I'll agree it was a step in the right direction for the series, but in terms of having a fun experience, I liked Suikoden 1's system over Suikoden 2's. The dialogue options and getting the different special units made the battles fun, whereas the SRPG battles of II just felt flat and had some annoying hang-ups. Though as I said, I feel Suikoden V easily had the best war battle system, by going with a simplified RTS set-up.

As for Yuber in Suikoden III, Geddoe is his Achilles heel, for some reason, Geddoe seems to get bonuses for parry/counters against Yuber and I've seen him one-shot that asshole on enough occasions to make it seem like it's not an actual fluke. It's why I wasn't surprised when the manga adaption of Suikoden III kept having the two of them square off and become rivals throughout the books. Speaking of which, I really wished Konami had translated the novel adaptions for Suikoden I and II, they fill in quite a few gaps in the story and helped flesh out some of the minor 108 stars. Hell, I guess while I'm making pointless wishes, I wish they would finally translate the Suikoden Gaiden games so more fans can experience the awesomness of Nash, or hell, maybe just finally release Suikoden II onto PSN outside of Japan...