The first two Suikoden games were awesome. I never played III, and I thought IV was pretty terrible since I didnt even realize I was fighting the last boss till the game's ending sequence after the fight since it was so easy and had nothing at all to hint it was a climactic moment. I didn't have my weapons near maxed out and didn't do half of the sidequest stuff but screw going back to it and it's slow boring pace with you taking 20 mins to sail to the next location.