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Suikoden Tactics | 
 enlarge | From: Konami
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 5173
Platform: Playstation2
Genre: Adventure Games
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 20136
Model: 83717201366
UPC: 083717201366
EAN: 0083717201366
ASIN: B0009Z3KB2
Release Date: November 9, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Over 25 battle scenarios in highly detailed 3D battle environments | | • | Modify your characters' skills, tailor their equipment and upgrade their weapons to fully customize your team members throughout the game | | • | Unique Combination Attack system allows players to combine the powers of numerous characters in battle, as they build friendships with one another | | • | Includes a cast of over 50 characters - some new to the series and others that were featured in Suikoden IV | | • | Stunning environments, extravagant and exciting story scenes and an amazing cast of characters |
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Product Description
Suikoden Tactics takes you into the world of the popular role-playing game Suikoden, for incredible strategy and combat simulation gaming. See this world through the eyes of Kyril, a young adventurer who investigates the sudden appearance of hideous creatures in the Island Nations. As you explore and battle with him, you'll discover the secrets of the legendary Rune Cannons -- and try to destroy them before they destroy the world. Real-time rendered story events and voiceovers
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
Ugh September 25, 2008
J Smith (Charleston, SC United States)
I absolutely love Strategy RPGs but I found Suikoden Tactics the most frustratingly overly-complicated game I've played in the genre. Imagine a world where every freaking tile has a different elemental alignment which are either randomly generated or at least arbitrarily placed. Now imagine that these tiles drastically affect how strong your Att and Def are. It totally takes any fun out of the game and makes the strategy relate to the enemy units, but instead which freaking tile to stand on. Ugh.
A fun diversion into the Suikoden universe... May 26, 2008
M. A Jenkins (West Lafayette, IN)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
...but just not good enough as an SRPG. Suikoden Tactics is interesting, as it continues the story from Suikoden IV (incidentally, I find it amusing that the 1UP reviewers on this page called the game a "prequel," as the prequel aspect ends after the FIRST CHAPTER).
The problem with this game? It's way, waaaayyyy too easy.The offending culprit? Elemental squares. Your characters can control the elements of the squares on which they and the enemy. Of course, so can the enemy, in theory, but usually, they'll just waste their spells and items in the first two rounds, after which you can just change back the colors of the squares. And why does this simplify the game? While standing on an elemental square, your attack and defense nearly double, and you regain health every round. Yeah, that tends to make a game easy.
But any, here we go:
The Good:
1) The story - I think I'm the only fan of Suikoden IV in the world today, but I was very interested in the idea of a follow-up to that game. And Tactics delivers, sort of. Well, actually, the storyline is tangential to Suikoden IV, but it is nonetheless interesting (if incredibly strange).
2) Graphics - While not the stunning nature of FF or anything, for a game in the SRPG genre, these graphics are actually pretty nice. Yes, the strange flat hands, reminiscent of FFVII, rear their ugly, uhhh, head, but all in all, I thought the graphics showed more color potential than ANY of the 3-D Suikoden titles to date. Not flashy, but certainly sufficient for this genre.
3) Extras - Remember when you could load your saved data from one Suikoden game to the next? Well, Suikoden Tactics allows you to load data from Suikoden IV, and if your game has 108 stars, you get some pretty cool bonuses. I won't spoil them here.
The Bad:
1) Voice acting - while I have no particular disdain for the voices themselves, the delivery of lines leaves a LOT to be desired. As mentioned in another review, a dialogue window appears on the screen, followed by some of the most lackluster emotion ever experienced on a video game (and I played "Star Ocean 2"!). The more entertaining voices (such as Brandeau's) end pretty early, and the main character's voice is akin to the scraping of a chalkboard with fingernails. As for the rest, they are fine, but they deliver their lines with such little passion that it hardly matters.
2) Difficulty - one of the easiest SRPGs I've ever played.I've outlined the main culprit above, but there are plenty of others. In short, there is little strategy needed to win THESE battles.
Anyway, that's my thinking. In terms of gameplay, it's fine, but the battles are too easy, and the libretto in between is somewhat boring, which is too bad, really; Suikoden Tactics had a lot of potential. Here's hoping they try again and fix some of the problems.
 I have been waiting for a fun tactics game ever since shining force III November 19, 2007
Liquid Celluloid (Chicago, IL United States)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Unfortunately, the wait got longer. This game has soooooo much potential. but just like the rest of the suikoden series, it falls short. You can't power level in this game. When your characters dies, they really die! The story is slow. The special moves are lack luster. The graphics are boring and sub par, and the music is very typical konami. The truth is, I keep getting suckered into these suikoden games with the promise of rpg goodness, and instead I end up putting 30 hours into it, quitting, and selling the thing.
If your looking for a top notch strategy game, this is not it. If your looking for a suikoden game, well this isn't it either. This is more of an experimental title that will leave you bored and constipated.
Have fun.
 Great Potential but Flaws in Gameplay February 10, 2007
Lisa Shea
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Suikoden Tactics is a turn based RPG that involves an odd collection of cel-shaded characters. Told in chapters, the story stretches through chance meetings and colossal battles.
Suikoden fans will really appreciate this venture into their world with new storyline and background filled in. The gameplay itself in battle is pretty standard for a turn based RPG. You have a grid overlaying your current map, and each character can move a certain distance each turn. Depending on the armor and weapons, the attack range and damage varies. You can set down an element on an area of the map - for example thunder - which would then affect people who are sensitive to that element.
While the graphics are not stellar, they are also not half bad for the PS2. The menu screens have a soft, colored-pencil look to them that is easy to work with. You customize your various characters, giving them skills and equipment as they gain experience and level up.
On the other hand, the in game graphics usually involve blurry figures nodding their heads at each other and striding through a room. It's almost a shame that they didn't spend more time on that aspect (especially the club-hands!) given how nice some of the character drawings are.
The real disappointment here is with the voices. They are some of the worst I've heard in a game. The dialogue is sappy enough, but every time someone speaks you have to see a dialogue box pop up, then wait for the voices to come in and speak the words for you in a less-than-dramatic fashion. The discussions seem to run on for HOURS. I love storyline, and some of my favorite games are story-heavy. However, there's a difference between compelling drama and long, inane, badly spoken conversations.
I think the game had great potential - the battle mechanics are fun and the menus are easy to nagivate and nice to look at. I'm not quite sure what happened here. It's like they had a great game near completion and turned it over to some group to finish the details like the voices, and that group ran out of time to do a good job on it. If you're a Suikoden fan and can tune out the voices and ignore the main action graphics, it's well worth playing for the gameplay and story, and once you finish the game you can replay it loaded up on cool items, skipping through the cut-scenes.
sukoden tactics August 28, 2006
Robert Rindfleisch
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
Enjoyed the game but ending is alittle long due to leveling to kill final boss at lv 40. Enemies that you fight to level are only lv 34 wasnt thought out correctly.
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