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worthless.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: March 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

to sum this up quickly, this is one of the most bland, boring, slow, and inspirationless RPGs i have ever played in my life. the battles reach a new level of monotony and the EXTREMELY stiff animations, bland backgrounds, and a total lack of texture variety contribute to this. the hugely frequent random battles are a huge turn-off, as you'd think RPG designers all realized that random battles are not fun. the story is absolutely ridiculous and in the five or six chapters for all the characters that i trudged through, nothing happened that was at all interesting. nothing. of the three main characters, only Hugo is worth playing, since he's the only one that EVER shows emotion or does ANYTHING worth watching. Chris and that mercenary guy whose name i forget are complete jokes. they're the most pointless character designs i've ever seen. their stories are absolutely NO fun. don't even get me started on the secret chapters that you can unlock. Tom's, for example, is a quest across the same three towns where you recruit people. you don't know who you can recruit, so you have to talk to everyone in every town, and sometimes buy an item for them to convince them to join you. Fun. as for the music and sound, they're just as sub-par. sound effects are SPARSE, and the music is as uninspired as it gets. i actually kept this game thinking it would get better considering the raving reviews (and the awesome intro), but it's absolutely pathetic. a massive tarnish on the suikoden series.

Horrid game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: December 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you liked the second one odds are that you will hate this game.Rent it first and return it never play again.

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

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.

I am so tired of this!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 18
Date: November 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

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.

save precious time and money

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: March 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Fans of the previous Suikoden games (availible on the original PSX) will probably be disappointed in the PS2 offering. This game was very difficult to locate at a decent price due to the scarcity of copies availible. I did manage to find 1 copy at a Target store for $..., however I would recommend saving your money. Like Suikoden II, you can load data from the previous game but it is of little value. It does, however, include positive aspects like popular novelties of building up your castle, gaining recipes, horse racing, collecting ornaments, etc. The battle sequences are difficult and time consuming. Your players attack in a 2-man "team" mode, which leaves less room for stratedgy. Unlike previous Suikodens, the game is broken up into "stories" which you must select at the end of each sequence. Instead of one continuous quest, you must play as three (or more) different groups throughout the game. The graphics are very remenicent of N64's Zelda: Majora's Mask, in a sense. There are two basic facial expressions for each character, and the cinematics are slow. Plus, there is no navigatable world map--the map only allows you to select your destination and move to a dot (exactly like Final Fantasy Tactics). If you are a huge Suikoden fan you may find this game essential for you to keep up with the storyline; but if you are simply an RPG fan, I would recommend waiting for another title. This is a rather lull time for PS2 RPGs. Going back to PSX software to tide you over til' the good stuff comes out might be worth your time. Check out these extremely under-rated RPG titles (can be found at great used prices): Star Ocean: 2nd Story, Suikoden II, Valkyrie Profiles, Dragon Warrior VII, Arc the Lad Collection.

suikoden 3 letdown

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: December 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I am sorry. I just bought this game and have been playing it for a week and have come to the following conclusion that it is not all it appears to be. The first two games in the series were awsome but this game has none of the things that made those games great. The game is totally linear with almost no freedom to explore and the 3d graphics do nothing to enhance the game and any similarity to the first two of the series seems to be put in as an afterthought. They attempt to make this a more plot filled game but the plot is unispired. The trilogy system just means you have to go through the same boring plot over and over again with different characters. I looked forward to this game so much and am hugely disappointed. Don't wast your money on this game. Rent it first and you can make your own decision.

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.

It ain't no FFX. . .

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 10
Date: December 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is a *very* poor man's Final Fantasy X. Granted, it's not fair to compare any RPG to FFX, but it's inevitable. Both titles have sprawling lands, multiple character battle systems, similar character growth systems, etc. There are also tons of characters to play in Suikoden III, but there are almost just as many flaws. The animation is primitive, the costumes are cheesy, the music is annoying, and the story is hollow. The camera changes can be frustrating as well. But in all fairness, if it weren't for FFX, this game might be okay. But if you've played FFX, then this title is disappointing.

BORING! Has the World Gone Mad?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: March 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

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.

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