| squarehead said: suikoden 1,2,3,5. 4 sucked. |
Sukoden I-III actually all got high scores from reviewers for their time. On a couple sites, like IGN, they even called them the best RPG of the year for the year they came out. (speaking specifically of Suikoden II and III).
The reason the rest of the games got mediocre reviews is because the series went downhill after those original three titles. Including Suikoden V, which wasn't all that unique or impressive compared to its predecessors or RPGs coming out at the time. In fact, if it didn't have the Suikoden name, it probably would have been overlooked as just another generic low budget RPG with no unique traits.
I don't stand up for reviewers...well, ever. But this was one of the few times Reviewers actually scored a series right. Of course there's a few of those reviewers who overlooked some of the games or blackballed Suikoden II and III with a '6.0'. But on the whole, the series got fair treatment. Much better treatment than some other RPG series which are much bigger than it.
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