Suikoden III (official n' all that)

[CypherUppercut]

I'm sorta sad... This is the first Suikoden game that I have not picked up on its American release date.

[Kidnemo]

Kidnemos Suikoden series selling points:

-Old school "feeling"
-Attractive sprite based graphics
-Decent story (that also is loosely connected in all three games)
-Nice battle system thats focused on combo attacks between 2/3 characters.
-Not an excessive amount of random battles.
-Party battles, entire army based battles (really good in 2), duels.
-108 playable characters. Each one with there own back-story.
-"Gotta collect 'em all" aspect to collecting all 108 characters.
-Some neat mini-games.
-Kick ass soundtrack.
-Cool castle/town building aspects where your 108 characters live.

They are some of my favorite RPG's, and really worth going out of your way to track down me thinks.

[polywaggles]

Sorry, this game sounds too much like Populous for me. It also does not sound Communist enough. I will not be buying it.

[Kidnemo]

Suikoden 3 won't be released in the UK for another year or so anyways.

[Superstition]

Dang, I'm excited for this game. What I'd really love to know: Did they bring back the Iron Chef type cooking mini-game?

[Lordmrw]

No, the iron chef type cooking is gone. Its been replaced by item mixing in order to make new items. Yeah, ign really loved Suikoden 3; I got that impression not only from the review, but from the question & answer session they did on their message board.

And Korly, I can send you my Suikoden 2 save; unfortunately I don't have Muku Muku(or whatever the hell his name is) and Nanami, but I don't think that really matters.

[Kidnemo]

Status:

Suikoden III....In possesion.

Hands on...Imminent.

[Korly]

Originally posted by Lordmrw
No, the iron chef type cooking is gone. Its been replaced by item mixing in order to make new items. Yeah, ign really loved Suikoden 3; I got that impression not only from the review, but from the question & answer session they did on their message board.

And Korly, I can send you my Suikoden 2 save; unfortunately I don't have Muku Muku(or whatever the hell his name is) and Nanami, but I don't think that really matters.

I just downloaded one from GameFAQs, but thanks for lookin' out!

[Kinopio]

I really want to get into this series, and I wanna do it right, but suikoden 2 goes for like $75 on ebay. thats insane. I guess i shouldn't have traded my copy.

[Yoshi]

Originally posted by polywaggles
It also does not sound Communist enough.