Suikoden II 1998

Is it still worth playing?

Konami's 1998 role playing game with strategy elements for the PlayStation, with a silent protagonist, over 100 recruitable characters and the goal of gathering the 108 Stars of Destiny. Battles are turn based with up to six against six and unite attacks between specific characters, and there are duels played like rock paper scissors and grid based large scale army battles. A rune magic system, castle building and weapon forging round it out. A save from the first game can be transferred to unlock hidden characters, and the game runs roughly twice as long as the first. A huge recruitable cast, each with a place in battles or the castle, ties war strategy, party combat and base building into one loop, and that is the reason to play it now.