I tried multiple times to get into Suikoden 1 but never managed (and by extension never played 2) and Suikoden 4 had its..issues, but I loved 3 and 5.

That reminds me of the time we had to write a screenplay for an English assignment in college and I wrote an adaptation of Suikoden 3 (which was allowed, didn't have to be an original story), I put so much effort into it the teacher blindly accused me of plagiarism as my classmates who saw me typing that thing up for hours stood up for me. I took it as a compliment