Suikoden I and II are very much like a great fantasy book mixed with a little bit of choose your own adventure (if you choose to try and recruit all stars of destiny). Outside of Square these are my favourite RPGs and they make for a solid re-play every year or two for me. Don't think I'll ever get bored of them.
It's funny you said that because that's how I treat jpegs like really good books I still play 16bit one's to this day because the graphic don't matter just the story and gameplay...sometimes not even the gameplay. Lol
@@devinewynder5443 don't you miss the days where you would go to eb games or blockbuster and see the new rpgs. Play the fuck out of them and talk to the employees about your experience. I remember when gremio died. Me and this dude at the game store had a heartfelt moment about life and death. Brotha, I was 11 years old but shit like that made me have empathy in my heart and honestly lead me be the man who I am today.
Leknaat handing Cleo the Fire Crystal and mentioning to her that it's her job specifically to protect Tir is probably one of the most overlooked details in the game. Among all the people from Tir's household, Cleo is the only character that will survive the whole game no matter what. Gremio and Pahn are both determinant characters, if you messed up they might actually die at some point in the story. While Ted and Teo will definitely die at some point in the story, making Cleo the only person from the start of the game that can definitely follow Tir from his start of the journey to the end, and Leknaat foreshadowed it in their meeting, it's a nice detail that I only figured out purely by chance when I was a kid.
Yup I kept Cleo in my party the entire game and upgraded to the Rage rune. My other two optionals were Eileen with the lightning/thunder rune and Tengaar with the Mother earth rune - Kirkis prior to tengaar
@@StewNWT Every single friend I had that played this game, kept Cleo as a main party member the first time through. I remember a few struggling with the Kwanda Dragon fight and blaming it on a lack of Cleo in the party.
"Krin steals Gregminster's treasures and vanishes." One thing I liked about Suikoden is that not all your recruits are goody-two-shoes. You get thieves and bandits and mercenaries, etc. That's something I always thought was really cool. And when the fighting is over? They steal your stuff and run. :p
Something else that is funny about Suikoden is that if you run out of money and try to stay inside the inn at your own castle, you will get kicked out. You, the leader of the army and lord of the castle.
@@AntonioLucas91 We’ll see. Eiyuden Chronicle is coming out so at least we have SOMETHING, but all Konami has said is “not yet.” But I’m actually replaying 1 on my Steamdeck right now.
Thanks for doing this video, dude. Really brings me back to some good times. I didn’t back Eiyuu because I’ve been burned by too many kickstarters but I’ll definitely be there day one when it does come out.
Tickling Gremio when he was cooking once you got control of Tir always made me laugh. However, if you leave town and grind enough to make it to the mountain village solo-ing Tir prior to having a fill party, someone there gives you an extremely awesome power-up. After you get Gremio and have a 2-player party, you can return to that village and get a power up that greatly boosts the amount of money your team gets. Usually, that village is not something your party reaches until about 1/4 the way into the game, but fighting the Fur-Furs on the overworld map near Gregminster is the easiest enemy to beat. The snail monsters in the mountains before the village will be incredibly strong afainst your guys, so saving your progress and knowing you may lose makes this a great gamble.
This is an excellent account of the story and I like the way you had the appropriate music playing in the background. Suikoden was the first JRPG I ever played and I thought all RPGs would be like this! It will never grow old and being reminded of the complexity and emotional power of the story is wonderful. Thank you!
*I love your voice timbre and the unusual intonations/accentuations* (especially on the words that sentences end with), it is a pleasure to listen to. One tiny correction though: the game uses a mix of both Western and domestic names so "Kage" might be better pronounced as "Kah-geh", similar to Naruto's "Hokage". On the game: characters switch sides a bit too easily, which not quite believable.
This game gets undersold by the fan base compared with Suikoden II but Suikoden 1 has always been my favourite. More importantly, this game has one of the greatest soundtracks of all time - the complexity, the emotion, the use of world and ethnic instruments are incomparable.
basically chinese novel water margin adapted into a game. love this game to bits watching my elder brother playing them on ps1 growing up. sweet memory.
Barbarossa was such a foolish Emperor he gave a woman complete power over his empire of his own free will...all because she looked like his late wife. All the people in his empire that depend on him betrayed, almost all his generals enslaved, all the fealty to him by people like Teo..trampled, all those senseless deaths in the war with the liberation army...it's all on his shoulders for being weak to a woman's charms.
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i would say that you can use you're saved game date in the sequal game is what i like about this gameand it pretty much continues the story from wher it left off at.
Gremio dying from the spores got to me as a kid. Just as bad as what happened to Black at the end. What stuck out to me was thinking "wait, the castle dragon is a zombie right? So can I heal it dead?" and finding out I could! Rare at that time in western gaming. Also the non-human characters made a big impact
"Hey wanna join my army?" "Sure but I'm not going to help you fight and I'll enjoy watching you die" ".....so that's a no then" Love this game but some of the dialogue is unintentionally humorous.
