Suikoden
Suikoden is a Japanese-style role-playing game with several unusual additions. There are three kinds of combat in the game, the most common one being the traditional turn-based party combat (players can have…
Suikoden is an adventure developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, released 15 December 1995 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation and Sega Saturn.
What Suikoden is
Suikoden is an adventure game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo and released in 1995. It was published by Konami. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation, Sega Saturn and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on TrueMotion.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Loosely based on the classic medieval Chinese novel Water Margins, the game is a fantasy RPG set in an imaginary universe, its main theme being political struggle. The hero of the game is the young son of Theo McDohl, a general who serves the Scarlet Moon Empire, presently controlling the land of Toran. Through a series of events the hero becomes involved in a rebellion against the Empire, led by an organization known as the Liberation Army. Will the hero find a new home there, will he be able to tear himself away from everything that has been sacred to him, including his own father?
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Suikoden series
Suikoden is the first of 13 entries we hold in the Suikoden series. The next entry was Suikoden II in 1998. Its critic score of 93 is 12 points above the series average of 81. The highest-rated entry is Suikoden II at 100.
How it was received
Suikoden holds a critic score of 93 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored 27 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 88, across 88 votes.
What it launched against
Suikoden launched on 15 December 1995, within three weeks of Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Neo Turf Masters, Rayman and Tales of Phantasia. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Neo Turf Masters, Rayman, Tales of Phantasia.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Suikoden yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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Quick answers
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