Spent 35 hours leveling up Thomas and all the playable stars in both his chapters. Love this game. Best in the series but the True Runes were lackluster. All you get is an extra spell and it's not that good for the True Lightening, Fire, and Water Runes.
Suikoden IV and V weren't very good, IV dropped the party limit to 4 and V just didn't feel good.
Five was great IMO but 4 was definitely weak.
The OG trilogy was definitely best, but I think the later games suffered from the high expectations. They were still above average RPGs and even felt like Suikoden games, they just weren't literally among the best of all time.
Tierkreis wasn't to the level of even 4 or 5, but it was still fun for a spinoff. There's also a fan translation available for the PSP one, which can be fun if you temper your expectations. It's the least Suikoden feeling of all of them.
Konami definitely dropped the ball, but none of them were bad enough to kill the series, imo.
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