My man. Teach us your ways.

Spot on. Pretty much exactly what I said at the end of the video. I thought it's always been obvious he was an unnamed Karayan warrior, but that seems to be the minority belief. People in the fandom like to try and connect everyone and everything together as much as possible to give everyone a bigger sense of importance in the world. Sometimes a a character is just a regular person of no importance.

@@CulganValya It's odd because you see it done in Japanese games all the time. You get one parent, the other doesn't matter and is dead, if they even have parents. I also can't see the creators leaving a detail like that out as it would serve some part in Hugo's arc. Lucia would have given big hints about his dad as well if he was alive and had some importance.

Right? Complete and utter nonsense the theories some people come up with. They headcanon a ship they think would be cute and just roll with it, lore be damned.

@@CulganValya yea it sounds like they were like huh black hair, yup seems legit.

That is the logical answer, of course.

In the same few months Jowy also went from a loyal, loving best friend to a murderer, a schemer and a manipulator. Now I'm not saying he manipulated Lucia with sex, but could have taken advantage of her anger and thirst for revenge, which may have led to sex, as we've seen how devoted Lucia was to him. He did seem genuinely in love with Jillia, but he also genuinely loved his best friend, but that didn't stop him from luring his best friend into an ambush with fake peace talks, forcing him to surrender under threat of death. We've seen what he's willing to do to accomplish his goals. Now, do I believe any of that? No. I don't believe Jowy is the father, but it's not an impossibility. As for the black hair, that detail is no longer true. The black hair comment was made by the character artist, but the creator of the series has contradicted that by stating Hugo's father has blonde hair. My personal belief is that Hugo's dad is just some random Karayan, and his identity is completely irrelevant. As you said, he's just a backstory character to help shape Hugo's personality.

@@CulganValya What exactly would he need to have sex with her for if he already had her loyalty without it? That's just not in his personality. There is a massive difference between manipulating to get what you want, but then manipulating to have sex with someone, which is the overall goal. The creators would never go that far beyond his fall and redemption when it goes to left field. Women use sex to manipulate, not men.

@@blumiu2426 Hey man, I think that last sentence got your comment shadowbanned. That aside I completely agree. You put it much clearer than I could have.

@@blumiu2426 ps: your comment reminded me of Star Wars ep. 2: "He's a political idealist, not a murderer."

I can definitely see why. The art style certainly wasn't to everyone's taste. I hated how NPC's had no eyes, it gave off a creepy vibe. That was a strange design choice. The rune cannon plot I thought was quite interesting though.

Agreed. Suikoden 1's art hasn't aged as well as Suikoden 2's has. I'd love to see them bring Suikoden 1's pixel art up to the quality of Suikoden 2's for the remaster, but I don't think that's going to happen.

Returning characters are always nice to see. Really helps connect the games together. Is there anywhere you'd like the potential 6th game to take place? We got a little tease about a great power on another continent from Albert Silverbergs ending from Suikoden 3. I'd love to see it take place there to help flesh out the world more

It's such a massive world and we've only seen a tiny part of it. There's so much unknown to us and so much left to explore.

OH nevermind, *I'M* going to roast you. How dare you slander Thomas! You're gonna put FIVE?? above THREE?? Buduc is also one of the best castles. AND 1?? isn't #1? Get outta here. Leave.

@@SailorYen89 Bring on the roasting! Hell yeah I'm putting 5 above 3. I nearly put Tactics and the Gaidens above 3, I was debating it. Thomas is a nice kid, but zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz he's such a boing character. Budehuc is a nice location, but it's an awful castle. I get they were broke at the beginning of the game, but as the war progressed and it became populated and money started flowing in, you're telling me not a single person could straighten a painting? Or clean the cobwebs? Clean up the rubble? Dust the floors? Or even begin to start repairs? 1 can never be #1, it doesn't have Mukumuku!!! I'll never leave, I've got more bad takes on the way!

@@CulganValya Budehuc does get renovated! The walls get fixed, you put up paintings you find, the cobwebs get cleaned. idk when you last played it but it definitely gets super nice by the end! and Thomas is so underrated like imagine your role in destiny is the tenkai star but you're just a normal lad. that's tough! you're not a kid who has a military father or grown up in a dojo. you're just a boy! that's got some merit to it. i'll die on this hill lol

@@SailorYen89 Are you sure it gets renovated? I don't ever remember that happening. The last time I played it was 6 years ago, but I just loaded up an old save from Chapter 4 and the castle is still dilapidated. There's several big holes in the walls of the castle itself, there's crumbling on the wall at the top of the stairs. The entire outer walls surrounding the castle are still falling apart. I definitely see why you like him so much. He's just a normal kid that's thrown into a situation and he's way out of his depth. I think the reason he's so disliked / underrated is because he feels like the tenkai star in name only.. Generally the tenkai star is the main character you play as for the entire game, but Thomas's 2 chapters are optional, and his role as the tenkai star is spread out among him and the three other characters until chapter 4, where you choose which of those three you want to be the main character. The plot centers more around the other characters than him. I think he would've been more appreciated and liked if he wasn't the tenkai star, but rather a different SoD, and he was just some kid with a big countryside manor that offered it up to the player. I'll die on the hill that Hugo is in fact the real tenkai star of Suikoden 3.

