Suikoden Topic

[Themadcow]

Fingers crossed that there's actually some shades of grey to this story because 'kill evil monster' is proper rubbish.

Now, if there was a good reason why this creature is smashing up the world every 100 years (for some kind of ecosystem balance, or to stop a greater devestation happening) then great... but for now it's not looking good.

[Hathen]

Really, I think it's already at somewhat of a disadvantage, because when you consider how the fantasy elements were used in other Suikoden games (Aside from Tierkreis), they were pretty much always driving forces for the actions of the human conflicts which took center stage, or they were simply used as tools. Here, the fantasy element is just a big bad guy and a ticking clock for the heroes to beat.

The less this creature has to do with the story, the better...but then if that was the case they wouldn't have it in there at all. Bleh.

[Aeolus]

Bamping this with some new footage featuring gameplay. http://www.siliconera.com/2011/12/25/first-look-at-suikodens-new-battle-system/

Didn't show too much with the gameplay (not enough to determine how much of the old continuity's gameplay they're keeping). But what they did show though looked painfully anime (oh hey there generic regenerating space monsters, you look as boring to fight as you are fucking everywhere).

[Lard]

The premise seems interesting but it's just not Suikoden. It's pisses me off they're slapping the name onto this for a few extra sales.

[Hathen]

It looks like a solid game but I have to agree that it looks very un-Suikoden. Tierkreis still had the elements of what made Suikoden good (well, mostly), but this whole "space monsters from the future" or whatever is not Suikoden at all.

[Klyde Chroma]

It actually looks real promising to me :)

Suikoden has only failed in one respect for me, and that is simply that not every game could be Suikoden 1 or 2-hahhahaha

I love anime, I love Suikoden..... I imagine I'll probably be able to forgive em for a space-monster or two if the title is as solid as its predecessors, story and style departure aside.....

Truth is I like seeing new and innovative growth in franchises.... I personally believe Final Fantasy has left us all "afraid of what could happen next" with some of our favorite series.... well for me it was Final Fantasy, Secret of Mana and Breath of Fire that made me fearful for the "future" of my favorites...

[Maxximum]

They replaced the epic orchestrated openings with jPop. They removed the "shades of grey" political story in a fantasy setting and slapped on a generic anime monster, and yet when I watched the trailer I actually caught myself thinking "maybe I should get a PSP". Just because it looks like a turn based jRPG with Suikoden elements...That's just sad and shows how much I miss the old style of jRPG games.

[Ashtrot]

Losing my interest in this game quickly.

[Dice]

It's Castlevania all over again.

[Serene Prophet]

Id be willing to give it a go, sadly we probably wont see it..so I suppose in the end it does not matter.

[Hathen]

It's Castlevania all over again.

It's basically the opposite situation here, Dawn of Sorrow had an art style change, the story and tone were more or less left alone. Suikoden has always been high-quality anime art, which is kept intact here, but the setting and premise seems to be changing entirely. If you ask me, that's a lot worse of a change by comparison.

[Aeolus]

Changing the setting in of itself isn't all that bad if they truly wanted to reboot the series given all the plot holes and uncertain details surrounding elements like whatever happened to the Sovereign Rune that'll probably never be revisited. However, replacing the old setting with what amounts to an SRW level plot nevermind lacking the mash up of various series to back it up is retarded. To put it in the context of a different videogame series, we've gone from Mega Man X to Mega Man Battle Network.

[Themadcow]

The couple of seconds of battle shown actually looks OK. Unfortunately the rest looks about as far removed from traditional Suikoden as you could get. Suddenly I'm not that bothered if this gets a release outside of Japan.

[Eusis]

The couple of seconds of battle shown actually looks OK. Unfortunately the rest looks about as far removed from traditional Suikoden as you could get. Suddenly I'm not that bothered if this gets a release outside of Japan.

Yeah, it's kind of frustrating to see new PSP releases that look appealing since it seems most of the time they're doomed to stay in Japan, more likely with a bigger publisher because they tend to not license out period, but this sounds like a departure from what made Suikoden special. Castlevania and Mega Man X may've been cited, but really this seems more like what happened with Bionic Commando. An interesting, unique platformer changed into a more generic third person shooter, whether or not you liked it it comes off as much less distinctive than the original game(s).

[Maxximum]

The battle system looks good form the snippets they showed. As I said, I'm not really too happy about the setting or art style since its about as generic fantasy anime as it gets, but compared to the stuff I have to choose from at the moment, it still looks damn good to me.