I wish I could get past the visual style of the PS2 era Suikoden games. Growing up playing Suikoden I & II as they were released I much prefer the simpler graphics. Plus the 2D sprite graphics even to this day, can show all the emotion needed for a moving story. Amazing games, 1 and 2 feel like they truly belong together as one intertwined game.
i honestly don't know why i picked this game up at babages in 1997, it had the worst looking cover art, looked like a cover from the 70s, but i loved this game, Suikoden 2 was the best in the series though
Any chance your gonna do a video of how to get all the characters? That was the funnest part finding all 108 stars. Just curios man thanks again for this video I’m definitely gonna watch this again
This brought back a lot of memories and I have a manly tear in my eye. I just loved the Suikoden games sooooo much. Pls do Suikoden 2 at some point. Thank you for this AMAZING job
Thank you. This brought back a flood of memories for me. My first time with Suikoden was watching my friend play it on his Playstation. I was blown away for the ensemble cast of characters, the story, and the soundtrack. I remember my heart sinking and even tearing up for Gremio, I remember how stunned I was when I had to fight and kill Teo, and...when I picked up my own copy...how overjoyed I was when we brought back Gremio after recruiting everyone. I'm tearing up as I type this. But these are tears of joy...of some of the best memories of days gone by. I really hope Konami realizes how loved these games are still.
Ive only played suikoden terkreis and it was fantastic!!! Im gonna play the entire saga after i finish phantasy Star OG Also... Could i recommend a mother 1 guide/summary? Noone has ever done that the way you do and it would be of great help
@@alexissandoval4394 tierkreis voice acting only haunts me because the main character talked so fast the motor mouth memes from back then are so true and funny
This game has such a special place in my heart. I adored FFVII, certainly, but Suikoden had some astounding music, characters, story, and battle mechanics that I’ll always cherish. Same with Suikoden II.
Just returned to this video a year after my most recent playthrough..I was pretty harsh on it saying it wasn't a patch on the 2nd... You know what I'm wrong ... This is the game that started my love of RPGs... And it had alot of heart... I remember completing it and being devastated that I didn't know if flik or Viktor had survived and gutted mathiu died.. It takes really special games to make you care about it's characters
Wow, I didn't know that you could save Pahn and Revive Gremio. I don't know that I'll replay it again any time soon, but I'm glad to see the "good" ending.
Krin was such a sneaky little f*****. I wish they did more cutscenes with Barbarossa - he had 3 scenes throughout the game, despite being such an essential character. One flaw in the game was that they killed of Odessa too soon, she was in it for maybe 10 minutes worth of gameplay. When she died and handed the liberation army over to McDohl it did not come across as realistic. The greatest strength of the first Suikoden was the dramatic scenes - the death (and resurrection) of Gremio, the death of Teo McDohl at the hand of his own son (which, imo, makes the case for Tir being the greatest hero so far in the series), and the (potential, depending on how you play it) death of Pahn. The music and the overall atmosphere of the universe, towns and villages also worked really well.
While Suikoden 2 is the superior game (and superior story), I do always admire the tightness of Suikoden 1's story. It was emblematic of a certain era of games that were just so focused and contained; while not as epic as something like Chrono Trigger, they both have the same respect for the player's time and attention, consistently driving you from one key story moment to the next. You can just get so much out of 15-hr playthrough of these titles.
Gremio’s death still haunts me to this day. FF7 is junk compared to this Suikoden. I have no emotion or desire to replay FF7, I don’t even know how many time I’ve played Suikoden.
3rd time watching it and I still love this, that music in the castle legit hits me in the feels. Brings back so many memories, thanks again for making this CANT wait till you do breath of fire 3
Let's being real, despite of the lack for the visuals PS1 still had the best game collections to play until now... Like the storyline, or the trends.... It was just hits different
That horrible art cover, almost made me skip this series back in the day. I would see it at GameStop and say that looks weird. I bought 2 when I seen it. Then quickly picked up this one right after.
I only played the Suikoden 2 game and I didn't know that Viktor is in the 1st game. Also some names are familiar like Valeria, Stallion, Luc, Kasumi, etc. Can you make a 1 video of an entire summary or timeline of suikoden connecting all the stories?
I honestly can't thank you enough. I haven't been able to play this game in 15 yrs and have been having serious nostalgia issues. This was awesome thank you.
Suikoden is easily in my top 5 series. I have always really liked the political scheming and the games are surprisingly dark. To bad the series is owned by Konami which mean there is a 99.9% chance we will never see any kind of remakes or new games.
I do like how these games give a more realistic take on war than most pieces of fiction, magic aside. You're technically the good guy sure, but you're destroying people's homes and lives for your cause just the same and you don't apologize for it. The only weird thing is the fact that a teenager is made the supreme commander of an army, but it wouldn't be Japanese if it weren't the case.
I liked the second one better than the original. I wish Konami didn't own this franchise, since they're clearly only interested in making pachinko games now, give it to someone who can make good games. Suikoden was such a good series.
Don't forget to look at Eiyuden Chronicle if you're a fan of Suikoden! Especially 1 and 2! It's being made by a few of the creators of Suikoden and looks pretty promising as a spiritual successor.
I know omg a bit late in watching this, but thanks for putting this out. I loved this game way back then. I only ever knew one person who had it n I borrowed it for a good while. I loved the mini wars that you had to cpmamd.
