Suikoden II

I would place this one up there with "Xenogears" and "Grandia" as the three must buy RPGs for the system.

Recreates some of the humor and visceral energy of the Chinese novel that loosely inspired it. But the characters and dramatic movement in this story of war are given enough time, thought, and care to come into a life all their own.

A true sequel in nearly every aspect, Suikoden II manages to achieve the rare feat of actually picking up where the former game left off, taking gamers for a familiar ride that proves to be deeper and much more detailed than the original.

But most of all, Suikoden II is a game easily enjoyed by both RPG newbies and veterans alike. [Nov 2001, p.52]

Fans of the first Suikoden game will love the sequel - it improves on everything that had made the first game memorable. Suikoden II brings nothing new to the genre, but it executes well enough that no one will really care.

Even though they did try to clear up a lot of issues some people had with the game, it just didn't seem to come off like the epic that was Suikoden I. It's not a bad sequel at all, it's just more of the same.

New tactical, turn based war battles which offers total control, upgraded graphics and new special effects on spells and animations.

The best RPG of all time along with Xenogears. Even to these days they are still the best!!

I'm replaying this as a 36 year old, having the greatest memories of playing it when it was released. I'm only a few hours into it, about to get my castle and really start experiencing the "meat of the game" as I remember it... But i gotta chime in on the first several hours of this game. It's so braindead. Run here......talk to this person, run back to town, run to the Inn, talk to this person, run back and talk to annabelle at **** while getting random battle encounters, that can pretty much exclusively be won by using the Buddy attack unite ability. I mean you can almost not heal or change equipment at all for probably the first several hours(with the exception of the first mist boss who wrecks you regardless) I really hope this game becomes more challenging.

It's alright, though the villain's kinda an overrated cartoon edgelord. It is interesting though, there was this clown man named Kamek85 on gamefaqs forums for Diablo 3 using that game as an example for saying something stupid like "Yeah, I think video games have a good 50 years to go before they start to become riveting stories. It's funny how far visual novels have come in the past twenty years but story seems to be stuck in the 16 bit era." Of course, all of this he said is objectively incorrect garbage, games like Planescape Torment, Baldur's gate 2, Amnesia, Soma, Jade Empire, To The Moon, Finding Paradise, Mgs3 Snake Eater, Wandering, Chicory a Colorful Tale, Disco Elysium, Opus Echo of Starting, Rakuen, Edith Fitch, Night in The Woods, Kentucky Route Zero, Norco, Papers Please, Obra Dinn, Bastion, Transistor, Pyre, Hades, Citizen Sleeper, Beacon Pines, Sephonie, Epiphany City, Stanley Parable, System Shock 2, Thief the dark project, Thief 2, Firework, Far Away, The Rewinder, 1428 Shadows over Silesia, The Plague Doctor of Wippra, Manafinder, Blood Nova, Roadwarden, Lacuna, The Case of the Golden idol, Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum, The Last Hero of Nostalgia, Persona 4, Persona 5, Smile For Me, Agent A a Puzzle In Disguise, Shadow tactics, Cruelty Squad, Legend of Hand, Football game, The excavation of Job's Barrow, the Monkey Island games, The Witcher games, The first seasons of The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us, and countless other story driven games that released the past few years or decade or longer that all prove that video games already do often have better than riveting stories. Video games will always be video games, there will always be gameplay, but there are people who triumph at both gameplay and story. Suikoden 2 itself has plenty of strength in it's own plot, but it was never the best game ever, and that's fine.

It's much better than the first game, but that's not saying much. The game is pretty boring in the first few hours and I didn't feel like playing it beyond that. Suikoden II really doesn't even hold a candle to the worst of the FF games from 4th and 5th gen.

Nicht so großartig. Die Geschichte ist nicht ohne Löcher, aber die Anzahl der großartigen Charaktere, die tatsächlich entworfen wurden (mit Design meine ich die Motivationen und Hintergründe der Charaktere), ist viel besser als die meisten Charaktere, die man in modernen Videospielen finden kann ", dieses ganze Schloss mit großartigen Charakteren ist überwältigend.