Suikoden Tactics for PlayStation 2 Reviews by Gamers

This is probably the worst "tactics" style game I've ever played. Your characters are hopelessly weak and require hours of "free battle" leveling-up just to make the main storyline battles marginally competitive. This is made worse by the fact that in the first four or five hours of gameplay, I only managed to find one "free battle" area, so leveling up is incredibly boring and repetitive. But even after three hours of it, there are certain story battles that are, for all intents and purposes, rigged, because you're usually only allowed to use six or eight characters to battle 25 or more enemies.

And don't get me started on the element system. So lame. Basically, the ground can have an "element," and each character has element affinities and weaknesses. So you can either spend half your time setting up the elements and getting your characters into position to take advantage of them, in which case you're wasting time that could better be spent actually attacking your enemies, or you can ignore it, in which case the computer mercilessly beats the snot out of you.

Those are the major faults, but pretty much everything else about the game is well below par, too. The plot stinks, the dialogue is inane, badly implemented and badly voice-acted (if I had to listen to another character say "rune CANnons" one more time, as if there were no such thing as adjective stressing, I was going to shove a pencil in my ear), items and magic are too expensive (and are generally pretty useless anyway), and the skill system is generic and offers no character individuality whatsoever. Even the music is boring and monotonous.

I played this game for three days, but in hindsight, I should have sent it back after 30 minutes. If you want a tactics game, stick to FFT, which is pretty much the only one worth playing. But avoid THIS colossal waste of time at all costs.

I quit buying strategy RPG's because of how bad this game is. I can't think of anything I like about this game.