In a recent special materials, we contrasted the DS and PSP, have noticed that on modern handheld consoles are still not published a single full-fledged classic turn-based JRPG. And here it is, the first swallow! Yes, only its traditional, we did not welcome here.
Suikoden Tierkreis sulfur, as the hair of the protagonist. It has no special advantages or disadvantages outstanding. It can go through and forget, but in the process is unlikely to have a desire to stop playing. Smooth, plain, unremarkable JRPG. And why it is so sad that she is the proud name of Suikoden.
After all, this series has always been unusual. While other RPG cherished template "boy from the backwoods saves the world», Suikoden tell of the wars of succession, plots and intrigues, to organize a resistance, an army and large-scale battles. The second and third parts could boast of a truly profound scenes and extremely ambiguous and interesting antagonists. All previous issues of the Suikoden, without exception (even failures, like the fourth) told us about a whole new land of peace, opening up new and new chapters of "general" history.
 | |  | "Because we are the servants of an evil cult, the ordinary" | | Always call the nameless heroes heroes |
But the brave guys from Konami, you see, it's too difficult to stay within and they decided to spit on that world, for whom the fans again and again to buy their games. Tierkreis presents us with a new setting, called the Infinite, - they say, is the unknown number of parallel worlds, between which the craftsmen can jump back and forth on his volition. Infinite Worlds, by the way, came out not very diverse: in a large number of thriving religion that preaches predestination of a future, waiting for the arrival of only King. Fatalist opposed heroes (108 Stars of Destiny - a motif borrowed from the Chinese legend, which in Japan is called Suikoden), but to no avail - the King can easily overwhelm resistance and erases one world after another. You've already realized that Tierkreis follow the above cliche about the boy from the provinces and saving the world from imminent destruction?
Disappointed by this decision is difficult to describe in words. Konami wanted to expand the audience - and she turned away from the old fans and new customers to go long the beaten track. A boy of fifteen years - the head of the army. His age - a cool strategist. Their motto - "Do not know what will come, until we try." They try, and according to the canons of noisy bravado of anime at all of them always work. On what would be idiotic not dare venture heroes, they are guaranteed to come out unscathed, so even with the catch in his pocket. It is impossible. This is outrageous.Worse than this only harem stories and yaoyny slash. And the worst thing that save the world patsanyata, reckless, more than popular among fans of JRPG - because otherwise Tierkreis this would not become. So, dear fans of these boys, you - cancer-killing video game. Your filthy metastasis had just finished off one of the brightest RPG-series. Burn with shame.
 | |  | Characters for the first time can equip different weapons | | Unite-this attack can only be used during the first mission |
In one of the previews we have quoted producer Tierkreis, klyavshegosya that his creation of villains are deep and ambiguous as to the best of the "Suikodenov. Certainly not. Doubt that the King-Eaters and the head of his support group - notorious creatures that do not have a second. The hero, too, just like a stick - cocky and just a boy from a backwater village, got magical powers by touching a mysterious book. The same way is the dedication of all the other characters, creating an abundance of ambiguous cues such as "Can I also touched it?". The same book also miraculously all rescues. Repeatedly. Deus ex liber, damn it.
As we already mentioned, the basis Tierkreis is collecting 108 characters - perhaps the only thing that somehow unites her with the famous TV series. Only make sense to do this themselves, and no. Whereas previously the presence of 108 Stars of Destiny in the team meant that change, in fact, destiny - usually for one of the heroes of the doomed to death - then the Tierkreis both endings basically identical, except the sole is surprisingly empty anime scenes.
 | |  | Unite-attacks should be cool and inspirational, but all too comical look like heroes tot | | This phrase is a game so many times that dumb protagonists begin to seem attractive |
In other words, the whole story of Tierkreis no interest for the adult player is not. Does not shine and the gameplay: there are occasional fights, and a monstrous cave. On the background scenery of the hero seems to dwarf it runs slowly, and eventually the journey for the abundance of twists and dead ends maze begin to seem as torture. Fighting traditionally Suikoden step by step, only instead of the six characters in battle only four. The complexity is so low that virtually the entire game is a team of Auto Battle.
