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bland

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 13
Date: May 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

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?

A big fan of the series....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 13
Date: October 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

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.

Best rpg ever up there with final fantasy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: April 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

this is a great game if you like the suikoden and it have all new game plays and there are charaters from part one and part two

Quest with the 108 stars of Destiny!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Reviewed for Big Boss Games by: Eschneider6

This is the third part in a long running series from Konami, there's Suikoden and Suikoden II both worth checking out.

Enter the land of Grassland in Suikoden III, where war and conflict have been between the six clans of Grassland, Zexen Federation, and Holy Kingdom of Harmonia. What's different in Suikoden III is that you play the story through the eye's of 3 characters. Geddoe, Captain of the small defense force of Harmonia, Hugo, a son of Grasslands Chief Lucia, and Chris who is Captain of the Knights of Zexen. You choose whom to start the game out as, and see the story unfold by 3 points of view.

There are many secrets to this game, so I won't spoil them for you. This game took me 89 hours to beat, and that's including opening all the secrets! It's a deep game with traditional RPG battles, but also includes strategic battles later in the game as well. Also, the gathering of the 108 stars of Destiny. Each person has a skill to help you during the game. This game has a great story, great characters and some good cinemas as well. Two things make the score 8.5, the fetch quests and the lack of places to visit. I recommend you buy this game, so stop reading this review so you can go play this great RPG!

My review score for Suikoden III= 8.5
Score 1= Throw out
Score 10= Must Buy

pleast suprise

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: April 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ok heres the story...your a boy from a native american/aztec ish tribe...your also a leader of a division in the harmonian army....also a knight in the zexen army....my memorys a little fuzzy....u play as these three for three chapters...then u choose who u want to play as for the next two chapters...these peoples destinys are interwinded....the thing i love about this game is that its storyline revolves around war/goverment/politics I LOVE THAT...which is why i really enjoyed this game...the abd thing is theres no voice overs and the bad thing about no voice overs is..i cant pronounce geddoes name...how do u pronounce "geddoe"?

Not as good as the original, yet satisfying

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Suikoden was my favorite game of all time, Suikoden 2 was also a masterpiece, and lived up to the original. Suikoden 2 however, took me a bit to realize how great it was. After playing this game, I soon realized that Suikoden 2 lives up to number one extremely well, and this game doesn't.

3d graphics seem weird at first, I really liked the 2d sprites better, they rocked. The 3d looks fine though, I mean it feels alright after a while, and I do enjoy the character detail. I thought there would be the same models for 108 charactes;however, every character looks different, and actually has their weapon sheathed on them when they walk around. When they attack, they take it out. I love how they made the models seem fluid, and look like their 2d portraits.

The runes are alright. Ruins can now hit your party. If you aim the fire ruin wrong, it can destroy everyone, I dislike this idea greatly, mostly because sometimes my party walks into the rune by themselves. The new runes are fine also. True fire rune, true water rune and so on.

Battles are alright. Much like the first 2 games, except characters can move around, which only really effects runes, and now you can like double team some guys, which looks cool. There are still uniting attacks, where character combinations do killer moves, which is always fun and nice to use.

Main character? No, not this time. There is the flame champion, in which you customize his name, and he doesn't play that big of a role. There is that dude, the castle guy, I played his mission once and was bored. Then there are Hugo, Geddoe, and Chris. These 3 are the main characters. Their chapters all occur at the same time, yet you can see different perspectives and such. I loved hugo's missions. Geddoes's were longer, but fun, and Chris had some boring characters backing her, but fun missions none the less. Basically there is a war or something? Big war, and the flame champion is alive, and what is going on. It really doesn't matter.

The world map, now, if you want to get across, you need to go through the plains and towns. I haven't gotten the blinking mirror yet, but im not even sure there is one. I really despise walking across the plains every time I need to go to a town, but I get use to it.

My opinion of the game? Not as good as 1 or 2, which had great fights, nice battles, terrific storys, extremely well done sprites, creative characters, dramatic stuff, and the occasional laugh or two. This game can't live up to the previous ones, but it is a fun game to just fight and slash monsters apart.

Wonderful game, but a bit repetitive..

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: November 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Though the Trinity Sight System in itself was a wonderful idea, I think it may have been able to be put to better use. Many people who have played this installment of the Suikoden series were disappointed in how repetitive this game got, playing in the same areas again, and again, and again.

However. On the plus side, the variety of characters (108 to be exact), almost anime-style art, excellent graphics, and creative storyline make this a game worth playing. It can become rather difficult at times, without an ability to ressurect your characters when defeated in battle, there were times when I got frustrated with this game. However, once you're past the harder points, it becomes much more enjoyable. Running around trying to collect the 108 characters was, to say the least, interesting. I have yet to complete one of the three storylines, however.. the replay value is higher than most games, but still not high enough.

Suikoden 3- The worst RPG of the Suikoden Series

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: November 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

After playing the two best RPG's on the PSX console, I was excited to see Suikoden 3 come out on PS2. I was angry that they made the graphics look too nice. Suikoden was known for its classic RPG graphics, and I loved them more than the PS2 graphics.
This game's plot is very weak and stupid. First of all, you have to follow the story through three different people's lives. If you don't do this in order (no true order is actually specified in the game) then it gets really confusing. You don't understand the plot until you go through everyon's character.
This game is so bad, that I dont even consider it a Suikoden. This game is so horrible, that I haven't heard Konami talking about a Suikoden 4. If it is anything like 3, I hope they don't. Go buy Suikoden 1 and 2

VERY DISAPPOINTING

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: March 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is not what it's hyped up to be. Final Fantasy and similar RPG's blow it out of the water. Although I did like many of the game's concepts such as the vast numbers of characters and the 3-way story but almost everything else was very disappointing. The gameplay is horrible. The battle system needs work. The story is decent but nothing above average. Just everything about this game could have and should have been a lot better.

Suikoden 3

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: May 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you loved the first 2 suikodens dont bother with this one!
gameplay is slow and ugly. you dont care about the characters like in the previous games. The combat controls are no fun.

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