Now Playing: Suikoden

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Now Playing: Suikoden

On 01/10/2015 at 01:19 PM by xDarthKiLLx

I saw recently that Peter is playing Suikoden, beefing up his army and collecting all 108 Stars Of Destiny; I've owned the game on PSN since 2009 and had yet to make a run on it.

This morning my kid beat me to the punch and fired up the PS3, immediately booting up Minecraft. Nonplussed, i dusted off my PSP and dove headlong into a new game of Suikoden. I'm an hour in, and having a good ole fashioned JRPG time.

I'm pretty close to finishing Far Cry 4, as I've elected to forgo most of the sidequest activities and charge through the main story....its a Gamefly rental, and I've decided not to spend more than 2 weeks on these rented games apiece. There's too much on my plate to languish in 40plus-hour-hell, so I'm gonna be a tourist this year.

Anyway, i doubt I'll get all 108 Stars, but I'd like to Suikoden its fair shake.

Then on to the sequel.

Comments

mothman

01/10/2015 at 02:39 PM

I'm almost done collecting Stars now. I'm busy beefing up the re-occuring ones so that they get bonuses in Suikoden II. For me finding all the characters and watching my headquarters grow as I do is most of the fun. I just got all the different paint colours so my mural is complete.

Finding them all is a bit daunting if you haven't done it before. It involves being in the right place at the right time, reading what characters say to uncover clues, going back to areas you've already finished, including characters in your party, finding secret passages and not being a prick to defeated enemies. LOL. Whew, I got tired just typing that.

Just take your time with it and grind like a man possessed. :) The plus side of grinding in Suikoden is that certain enemies have rare drops of really nice equipment and accessories.

Make sure at least to get all the blacksmiths. It's the only way to maximize your weapons. In later games you find hammers for your resident blacksmith to increase the level he can pump your weapon up but in this game you wind up with a bunch of different blacksmiths who are all somehow related.

Anyway, I'm now in the mood to play some Suikoden so off I go.

xDarthKiLLx

01/10/2015 at 02:49 PM

I'm 2 hours in right now, ended up grinding some levels out before I went to see Leknaat. My PSP started to die, so I plugged him in to juice up. I haven't present the Astrological stuff to Kraze..gonna watch a bit of Family Guy first.

It's fun stuff.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

01/10/2015 at 02:57 PM

damn I'm missing the boat on this one. To the Vita!

xDarthKiLLx

01/10/2015 at 03:46 PM

Get in on it, Big Guy. We can throw out rotating blogs on progress.

If you liked the JRPGs of the SNES era, you'll like Suikoden.

mothman

01/10/2015 at 07:13 PM

K, I'm going to be ramping up for the final conflict shortly. I have all my stars and just need to put the finishing touches on the castle before I kick some serious last boss butt.

I'll be levelling all my major characters to 60 or more to finish off.

KnightDriver

01/11/2015 at 03:04 AM

I hope to get to Suikoden 1 and 2 sometime soon too.

NSonic79

01/23/2015 at 02:15 PM

I'ved decided to hold off in getting those games till I get a Vita. I had thought about getting them so I could play them on my PSP but it turnes out the sequel is no longer accessable on the PSP. Very lame given how it was a PSOne title originally. Vita is possible though so I'll leave it at that.