Actual child soldiers or some sort of morale-raisers? I can't quite recall.Īnyway, the kid with the unique sprite there is our best friend Jowy.Īnd here's Riou, apparently so happy over his imminent demobilization that he's already out of uniform and cosplaying as Sun Wu-Kung. ![]() Of course these kids aren't exactly boy scouts, they're the Unicorn Brigade of the Highland Army, aka Youth Brigade. Welcome to Highland, on what I'll presume is a nice summer night for camping. ![]() Some of those bugs made the game a fair bit easier. All Window Sets should be properly available. Two missing major battle themes have been restored, so no battles take place in silence. The "True Holy" rune has been retranslated as "Godspeed Rune." Sorry Stallion, but you don't have a True Rune, okay? The enemies in Tenzan Pass near the end of the game now have properly translated names, and one that was missing from the translated version is now encounterable - the one that dropped the otherwise almost completely unobtainable Cyclone Rune. All Sound Sets should be properly obtainable. The Scroll Shop will no longer display the names of ? items. Unite spell bug sometimes causing multiple Unites to fuse into one bugged mess has been fixed. All Guardian Deity plans should drop properly, and once handed in will properly stop dropping. ![]() Hero 1's imported name is no longer overwritten with "McDohl." The Muse-Matilda gate can no longer be pushed out of the way. You can't cheese your way to victory against Luca Blight by sticking your Hero in the back row of an empty party. The lamb in the Unicorn Woods is no longer linked to that goddamned chest and should remain available. Ellie can no longer set the hero's HP to zero during the knife-throwing event. The Kindness Rune's value doesn't roll over. Several characters will not incorrectly be at level 99 when recruited. Inns will not heal your party without being paid. The Gozu Rune is properly translated to "Minotaur" instead of "Gozz." The song Chant will properly play during the Best Ending. Chaco will join at level 29 instead of 1. Animals and vegetables should show up properly on the farm even if delivered in multiples. You can't cheat the armory to max out your potch. Badeaux will appear on the castle grounds when recruited. Minor improvements over the first game I'm looking forward to most: Earth Rune defensive spells that actually work characters with more than one rune slot weapon rune slots instead of the "rune fragment" mechanic a much better major battle system. ![]() Let's head northwest, to the Empire's old opponent the Jowston League of City-States and their own enemy the Highland Kingdom. It's been two years since the fall of the Scarlet Moon Empire and the establishment of the Republic of Toran. So: I've played through Suiko1, gathered all the Stars, named the hero Tir because I'm a traditionalist, pushed most of the sixteen fully-transferring characters to at least 60 and sharpened their weapons all the way to 16. Recently, some Suikoden fans have managed to fix those bugs. Nothing game-crippling, but various items wouldn't drop, music didn't play in certain locations, at least one Star would never appear in the castle despite his successful recruitment, and most annoying of all, the name of the previous hero and his castle wouldn't transfer over correctly from the old save. It was, however, riddled with minor flaws. That one pretty much blew the top off the meter. It might have been nothing more than a footnote in console gaming history, though, if Konami hadn't followed it up with Genso Suikoden 2. The game married traditional JRPG elements with a fairly simple rock-paper-scissors system to decide major strategic battles, and featured the acquisition and development of a castle headquarters that got bigger and more functional with every Star recruited.Īll told, it was a pretty good game. His only hope of victory lay in the gathering of those guided by the stars - the 108 Stars of Destiny - and uniting them into a fighting force capable of overthrowing the corrupt Scarlet Moon Empire and defeating the mad Emperor Barbarosa and his shadowy manipulator, the sorceress Windy. Chronicling a civil war wracking a single country, the game followed the teenage son of that country's finest general as he found himself burdened with the physical manifestation of one of that world's deity-equivalents, the Soul Eater Rune, and was thrust into leadership of the rebellion that his own father was trying to put down. This game, known simply as Suikoden in its American release, showed us a small slice of a larger world. Once upon a time, Konami produced a Playstation RPG named "Genso Suikoden" - roughly translated, "Fantasy Legend of the Water Margin." As the title suggests, it was rather loosely based on one of the Four Classics of Chinese Literature, Shi Nai'an's The Water Margin (水滸傳), sometimes known in English as "Outlaws of the Marsh" or "All Men are Brothers."
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