Suikoden III
Main game
4.02 average rating based on 209 ratings
- Developers
- Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo
- Publishers
- Konami
- Franchises
- Suikoden
- Series
- Suikoden
- Event
- SCEA E3 2002 Press Conference
- Platforms
- PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
- Themes
- Fantasy
Release Dates
User Stats
How Long Is Suikoden III?
Oof
About as mundane of an RPG as there is. The idea of playing from multiple perspectives sounds good on paper, but it amounts to replaying the same handful of zones literally dozens of times. The combat is hindered by only being able to issue one order per pair of characters. The story is utter nonsense and the villains are just villains because they're bored or something? I really wanted to like this game after enjoying 1 and 2, but it's a huge drop in quality. The castle building and character recruitment are still the most enjoyable part.
I wanted to like this more, as I enjoyed 1 and 2 quite a bit. There were a lot of good concepts, such as switching between character perspectives, but the execution was poor resulting in revisiting the same bland areas repeatedly. The battle system allowed only 1 command per pair of characters and did not allow for strategic placement on the battlefield to avoid aoe attacks. The large scale battle scenarios also felt completely lifeless.
The story isn't as deep as the previous entries, although there were quite a few unintentionally funny moments. The final battle was horrendously unbalanced compared to the rest of the game. I would only recommend if you are a die hard Suikoden fan. Hopefully they choose to do a remake at some point, because it is needed here.
This is a pretty clunky game with a weird combat system, but I love the idea of switching between characters before they all come together. I really only recommend this if you're a big Suikoden fan.
