Ha! Just beat Tierkreis last night (...yeah. Took me a while to GET the game... >___> ). Few random thoughts:
*I loved the menu navigation system they used! It really made stuff easier- they should've included it in the castle, too.
*I was confused about The One King thing at the end.
((Why does choosing the bad end make Our Hero the One King? What does it mean that TOK is the only Tenkai star? And killing him gave him a past...future...thing? What? I don't get it!! >_<)) (And on the subject of TOK, Japan needs to lay off the Evil Strawman Christianity thing for a while. It gets. OLD.)
*UGH I wanted to play it as the Other Marica. She seemed
way cooler, and this series is SERIOUSLY lacking in female leads. Also, Atrie... bugged me. There didn't seem to be much of a reason for him to be there, other than to... be there.
neutral *Adored that you could swap out the default weapon, like in Disgaea. I ditched Marica's bow for a sword & shield ASAP (I gave her the Soul Reaper scythe for the final battle. She just sort of... killed everything.)
*The Ritterschild trio made me SO. HAPPY. Guns! Other!Harmonia (Actually I got the impression that Empire of the North Star is more Harmonia but whatever)! Other!Howling Voice!!!
<3*I didn't mind the voice acting? It was okay but not terrible. Liu's VA seemed super familiar.
So, overall... I thought it was good. A nice entry into the series,
but I wouldn't put it up there with The Greats (II & III). I thought they could have gone more in depth with certain issues (specifically: Janam's
(("betrayal" of your company and its subsequent destruction, and the effects it has on Asad, Manaril, Mubal, and Shams)), the origins and identity of The One King (no seriously, WHAT IS THAT GUY.), our heroes'
((actually emotionally dealing with Dirk's Heel Face Turn and Heroic Sacrifice, like Riou and Nanami did with Jowy, and Prince, et al. with Sialeeds, and not just saying "Oh noes, how could he do this? Oh well, more on that in a few hours. Let's go hang out with talking penguins dolphins!") and had less ROW ROW FIGHT THA POWER.
Oh, and New Game +. Why would you exclude that?
OMFG Katie
I'm just hoping Suikoden VI comes out some day... and it continues with the True Rune storyline. =/
I hear that.