One of the most remarkable properties of Suikoden - gradual growth and development of the castle as it comes more and more new characters - was sent to landfill after the other hallmarks of the series. Instead Tierkreis offers us to act as errand boy performing a bunch of missions varying degrees of sadness.At some questing hero goes to itself, on the other must meet certain requirements to send a team. Curiously, the plot adventures are also considered jobs - and the inscription «Mission accomplished» has a habit of getting out at the most inopportune in terms of dramatic moments.
In this Tierkreis for the most part free of pesky quest triggers plot scenes. Here, on the contrary, all sorts of events occur with alarming frequency - the attack on the castle, the visitor from a parallel universe perhaps something else. One gets the impression that the life of the hero and his team full swing in full swing, and not waiting for the same player would order her to continue. On the other hand, with such an abundance of accidents happen and knobs - for example, after one of the characters had gone AWOL, it can be seen already in two unrelated scene, taking place ... in the castle, which he left.
 | |  | In Tierkreis can engage in trade, buying goods cheaply and selling at exorbitant prices in distant lands | | What's top of the screen, in theory, should be important: in some months, the monsters become more aggressive or something like that. Difficult to notice the difference when all the bouts will automatically |
With the technical limitations of DS Tierkreis cope not perfect, but decent. On a relatively nice prerenderennym backgrounds attend three-dimensional characters, made in the SD-style. Unfortunately, developers still can not get the little "look decent - they do not go to any comparison with the same characters modelka Final Fantasy IV, and when in battle the camera gets to close it, just right to cry.
Yet Konami not stingy: Tierkreis has a maximum capacity cartridge for today - 2 Gb. The fact that he scored the eyeballs, says ... the speed of spoken heroes replicas. This you have never heard, honestly. Most of the game characters speak normally (though quite unemotionally), but the first five hours are filled to capacity quickly. Impression that the actors stood in front of goal at all costs to fit three lines of text in four seconds allotted to respond, and they struggled to follow the directive. Especially sold protagonist - though delighted that finally the protagonist Suikoden gave his voice, he chatters at a rate of enraged gun. The abundance of Voice, of course, pleases, but its quality is too low. Anime clips are also quite a lot, and they do not have to complain about - but, on the other hand, praise them, too, not really for that. But very much want to revise the enchanting screensaver Suikoden III.
And, finally, about the painting on the cover of the mark Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Let me ruin your hopes for the multiplayer: Tierkreis permits only to send the heroes to the other players to perform all the same quests.Besides that, there is nothing pretty about it, so also the character through which organized the import / export, had hidden so deeply that they can easily pass the entire game, not even suspecting that he even exists.
That's it. Yes, this is classic JRPG for portativki. Yes, it invested a lot of money and effort - for DS-project, of course. Yes, it has something to do with themselves for long. But how much better would be this game if Konami did not go on about the greedy for tastelessness crowd and make a real Suikoden, and not a faceless surrogate!
 | Censorship! |
Perhaps the most intriguing Tierkreis list of names that are prohibited to use (you can call yourself a hero, the party and the castle). Censorship is dispersed in earnest: in addition to the mat, the game does not use, and relatively harmless phrases like hell, gay and bastard. Taboo syllable ass - and so can not baptize their possessions Brass Castle (the castle that was the name of the third part). Banned by the combination of letters nip - and with it the "bad" is the word Nippon - Japan, that is. Banned all possible euphemisms concept of "gay" (even root homo!), But against lesbian Tierkreis for some reason has nothing. Nazi not to mention, but to call Hitler a hero - please! The more ridiculous that the taboo-game glossary collected from the heap curses European languages - from German to Finnish. Russian, fortunately, is not among them. The rationale for censorship is easy to find: in Tierkreis can make their characters on quests to other players via the Internet, and that even the possibility of offending the hosts was not all bad words proactively banyatsya. Silly in itself, but still not realized the best way.
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