History VideoGame / SuikodenTierkreis

* JerkassFacade - Rizwan. [[spoiler:While it is hard to forgive her abusive treatment toward Manaril, it becomes slightly more understandable when the player learns the truth behind the tension among Danash VIII's wives. Her last moments show that she cares for her daughter all along.]]

A {{Suikoden}} GaidenGame for the DS, ''SuikodenTierkreis'' is set in a [[AlternateUniverse parallel world]] unconnected to the main series, though it contains many of the familiar themes mixed with the exploration of fate, destiny and free will. [[HelloInsertNameHere Sieg]], an optimistic young warrior from Citro Village whose motto is "You never know until you try!", is out fighting monsters with several of his childhood friends when they witness a [[CosmicRetcon strange occurence]]... that nobody else seems to remember afterwards. However, they also come across the [[MacGuffin Shining Legacy]], a book which seems to help awaken the [[OneHundredAndEight Starbearers]] and the magical abilities known as the Mark of the Stars. Their investigation soon leads them into conflict with [[PathOfInspiration The Order of the One True Way]], a group that preaches that all is decided by fate and everyone's destiny is predetermined.

!!SuikodenTierkreis provides examples of:

* WhiteHairedPrettyGirl - Manaril

* BaldOfAwesome - Zenoa.

* BossInMookClothing - At least one in every area. They sometimes drop trading items, but the experience points given aren't that big. (Save for one in an optional area halfway through the game, which can boost your level into 50 in several fights... if you manage to pull through.)

* CombatMedic - Several, the earliest example is Marica.

* HotBlooded - Sieg, Asad, and arguably Otherworld Marica. Normal Marica can also be like this sometimes.

** To elaborate, there's Roberto's {{Tsundere}} tendencies, usually reserved for the main character, Jale's unquestioning loyalty and affection, also towards the main character, and Chrodechild and Fredegund's really, really close sisterly relationship.

** No mention of Shams and Taj? Both are friendly loyal to each other, risking life and limb. Shams does his best to keep Taj happy [[spoiler:He goes so far as to order Taj not to touch a chronicle in case he becomes a starbearer because he wants to spare Taj the pain of knowing what happened to the Magedom. Taj, of course, isn't having of it, and manages to convince his prince to let him. They have several moments where you can tell that it was fully animated instead of sprites there would be hugging.]]

* MarryThemAll - Invoked by Danash VIII, and {{Deconstructed}}; to say there's ''tension'' between his wives would be putting it quite mildly...

* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate - Zahra, a talented physician... who openly wishes for his patients to suffer worse injuries and more exotic diseases, and regularly asks to dissect defeated enemies.

* SaveThePrincess - [[spoiler: Played straight with Manaril; {{Subverted}} by Chrodechild.]]

* WarriorPrince - so many to say

* MoneyForNothing - Since you can make money trading goods between towns and [[TakeYourTime there's no time limit on much of anything]], it's trivial to make a ludicrous amount of cash.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath - [[spoiler:The entire Magedom of Janam, but particularly Rizwan.]] Also [[spoiler:Dirk.]]

* WeAreStrugglingTogether - Danash VIII likes to encourage this among his subordinates, his allies, and his three wives.

* HumansAreBastards - Thanks to the Order's actions, the Porpos-kin (and later, the Furious Roar) perceived humans in this way early on. Before Sieg patched things up for them, of course.

* BaldBlackLeaderGuy - Danash VIII isn't ''entirely'' bald, but his [[TenchiSolution multiple wives]] don't seem to think it hurts his masculinity any...

* TenchiSolution - Invoked by Danash VIII, and {{Deconstructed}}; to say there's ''tension'' between his wives would be putting it quite mildly...

* TheArcher - Marica fits the bill with a cool personality, and her default weapon is a bow. However, she subverts the trope of the bow being a dainty weapon in that she can also wield the bulkiest weapons in the game. The ''hero'' can't handle some of those things. Her stats clearly shows where her strengths lie, however.

* ScaryBlackMan - The Auster-folk are more or less the "black people" here, and some of them played this trope straight and some subverted it.

* CuteShotaroBoy - Nhazu. If demihumans count, Autar also qualifies.

* BackFromTheDead - ...Possibly Zenoa, and Orodovic, definitely for Belemuel.

* BigHam: Ninulneda ''loves'' ChewingTheScenery. Interestingly enough, her channeler is a demure dolphin priestess.

* CloudCuckooLander - Due to the way recruiting the 108 Stars works, a lot of them can come across as this to "normal" people, at least until they're actually recruited. Special mention goes to Sphiel, who keeps trying to feed people snow. By throwing it at them.

* CrutchCharacter - Dirk

* NoPronunciationGuide - Causes an InconsistentDub: how ''do'' you pronounce some of those names?
** Exactly how they're spoken in the cutscenes. It's not so much "inconsistent" as it is "unintuitive"--for example, Rizwan is ''always'' pronounced as if it were "Lizlan".
*** No, it really is inconsistent. That's not an example, but Kureyah is referred to by both this name and "Claire" in the voice-acting at different times, and Shairah/Shailah is similarly inconsistent.

* OcularGushers: Lubberkin does this constantly. [[spoiler:Though he is a bit high-strung after spending twenty years stuck in a dimensional rift.]]
** The fact that [[spoiler:he was treated badly by people he met in said dimension]] doesn't help.

** Minen also shows this tendency toward the main character.
*** Minen isn't tsundere. The reason why she's so abrasive at first and then mellows out is because [[spoiler:the main character has the Chronicle of Ritterschild, he's not coughing it up, and she doesn't believe he can defend it properly (understandably, remember that as badass as he grows to be, Sieg is still a kid with no real previous military training besides village patrol against wildlife, while Minen is a trained soldier), and thinks Geschutz is being foolish in trusting Sieg]]. When it becomes clear Sieg IS, in fact, competent enough to do the job, she starts respecting and trusting him, but it has nothing to do with being tsundere, just with her appreciating his making a honest effort to keep the promise he made them to defend [[spoiler:their Chronicle]].

* [[strike:Demonic]] [[DemonicPossession Divine Possession]] - Priestess Neira's body is taken by Sea God Ninulneda on several occasions, complete with the background music change.

* FigureItOutYourself - Like Luc and Zerase before her, Zenoa just loves being condescending towards those who don't already share her 'vast knowledge'.
** You say condescending, I say {{Jerkass}}.

* LargeHam - Whoever played Macoute ''loved'' his job.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits - And how. Sieg even lampshades this after recruiting Mourgent, where he notes that people he meets from time to time gets weirder.

* ReligionOfEvil - The Order of the One True Way ''definitely'' has elements of this. ''{{NightmareFuel}}ish'' elements, in fact -- such as when [[spoiler: their leader predicts a lightning strike will hit the crowded town square during his speech, it ''[[ShockAndAwe happens]]''... and nobody runs. Even though somebody was ''hit'' and ''fried to death in their midst''. {{Squick}}...]]
** Later in the game, [[spoiler: he redirects a fusion of worlds ''that would likely have been relatively harmless'', and kills over ''a million people''. And shows no remorse about it to speak of.]]

Slow to start, but BetterThanItSounds, providing a different take on several concepts central to the Suikoden mythos.

** Marica, [[ZettaiRyouiki to an]] [[SexyBack extent]], also qualifies.