically have to guess what your opponant is doing, so its a bit hard and unpredictable but amazing to watch.

MY OPINION
I personally love this game, iv been a fan ever since i was young, though playing the game again quite recently the game does seem quite short and easy to complete. The story line is a little basic but it is still one of my vest games. The war and duel parts of fighting i think are great, guessing what the opponant is gunna do is a little hard at times, but where else have you seen anything like that in any RPG game? and the ability that you have the choice to travel with 108 people.

Summary: One of the best games iv played, classic