For those of us who thought Konami had shown it all, boy were we wrong! From out of nowhere, the company whipped out a new Suikoden game today, exclusive to DS, drawing the attention of handheld role-players everywhere. Suikoden: Tierkreis, while not the easiest title to pronounce, is easily in the running for the best Konami has to offer this holiday (unless you're a soccer fan -- or just a sucker, man).
Series veterans will be pleased to know that Tierkreis "again follows the story of the 108 Stars of Destiny as they challenge the almighty One King, who intends to create chaos in the universe." (Everyone else, well, we think you get the gist: gang of heroes takes on one, big baddie.) But the most intriguing aspect of Tierkreis is an online mode that let's you entrust characters to other players over the Nintendo WiFi Connection, essentially leaving the grinding up to a complete stranger. "This provides a new way to level up your characters, which helps create a sense of community." What's that? You fancy yourself a loner, you say? Well then, fancy leveling up 108 characters all by yourself!
Reader Comments (18)
Posted: Sep 16th 2008 11:17PM FernandoRocker said
"... is easily in the running for the best Konami has to offer this holiday... "
I guess their best title this holiday would be Order of Ecclesia.
=p
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I guess their best title this holiday would be Order of Ecclesia.
=p
Posted: Sep 16th 2008 11:59PM (Unverified) said
um... so just the pictures single-handedly made me pick back-up Sui3... I love having something to plan for while i wait for the development of spore & WAR
The DS is such a fantastic RPG machine - because remember '2/3rds of every RPG is PR.' I wonder how the boss would feel about playin' some TierKreis one the job... hmmm.
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The DS is such a fantastic RPG machine - because remember '2/3rds of every RPG is PR.' I wonder how the boss would feel about playin' some TierKreis one the job... hmmm.
Posted: Sep 17th 2008 2:35AM (Unverified) said
... Tierkreis. Animal "kreis". Animal Circle.
'kinda reminds me of Animal Crossing.
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'kinda reminds me of Animal Crossing.
Posted: Sep 17th 2008 7:20AM Dummy00001 said
In German it's actually "Zodiac". so Gemini are also animals ^_^
P.S. http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=de&searchLoc=0&cmpType=relaxed§Hdr=on&spellToler=on&chinese=both&pinyin=diacritic&search=tierkreis&relink=on
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P.S. http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=de&searchLoc=0&cmpType=relaxed§Hdr=on&spellToler=on&chinese=both&pinyin=diacritic&search=tierkreis&relink=on
Posted: Sep 17th 2008 2:21PM (Unverified) said
Ah, yes... didn't think about that. I guess I'm not superstitious enough. :)
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Posted: Sep 17th 2008 2:38AM (Unverified) said
... Tierkreis. Animal "kreis". Animal Circle.
'kinda reminds me of Animal Crossing.
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'kinda reminds me of Animal Crossing.
Posted: Sep 17th 2008 5:58AM (Unverified) said
I like games with names like this because I wait for the day I get that call from GameStop. "Your copy of......fuuuuuuuuck."
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Posted: Sep 17th 2008 7:53AM (Unverified) said
I saw the trailer for the new Dragonball DS game today and it looked awesome.
not really related, but anyway....
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not really related, but anyway....
Posted: Sep 17th 2008 10:34AM Jin Saotome said
hmmm... artwork looks familiar... Eureka 7/Overman King Gainer? Maybe I'm just seeing things.
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Posted: Sep 17th 2008 10:51AM (Unverified) said
NEW SUIKODEN! ::BOOM::
Can't wait. Love the many awesome RPGs on the DS!
As for the online... that sounds... interesting? I think? I'll definitely try it out.
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Can't wait. Love the many awesome RPGs on the DS!
As for the online... that sounds... interesting? I think? I'll definitely try it out.
Posted: Nov 13th 2008 7:13AM (Unverified) said
The suikoden franchise has easily become my favourite ever since playing number 5 then 2, im currently planning on playing 3 and 1, damn suikoden rocks, i am over the moon suikoden's coming on the DS, but i always wondered hw it would be on one of the new generation consoles, ah well, suikoden's coming everyone! let's celebrate!!
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