I bought suikoden on blind faith at a used game store in the 90's. Can't even tell you how many times I've played it.

Suikoden. The series that should never have ended. Too bad Konami would never sell the IP to Yoshitaka Murayama at Rabbit & Bear Studios so he could continue the grand story he begun of the 27 True Runes, the truth of Jeane & Viki, the Holy Kingdom of Harmonia & High Priest Hikusaak, the foreshadowed end of creation, and how the Circle & Change Runes play into the fate of the world - runes theorized by fans to symbolize Order & Chaos.

Suikoden was my brother's and my first purchase when we first got the PS1 in '97 I think. We loved it, especially the castle building and army battles.

Love suikoken so much, spent many many hours playing 1 & 2. Even now i could still find every character without a guide. The music is epic as well

Really hope that Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes will be as good as Suikoden. I really like Suikoden very much, too bad Konami stopped this IP.

I still remember the day I first experienced this game back in December of 1996. I was 12 and my school had teacher conference that week so we had a 3 day weekend. I recall the night before thinking about a plan to enjoy a new game for my 5 month old PS1. I made plans to go early on Friday morning to have 3 days to enjoy a game at my near by Blockbuster, yep that place. I woke up to failing snow with about 4 inches on the ground already. I walked a mile away to this Blockbuster and recall Suikoden was a new addition in the section. I spent that weekend with my older sister readying and enjoying the games story.

This game changed my life.

Damn bro i just finished a Suikoden hard mode playthrough and KZfaq sent this my way. I swear the algorithm knows me better than I know myself.

I'm a huge fan of Suikoden

My older brother introduced me to this series back when I was very young. Having to play all of them, I can say that this series is very enjoyable. Can't wait for eiyuden chronicles!!!

There's a sick part of me that thoroughly enjoyed managing each character's inventories individually. Resource management has always been one of my favorite aspects of JRPGs, so I had no problem spending a lot of time in the menus jamming to the music.

I remember trading for this game from a friend back in 1998. I've played it many times over the years and I sure miss this series. I'm nearing 40 already and I doubt I'll see this series continue. I sure hope Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes lives up to what this serious should have been. It's so nice seeing all the fans in the comments!

Good work. I pronounced Tir like “tier” and Luc like “Luke”

Thanks for the video. I agree with your statement regarding the music in this series. In my opinion it is on par with CT, CC, and FF series. For starters, the OST's are amazing. Like you said, Miki Hagshino(plus a few others) did a phenomenal job. But for me its all the peripheral releases that came with these games. These include all the Celtic Collections 1 through 3, the Asian Collections 1 and 2, Bosque Aroma's Suikoden 3 'Ruslting in the Wind', and please, we cannot forget Shusei Murai's Piano Collections 1 (Adverturino Antes Lance Mao) and 2. There's also the Vocal Collections 'Faraway Star Echos of Love' and 'La Comouve la storia'. And then theres the two music collections: one by hiroyuki namba, and the second by kentaro heneda. I am always blown away by the number of musical releases in this series. It told me that the music was special, and it is. Green Grave Marker ftw! Peace.

Excellent video! I left my blinking mirror with Viktor on my 1st playthru so I kinda know how you feel. You gotta make one of these videos for Suikoden 2

Great video! Suikoden holds a special place in my heart as one of the iconic JRPG series from the PS1/PS2 era. This retrospective really captured the essence of the game's beginnings and why it's so beloved. Looking forward to more content like this from Gaming Broductions!

dont forget the soundtrack is one of the main nostalgia factor. miki higashino made stunning ost for this series

I just wanted to say that I have been binging your video with great interest. They are well made and it shows you put a lot of effort in your work.

This is one of the series I miss the most and my biggest regret is not finishing Suikoden V.

You guys are killing it - I always look forward to your videos and share them to my buddies on the nerdy achievement people discord :P

Amazing video man! Love your channel and dives into these great titles. Maybe someday we will get a new entry in the series..... maybe.

Great video! It's really hard to find a content creator who talks about this game. I don't get it why this game isn't that popular, i mean this is literally my fav jrpg of all time!

Glad i found this channel. JRPGs were never my thing growing up except for Shining Force. Im playing Grandia on a whim and love it. Definitely going to try out some of your recommendations.

I play Suikoden 2 first, after finished the game I search for the Suikoden 1 cause 2 really hit me in the heart. After I found it, I look at the disk art and thinking to myself, did I just get wrong one? Cause the art is like totally different style with Suikoden 2.

If you make a video about Suikoden 2, I will watch that as well.

