When did Suikoden Tierkreis come out?

Suikoden Tierkreis was released on 18 December 2008 for Nintendo DS.

Suikoden Tierkreis (2008) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Suikoden Tierkreis

Suikoden: Tierkreis is the latest iteration of the popular RPG franchise that was introduced more than 12 years ago. Suikoden: Tierkreis follows the story of the 108 Stars of Destiny, a group of magical…

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What Suikoden Tierkreis is

Suikoden Tierkreis is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Konami and released in 2008. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Suikoden Tierkreis (Gensō Suikoden Tierkreis is a role-playing video game for the Nintendo DS developed and published by Konami as part of the Suikoden series. It was released in December 2008 in Japan, and released in English in Europe and North America in March 2009. The game's development was led by project head Osamu Komuta, who had previously been a planner for Suikoden Tactics, with a music staff composed of Norikaku Miura, Yoshino Aoki, Masaharu Iwata, and Kaori Komuro. The game features the opening and ending theme songs "Tears in the Sky" and "Tierkreis" respectively, each performed by Japanese pop idol Satomi Takasugi.

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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Suikoden series

Suikoden Tierkreis is the 11th of 13 entries we hold in the Suikoden series. It arrived 3 years after Genso Suikoden I & II. The next entry was Genso Suikoden: Tsumugareshi Hyaku-nen no Toki in 2012. Its critic score of 76 is 5 points below the series average of 81. The highest-rated entry is Suikoden II at 100.

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How it was received

Suikoden Tierkreis holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 51% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 11 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Suikoden Tierkreis launched on 18 December 2008, within three weeks of Prince of Persia (2008), Prince of Persia, Professor Layton and the Unwound Future and Spelunky Classic. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Prince of Persia (2008), Prince of Persia, Professor Layton and the Unwound Future, Spelunky Classic.

Cheats and codes

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