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Game entry

Suikoden

1995 · RPG, JRPG, Strategy, Adventure · PC, PlayStation, PSP, PlayStation 3, Saturn · Konami

Suikoden is ranked no. 422 among the best video games of all time by GameForever voters, with an ELO score of 1,723 and 69% of duels won.

World rank

no. 422

ELO score

1,723

Wins

69%

Duels played

74

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About Suikoden

Suikoden is a Japanese-style role-playing game with several unusual additions. There are three kinds of combat in the game, the most common one being the traditional turn-based party combat (players can have up to six people in their active party). Magic runes can be equipped on the player's characters which allow limited usage of offensive and healing spells. There are also a few army battles, where the player must control whole units of fighters, archers, magicians, etc., and one-on-one fights (duels).

The community says

Ok but tbh the castle mechanic gets repetitive fast and the back half doesn't build on it much.

ELO progression

Score moved from 1,500 to 1,723 ELO points over the last 123 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

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The games Suikoden sits between in the world ranking.

  1. 419 Path of Exile 1,723
  2. 420 Vampire Survivors 1,723
  3. 421 A Way Out 1,723
  4. 422 Suikoden 1,723
  5. 423 Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart 1,722
  6. 424 Pac-Man 1,722
  7. 425 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves 1,721

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  1. ArcadeNinja

    Ok but tbh the castle mechanic gets repetitive fast and the back half doesn't build on it much.

    LootLegend68

    Replying to LootSniper28

    Le château répétitif, je l'avais déjà remarqué à l'époque, enfin je crois, la mémoire flanche un peu après tout ce temps.

    LootSniper28

    Le souci du château qui devient répétitif, tu l'as ressenti dès le premier passage ou seulement après plusieurs heures ?

  2. QuestDragon1998

    It trades FF8's spectacle for something smaller and tighter, and honestly the army battles add a layer FF8 never bothered with... still not sure which one I'd pick.

    Lenoir80

    Ce commentaire résume bien mon rapport au jeu en fait, jamais su trancher non plus entre les deux, je penche pour les combats d'armée à chaque fois que j'hésite mais dix minutes après je change d'avis

    RogueSamurai18

    Smaller scope is exactly why I pick it over FF8 every single time, no contest for me.

  3. azemlak

    Next to FF8 it just plays like a rougher draft of the same idea.

  4. adelbert_jenkins

    People sleep on this way too hard, the rune system alone should put it higher than 347th, it's criminally underrated!

  5. Edna_60

    I borrowed a copy from my cousin one summer and never got past the early recruitment stretch, but I still think about that opening a lot.

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