Suikoden, Earthbound and Chrono Trigger are the three JRPGs I basically have memorized and play regularly if I want a game to just plow through without thinking That said, I love this game and actually have more nostalgia for it than the sequel (despite it being a much better game). It's just aged extremely well compared to so many other early PS1 games I played at the time (looking at you Beyond the Beyond).

I really, REALLY love Suikoden 1, 2 and 5. 1 and 2 played a big part in my youth and love that 5 went back to the old style again. I couldn't care much about 3 and 4, so sad though. I wished they'd stayed with their signature style. Hoping that ONE DAY..... the sooner the better, there will be a true 6 on PS5 or something :) But PLEASE let it be in the style of 1, 2 and 5!

This is a nice look at a game that’s not mentioned much these days. Always figured Tir’s name was pronounced “Teer,” though.

I just finished this game last week. 😍

Great video! This game changed my life as well. In my opinion... i think the characters on the cover are Barbarosa, Ted , and Windy on the left. I believe Tir is on the elephant/dragon. And Luc and Leknaat are on the right.

I remember passing on renting this back in the day because of the cover art. Finally, after reading the back and finding out it was a rpg and having a playstation i tried it. It became my 2nd favorite series next to dragon quest.

My favorite jrpg series and the most underrated jrpg series ever

Konami in the 90s were as good as Square. Vandal Hearts, Suikoden 1/2, Castlevania Symphony of the Night, they were killing it.

My dad “accidentally” bought this for my Christmas present instead of Beyond The Beyond back then… man, one of those fortunate mistakes, because I loved this game immensely at the time, must have played through it at least half-a-dozen times (especially after finding out a couple of characters that I “lost” the first run through, could be saved), and goodness. You hit the nail on the head with the music. There’s certain tracks that still come to mind during down times, y’know? Like cooking soup on a cold, rainy day, almost always brings to my the “home” track. Is this available currently? I’d consider paying full price on like, Steam or something. It’s a wonder it’s never occurred to me to look before.

I agree with the music. it's phenomenal. here is a sub for you.

Its a classic for sure. And I'm watching it now with colour, man so cool... I ended up beating the game in black and white back in the day, to keep it brief because I was playing a NSTC game on a PAL system.

Blackman's random useful function is being a top tier fighter. Seriously, he's S Class.

One of the best IP ever created.

Thanks to this series, I've become friends with a bunch of people from an online Suikoden community about 20 years ago. With two of these I literally have daily contact and I consider them my best friends in life, even though we live about 700km apart. We've met up in RL (not enough times tbh), but it's no exaggeration to say that this series changed my life.

Cannot wait for the remaster + eiyuden chronicles!!!

Konami should definitely continue the Suikoden franchise. There's so much lore that's not been shown.

i love this game wish i could play it again

I know this is the first game, but here's a fun story about suikoden 2: when that game got released on PSN as a psone classic, I had a buddy tell me he was disappointed because, and I shit you not, he felt plunking down a bunch of cash on suikoden 2 was a " right of passage" for jrpg gamers to prove that they are truly jrpg fanatics. I haven't talked to him since, and I am a better person for it. As an aside, this same person was irritated when he went to a FF music concert and found that there were a bunch of "jocks" and "frat boys" in attendance. He questioned whether or not they could really be fans of FF, while I questioned why I was interacting with this person.

'The Cover' This took me literally years to figure out. Barbarossa on the top left, Below him is Futch (Why a 8 year Old (Futch is very young in 1.) looks like a Body Builder I do not know.), below him is Windy, Top Right is Tir, Below him is probably Leknaat, and Below her is Neclord Or the Generic enemy that it actually looks like. I don't know what they were on when they made that art, but the fact it took me NEARLY 20 YEARS to figure that out is bad.

I remember walking in to Meijer with Christmas money and wanted to buy something like Final Fantasy VII or Metal Gear Solid, two games I had finished in 1997. Suikoden and Wild Arms ended up being what I got and loved them both ... Suikoden's castle waa my favorite part. I've only played through it once and after watching this feel like I should re-play it. Wild Arms too.

This was the first rpg I played and I haven’t looked back since.

The Suikoden series was the pinnacle of JRPGs in terms of great story writing during the PS1 era. and this series kind of influence me to like the genre itself. I'm still hoping the the higher-ups of Konami can somewhat be enlightened to remaster this series. Will play this 100% when that happends. On a side note, fully supporting and waiting for the Spiritual successor, Eiyuuden Chronicles!

man sooo many incredibly interesting jrpg‘s which I’ve unfortunately missed on ps1 i’ve spent my childhood playing titles like Final Fantasy 8 , The legend of Dragoon , ffx/x2, Kingdom hearts ♥️

Great video!

