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Suikoden

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Genres
Role-playing (RPG)Turn-based strategy (TBS)Adventure
Themes
Fantasy
Modes
Single player
Perspective
Third person
Developer
Publishers
Release dates
Platform Date
Sega Saturn September 17, 1997
PlayStation December 31, 1997
PC (Microsoft Windows) April 01, 1999
PlayStation 3 December 23, 2008
PlayStation Portable December 23, 2008

About

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 up to six people in their active party). Magic runes can be equipped on the player's characters which allow limited usage of offensive and healing spells. There are also a few army battles, where the player must control whole units of fighters, archers, magicians, etc., and one-on-one fights (duels).

Story

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?

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