@@CulganValya I... thought it did? I remember it being so much nicer at the end but maybe I'm misremembering afterall which is a bit disappointing lol. I love Thomas because I picture like, what if Tir was just a bookish lad instead of someone who'd been trained to fight from a young age. He'd still have been through all the same things he normally would, except he'd have to rely on other people for any combat. Which is essentially how it is for Thomas (aside from waving his lil sword around sometimes). Although if you think about it, the Tenkai's only job in reality is to gather the stars. Or to be "the one the stars gather around" more accurately. Which is exactly what Thomas does with the castle. Doesn't say anywhere they gotta be he front man of anything. (Small side note, I have a request! Can you remember or find out or ask someone something for me. The Dwarf village in S1, the actual village with buildings, is it.. onTOP of a mountain? Underground? In a cave? Do you have any idea what it's actual physical location is? Ty!)

Thank you! I thought a personal story about 1 would mean more than simply talking about the game itself. Your dad picked out some wonderful games to pass the time while recovering. Did he ever expand into other series or was it just a thing to pass time during recovery?

@@CulganValya Not on the ps1. He ended up more of a pc guy. Diablo, Warcraft and Quake were his things.

I remember buying Suikoden I before buying a memory card for some reason, so I had to play the entire game without turning off the PSX. Good thing it is relatively short.😂

You've been making this exact same comment on every single video I upload.

@@CulganValya Did I?! excuse me! 😅

As a standalone game, I'd rate Tierkreis higher than Suikoden 4, but as a Suikoden game, I'd rank 4 better than Tierkreis. Tierkreis just doesn't really have anything to do with the series. If that makes sense.

@@CulganValya The whole point of Suikoden is the continuity of the shared universe, with characters, settings, themes, and story beats carried between the games. Throwing away all that has been established and setting it in a new unrelated setting akin to Final Fantasy is fundamentally throwing out what makes Suikoden, Suikoden. Might as well name it Waifu Blade: Redemption Rising Resurrection

Hi Max

@@SemtexJack hi jack lol havent seen u in a bit how ya been?

I can see why it's your #1. It's an incredible game. I really hope the remaster fixes the UI and inventory. Give me Suikoden 1 with Suikoden 2's UI and inventory system. Thanks! I thought personal stories would make for a better video that just blabbing about the games. I tried to sprinkle some in where I could.

@@CulganValya yea i mean honestly for a remaster better ui and inventory management would make it really good from what i saw in the trailer they did add running animation to Tir instead of just fast walking LOL yea honestly listening about your history of the game was heartwarming in a sense its a good way to express why you feel the way you do about it.

@@MaximzM He actually had a running animation in the original version. It was just unused for some reason. It's in his sprite sheet. It's great to see them using it this time. It looks so much better than his goofy sped up walking animation. They also used the Sega Saturn versions opening movie instead of the Playstation opening, so I'm hoping they'll add some of the Saturn content. Although I expect they won't.

Suikoden 1, 2 and 5 are definitely the most popular entries with the majority of the fandom. 3 is an iffy entry for most. People who played 1 and 2 before 3 find a lot of issues with 3, but people who started the series with 3 absolutely love it to death. I agree with you on Suikoden 4. It's got a great soundtrack. The Rune of Punishment theme is beautiful. It's a real shame the story and characters weren't fleshed out. It could've been something great, but we the whole experience felt unfinished. Tactics certainly helps expand on it, and makes it more enjoyable, but there's still too much missing from 4 to make it a complete experience. Woven Web of the Century is about as bland and generic as low budget rpgs game. Once the initial buzz of finally being able to play it wore off after the first couple of hours, I just wasn't vibing with it. I didn't like it at all. I'm honestly hard pressed to say anything positive of Woven Web. A lot of people did enjoy the game though, it just wasn't my thing.

Interesting! I wasn't aware it could also mean that. There are certainly a lot of wacky theories out there. This one is only the tip of the iceberg of some of the theories many fans have had. A lot of the theories make absolutely no sense when they're broken down.

I hope it does get re-released some day. I was quite enjoyed Tierkreis, so deep diving into this was quite fun. Even though I was only able to track down a basic outline of each chapter, it was an enjoyable story.

That's also a very good point! I actually had Rikimaru in my party in L'Renouille during my most recent playthrough and there was no dialogue between the two. But for all the great bonus dialogue Suikoden has, they also miss out on many opportunities too. Kreutz has no dialogue if you bring him to the final battle in Suikoden 1 for example.

@@SemtexJack I totally forgot John bought one. TheirStar has one as well.

@@SemtexJack Bacon wheat crunchies

I can do what I want Yen!!

