True, Happy ending:
Suikoden 2, is revered by many as the best Role playing game to ps. Its also got one of the hardest true ending to ever find. Its one of my 3 top role playing games to ps. 10/10 nuff said
There is 4 endings.
1, where we just run away from everything letting our friend get eaten by zombies or/and vampires.
Or maybe those enemies where vampiric zombies. Anyway pretty cool ending actually when the user is to face Necrolord's army the user can simple go out of the town and that will be a bad end. I liked it because its not just good or evil pick, its more that the main character is afraid. And dont have what it takes to be a hero. For example in Suikoden 5, the game had a much more classic bad end, where the user could pick to try and assassinate their little sister to take the throne. Thats a typical evil choice.
Anyway game had some other endings to, all 3 of them requires the user to beat the game.
2, Where we save the country(world) and get to rule over everything.
3. To find the 3 one is already hard, when the game is beaten. Its possible to sneak of before entering into the prologue of the game. Yep, this is strange, the user is prompted to walk into the meeting room of the castle and the ending scene will start. But the user can actually go out of the castle, leave the town, and
then run over half the world map. To exactly where the game starts to duel our best friend to death.
There is nothing indicating that there is possible to actually not have the end game prologue starts. There is never any mentioning that Joey(best friend, best Rival,Last boss) will be at that place. When the game starts he talks about retuning there after the war, this is 50 game hours earlier then the game ends. And since then he have literally back stabbed the main protagonist, tried to kill him several times, his friends, makes his sister be killed etc, the list is long.
Nothing will make the player think to even considering that hes a friend anymore.
Oh yeah the best part, If you ever find this extra last boss. Nothing happens. That's right you will kill Joey, then automatically go back and rule the country.
4. To get this ending. We have to find all 108 stars. Which is the selling point of the franchise. This takes a lot of work, as some of them have ridicules requirements.
This is just some of the harder characters to recruit.
The elf archer Stallion. We have to run away from battle 50 times. This is never explained he just out runs the player at a race and never indicates how to beat him. And if you are anything like me, you never run from a battle. As then later battles will be really hard if characters lacking levels, kinda the basics of role playing games.
One character is called Mukumuku
Which is a super hero squirrel, more games should have characters like this.
After liberating Greenhill . Along the path from Greenhill – Muse, we have to walk around as stone path. With only the hero in the party(instead of normal 6) and eventually Mukumuku will join the party, also we had to talk to a girl before mentioning a squirrel with red cape or nothing will happen.
Because other wise expecting a squirrel to just forcefully join your army of freedom fighters is crazy.
Its actually possible to get more squirrels by facing them in a very rare random encounter and having Mukumuku in the party with only the hero. And is the image the user can just face them at random to, which will probably not make anyone believe they can be recruited.
Another character Oulan.
Will only appear if the team only consist of females(excluding the hero) in this specific town in the specif spot the image shows.
Yep game is full of this nice unlock able characters requirements.
The game also features a strategy play. It looks something like chess with magic.
To recruit Gilbert, we have to fight him in a strategy battle
Spend all of our time attacking Gilbert. The idea is to damage him , but not to kill him. (he has two damage points in War Battle, we just need one). After this, he will switch sides (and hope he doesn’t lose his unit / die in battle). If you do not do damage to him, you cannot recruit Gilbert.
And of course several characters demands other character to have joined. Or in worst case high amount of characters. Making them be even harder to understand how to acquire as what ever we do until we have that number they don't really respond.
Gantetsu, is recruited only after having a lot of characters and, the team needs to have a very high total strength points or he wont join. Meaning the user needs high levels of the characters, and the right team picked. Its some kind of tug of war test. Not to complicated, just get all other strength oriented characters and level them up. its about the share amount of characters that has to be find.
Some late game characters such as Mazus and Pesmerga are only recruited able after getting over 100 characters. And they are to be found at odd arbitrary places.
Suddenly he appears at this cave which we where at 30 hours earlier in the game.
Well at least Pesmerga had a special place to stand. The highest place in a mountain dungeon. Where earlier a talking sword was.
Mazus just appears in the middle of a random, 0% important dungeon.
Oh and this cant be done whenever you want many of them can be missed entirely, which you can only hope you have an extra save file going back 10 hours. And they can not be unlocked to late. Everyone have to be unlocked before 1 of them dies(because the plot demands it) because you get nothing to have all 108 afterwards. I really mean nothing.
Don't forget just having every character is not enough. We still have to know that there is a way to avoid the ending scene of the game. And where to go to trigger the true ending.
