Suikoden IV

THE GOOD:
-Great Characters
-Viki!!!

THE BAD:
-Too Many Random Encounters
-Sailing Takes Too Long
-Way Too Simple Plot
-Repetive Sea Battles
-Most Caracters Have No Actual Reason To Join
-Annoying Travel System
-Useless MakeUp Gift (Three teams on the sea? WTF)

SUMMARY:
When I first picked this game up, i figured that It'd be a great change from other RPG's that I've played. I had played Suikoden 3 a few weeks before
(I rented it) I thought that Suikoden 4 would be similar, man was that a wrong guess.

Sure most of the elements are great, I loved the characters (The mroe memorable ones are Snowe, Chiepoo, Jeane, and a personal favorite Sigurd) The music is wonderful, it included many great things from previous Suikoden games, and it had many strange and unusual personalities of even the very minor characters (Gau anyone?)

Now for the bad... The most...

THE GOOD:
A whole lot of characters, great plot, tons of minigames, hilarious stuff (comment box, confession room...)

THE BAD:
Encounter rate a little bit too high sometimes, last boss is very hard compared to the rest, graphics not up to the high standards today.

SUMMARY:
Alright, so this game is my first Suikoden - Germany is always the last one to get games, if we get them at all. So I started the game and first thing I thought was: "Voices! Neat!" After being tossed into a naval battle (fun!) and a regular one, I already figured I'd like the game. My high opinion faltered however when I saw the first town. Compared to games like FFX and Star Ocean 3, the graphic seems old. It's 3D all the way, but the interior is not really spendid...

However, the game got ways better after the main character finally gets decent clothes. Around that time, you'll forcefully finad out that the encounter rate on...

THE GOOD:
it is really good, especially the wide range of party customization, and the many combonations of the character moves, that includes the physicakl and rune combonations. the runes i also find fascinating becuase on most game there is a whole variety of magic and on this one there is only a few, and i find that quite refreshing.

THE BAD:
the bad things that i dont like are that u're person doesn't have an actual voice. and i know this is on a lot of games but no one ever says his name, u shouldn't eb able to change the name so they ca say it. plus the whole 4 people in a group, since there is 108 people u should be able to have 6 fighting people and 2 support people.

SUMMARY:
all together i found this a really fun and time consuming game. most people after they get viki stop sailing, but i didn't because u have to get some exp and stuff like that to get he weak poeple strong that is one thing i found...

THE GOOD:
The good? The graphics, the battleship wars, the detail in characters, the story and finally voices!!

THE BAD:
Not too much bad, the bad parts I can live with, just.

Four men instead of six in battles
for you people that don't like change, the 'wars' are all a heck of alot different. (all on ships)
Some may think of the story as a 'side-line' story.

SUMMARY:
Since the III, I have been not too sure if I would even like this one, as you all know it is obviously in 3D, but it is ALOT, more smooth now. The characters aren't blocky and the movement is like cucumber, as in smooth as. Other reviews I read put this game down majorly! So that didn't help, but I am here to say this is the best of the four. The battle play is far better, a shame you cannot have the usual six man squad to fight with but still is great. Suprisingly there are real voices for once, and the vocal acting is excellent it's...

THE GOOD:
music, graphics, and the 108 characters and espically VIKI SHE IS THE MOST USEFULL CHARACTER EVER READ BELOW TO FIBND WHY.

THE BAD:
Way to much sea based, instead of a castle you get a giant ship, and traveling by boat takes at least half an hour to move from 1 island to another, and having a random battle every 5 seco.. make that 4

SUMMARY:
well it made me have much more respect for Jowry from Suikoden 2, because your best freind this time is well named Snowe and is a real a**hole p*ssy, I won't spoil the story but yes he amasingly does betray you, and when he is captain of a ship for once he gets a little hurt ( I mean a freggin paper cut type of hurt) he runs away. The new Punishment Rune makes soul eater look weak and good for you, only 4 charcters instead of six, one really great feature because the ship travel is so bad is VIKI, this game takes place 150 yeears pres Suikoden 1, How old is she??? o...

THE GOOD:
Fun gameplay, lots of minigames, tons of characters, good music and little extras to keep you hooked.

THE BAD:
With lots of characters comes little background and character detail. Story was about average but not as deep as previous Suikoden games. Also the ships are insanely slow, you will fall in love with Viki soon enough.

SUMMARY:
Suikoden IV is the 4th installment of the series seen here in the U.S. and is much the same as the previous three. When you get a Suiko be sure to expect tons of side games and characters to pick from. So here's my review on it.

First we start on the story. We have the hero (you name of course) who is a trainee for the Knights of Gaien on Razril. He is joined by his friend Snowe and other knights in training focused on becoming Knights themselves. As you continue to becoming a Knight several things happen to complicate your life as was ween with the Suikoden games....

THE GOOD:
Its Suikoden!

THE BAD:
Less attributes.
Not such a great story.
Time consuming sailing.
No mounted warriors.

SUMMARY:
This game was pretty bad compared to Suikoden III IMO, some people say its better but I disagree, I gave this game a 4.5 which is considerably high but I gave Suikoden III a 5.0 and beyond so this IS a great game but I would suggest you buying III way before you think about IV.

They took out the Training Center in this game which made your characters attributes basic.... In other words you have no effect on how your guys attack, this was not so in game III.

The story was dry and confusing.
And sailing was 90% of the game.
In game III you could ride a Griffin or other giant animals but not in this game.

The game does have some good features, the Runes are very useful and exciting to use, the...