Love 'em or hate 'em, console role-playing games have amassed a following willing to live and die by plot-twisty storylines, convoluted combat systems (tagged with esoteric names like "Active Time Battle") and - more often than not - lithesome, blue-haired heroes and the spunky female sidekicks who love them.
The long-running Suikoden series (the release of Suikoden V marks the franchise's 10th anniversary) has been guilty of all of the above at some point in its illustrious (and ...
The last three have been less than stellar, but it's back for a fourth try on PS2
13 Mar 2006
An adventure so big you must recruit 108 characters to fully conquer it. The ability build your own castle and fill it with your rag-tag army, with a surprise around every corner. A lengthy, story-driven quest that always manages to be intimately personal yet grandly epic. One on one duels, the small skirmishes typical of all role playing games, and massive battles between armies. Somehow, even with all of this stuff, Suikoden hasn't managed to awaken much of a spirit of adventure these last ...
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