Fuck it. I'm mad now. Let's shit on the recrutiable characters too. So you know how Suikoden is based on pic related? And how not every character goes through a huge arc because the whole point is regular people joining together as part of the forces of destiny? But even with that there was still a lot of people who were central to the story. Flik and Viktor and the leaders of the liberation army. People who do have strong connections to the runes and the empires and yadda yadda. Well nobody in EC does that at all. All the central characters are as flat as the most random recruit. You don't learn secrets were one of your characters was a former soldier, saw a loved one die and wants revenge. Pretty much everyone in your core team suddenly just gets together and decides Eh the bad guy is a doody head. Hell shit only really gets bad because one of your benefactors decides to run her damn mouth during a peace negotiation which by the way she was only meant to sit there and watch because she's a nobody!

And on top of that there's the matter of character design. So Suikoden always had some weirdo in the game right? But mostly your characters were farmers, soldiers, merchants etc. Well it feels like EVERY GODDAMN CHARACTER is a walking MEME! Like every fucking character wanted to stand out as the LOL WACKY one so most of the characters (there are some okay ones) all feel like they exist in different games. There's no cohesion or thought to anything!