Can't wait for eiyuden chronicle!

My brother bought me the original Suikoden for my birthday. I think he found it in a bargain bin. The case art looked so generic, so I wasn't sure what to expect. It was great. My favorite RPG series of all time.

I’m digging what you do with yo the retro games bro. You should do Brave Fencer Musashi.

Thanks, would love to see a similar video for Suikoden 2 (the rest of the series also, but 2 is more important)

I remember buying Suikoden on psn and playing the start of the game not knowing what to do, (talk to the Dragon rider) so I left town and fought really strong enemies on the map and other places got stronger then when I did figure out where to go I beat the first boss pretty fast. I like the fact you can go where you want to go much like a WRPG.

I could be way off, but I think Tir is pronounced "Teer". My only thought that led me to this is a possible misspelling of Tyr, the god of single combat.

Love this game, love this series. I might actually like Suiko I more than II. It's just so well streamlined, you can finish it in, like, 20 hours. I wish more RPGs were like that.

All Suikoden's need to be ported to current gen.

Best series of all time with suikoden 2 being the best game ever. I’m hoping Eiyuden Chronicles captures the same magic.

While 2 is my favourite game, I still have a Soul Eater rune on my shoulder.

I bought this to have something to play on the PSX I'd purchased while waiting for FFVII to be released. As soon as I heard the in-game battle music I knew I'd made a worthwhile investment. Too bad my copy of Suikoden II is in a landfill somewhere. I heard that game is worth quite a lot now.

Suikoden I and II are one of my favorite RPG's of all time. They both have a place in my Top 10

Suikoden 1 was good but 2 was the perfection of the concept. 3 was fun, 4 was... and 5 was really impressive. Would love to see a Suikoden 6 but it seems extremely unlikely it will ever happen now.

How badly can a company fail their fans? Easy. Look at what Konami did to Suikoden and Metal Gear. You have your answer.

Beautiful Golden City, best town theme ever. I actually prefer this one more than the second. Probably because of the music (the sound quality (not the composition) of the second (and the third) is horrendous) and the bugs (the US version of the second is Bethesda-level of buggy). Fun fact: Warren Specter (creator of Deus Ex) LOVES this game. 19:00 actually, the first one is not just composed by her, but several people including Tappi Iwase (main composer of MGS1-3). Also, Mrs. Miki Higashino no longer worked on composing music after she got married.

I will always say this game is underrated, even with all the praise it gets. I think this game and chrono trigger are perfect games to get into for first time jrpg players to see if they like the genre or not. I also feel this game has the best jrpg soundtrack, and the water color pixels in this game really showed off each location and character. You really felt the difference between the empire and the poor countryside, as well as good and shady characters. One complaint I had with Suikoden II is the anime stereotypes started there and noone really felt as bad ass as the first game. Plus the dungeons felt more copy and paste. Also, magic and runes meant more in first game where second game was rune slots and fury/double beat runes where you can make your chef out damage Pesmerga... Overall this game and Shining Force II will always be my biggest nostalgia games growing up. Thanks for the retrospective.

I’ve played all the Suikoden games except for the first one. I feel like I’m missing out a little bit. All the Suikoden games are great

I first played Suikoden 2 before Suikoden 1, but I brought myself to stop playing 2 to play the series in chronological order. I beat 1 and got all 150 stars of destiny, BUT I did something wrong and one of the main characters died. I wanted to replay it but never got around to it. I think ill pick it up again now, great video!

Main Theme Guitar Version Rising Tide Yeah this one had the best music out of them all.

So, hopefully s2 retro gonna come from You. Great video. Loved the game, it was my first jrpg, overall first rpg followed by ff7 and suikoden 2. I was like 13 years back than and zelda and other games havent really catched my interests. Also suikoden 5 was not bad 10 years later. Not best graf but most similar to 1 and 2👍

😭😭😭😭😭😭 my childhood, first Rpg,my favorite rpg of all time, and better than 2 to me!

Konami abandoned Suikoden, Metal Gear Solid, Castlevania and Silent Hill. 4 amazing series. Super sad. Looking forward to Eiyuden Chronicle though.

Hopefully in the remaster they make some quality of life upgrades that let you run/warp home anytime.

HD remasters coming this year!!!

