Suikoden 3 for PlayStation 2 Reviews by Gamers

Being the first Suikoden game on the PS2 they put alot of effort in the design and nature of this game and it definately shows. The entire world and plot line is pretty user friendly and what i mean by that is its very hard to get lost or stuck, but at the same time you still have to figure everything out as you work through the game.

The biggest standout feature of this game is the Trinity feature. This game plays through from 3 different main character's points of view. Their travels intertwine numerous times but depending on who your playing you see events from a different point of view, and because of this alone, makes an enormous amount of intrigue the whole way to the end. There is also 3 minor storys you can play. One you build your own 'castle' so to speak.(Sorry ne more on that would be a spoiler), Another is a main character bad guy that you can only get by obtaining all 108 stars (109 if you count him, Not telling which one though), and you can even walk through the world from a dog's point of view.

They storylines move in chapters, and after each one it takes you to the trinity point so you can switch to another character and play their part of that chapter so you can play all 3 stories at once without spoiling the ending. There are 3 chapters for each character then 4,5,6. The minor chars. each have 2 and none for the dog, hes just for fun.

The battle system is much easier than the newer suikoden games, but also offers less, such as formation attacks etc... But definately play this one first.
Im not sure exactly how many playable characters there are but I assure you there are over 70 you can use and duh lol 108 you can get. They each are unique.

Trading feature is good to make some extra cash even though theres not an excessive amount of time to do it, it always keeps record of what costs how much and where.

ANYTHING YOU DO AS ONE CHARACTER EFFECTS THE STORY OF THE OTHERS. ex. find herb in ch.1 it will not be there for neone else