(Note, I’ll update the thread title as the situation evolves).

I wanted to know if anyone else was picking these ones up or waiting until the reviews are out?

At this time, I’m a little wary given it’s Konami and they haven’t yet released the game to reviewers, despite it releasing in a mere 48 hours. Unless reviews are blocked until the time of launch - but I’ve not seen anyone saying they have review copies yet. No previews or anything.

One of the red flags is there was a major miscommunication between development and publishing, and they ended up announcing the game FAR too early, and promoting it for months only to go silent for around a year before announcing the game was nowhere near done.

Still, I’m a big fan of these two games - not so much a fan of Konami publishing. So, I’m hoping it turned out. I’ll be playing the first game over the next two weeks if it does. Then Xenoblade Chronicles X (probably through the rest of March, April, and May) then Witcher: Blood and Wine (likely through what’s left of May and June), and then Suikoden 2 - probably in the early summer.

If you haven’t played Suikoden before, it’s very much an RPG franchise that belongs to the late 16-bit and early 32-bit era. Some would call that the golden age of 2D RPGs. It’s creative like a Saga game (it shares a lot of DNA with Romancing SaGa 3), but also more robust in storyline like a Final Fantasy game or Chrono Trigger. Suikoden 2 is the more robust experience, but Suikoden 1 is definitely where players should start: if only because your main character begins in that game and can carry over to the second, along with various other elements. You also have a town/castle that you build up over time and populate by collecting characters around the world. If you’ve played Skies of Arcadia, think of Crescent Isle in that game - except nearly all characters in your town can join your party.

Yeah, I pre-ordered it. Heard so many people praise these games, so Ill check them out.

I have all the originals on PS1 and PS2 but still have this one preordered as well, looking forward to going through them again.

Yes, I will be buying to support but I probably won't play them immediately though.

Very much looking forward to this.

So much so that I have not started playing MHWilds. I will be playing this first, because I know if I start with MHWilds im gonna be stuck in it for 1000 hours.

Nice. I have the first three of them in English. Although I still have yet to play the third game because I didn’t have a way to play it until years after I got it, and haven’t got around to it yet (same with a number of other PS2 games, it is my biggest backlogue generation)

Another JRPG added to the list. But it isn't a priority due to being a remaster.

Some reviews are out.
It seems everything is good to go, no crazy GTA trilogy surprises of missing content and bugs.

I never played any of the games in the series

Planning to pick it up in the future, wont be day or year 1 likely.

Got too much on my plate, will get when its on sale.

It’s out now.