Suikoden Tactics: Avalanche Reviews 

Oh man!!! I remember Kartia! Ha, I rented it too. Don't remember liking it though. There is a metric shit ton of strategy rpgs between the ps1 and 2. I'd love to own em all. I only played a little of Onimusha tactics, but the premise alone is enough to sell me on.

Oh man, don't you worry. At any one point, I am typically playing at least one SRPG. It sucks that it takes so long to get far enough through them, to put a review together, but worst case scenario, I just end up playing sweet SRPGs all the time. Ha

A DQ spinoff would have been awesome!!

Thanks man! I try to keep things looking at least a little professional.

Absolutely! It has been a while, but bullet hell shooters are still a passion of mine.

Thanks!

The good news is, it's cheap as hell, but if you don't have a backwards compatible ps3, that might not do you too much good.

And they just sit on em! It fucking sucks! Well thanks for the kind words, but now I'm all depressed about my favorite games being held hostage......

Yeah it fuckin sucks man :(

Yeah, I had no real idea about till my wife got it for my birthday years ago.

Yeah, the whole obsession with sea life kind of brings this and suikoden 4 down, but there's a good game buried under that design.

Oh is there!

Oh yeah, I would be surprised if you spent more than 10 bucks on it.

+visio2003 I can't remember if I really enjoyed 4. Planning on going through the whole series again pretty soon.

Oh yeah! I owned a copy of Persona 2 at launch, but it was stolen. Since p2, I have been a huge fan. I'm still in the process of beating the vita port of 4.

It does have a bit of that complicated feel that the TO games have. I want to cover the PSP remake of Let Us Cling Together. That's one of the best strategy RPGs I've ever played. I'll check this guy out. I love long, detailed reviews!

It's so cheap, you might as well.

Really?! Damn! I remember 5 being the one I liked the most, but it's been so long since I played any of them, I can't really remember too much. Looking forward to playing through all of em soon.

Still looking to play the DS one. haven't heard much of anything about it.

Suikoden Tactics really surprised me. I had heard mostly mixed-to-OK reviews about the game but I ended up really liking it. I never finished it for whatever reason but at least it was better than the game it's a prequel to. :D But about Suikoden Tierkreis.. I never managed to play it too much, but I can tell you it has little to none to do with the core series or the Suikoden Universe in general. It basically just uses the Suikoden name and some concepts of the core games (mostly terminology). I personally wouldn't recommend buying it unless you can get it for cheap. If you do get it though, go at it with lowered expectations and try not to compare it with other Suikoden games too much. What I can remember of it, the story doesn't revolve around war with neighboring countires etc, as it does with other Suikoden games - it's not as down-to-earth. Basically it's all about parallel worlds. And the story itself takes place in one of these parallel worlds, effectively removing the one thing that (to me at least) made the main series so interesting. I'm sorry if my opinion of the game comes off as very negative. I think I was being too strict when comparing Tierkreis with the core Suikoden games. Then again, I think it's a problem when a game is so different that it's hardly the game it is supposed to be.

Nah, it's all good! I'm glad to hear any opinion on the game. Think i'll emu it first and see if i like it :D

All of that is good to know. I kind of figured I would have to lower my expectation.

I've been keeping an eye out for a copy of that, on ebay. I would love to make a video about it.

just looked it up. I had no idea that game was so expensive. is it just very hard to come by?

A lot of those ps1 era jrpgs had really limited pressings. Since there's not a shit ton of them out there, people tend to go insane when pricing them. It sucks that prices are controlled by that kind of crap.

Avalanche Reviews It's too bad PlayStation doesn't re-release their old games perhaps with a special logo on the CD's showing that it's a modern print. Perhaps that's one argument for console emulators. To be able to play games that are very hard to find. It also helps that there are Console controllers made for the PC.

I have. I got my copy at launch, and from what I remember, it's fucking beautiful. I also remember the combat being pretty slow paced though. I'm planning on jumping back into it and making a review, pretty soon.

awesome!

Nice! You are going to love the first two games. It's been so long, that I really don't really remember if the ps2 games were good.

You're right there. I typically do like to talk about music, but sometimes I figure just having it playing in the background, will make sure people watching the video understand how great it sounds.

I have only ever played the first one. Is 2 any good?

Trust me, it feels as crappy as it sounds! Other than that obvious abomination, it's cool as hell though.

Ha!!

I see what you did there. Yeah fans of the genre are pretty used to it, but a lot of people might not like the idea of spending so long in one fight.

Front Mission 4, Ring of Red, Growlanser, Disgaea 1+2, Stella Deus. Those are some really good ones.

+Avalanche Reviews Do you know the reason why Front Mission 5 was only made in japan? I loved front mission 3 (4 was aight for me anyway just missed the little things I like.)

I've actually been wondering if that was any good. It looks kind of cool.

It's been a few years since I played it but I remember really enjoying it. It immediately made me want to play the other Suikoden games but I didn't have a way to play them sadly haha

Sweet! I'm going to start looking for a copy.

Yeah, it takes a while for it to hit it's stride. Definitely a slog in the beginning, but nothing an attractive fellow like yourself couldn't handle. (I don't know how to do the wink emoji)

Come to think of it, I was born with three eyes and never figured that one out myself. ;') mmmmmmm

Boooooooooo

Well, now that I bought my first original Xbox, that's a very real possibility. I've been wanting to cover that series anyways.

I love the first two, I never played the gun survivor one but, always wanted to. The third one, really makes me wish I could get the hours spent on the game back!

The only thing I remember is the game having really good looking graphics and terrible reviews.

SHIT! I don't work well under pressure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

..........Wrong? No, but definitely a little weird. Ha

The art assets that show up on screen, over the 3d graphics. Like, hit percentage, hp, mp, stuff like that.

Avalanche Reviews no i mean isn't HUD is for first person and in other cases that would be GUI?

+tsartomato Yeah gui would probably fit there too, but you can't interact with it. they're pretty interchangeable in this sense.

Avalanche Reviews can't interact with GUI? but it's literally called "interface" unlike "display" also isn't HUD from aircraft and isn't it a part of GUI afaik the point of GUI in games\soft is to differ it from previous command-line\textual UI like the difference between command line based OS and windows 1 envelope for dos i dunno is it something like calling proprietary "PC"s (personal computing units) "consoles" (user interfaces like command line, keyboard or screen) and calling "computer games" (games with gamemaster and the rulebook being emulated by the computating units) "videogames" (games for vhs players)?

+tsartomato in a tactical rpg, before an action, a display pops up showing attack percentage, hp, and a bunch of other shit. Since it can't be interacted with and it's only a display of stats, it's more of a hud, than a gui.