>>3788507
>How's the writing in this game?
GOD AWFUL. I honestly can't even begin to describe how bad it is. There is zero weight or tension or consequences to anything. Characters, important main characters have no plot or character. You don't even know what's so important about the central plot macguffin. Like in Suikoden 1 you know why Windy wanted the Soul Eater and you knew why it was important in the mythology of the world and the plot of the game. EC makes a big deal about Runes and Rune Barrows and this special one but why's it important? Don't know!

The frustrating part though is that, as mentioned above, the plot is completely toothless. There's a part early on where the MC's home village gets burned down, as so often happens, but nobody dies. At all. They're all back to playing retarded top spinning games immediately. There's a tone that gets invaded by zombies but you can run right into any shop and it's still open for business without so much as a grumble.

The main character has no purpose in the plot. He's not the son of some general that comes at odds with his empire, he's not some victim of destiny reenacting a previous tragedy, he's not nobody. He does nothing. The dude in blue in the OP image ALMOST feels like he'd have an arc, he's at odds with his own empire but it gets next to NO screen time so we can focus on fishhook there. And I don't want to start a /pol/ tier digression but the brown girl REALLY does feel tacked on. Honestly just thinking about how bad this game turned out gives me a headache.

>>3788509
>antagonists are retarded.
I swear i feels like here's ALMOST a scene were you think someone's about to pull an Odessa but he just lets her walk away. Scott Free. For no reason. Then there's the mysterious villains who just exist to be mysterious. The women in the fox mask just goes LOL SEE YOU IN THE SEQUEL and the Vampire is just a neclord reference for the sake of it.

Suikoden 4 was better than this. And not just barely

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How's the writing in this game? Something I don't like about a lot of Japanese games and anime is that the writing comes off as very…

How's the writing in this game?
Something I don't like about a lot of Japanese games and anime is that the writing comes off as very…