Suikoden Topic

[Themadcow]

Depends what you call a good ending. Certainly the ending to 1 is a little downbeat unless you get all 108 stars, but then again I'd argue that a guide ruins the sense of satisfaction you get when you find a new star (hiding behind the back of a house, at a zone you'd probably never visit again, after working out which party mix will recruit them etc etc).

I'd probably say do it without a guide. There is only a couple of characters in S1 that are missable if you don't get them at the right time, unlike (for example) S5 which has loooooaaaddddsss of chars that you need to recruit a specific way and at a specific time.

If you really enjoy it, do it again with a guide.

The halfway house is to check the suikosource site which lists the 'missable' chars and just get the instructions for how not to miss them.

[Commander Jubby Shepard]

About to start.

/excitement

[Starmongoose]

About to start.

/excitement

Good luck, stick with it - it grows on you.

[Commander Jubby Shepard]

About to start.

/excitement

Good luck, stick with it - it grows on you.

It doesn't appear to be working right...

/extreme sadness

[Starmongoose]

About to start.

/excitement

Good luck, stick with it - it grows on you.

It doesn't appear to be working right...


/extreme sadness

Aww...what's wrong?

[Commander Jubby Shepard]

Aww...what's wrong?

I think I got a bad copy.

[Annubis]

Neat ninja edit.

[Commander Jubby Shepard]

Neat ninja edit.

Still don't see the problem with it, but yes. A bad copy.

Now I need to get it to work or find a new one.

[Vaporeon]

Neat ninja edit.

Still don't see the problem with it, but yes. A bad copy.

Now I need to get it to work or find a new one.

Do you have a PSP or PS3? It's only 6 bucks on the Playstation network.

[Commander Jubby Shepard]

Neat ninja edit.

Still don't see the problem with it, but yes. A bad copy.

Now I need to get it to work or find a new one.

Do you have a PSP or PS3? It's only 6 bucks on the Playstation network.

I co-own a PSP, but... The PSN is in... disarray.

[pseudonym]

For Suikoden V, I suggest using a guide while you play.  I actually did and was able to get all the stars, but I was still a nervous wreck even following the guide that I'd lose one of the stars in battle or something.  Luckily, that didn't happen.  I highly recommend using this site: http://www.suikosource.com/games/sod.php?pf=S5.  They even have a walkthrough that will tell you where you need to pick up the stars.

I missed one character in 5 and didn't get the perfect ending. I do think, however, the ending that I did get was more realistic and emotional. But yeah, 5 seems to be the hardest to get all the characters without the help of a guide. Suikoden 1 and 2 were easier with 1 being the easiest.

[Akanbe-]

For Suikoden V, I suggest using a guide while you play.  I actually did and was able to get all the stars, but I was still a nervous wreck even following the guide that I'd lose one of the stars in battle or something.  Luckily, that didn't happen.  I highly recommend using this site: http://www.suikosource.com/games/sod.php?pf=S5.  They even have a walkthrough that will tell you where you need to pick up the stars.

I missed one character in 5 and didn't get the perfect ending. I do think, however, the ending that I did get was more realistic and emotional. But yeah, 5 seems to be the hardest to get all the characters without the help of a guide. Suikoden 1 and 2 were easier with 1 being the easiest.

I honestly have no idea how anyone could get all the stars without a guide.  The world is just so big and many of the stars are only available for a limited period of time.  My hats off to anyone who has ever done it without a guide.

I'm pretty sure only a handful of characters can actually die in battle in Suiko5.  That's definitely one less thing to worry about.

[Yggdrasil]

I've never played or care about this series but this might be good news for some of you.

[Eusis]

I've never played or care about this series but this might be good news for some of you.

Good news! They're actually making a new Suikoden!

Bad news! It's on a system that's effectively dead in the USA so they probably won't localize it! If it's some Monster Hunter clone that will, in a perverse way, be comforting, but if Konami won't bother bringing new PSP games outside of Japan then I hope they at least bring it over to the Vita.

[Ashtrot]

I don't know if I should be happy or HULKING THE FUCK OUT.