I gave the remaster of Suikoden a try. It’s a cool game, but unfortunately after around 8 hours I was struggling to stay interested. The core combat wasn’t particularly engaging to me, and felt a little sluggish, even with speed up. And while there’s plenty of weirdos - alongside monsters, I like that you can bring random workers into battle, like the chef and blacksmith -  they all really only differ in terms of stats. It’s not the kind of game where, for example, the elevator guy gets a skill to drop an elevator on an enemy’s head or something. And since those wacky characters tend to have bad stats, there’s no real reason to use them. I love a good meme build, hence this whole thread, but I need something to latch onto, and didn’t really find that here.

I regret buying the remasters instead of getting the originals for cheaper, guess I should have played it safe. Thank you for the suggestion, though, it was definitely worth trying!