Okay! This game reminds so much of Final Fantasy! I recently began playing the first one of the series and i love it! There's a total of 5 games that follow the story line, 2 spin-offs and 1 tactics. I'm mainly interested in finishing the ones that follow the storyline first. Suikoden 1&2 are for PSX and 3,4,5 are for PS2.
The graphics for the first two are similar to the one from FF6 for SNES. Of course we do know the graphics get better along the way, but the story from what i can tell is wonderful. There's lots of characters, relantionships between them and some appear in more than one series. I read there's a girl that appears in all 5, someone appears only in the first 3 or in the 1st and then 3rd. So you gotta play them by order. ^^
Also Suikoden 2 & 3 have the best op of the series. I especially love Suikoden 3 as an op not just for this series but overall in terms of video games.