This is an article i published for PlayStation LifeStyle and I hope you guys enjoy the read.

In this feature we will take a look at a game series and we will discuss its good points and bad points. There are a lot of great series out there that many of us have grown up playing and it’s always nice to look back and remember them.

The first series we are going to take a look at hits very close to home with me and that’s Suikoden. For me personally this was the first RPG series that I really fell in love with and it presented a ton of hours of gameplay over the course of 13 years. Every game over the series has been developed and published so far by Konami.

Suikoden I released in December of 1996 for the PlayStation console and later in 2008 on the PlayStation Network. Suikoden put the player in the shoes of an unnamed hero as he gathers 108 stars of destiny in his revolt against the corrupt government. As you progress you come to realize that you possess the Rune of Life and Death, or otherwise known as the Soul Eater. This happens to be one of 27 True Runes that govern the world. During the game you will gain insight into more of the True Runes and will encounter other Rune Bearers.

Combat in the game allows you a 6 person party which you control each member and is turn based. The combat also allows for combo’s between certain characters, giving you the task of trying out different party members together until you find combo’s. Other than combat in your 6 person party, you will also fight in duels and have war battles. Both of these two forms of combat follow the Rock, Paper, Scissors formula. In the duels there are three commands, Attack, Defend and Special. Attack beats defend, defend beats special and special beats attack. In strategic war battles, the four major groups are charge attacks, bow attacks, magic attacks and others. Charge attacks beat bow attacks, bow attacks beat magic attacks and magic attacks beat charge attacks. The ‘other’ command acts as a free special command enabling you to for example, learn what the enemy’s next attack will be.

For more on the entire series to date, please follow the link..

http://playstationlifestyle.net/2009/10/25/psls-retrospective-suikoden/