There was like one section I didn't like much and it was just Saejima's. That's really it.

Other than that, I only have good things to say.

The final boss for every character was great, especially Kiryu's. That final segment showing the bond between Kiryu and Haruka was so good.

Saejima, Akiyama, and Shinada 🐐

Especially Shinada, his story had me engrossed and I almost teared up a few times.

Anyways, it's a great game, definitely one of the better ones in the series

After around 4 years of me picking up and putting down this game... I finally decided to pick it back up around 50% in and finish it.

The game has an amazing story.

Riou, Jowy, and Nanami are highlighted throughout most of the game.

Luca Blight is a goated ass villain. Suikoden also makes shit feel like a real war.

All the characters that return from Suikoden 1 are great - especially Viktor and Flik. Those two are the fucking GOATS man. Then being able to get Tir McDohl, the protagonist from the last game??? That side quest was cool

I'd say the only issues with it is that it's Suikoden - there are 108 recruitable characters and it's hard to fully flesh out a ton of them, but even so, I still think the primary side characters in the main story had arcs to solidify them as good characters.

The gameplay is great as you can make broken set ups with the runes and have a bunch of combination attacks by using specific characters together. Getting to use Riou and McDohl at the end made regular encounters so easy. The only bad thing about the gameplay is war battles.

To end it off, that true ending was one of the most satisfying endings out of any RPG I've ever played.

Extremely well made game. It deserves its praise cause it's definitely one of the best RPGs ever created and easily one of the best on the PS1.

I think this game gets way too much flak

Sure the combat is worse than 4 and 5, but overall the story is very good

The entire finale section was amazing. The fights were great and I fucking HATED the villains (in a good way). I really like Nagumo and Yuta, they are great characters

I will say that like Kiwami 2, the upgrade system is just ass. I loved having thousands of stat EXP in most my stats and then almost none in one of them

There are a few stupid story decisions that you can nitpick at as well, but that's all

Most of the substories and sidemodes/minigames are great. The OST is really good. Overall this game was a good experience to me