Suikoden Tactics
Breaking from its traditional role-playing roots, Suikoden Tactics incorporates simulation and strategy elements to take players on an adventure never seen before in the franchise. Told through the eyes of…
Suikoden Tactics is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Konami, released 22 September 2005 on PlayStation 2.
What Suikoden Tactics is
Suikoden Tactics is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Konami and released in 2005. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Breaking from its traditional role-playing roots, Suikoden Tactics incorporates simulation and strategy elements to take players on an adventure never seen before in the franchise. Told through the eyes of Kyril, a young adventurer investigating the sudden appearance of hideous creatures in the island nations, Suikoden Tactics unfolds another perspective to the events of Suikoden IV and the legendary "Rune Cannons." In all, there are more than 25 different battle scenarios, the ability to modify and customize your character as the game progresses, and a unique "Combination Attack system" that allows players to combine the powers of numerous characters in combat as they build friendships.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Suikoden series
Suikoden Tactics is the eighth of 13 entries we hold in the Suikoden series. It arrived a year after Suikoden IV. The next entry was Suikoden V in 2006. Its critic score of 64 is 17 points below the series average of 81. The highest-rated entry is Suikoden II at 100.
How it was received
Suikoden Tactics holds a critic score of 64 out of 100. That places it above 20% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 3 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Suikoden Tactics launched on 22 September 2005, within three weeks of Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), Indigo Prophecy, Fable: The Lost Chapters and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), Indigo Prophecy, Fable: The Lost Chapters, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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