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Short and straight to the point

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Ask yourself one question, Did you love suikoden 2? If you did then you will love suikoden 5. Great story, great game, great memories. FIN

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Long time fans of Suikoden will be glad the game has returned to its original charm, but will note a few areas where improvements could be made. While it only takes a reasonable amount of time to acquire your HQ, it takes far too long to do anything with it, so you're stuck stockpiling way too much junk in storage. I miss the old "Iron Chef" competition... in fact, all the mini-games are pretty lame, this time out. (Why is it that in nearly every RPG series, the mini-games deteriorate in quality over time?) It's not a game that's likely to rock your world, but for those of use who fell for the first Suikoden's charm, it's great to revisit the Suiko universe once again.

Don't waste your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I knew I was in big trouble with this game when the first 4 hours were nothing but cut scenes. Cut scenes are a necssary part of RPGs but 4 hours worth nearly killed off what few brains cells I have remaining. Then things got even worse. The characters in this game are simply boring to put it mildly, especially the prince who had no personality at all and he seemed to be just along for the ride. Now let me mention the character's clothing. Almost everyone wears pseudo samuri clothing that lookes like it was borrowed from one of the later Final Fantasy games. Very unnattractive. What happened to the cool outfits that people wore in the other Suikodens? I also have to mention the poses that some of the characters seemed to like doing and I hope I can properly describe it. They were kind of hunched over with their arms nearly touching the ground as they gyrated around. Also very unattractive and unnatural looking. The war battles are in real time thus hardly giving you time to set up any strategy so each war ends up in melee. I play RPGs because I like turn based combat and these war battles are really out of place and no fun at all. I also found the game to be very grim without the slightest hint of humor unlike Suikoden 1,2 and 3 which are quite light hearted in comparasion. Perhaps the worst feature of this game is the long load times whever you enter a new area or finish a fight with the monsters. 10 second load times every few minutes can test the enduance of even the most hardened game player.

On a brighter note the fights with the monsters, what little of them there are, are your standard turn based action in the traditional Suikoden style, but the monster slashing can not make up for the rest of the problems I have with this game.

If you want fun light hearted games please play Suikoden 1, 2 and 3 and don't waste your money on this turkey.

Excellent!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Cliche story that is well conveived, with some delightful characters and some good dialogue. The story revolves around a prince trying to reclaim his kingdom lost in a coup. The fact that the bad guys are very human and that there is no ultimate evil, gives a nice flavor of realism. A little disappointingly the story turns too straightforward as it advances, and the prince experiences success too easily.
I've played Suikoden 3-5, and this one seems to have the most interesting characters to collect. Graphics are a little dated. There are a couple of good tunes, but overall the music is quite forgettable, but not annoying. Voice acting is mediocre. Load times are long, random encounters are many. Those with little patience, beware.

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