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Suikoden II

Developer: KCET Publisher: Konami
28 July 2000
PS1
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#99 All-time
#4 for 1998
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Turn-based RPG#21 JRPG#18 High fantasy#18 Medieval fantasy#7
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War Turn-based strategy
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幻想水滸伝II
1998 • KCET Konami  
CD-ROM
JP 4 988602 433036 SLPM-86168
Suikoden II
1999 • KCET Konami  
CD-ROM
XNA 0 83717 17042 6 SLUS-00958
Suikoden II
2000 • KCET Konami  
CD-ROM
GB 4 988602 685749 SLES-02442
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Suikoden II
2000 • KCET Konami  
CD-ROM
IT 4 988602 685770 SLES-02446
Suikoden II PSOne Classic
2014 • KCET SCE  
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Single-player
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1x CD-ROM
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Suikoden
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Genso Suikoden I & II
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4 988602 685770/SLES-02446/it

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  • dr0pside 2020-08-03 09:26:13.541511+00
    Why does no one ever talk about how dopey, in a bad way, the writing is for this one and the first game? Besides bad grammar and lots of misspelling, the dialogue just feels childish and awkward.
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    • Fowlawneeshafow 2020-08-24 22:12:32.296482+00
      People do talk about it, especially hardcore fans. It's mostly down to the localization. A lot of people give it a pass because while it's not amazing, for the time it was still decent. Localizations in the 90's were awful by today's standards. The localization team also had a really short deadline with an enormous amount of text hat wasn't even formatted well enough to tell who was saying what. The localization team had to play through the game and every bit of it 3 times.

      Overall though, it doesn't completely ruin the experience. The story and writing is still mostly pretty good.
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  • Fowlawneeshafow 2020-08-28 11:47:16.541053+00
    I can't believe how addictive and fun this shit is. The story is surprisingly great. The whole draw of the game (a big castle and you recruit up to 108 party and support members to fill it) doesn't even "start" until several hours in, but the story is so good leading up to that it doesn't feel like it starts slow. Character designs and pixel art are great, lots of personality.

    Combat is very simple, easy and in some ways shallow but it's still somehow fun. Basically the Materia system meets a metric fuckton of party composition possibilities. You basically never grind ever either.

    This evidence for what good story pacing and characters will do for a game.
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  • sharpvon 2021-07-08 06:02:35.213814+00
    other than some graphical and battle system changes its a step down from the first one for me. It gets tedious at times and drags on. The war sequences are really boring and the recruiting doesn't feel as special. I can see why people love it but I'd recommend starting with the first game
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    • OscarTheGrouch 2022-07-12 22:03:25.31163+00
      I’ve heard a lot of ppl express this same opinion. It’s definitely convinced me to not skip the first one. Plus I heard if you have save data of the first game it transfers over to the second. I love when a series does that.
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  • nf6429 2022-09-17 09:29:06.58559+00
    The new remaster has an improved translation which doesn't read as rough as the original. Excited to try it when it comes out!
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    • lisa_ 2022-09-20 03:29:20.460397+00
      god, please. the original translation was so awful it made the game unplayable for me. i just hope this is actually a remaster and doesn't change too much gameplay stuff for "modern audiences" or whatever.
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  • Fowlawneeshafow 2022-12-11 03:30:20.994648+00
    cautiously optimistic about the remaster. Looks like it's in the spirit of the game and thankfully they do not touch the character sprites, which were perfect as-is. Definitely a game that deserves a bigger audience than it often gets these days so hopefully Konami actually starts doing good things for once and this turns out well.
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  • WinterMirage 2022-12-25 06:19:49.14056+00
    Will be interesting when the remakes come out and see how people react to the garbage strategy battles.
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  • Gooning_Gary 2023-09-20 05:36:30.604222+00
    Love this game but ill admit the story does fall off after the luca battle
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  • Sharked98 2023-12-17 18:16:40.141224+00
    Happy 25th!
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