Beautiful OT Ultros! Nicely done! 
This game man, so much memories...
One of the first RPG I've played. I was interested in this game back then long time ago when I went to gamestore to buy game. Suikoden II's cover got me interested because I saw the circlet on Riou's head, back then I thought this was some kind of Journey to the West adaptation game. I thought Riou was like Sun WuKong lol. After went back and playing it, it wasn't what I expected! But it was better than what I was expecting. The opening left a deep impression on me, the
scene. I never seen anything before like that in game, it's like one of those Chinese Wuxia drama I always watched about brotherhood and chivalry. And then plays "Reminiscence", holy crap goosebump all over my body, you could never get this melody out of your head. I think I played it until I had to buy some floor. The next day I talked to my friend about this game, turns out they had played it and told me to play Suikoden, so he borrowed me the first Suikoden game and I never realized I was pretty OCD back then so I stopped playing Suikoden II and starting to play Suikoden I instead.
Playing Suikoden I after seeing Suikoden II's more refined pixel art and animation also more beautiful portrait illustration is quite dissapointing. Without internet and guide, I had to rely on my friend who borrowed me this game. Everyday in school we talked about what I played previous day and where I had to go next and discussing some game he played on PS1. So really this game also brought me a friend, there's also a Pokemon craze back then and he got a Gameboy and asked me to get one and played and trading but that was another story.
So I managed to beat Suikoden I with guidance from my friend but I think I only recruited 80+ people and I remember I had one person died, it was Luc I think lol. The game turns out really good, great story. I remembered I had trouble a lot for that goddamn Neclord castle, it was the painting puzzle. So I started playing Suikoden II after that and turns out another friend in our school had the magazine guide for both game, there was a Chrono Trigger Guide too but we only need Suikoden I and II, so we printed out that copy and I went back and played Suikoden I again to get perfect 108 because I'm such a OCD lol.
After replaying Suikoden I and getting all characters I realized this game is phenomenal, it's insane. This game is really short, upon replaying with guide I beat the game in 20 hrs with all characters, and quite honestly still better than some of other long 60+ hrs RPG.
Finally started to play Suikoden II and importing the complete save file from Suikoden I which I was spoiled on the guide about the importance of it. After the opening, you're saved by the returning character, The Bear from Suikoden I, I mean Lion... actually just call him Viktor and I loved it. Viktor is possibly my favorite character of Suikoden series, Suikoden II fleshed out his character and backstory more. I knew I had him all the time in my both Suikoden playthrough. So after running few errand for the Mercenary Fort, we came upon the greatest of all time Luca Blight
and his most famous line
, and with that I realized this game is indeed insane, this game is serious, it's about war, it's only realistic to had someone getting hurt in war time which some game I played recently dissapointed me a bit (looking at you
).
And now I just realized how long my post has gotten and it is indeed my longest post here lol. And honestly I still had a lot to talked about Suikoden II, bonds between Riou Jowy and Nanami. Lots of memorable scene,
, and more and more. Insane game that the game was about 25+ hrs too. I'll just leave it at that this is the BEST game I've played. Nothing could've topped it. And I still want to know about Pesmerga and Yuber, secret of Cindar Ruins, Holy Kingdom of Harmonia and Hikusaak's mystery, the rest of True Runes. Please Konami, don't let me die regretting not knowing all that ;_;
This game man, so much memories...
One of the first RPG I've played. I was interested in this game back then long time ago when I went to gamestore to buy game. Suikoden II's cover got me interested because I saw the circlet on Riou's head, back then I thought this was some kind of Journey to the West adaptation game. I thought Riou was like Sun WuKong lol. After went back and playing it, it wasn't what I expected! But it was better than what I was expecting. The opening left a deep impression on me, the
jumping off the cliff
Playing Suikoden I after seeing Suikoden II's more refined pixel art and animation also more beautiful portrait illustration is quite dissapointing. Without internet and guide, I had to rely on my friend who borrowed me this game. Everyday in school we talked about what I played previous day and where I had to go next and discussing some game he played on PS1. So really this game also brought me a friend, there's also a Pokemon craze back then and he got a Gameboy and asked me to get one and played and trading but that was another story.
So I managed to beat Suikoden I with guidance from my friend but I think I only recruited 80+ people and I remember I had one person died, it was Luc I think lol. The game turns out really good, great story. I remembered I had trouble a lot for that goddamn Neclord castle, it was the painting puzzle. So I started playing Suikoden II after that and turns out another friend in our school had the magazine guide for both game, there was a Chrono Trigger Guide too but we only need Suikoden I and II, so we printed out that copy and I went back and played Suikoden I again to get perfect 108 because I'm such a OCD lol.
After replaying Suikoden I and getting all characters I realized this game is phenomenal, it's insane. This game is really short, upon replaying with guide I beat the game in 20 hrs with all characters, and quite honestly still better than some of other long 60+ hrs RPG.
Finally started to play Suikoden II and importing the complete save file from Suikoden I which I was spoiled on the guide about the importance of it. After the opening, you're saved by the returning character, The Bear from Suikoden I, I mean Lion... actually just call him Viktor and I loved it. Viktor is possibly my favorite character of Suikoden series, Suikoden II fleshed out his character and backstory more. I knew I had him all the time in my both Suikoden playthrough. So after running few errand for the Mercenary Fort, we came upon the greatest of all time Luca Blight
burning village
"Die Pig!"
Sen no Kiseki
And now I just realized how long my post has gotten and it is indeed my longest post here lol. And honestly I still had a lot to talked about Suikoden II, bonds between Riou Jowy and Nanami. Lots of memorable scene,
Mercenary Fort burned down, asking Shu's help (this one must be inspired by Three Kingdoms), escaping Tinto mine
If you visit all the towns after big events, and come back to dungeons, it's pretty easy to get them all.
