A good SRPG between the few that the PS2 has, is a good Suikoden game based in the worst suikoden produced yet (the IV)

User Rating: 7.8 | Rhapsodia PS2
By Lord_Drake1980 | Review Date:
Suikoden tactics is a spin off of the series based on the events based on suikoden IV. That is kinda cool coz even when suikoden IV was a bad game and the characters were not very well developed, for all of us who played it till the end is always nice to have some kind of continuty with the characters, (am i getting old and nostalgic lol).

The story is not so bad, with the exception that the central theme is rune cannons turning people into fish man.......how stupid can that be......but besides that the story is engaging enough...just enough anyway.

The gameplay is cool, and the elment terrain and affinities gaves it a nice deal of strategical difficulty, at leas at the begining.

The graphics are not so bad, if u play the game with max zoom, the charicaturesque, some how lego like charactes have a nice look fro the ambient, but is not waht u would expect from a PS2 game.

Sound is pretty cool i the attacks, and rune magic, music is cool too, and voice acting is really so so

Well as usual in my reviews here comes the good tha bad, and the ugly:

The Good

-It kinda rescues an bad game like Suikoden IV
-A lot of different characters instead of the generic characters changing jobs, typical of the SRPG, it really makes u feel bad for letting a char die.
-It has the suikoden 3 customizable skill system that is pretty cool
-The combination attacks and rune magic look pretty good
-th affinity between characters and the posibility to make it better talking between battles
-The side story missions are cool (well some of em)
-Being able to have the support characters of suikoden IV in the middle of battle
-Having jeane again on the battlefield
-The music and the battle sounds
-Being able to know a bit more of the Kooluk empire
-The maps are really big, and the background looks nice
-Kyril the protagonist is a cool characther
-A fair amount of characthers
-Giant owls
-elemental terrain
-Battles last long time (good for me....maybe not for u)

The Bad

-Voice acting
-The game is kinda short
-Rune cannons turning people into fishman...that is too stupid
-No strategist character (where are the silververgs) (this is for the suikoadicts)
-The horned lady, (forgot her name) never fights, u usaully forget about her when she suddenly appears as a part of the story
-Kyril is not able to kill fishman till the last part of the game

The Ugly

-Char graphs could have been better
-Evil eyes in rune cannons turning people into fishman (yeah i really hate the idea)
-Voice acting gets cut wihile the game loads it
-Some story fights just lets u use 6 char and the side ones or hunting ones 10 or more

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