I think for me at least Suikoden might actually be my favorite game soundtrack, i know FF7 is masterpiece territory but what puts Suikoden in front imo is because i enjoyed the story and setting more and so that added to my enjoyment of the tracks as i'm listening to them, for example whenever there's about to be a big battle and you go talk to Mathiu in the battle room the music would just get me so pumped up i'd get goose bumps haha

Suikoden 1 my must favorite out of the series lol

THANK YOU! Instant subscribe - Suikoden I has by FAR The best soundtrack in the series. Far better than Suikoden II. Mix of world music, the insane quality of the tracks themselves and the actual quality of the recordings. Forgotten Days/Village of the Hidden Rune is up there with Corridors of Time from CT and Time's Scar from CC as the single best OST tracks in all of video gaming history

Gotta do a suikoden 5

As someone whose name is “Luc” (pronounced “Luke,”) hearing you say “Luc” like “Luck” was a trip 😂

I love J RPG, I love nostalagia, I love pixel and I love your channel

wait.. is that a scene from one of the 3 ninja's movies at 1:52?

From my picture on here to animal crossing suikoden stays with me. I replay 1 as much as possible. I got a tattoo last year in memoran of my mom who watched while I played the game related to me when I was younger because I felt like I lost alot of people I got the soul eater tattooed on my left hand with her death date. I kick started Iudukden chronicles in 2019? 2020 cant remember the original person who came up with the story of 1 and 2 is heading it. I cant wait for more of it

The random battle rate in this game was brutal lol.

Just wish that the good Suikoden games weren't so bloody expensive now.

Lol this game reminds me of the crazy piece of internet lore known as the final fantasy house. Cant remember if the suikoden cult came first, or the house. Anyone who wants a nice little deep dive should look into the story

hope they add it to the psn store sooner or later. got em on psp but on ps5 on tv would be great

i really hope that eiyuden will be at least as good as suikoden 2..cant wait for next year

In order to fully appreciate Suikoden you have to understand where the story came from, like reading the manga before watching the anime. 幻想水滸伝 or 水滸伝 is a Chinese novel and many novels during that period of time in ancient China was based on events happening in or around that era.

0:00 Never expected to hear slavic singing in a Japanese game trailer. As a slav that likes JRPGs I am very surprised.

Suikoden's box art was amazingly bad, I remember taking apart the case and making a new one using the instruction manual as the cover. I have to say I love the castle/tower on the box though, the fact hat it goes above the clouds is crazy. Anyway I'm extremely hyped for the HD remasters coming later this year. I hope they remaster 3, 4, a 5 as well with some improvements (like lowering the random encounter rate in 4). As for the handheld titles, honestly never played em but heard they are bad (I avoided them cause they tossed aside the amazing world building of the first 5). Maybe one day we will get a proper continuation that takes place in the original world. I would love to see a game set in Harmonia (we still don't even know what all 27 true runes are).

Suikoden Collection incoming? :D

I never got around to playing the original Suikoden, mainly because like in most JRPG franchises with standalone games the later entries are often considered better (e.g Final Fantasy, Tales, Persona, or Dragon Quest). It's a bit of a shame though, since this does look pretty good by itself, but I feel like I'll inevitably compare it to Suikoden II, and there's just no way it can compete with that.

First RPG I ever played ever...I borrowed it off my dads mate at age 10...I played it that day n not having a clue what I was doing I kept leaving gregminster with Ted n getting battered...I hated it I put it on again a week later on the last day I borrowed it and had no memory card...I got upto the castle but died against the dragon...I was hooked. Bought it for £10 a month later and absolutely hammered it .my first playthrough I missed so many characters..lost pahn ,Luc and loads of people..I was distraught at the end thinking flik and Viktor died as well ... I played it again and eventually got the good ending. The 2nd came out and I refused to buy it..it wasn't mcdohl and I read a review of it that said it was an average game...I didn't want my memory of the first tarnished so I left it. Few years later I left school and saw it at the start of the 6 week holidays for £30... I thought...sod it ..let's see for myself.... And it is still to this day my favourite RPG of all time.... Wonderful series..I still own them all and backed eiyuden chronicle in minute's

only thing i liked about this game series is the carry over game data to the next one and continue the story over

Too bad this series is dead, but at least we're getting hundred heroes.

1:10 Kind of weird Camelot made the mediocre on the PSX Beyond the Beyond before they made Shining in the Holy Ark and Shining Force 3, let alone the later Golden Sun series, all fondly remembered... They never made another PSX game either. I wonder if this had gone better whether they would have continued making JRPGs instead of churning out Mario Tennis and Golf sequels.

Whats the intro song name ??

The song is my language haha and i didnt know that great

How did you go this entire video without ripping off Marco to sharpen everyone's weapons?

I played 4 And got hooked Bought 5 after and it was good aswell But i did enjoy 4 way more But thats all i know about the franchise

What's name of the song?