We know next to nothing about the parents. All that's known is that they were an aristocratic family that lived in Gregminster. Leon became Mathiu's guardian after the parents died and started teaching him. But we're given no exact dates for any of that. At the start of Suikoden 1 Mathiu would've been 32, Odessa 21 and Rikimaru would've been 19. But we also know that Mathiu and Leon served the Empire during the War of Succession which was 9 years prior. So Mathiu would've been 23 at the time. Odessa would've been 12 and Rikimaru would've been 10 at that time. From here all we can do is guess. Mathiu wouldn't have needed a guardian at this age. So it's safe to say the parents must have died when Odessa and the younger brother were very young. So yes, if Rikimaru is a Silverberg. then it's very possible that his quest for revenge is not related to a family member, but a friend or a lover, as I think I mentioned in the video. To be honest, I don't think he's a Silverberg. He's an unrelated, optional, secondary character with a mysterious background that we'll likely never see again.

Agreed. There isn't really anything to this theory except for wishful thinking. Suikoden fans love to connect dots that don't exist to give characters greater roles than were intended.

That's definitely a possibility. Personally I think it was Levi's journal since it's unlocked immediately after recruiting him, but there is definitely a possibility that someone else wrote the journal and he just found it during his studies.

They've already confirmed that the games will be receiving revised translations (the original games translations were really bad and full of mistakes). Make of that what you will.

@@CulganValya It seems funny to me that whenever they rerelease these old Japanese games, they always call the original translations horrible. Fixing minor mistakes from the original translation is one thing, but changing or adding things just because you don’t like what’s said is another thing entirely.

@@JacobC-i8d Except in the case of Suikoden, it's true. I've been playing these games since I was a child when they originally released and the translations of the early games are full of problems that need to be fixed.

Suikoden is an amazing series for sure! There'll be a lot more Suikoden videos (hopefully) appearing on your feed soon!

Fingers crossed it's just for polish. But if it was just for polish it's hard to imagine an entire year of silence. I suspect they either ran into a big problem, or they took the feedback of the vocal group who didn't like the hd art, ui and sfx and are doing a big overhaul.

I remember you mentioned that on another video of mine. I definitely plan on checking it out at some point!

@@CulganValya Oh, I forget that, I'm looking to watch your walkthrough playing✨

Thank you! I appreciate the kind words. I've got two more theory videos in the works at the moment.

I definitely want to do a full video dedicated to the theories about Viki at some point. There's way too much going on with her not to talk about. It's possible she does unknowingly have some kind of true rune. A lot of fans like to say that she doesn't have one, but Konami have never stated she does or doesn't, and there's no proof to suggest it either way. So it's a possibility. Younger Viki also appears in Suikogaiden Vol 2 (the visual novel). As for Windy, since Windy and Barbarosa's bodies were never found and their runes are unaccounted for, I suspect she teleported herself and Barbarosa away before they hit the ground.

@@CulganValya yea, i mean with viki we can't really say she doesn't have a true rune cuz its like with luc he always came with a wind rune but it wasn't until suikoden 3 when we found out he had the TRUE wind rune so its not like viki doesnt have a TRUE blinking rune or a different rune, im of the idea that her true rune caused a personality split OR... maybe something like younger viki is actually the years viki is missing from her age. a bit hard to explain but lets say between the time we first see her being suikoden 1 and the time when we see younger viki being suikoden 3 the time between that was 7 years AND THUS younger viki is 7 years old so maybe its possible her true rune took those 7 years and created a whole new viki with a personality opposite of regular viki and thats why younger viki exists? i dont know how plausible that is but its funny to think about. yea i agree about windy and barbarosa i think they teleported though the question is WHERE TOO and how come leknaat hasnt gone searching for her to get the other half of the gate rune back? or how come we never hear anything bout it after suikoden 1... i really wish we'd get more suikoden games maybe we'd get more answers =/ OR MORE QUESTIONS lol

Right? There's so much potential to explore with Viki. It could literally be anything. Does she have a true rune? Is it two versions of her travelling through time and overlapping? Are they clones? Or something like you said and she was split. There's so much to explore with not just Viki, but all the other mysteries. I guarantee more games will bring more questions than answers. But the questions they bring are just as fun as the answers

There's even more wacky and interesting theories about other characters. This one is just one of the more popular.

I agree. The silence is very frustrating. Some kind of monthly update, no matter how minor it is, would generate a lot of good will with the community.

I always use Freyjadour. I quite like the name Faroush, but I didn't find out about that name until I had already done two playthroughs, and by that point Freyjadour had stuck with me and grew on me a lot. I think the Faroush name is meant to be more of a blending of his parents names, but Freyjadour just sounds better to me.

I think you may have misheard my pronunciation of "Lost" as "Last". "The lost entry in the series". Lost, because it was forgotten about and most people never knew it existed. I've played Tsumugareshi Hyakunen no Toki, and it's not a good game. I thought it sucked. By far the worst Suikoden game.

The UI is hot garbage. It's awful. It really looks like something we'd throw together in RPG Maker. I'm iffy on the portraits. While I don't like them, I don't dislike them either. I'm pretty neutral on them. I'd much rather they brought Fumi Ishikawa back and had her do the portraits for Suikoden 1 instead.