However, his travels involve more adventure than he anticipates. Volume 2: Duel at Crystal Valley After the completion of the Dunan Unification Wars (the events of Suikoden II), Nash intends to return to the capital of Holy Harmonia, the Crystal Valley. Genso Suikoden English Patch Patch Released By.Interesting curiosity, but it's more of an historical artifact of things to come in mobile games later, where the player interactions with the game are kept to a bare minimum in favor of nice character designs and splurging mountains of money on voice acting (it must not have been cheap, there's a lot of popular names in there). why bother with a less than mediocre JRPG a decade later? The story is basic but not badly done, it looks very solid for PSP, the music is nice but. stuff beside going to the next cut scene.Ĭombat is menial at best, it's ultra simplistic and quite easy, there's nothing new to find, even learning new skills takes a very hand-holdy approach and doesn't let the player do much of anything by themselves. nothing, despite the visuals being quite decent, the game is extremely linear but that would be less of a problem if. Like a lot of handheld JRPGs of that era, there's no exploration at all, cities are purely textual and so is the world map, the 'dungeons' are about 45 seconds of time exploring. I played it a bit, and the team did a great job on the translation.īut the game. So far a big cut above Tierkreis, just on scenario/characterization alone. The skills and unite attacks and all seem fine, but everything feels a bit clunky/disjointed w/ the way they set the camera and animate these. I like the music so far too, has a great classic Suikoden feel.Īlso, and not enough rpgs do this, it has that reliable Suikoden approach of giving you access/exposure to some super strong characters early, who you then can really look forward to getting on your team. No runes is disappointing - the class partner skill learning thing is interesting, but seems like it may be limited in practice.

But of course it was a PSP game, and the way they've stitched together map screens, cut scenes (lots of nice animated ones so far), and chatting scenes has allowed them to raise the stakes pretty high pretty fast in the story w/out having to build a giant world for the player to roam.

It's true, w/ the way navigation works and the early pacing, there is a lot of talking w/ minimal exploration, and that feels a bit restrictive. The main characters are fairly relatable and rational (especially the two main characters' takes on time travel). The scenario is pretty cool actually, and the translation is solid. OK I'm a couple hours in and so far I'm enjoying this.

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