Battle system - 5/5

Interaction - 2/5

originality - 3/5

story - 3/5

music - 2/5

visuals - 2/5

challenge - adjustable

completion time - 20 -40 hours

overall - 2.5/5

+ Fantastic battle system.
+ Complex crafting system...
- ...hampered by inaccessibility.
- Ridiculously long cutscenes.
- Horrible dialogue and voice acting.
- Unnecessarily enormous areas.

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not all is bad though

Battle system is great which is important

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one word. 'kay!

I can't say much about SO4 'cause I haven't played it, but I'd never trust a review of RPGamer, no matter the score, they suck at reviewing games for me, I can't remember a single game I have agreed with their score

-Ridiculously long cutscenes. (i can take that)
- Horrible dialogue and voice acting. (i can take that too)
- Unnecessarily enormous areas. *thinks of WOW* (nooooooooo)

man that's low. What a shame

Haha. Adriaan den Ouden really liked Too Human and was head over heels in love with Eternal Sonata, so he clearly has strange taste.

Suikoden II? 

Reviews = opinions of a person or group of people. If you think they might be wrong try the game for yourself.

That 5/10 is a terrible score and I believe SO4 must be a mediocre game in order to get those low scores of the game reviewer simply does not like JRPGs.

JRPGs just not my thing. Western reviewers have been hammering JRPGs lately. The highest rating JRPGs on X360 have not even broken the 80% average review on Metacritic .
I believe the PS3 has a few JRPGs that averaged 80% review scores and above.

still wait for it to price collapse down to at least 40$ if not more. Then I will buy it.